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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Gloria who lends money to Don. LoveMakesYouDumb may be the more appropriate description though.
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* StaircaseTumble: Don loses his ballance on the stairs to Gloria's apartment and tumbled all the way falls down.
* {{Theremin}}:One of the earliest films The first film featuring a "theremin" theremin on the soundtrack. Miklós Rózsa Music/MiklosRozsa used it in composing the score for the nightmare sequences. sequences.
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A 1944 novel by Charles R. Jackson, ''The Lost Weekend'' entered the PopCulturalOsmosis once [[TheFilmOfTheBook the film version version]] was released the following year. Directed and co-written by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Ray Milland, the film won four [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], including Best Picture. Music/MiklosRozsa provided the film's score, notable for its prominent use of {{Theremin}}.
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* {{Bookends}}: The film opensand closes with the same a shot of the Manhattan skyline.skyline and then pans over to Don's apartment window. The last scene is an exact reversal of that sequence.
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* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: Don has gone to the opera. Unfortunately for him, the opera (''Theatre/LaTraviata'') has a party scene in which everyone is [[OdeToIntoxication drinking and singing about drinking]], and bottles of champagne are everywhere. He has to leave.
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* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: Don has gone to the opera. Unfortunately for him, the opera (''Theatre/LaTraviata'') has a party scene in which everyone is [[OdeToIntoxication drinking and singing about drinking]], and bottles of champagne are everywhere. everywhere.[[note]]The piece that is being sung on stage is the "Champagne Aria" from La Traviata.[[/note]] He has to leave.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The title isn't random; the whole movie, minus the flashback sequence, takes place as Don goes on a bender over a single weekend.
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* InfractionDistraction: The reason why Don bought two bottles of whiskey for the weekend trip. He wants his brother to find the first one so he would give up searching for the second one.
* IrishmanAndAJew: Don's attempt to pawn his typewriter is stymied because all the city's pawnshops — even the Catholic-owned ones — are closed for Yom Kippur. A character explains that the Jewish pawnbrokers return the favor by staying closed on St. Patrick's Day.
* IrishmanAndAJew: Don's attempt to pawn his typewriter is stymied because all the city's pawnshops — even the Catholic-owned ones — are closed for Yom Kippur. A character explains that the Jewish pawnbrokers return the favor by staying closed on St. Patrick's Day.
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* StaircaseTumble: Don loses his ballance on the stairs to Gloria's apartment and tumbled all the way falls down.
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* UnfamiliarCeiling: Don awakes at the alcoholic ward after his StaircaseTumble, wondering where exactly he is. The first thing he sees is the unfamiliar ceiling.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Gloria, the girl at Nat's Bar who likes Don, is strongly implied to be a prostitute. She keeps meeting total strangers at Nat's for dates, and she tells Don that she broke "a business date" to see him.
* GrayRainOfDepression: It's pouring out when Don, hitting bottom, steals Helen's coat, which he pawns. For a gun.
* GrayRainOfDepression: It's pouring out when Don, hitting bottom, steals Helen's coat, which he pawns. For a gun.
* ISOStandardUrbanGroceries: Played with. Don gets two bottles of rye with ten dollars he stole from his brother. But he doesn't want people in the neighborhood to think that he's going out buying liquor in the morning, so he buys a few pieces of fruit to put in the top of the bag to make it look like he just went out for groceries.
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* PinkElephants: A particularly terrifying use of this trope, as Don hallucinates a bat swooping in and eating a mouse in the wall.
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* PinkElephants: A particularly terrifying use of this trope, as Don hallucinates a bat swooping in and eating a mouse in the wall. Unlike many films, which have people seeing their Pink Elephants during their drunken binges, this one gets it right, and has Don seeing his mice and bat ''after'' his spree, when he's going through withdrawal.
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* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: Don has gone to the opera. Unfortunately for him, the opera (''Theatre/LaTraviata'') has a party scene in which everyone is [[OdeToIntoxication drinking and singing an OdeToIntoxication, about drinking]], and bottles of champagne are everywhere. He has to leave.
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An alcoholic writer, Don Birnam (Milland), leads a tough existence in New York City. His girlfriend, Helen (Jane Wyman), is one of the few people out there who can hopefully lead him on the straight and narrow. However, Don's personal life has been at a crossroads due to his insecurities. After ditching his brother's suggestion for a weekend in the country, Don begins a long drinking binge (the titular lost weekend). Of course, the more he drinks, the closer it may be to his last one...
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An alcoholic writer, Don Birnam (Milland), leads a tough existence in New York City. His girlfriend, Helen (Jane Wyman), is one of the few people out there who can hopefully lead him on the straight and narrow. However, Don's personal life has been at a crossroads due to his insecurities. After ditching his brother's suggestion for a weekend in the country, Don begins a long drinking binge (the binge, the titular lost weekend)."lost weekend". Of course, the more he drinks, the closer it may be to his last one...
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An alcoholic writer, Don Birnam, Birnam (Milland), leads a tough existence in New York City. His girlfriend, Helen, Helen (Jane Wyman), is one of the few people out there who can hopefully lead him on the straight and narrow. However, Don's personal life has been at a crossroads due to his insecurities. After ditching his brother's suggestion for a weekend in the country, Don begins a long drinking binge (the titular lost weekend). Of course, the more he drinks, the closer it may be to his last one...
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* OffTheWagon: The flashback reveals that Don had stayed sober for six weeks after meeting Helen. Then, nervous because her parents have come to meet him, he goes on a spree.
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* OffTheWagon: The flashback reveals that Don had stayed sober for six weeks after meeting Helen. Then, nervous because her parents have come to meet him, he [[INeedAFreakingDrink goes on a spree.spree]].
