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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Most of the cast is dead, but at least Arvid goes to Heaven thanks to a relations between his late father and God. Harald, Martin and Peter also survive, with the latter two being arguably the most pitiful and unsuspecting characters all along.]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Most of the cast is dead, but at least Arvid goes to Heaven thanks to a relations between his late father and God. Harald, Martin and Peter also survive, with the latter two being arguably the most pitiful and unsuspecting characters all along.]].along]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Most of the cast is dead, but at least Arvid goes to Heaven thanks to a relations between his late father and God. Harald, Martin and Peter also survive, with the latter two being arguably the most pitiful and unsuspecting characters all along.]].
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Harald's two assistants, much their chagrin -- all they want is to work the restaurant's kitchens like normal chefs.
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''In China They Eat Dogs'' (Danish: ''I Kina Spiser de Hunde'') is an excellent and ''very'' dark action comedy from writer Creator/AndersThomasJensen and director (and former stuntman) Lasse Spang Olsen, released in 1999.

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''In China They Eat Dogs'' (Danish: ''I Kina Spiser de Hunde'') is an excellent and ''very'' dark action comedy from writer Creator/AndersThomasJensen and director (and former stuntman) Lasse Spang Olsen, released in September 1999.
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''In China They Eat Dogs'' (Danish: ''I Kina Spiser de Hunde'') is an excellent and ''very'' dark action comedy from writer Creator/AndersThomasJensen and director (and former stuntman) Lasse Spang Olsen released in 1999.

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''In China They Eat Dogs'' (Danish: ''I Kina Spiser de Hunde'') is an excellent and ''very'' dark action comedy from writer Creator/AndersThomasJensen and director (and former stuntman) Lasse Spang Olsen Olsen, released in 1999.
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''In China They Eat Dogs'' (Danish: ''I Kina Spiser de Hunde'') is an excellent and ''very'' dark action comedy from writer Creator/AndersThomasJensen and director (and former stuntman) Lasse Spang Olsen.

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''In China They Eat Dogs'' (Danish: ''I Kina Spiser de Hunde'') is an excellent and ''very'' dark action comedy from writer Creator/AndersThomasJensen and director (and former stuntman) Lasse Spang Olsen.Olsen released in 1999.



Had a prequel called ''Old Men In New Cars'', mostly about said restaurant owner and his crew.

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Had a prequel in 2002, called ''Old Men In New Cars'', mostly about said restaurant owner and his crew.



* CatchPhrase: Harald's two long-suffering restaurant employees, when protesting the criminal mayhem their boss forces themto participate in: "We are chefs."

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* CatchPhrase: Harald's two long-suffering restaurant employees, when protesting the criminal mayhem their boss forces themto them to participate in: "We are chefs."

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If God and the devil both exist in the setting then it's not an example


* CausticCritic: [[spoiler:At the end, as God takes Arvid to Heaven, Arvid asks why he is allowed to enter Paradise, seeing how he murdered an entire rock band. God answers that He really doesn't mind as the band "weren't any good."]]



%%* TheEndingChangesEverything: Well, not really, but it's still a hell of a curveball. Most spoilers here are related to said ending.



* DevilButNoGod: [[spoiler:Sort of an inversion. God Himself actually shows up in person to collect Arvid's soul at the end. Satan, however, doesn't appear; he instead sends a lower-ranking devil as a representative.]]



* CausticCritic: [[spoiler:At the end, as God takes Arvid to Heaven, Arvid asks why he is allowed to enter Paradise, seeing how he murdered an entire rock band. God answers that He really doesn't mind as the band "weren't any good."]]

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* CausticCritic: [[spoiler:At HawaiianShirtedTourist: The guy at the end, as God takes Arvid to Heaven, Arvid asks why bar. [[spoiler:Turns out that he is allowed to enter Paradise, seeing how he murdered an entire rock band. God answers that He really doesn't mind as the band "weren't any good."]]actually God.]]



* HawaiianShirtedTourist: The guy at the bar. [[spoiler:Turns out that he is actually God.]]



%%* TheEndingChangesEverything: Well, not really, but it's still a hell of a curveball. Most spoilers here are related to said ending.
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%%* DissonantSerenity: Arvid, bordering on DullSurprise. Except that here, [[TropesAreNotBad it works]].

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%%* DissonantSerenity: Arvid, bordering on DullSurprise. Except that here, [[TropesAreNotBad [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it works]].
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* DevilButNoGod: [[spoiler:Sort of an inversion. God Himself actually shows in person to collect Arvid's soul at the end. Satan, however, actually doesn't show; he instead sends a lower-ranking devil as a representative.]]

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* DevilButNoGod: [[spoiler:Sort of an inversion. God Himself actually shows up in person to collect Arvid's soul at the end. Satan, however, actually doesn't show; appear; he instead sends a lower-ranking devil as a representative.]]
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* DevilButNoGod: [[spoiler:Sort of an inversion. God Himself actually shows in person to collect Arvid's soul at the end. Satan, however, actually doesn't show; he instead sends a lower-ranking devil as a representative.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: The tourist and the bartender [[spoiler:who are actually God and Satan, respectively.]]

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* ChekhovsGunman: The tourist and the bartender [[spoiler:who are actually God and Satan, a DevilInDisguise, respectively.]]



* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: [[spoiler:Satan basically sends everyone who God doesn't claim as His own to Hell for what is basically [[FelonyMisdemeanor really minor sins and crimes]] (some of which are blatantly trumped-up charges), and God happens to be a drunken LazyBum who has a really bad handle on His paperwork.]]

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* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: [[spoiler:Satan [[spoiler:Satan, or at least his representative, basically sends everyone who God doesn't claim as His own to Hell for what is basically [[FelonyMisdemeanor really minor sins and crimes]] (some of which are blatantly trumped-up charges), and God happens to be a drunken LazyBum who has a really bad handle on His paperwork.]]

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* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: [[spoiler:Satan basically sends everyone who God doesn't claim as His own to Hell for what is basically [[FelonyMisdemeanor really minor sins and crimes]], and God happens to be a drunken LazyBum who has a really bad handle on His paperwork.]]

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* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: [[spoiler:Satan basically sends everyone who God doesn't claim as His own to Hell for what is basically [[FelonyMisdemeanor really minor sins and crimes]], crimes]] (some of which are blatantly trumped-up charges), and God happens to be a drunken LazyBum who has a really bad handle on His paperwork.]]


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* SoreLoser: [[spoiler:The poker player keeps winning his games against the bartender, who turns out to be a DevilInDisguise. [[EvilIsPetty Angry over having repeatedly lost, the devil accuses him of having cheated during the poker game, and based on that, he sentences him to go to Hell.]] The poker player confusedly protests his innocence as he is dragged off.]]
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%%* ButtMonkey: Vuk.
%%* CatchPhrase: "We are chefs."

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%%* * ButtMonkey: Vuk.
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Vuk. He's constantly belittled and insulted (mostly by Harald) and goes through a staggering amount of AmusingInjuries to the point that even Wile E. Coyote would wince. [[spoiler: it eventually kills him... and even his death gets PlayedForLaughs]].
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CatchPhrase: Harald's two long-suffering restaurant employees, when protesting the criminal mayhem their boss forces themto participate in: "We are chefs."



%%* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Arvid, of course.

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%%* * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Arvid, of course.course. It starts with planning a bank robbery, then escalates quickly to several murders and a bloody gang war with Muslim gangsters.

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