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* ShirleyTemplate: Marilyn's daughter, who is playing the part of Shirley Temple in the troupe.



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* GodwinsLawOfFacialHair: Invoked, a Creator/CharlieChaplin impersonator has his wife, a Creator/MarilynMonroe impersonator, say that his mustache reminds her of Hitler.
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''Mister Lonely'' is a 2007 Independent Drama written and directed by Creator/HarmonyKorine. A (comparatively) straightforward outing for the [[LeFilmArtistique notoriously]] [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible opaque]] filmmaker, it tells the story of a lonely Music/MichaelJackson impersonator (Creator/DiegoLuna) living in Paris. Confused, adrift, and terrified of death, he happens to meet the acquaintance of a cheery, idealistic Creator/MarilynMonroe impersonator (Creator/SamanthaMorton), who invites him back to her castle in the Scottish Highlands, where she and a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits whole clan of celebrity impersonators]] live in peace and harmony...mostly.

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''Mister Lonely'' is a 2007 Independent Drama written and directed by Creator/HarmonyKorine. A (comparatively) straightforward outing for the [[LeFilmArtistique notoriously]] [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible opaque]] notoriously opaque filmmaker, it tells the story of a lonely Music/MichaelJackson impersonator (Creator/DiegoLuna) living in Paris. Confused, adrift, and terrified of death, he happens to meet the acquaintance of a cheery, idealistic Creator/MarilynMonroe impersonator (Creator/SamanthaMorton), who invites him back to her castle in the Scottish Highlands, where she and a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits whole clan of celebrity impersonators]] live in peace and harmony...mostly.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The ending for the main plot. Marilyn commits suicide, and forces Michael to fully confront his fear of death and dissatisfaction with the life he's chosen to capture the glory of for himself. He chooses to leave the convent ''and'' his celebrity impersonation job altogether, with the implication that he's finally deciding to live a life that's actually within his grasp: his own.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The ending for the main plot. Marilyn commits dies by suicide, and forces Michael to fully confront his fear of death and dissatisfaction with the life he's chosen to capture the glory of for himself. He chooses to leave the convent ''and'' his celebrity impersonation job altogether, with the implication that he's finally deciding to live a life that's actually within his grasp: his own.]]
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* [[BastardBoyfriend Bastard Husband]]: Charlie, to Marilyn. Becomes so jealous of Michael he leaves Marilyn to [[EmbarrassinglyPainfulSunburn burn while she's sleeping and sunbathing]], just to spite her.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Marilyn spends most of the movie teetering on the edge of this. [[spoiler:When the show is a flop, she loses what little motivation to go on she had left [[DrivenToSuicide and hangs herself]].]]


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* StepfordSmiler: Marilyn is doing her best to put on a happy face, but behind it she's a slowly collapsing wreck. [[spoiler:The failure of the show [[DespairEventHorizon finishes the collapse]].]]
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* ShootTheDog: In a literal sense - the impersonators's flock of sheep contracts hoof-and-mouth, and lacking the money for any medicine, they're forced to put all of them down.



%%* UglyGuyHotWife: Charlie and Marilyn.

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%%* * UglyGuyHotWife: As you might expect, Charlie and Marilyn.Marilyn. This causes some tension when Marilyn begins to get attracted to Michael.
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* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Michael's recorded "Dear World and Everyone In It" monologue. It works well enough for Michael, [[RealitySubtext but when you consider the details of Harmony Korine's life]], it takes on added resonance. There's really no reason why it couldn't have begun as a personal journal entry by Korine himself.
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* TheCameo: Two of Korine's idols; Creator/WernerHerzog, who'd previously appeared in ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'', and Leos Carax, who's ''Les Amants du Pont-Neuf'' Korine cited as an inspiration. Also cast is Carax's frequent leading man, Denis Lavant.

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* TheCameo: Two of Korine's idols; Creator/WernerHerzog, who'd previously appeared in ''Film/JulienDonkeyBoy'', and Leos Carax, who's ''Les Amants du Pont-Neuf'' Korine cited as an inspiration. Also cast is Carax's frequent leading man, Denis Lavant.Creator/DenisLavant.

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