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* Foreshadowing: When Margaret and Walter are painting side by side in a park, Jane notes that Walter's canvas is blank, and in fact he does not paint anything for the entire scene. [[spoiler: He isn't actually a painter.]]
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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: When Margaret and Walter are painting side by side in a park, Jane notes that Walter's canvas is blank, and in fact he does not paint anything for the entire scene. [[spoiler: He isn't actually a painter.]]
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* Foreshadowing: When Margaret and Walter are painting side by side in a park, Jane notes that Walter's canvas is blank, and in fact he does not paint anything for the entire scene. [[spoiler: He isn't actually a painter.]]
* GlamorousSingleMother: Averted. Margaret is extremely concerned about providing for her daughter by herself. Her first ex-husband uses the fact that she is a single mother to try and take custody of Jane, and Margaret has to marry Walter to avoid this. During the trial, Margaret admits that a big part of the reason Margaret stayed with Walter as long as she did is that she didn't think she could provide for herself and Jane on her own.
* GlamorousSingleMother: Averted. Margaret is extremely concerned about providing for her daughter by herself. Her first ex-husband uses the fact that she is a single mother to try and take custody of Jane, and Margaret has to marry Walter to avoid this. During the trial, Margaret admits that a big part of the reason Margaret stayed with Walter as long as she did is that she didn't think she could provide for herself and Jane on her own.
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''Big Eyes'' is a 2014 film directed by Creator/TimBurton about Margaret Keane, a housewife whose paintings of waifs with large eyes became famous in the 1950's, as her husband took the credit for them. In the 1960s, she takes him to court in order to prove once and for all who the true artist is.
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''Big Eyes'' is a 2014 film directed by Creator/TimBurton about Margaret Keane, Keane (Creator/AmyAdams), a housewife whose paintings of waifs with large eyes became famous in the 1950's, as her husband husband, Walter (Creator/ChristophWaltz) took the credit for them. In the 1960s, she takes him to court in order to prove once and for all who the true artist is.
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* WindowsOfTheSoul: Margaret explains that a combination of this and an eye injury she had in her childhood are the reasons why she paints the way she does.
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* ManipulativeBastard: '''Walter'''. He often "assures" Margaret that her paintings will only taken seriously if people thought that a man made them.
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* LameExcuse: Humorously, Walter pretends to have pulled his shoulder while picking up a paintbrush in order to get out of painting in court.
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* ArmyOfLawyers: Walter brings lawyers from the Gannett Company to the trial to defend him. [[spoiler:Hilariously, the lawyers were only there to prove that Gannett hadn't committed libel in their newspapers when they wrote that Walter was the artist for all those years. They leave as soon as they're found not guilty, leaving Walter to defend himself in the case of ownership of the artwork]].
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* AFoolForAClient: [[spoiler:After After the Gannett lawyers leave him, Walter decides to represent himself and is only guided by what he's watched on TV]].
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* DomesticAbuser: Walter, of the mental and emotional kind mostly. [[spoiler:But after being humiliated by a critic, he gets drunk at home and starts tossing lit matches at Margaret and her daughter, nearly lighting a can of turpentine in the painting room the girls had locked themselves in]].
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* DomesticAbuser: Walter, of the mental and emotional kind mostly. [[spoiler:But But after being humiliated by a critic, he gets drunk at home and starts tossing lit matches at Margaret and her daughter, nearly lighting a can of turpentine in the painting room the girls had locked themselves in]].in.
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* LameExcuse: [[spoiler:Humorously, Walter pretends to have pulled his shoulder while picking up a paintbrush in order to get out of painting in court]].
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* SpottingTheThread: When Margaret [[spoiler: finds a shipping box of paintings by S. Cenic in the closet.]], which helps her realize [[spoiler:[[PullTheThread that Walter had been lying about painting in Paris]]]].
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Walter, ultimately. [[spoiler: He kept claiming to be the artist until his death.]]
* DomesticAbuser: Walter, of the mental and emotional kind mostly. [[spoiler: But after being humiliated by a critic, he gets drunk at home and starts tossing lit matches at Margaret and her daughter, nearly lighting a can of turpentine in the painting room the girls had locked themselves in.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Walter starts in this direction in the club after seeing people are more interested in Margaret's work than his.
* KeepingSecretsSucks: It does when you have to paint alone for hours in a cramped room, [[spoiler: lie to your child, isolate yourself from friends and neighbors, and sometimes hallucinate people having big eyes due to stress.]]
* LameExcuse: [[spoiler: Humorously, Walter pretends to have pulled his shoulder while picking up a paintbrush in order to get out of painting in court.]]
* MaliciousSlander: Before the court date, [[spoiler: Walter lies to the press about how Margaret needs psychiatric help.]]
* ArmyOfLawyers: Walter brings lawyers from the Gannett Company to the trial to defend him. [[spoiler: Hilariously, the lawyers were only there to prove that Gannett hadn't committed libel in their newspapers when they wrote that Walter was the artist for all those years. They leave as soon as they're found not guilty, leaving Walter to defend himself in the case of ownership of the artwork.]]
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Walter, ultimately. [[spoiler: He kept claiming to be the artist until his death.]]
* DomesticAbuser: Walter, of the mental and emotional kind mostly. [[spoiler: But after being humiliated by a critic, he gets drunk at home and starts tossing lit matches at Margaret and her daughter, nearly lighting a can of turpentine in the painting room the girls had locked themselves in.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Walter starts in this direction in the club after seeing people are more interested in Margaret's work than his.
* KeepingSecretsSucks: It does when you have to paint alone for hours in a cramped room, [[spoiler: lie to your child, isolate yourself from friends and neighbors, and sometimes hallucinate people having big eyes due to stress.]]
* LameExcuse: [[spoiler: Humorously, Walter pretends to have pulled his shoulder while picking up a paintbrush in order to get out of painting in court.]]
* MaliciousSlander: Before the court date, [[spoiler: Walter lies to the press about how Margaret needs psychiatric help.]]
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* SpottingTheThread: When Margaret [[spoiler: finds a shipping box of paintings by S. Cenic in the closet.]], which helps her realize [[spoiler: [[PullTheThread [[spoiler:[[PullTheThread that Walter had been lying about painting in Paris.]]]]Paris]]]].
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** "The hilarious true story of the biggest art con in history."
** "It takes a real artist to take down a con artist."
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* SpottingTheThread: When Margaret [[spoiler: finds a shipping box of paintings by S. Cenic in the closet.]], which helps her realize [[spoiler: [[PullTheThread that Walter had been lying about painting in Paris.]]]]]]]]
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