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* TropeaholicsAnonymous: Averted. AA had been around for a decade when this film came out but the widely accepted idea that 12-step programs are necessary to conquer substance abuse had not really caught on. The film end with Don determined, with Helen's support, to quit drinking and write his book.
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* TropeaholicsAnonymous: TropaholicsAnonymous: Averted. AA had been around for a decade when this film came out out, but the widely accepted idea that 12-step programs are necessary to conquer substance abuse had not really caught on. The film end ends with Don determined, with Helen's support, to quit drinking cold turkey and write his book.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The title isn't random; the whole movie, minus the flashback sequence, takes place as Don goes on a bender over a single weekend.
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MostWritersAreWriters: Don is a frustrated author with writers' block. Whether the inability to write has exacerbated his drinking or his drinking has robbed him of the ability to write is unclear.
* OffTheWagon: The flashback reveals that Don had stayed sober for six weeks after meeting Helen. Then, nervous because her parents have come to meet him, he goes on a spree.
* PinkElephants: A particularly terrifying use of thistrope.trope, as Don hallucinates a bat swooping in and eating a mouse in the wall.
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A 1944 novel by Charles R. Jackson, '''''The ''The Lost Weekend''''' Weekend'' entered the PopCulturalOsmosis once the film version was released the following year. Directed and co-written by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Ray Milland, the film won four [[AcademyAward Oscars]], including Best Picture. Music/MiklosRozsa provided the film's score, notable for its prominent use of {{Theremin}}.
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* ShoutOut: This film gets one in the third-season opener of ''Series/MadMen'': Don looks at an ad where a man is holding a bottle of whiskey almost as big as himself, and mocks it by saying "Sorry honey, but I'm taken. I just pawned my typewriter so we can be together all weekend."
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* ShoutOut: This film gets one in ShoutOutToShakespeare: Don has a habit of quoting the third-season opener of ''Series/MadMen'': Don looks at an ad where a man is holding a bottle of whiskey almost as big as himself, Bard when getting hammered. His first quote, "Purple the sails, and mocks it by saying "Sorry honey, but I'm taken. I just pawned my typewriter so we can be together perfumed ... " is from ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra'', and his second, "Yea, all weekend."which it shall inherit ...", is from ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
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* ShoutOut: This film gets one in the third-season opener of ''Mad Men'': Don looks at an ad where a man is holding a bottle of whiskey almost as big as himself, and mocks it by saying "Sorry honey, but I'm taken. I just pawned my typewriter so we can be together all weekend."
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* ShoutOut: This film gets one in the third-season opener of ''Mad Men'': ''Series/MadMen'': Don looks at an ad where a man is holding a bottle of whiskey almost as big as himself, and mocks it by saying "Sorry honey, but I'm taken. I just pawned my typewriter so we can be together all weekend."
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->''"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!"''
-->-- '''Don Brinam'''
A 1944 novel by Charles R. Jackson, '''''The Lost Weekend''''' entered the PopCulturalOsmosis once the film version was released the following year. Directed and co-written by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Ray Milland, the film won four [[AcademyAward Oscars]], including Best Picture.
An alcoholic writer, Don Birnam, leads a tough existence in New York City. His girlfriend, Helen, is one of the few people out there who can hopefully lead him on the straight and narrow. However, Don's personal life has been at a crossroads due to his insecurities. After ditching his brother's suggestion for a weekend in the country, Don begins a long drinking binge (the titular lost weekend). Of course, the more he drinks, the closer it may be to his last one...
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!!This work features examples of:
* AcademyAward: Best Picture, Best Director for Wilder, Best Actor for Milland, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Wilder and Charles Brackett.
* TheAlcoholic: Possibly the first Hollywood film to treat alcoholism in anything resembling a realistic way.
* AtTheOperaTonight
* {{Bowdlerize}}: The novel pointed to a homosexual affair as the root of Birnam's troubles; the film version replaced it with writer's block.
* DrunkenMontage
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* IllTellYouWhenIveHadEnough
* MoralGuardians: On both ends: the liquor industry tried to sway Paramount from releasing the film, allegedly even going as far to bribe Billy Wilder. On the other hand, the more traditional folks tried to keep it from release for fears it would encourage drinking.
* OffTheWagon
* PinkElephants: A particularly terrifying use of this trope.
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->''"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!"''
-->-- '''Don Brinam'''
A 1944 novel by Charles R. Jackson, '''''The Lost Weekend''''' entered the PopCulturalOsmosis once the film version was released the following year. Directed and co-written by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Ray Milland, the film won four [[AcademyAward Oscars]], including Best Picture.
An alcoholic writer, Don Birnam, leads a tough existence in New York City. His girlfriend, Helen, is one of the few people out there who can hopefully lead him on the straight and narrow. However, Don's personal life has been at a crossroads due to his insecurities. After ditching his brother's suggestion for a weekend in the country, Don begins a long drinking binge (the titular lost weekend). Of course, the more he drinks, the closer it may be to his last one...
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!!This work features examples of:
* AcademyAward: Best Picture, Best Director for Wilder, Best Actor for Milland, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Wilder and Charles Brackett.
* TheAlcoholic: Possibly the first Hollywood film to treat alcoholism in anything resembling a realistic way.
* AtTheOperaTonight
* {{Bowdlerize}}: The novel pointed to a homosexual affair as the root of Birnam's troubles; the film version replaced it with writer's block.
* DrunkenMontage
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* IllTellYouWhenIveHadEnough
* MoralGuardians: On both ends: the liquor industry tried to sway Paramount from releasing the film, allegedly even going as far to bribe Billy Wilder. On the other hand, the more traditional folks tried to keep it from release for fears it would encourage drinking.
* OffTheWagon
* PinkElephants: A particularly terrifying use of this trope.
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