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* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: {{Enforced}}. As is with any film from the early thirties starring Creator/KayFrancis, there are bias-cut gowns with amazingly low necklines. Special mention goes to the dresses she wears while working as a prostitute at the "Jardin d'Orient" nightclub. So, it's kind of {{justified}} as well.
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* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: {{Enforced}}. As is with any film from the early thirties starring Creator/KayFrancis, there are bias-cut gowns with amazingly low necklines. Special mention goes to the dresses she wears while working as a prostitute at the "Jardin d'Orient" nightclub. So, it's kind of {{justified}} {{justified|Trope}} as well.
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At the brothel, Tanya loses more than illusions but learns to manipulate men and blackmails herself out of a dire life of prostitution. She embarks on a ship going close to Black Fever country, and on the month-long trip, she meets drunk Dr. Burton (Talbot), and love soon blooms between them. But all is destroyed when Tony sneaks onto the ship and tries to pick things up right where he left them. The problem is that Tanya hates Tony, and she's no longer the bright-eyed kid he left.
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At the brothel, Tanya loses more than illusions but learns to manipulate men and blackmails herself out of a dire life of prostitution. She embarks on a ship going close to Black Fever country, and on the month-long trip, she meets drunk Dr. Burton (Talbot), and love soon blooms between them. But all is destroyed when Tony sneaks onto the ship and tries to pick things up right where he left them. The problem is that Tanya hates Tony, and she's no longer the bright-eyed kid young girl he left.
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See ''Film/BhowaniJunction'' for another black-and-white film set in British-occupied India.
See ''Film/BhowaniJunction'' for another black-and-white film set in British-occupied India.
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* AlliterativeFamily: {{Downplayed}} since it's only Tony and Tanya's names, which are also very similar-sounding. They are lovers but aren't married and don't have kids.
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* AlliterativeFamily: {{Downplayed}} since it's only Tony and Tanya's names, which are also very similar-sounding.similar sounding. They are lovers but aren't married and don't have kids.
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Not related to the poem by Creator/RudyardKipling.
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Not related to the poem {{poem}} by Creator/RudyardKipling.
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Not related to the poem by Creator/RudyardKipling.
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* HateSink: Tony is a lowlife involved in gun trafficking who sells his girlfriend into sex slavery to pay a debt without batting an eye. He even has the gal to hunt her down so she can keep being a prostitute, it's just that this time the brothel would be his. When Tanya poisons him, he becomes an AssholeVictim whom nobody pities.
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-->-- Madam Lacalles to Tanya Bodoroff.
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-->-- Madam Lacalles '''Madam Lacalles''' to Tanya Bodoroff.
'''Tanya Bodoroff'''.
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** The "Jardin d'Orient" nightclub itself is an example. Translating from French, it means "Eastern Garden", which, while heavy-handed due to the period, is fitting since the film is set in British India -- today a conglomerate of countries in South'''east''' Asia.
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** The "Jardin d'Orient" nightclub itself is an example. Translating from French, it means "Eastern Garden", which, while heavy-handed due to the period, is fitting since the film is set in British India -- today a conglomerate of countries in South'''east''' Southeast Asia.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: By today's standards, and InUniverse, Tanya needed not any kind of redemption, it's all in self-defense. By the period's standards, however, women who fight to liberate themselves and are willing to commit morally questionable acts to achieve their goals (regardless of how noble or heinous) are given the villain treatment or suffer severe punishment for their actions. This is all the more {{enforced}} once the Hays code is passed. Tanya, however, gets away with murdering her vile boyfriend and goes to Mandalay to help alleviate the Black Fever plague -- a noble, if doomed, endeavor. Key word being doomed. She knows she's going to die but, to the audience's eyes, she's going to do so as a hero, not as a villain. So, in a sense, she's further redeemed by that -- if the audience didn't already sympathize with her.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: By today's standards, and InUniverse, Tanya needed not any kind of redemption, it's all in self-defense. By the period's standards, however, women who fight to liberate themselves and are willing to commit morally questionable acts to achieve their goals (regardless of how noble or heinous) are given the villain treatment or suffer severe punishment for their actions. This is all the more {{enforced}} once the Hays code is passed. Tanya, however, gets away with murdering her vile boyfriend and goes to Mandalay to help alleviate the Black Fever plague -- a noble, if doomed, endeavor. Key word being doomed. She knows she's going to die but, to the audience's eyes, die, but she's going to do so as a hero, not as a villain. So, in a sense, she's further redeemed by that -- if the audience didn't already sympathize with her.villain.
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* TheVamp: Tanya as [[PornNames "Spot White"]]. Granted, she didn't want to be a sex worker but, in an attempt to make the best of a bad situation, she takes a fellow prostitute's advice to heart and uses men's lust to her advantage. One clear example is one she blackmails herself out of prostitution by seducing a policeman -- he used her services during a masquerade party. She also threatens him with revealing their encounter.
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* TheVamp: Tanya as [[PornNames "Spot White"]].White". Granted, she didn't want to be a sex worker but, in an attempt to make the best of a bad situation, she takes a fellow prostitute's advice to heart and uses men's lust to her advantage. One clear example is one she blackmails herself out of prostitution by seducing a policeman -- he used her services during a masquerade party. She also threatens him with revealing their encounter.
