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'''Mary''': ''Elephant'', I think - [[ExcitedShowTitle with an exclamation mark, presumably]]. \\
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'''Mary''': ''Elephant'', I think - [[ExcitedShowTitle with an exclamation mark, presumably]].presumably. \\
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Dexter King (Goldblum) is a lovelorn American actor working in London. For the last six years he has played "The Tall Guy", a straight man to annoying, egotistical, and outright abusive stage comedian Ron Anderson (Creator/RowanAtkinson). After commiserating with his nymphomaniac housemate (Geraldine James) and going to a doctor for [[SneezeOfDoom his chronic allergies]], he meets and falls in love with beautiful nurse Kate Lemon (Creator/EmmaThompson in her film debut), and is so elated that he improvises onstage to the point that Anderson fires him for it. He fails a few auditions before finally landing the title role in an elaborate West End musical adaptation of ''Film/TheElephantMan''. But his big break could end up costing him his relationship if he's not careful...
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Dexter King (Goldblum) is a lovelorn American actor working in London. For the last six years he has played "The Tall Guy", a straight man to annoying, egotistical, and outright abusive stage comedian Ron Anderson (Creator/RowanAtkinson). After commiserating with his nymphomaniac housemate (Geraldine James) and going to a doctor for [[SneezeOfDoom his chronic allergies]], allergies, he meets and falls in love with beautiful nurse Kate Lemon (Creator/EmmaThompson in her film debut), and is so elated that he improvises onstage to the point that Anderson fires him for it. He fails a few auditions before finally landing the title role in an elaborate West End musical adaptation of ''Film/TheElephantMan''. But his big break could end up costing him his relationship if he's not careful...
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* SneezeOfDoom: Dexter has ''terrible'' nasal allergies as the movie begins, expressed via this trope, which is not only a general nuisance for him but starting to affect his onstage work to Ron's displeasure. Finally getting treatment for them is what crosses his path with Kate's.
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A 1989 British comedy film written by Richard Curtis (as his first screenplay), directed by Creator/MelSmith, and starring Creator/JeffGoldblum.
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A 1989 British comedy film written by Richard Curtis Creator/RichardCurtis (as his first screenplay), directed by Creator/MelSmith, and starring Creator/JeffGoldblum.
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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* BadBoss: Ron turns this UpToEleven.
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* BadBoss: Ron turns this UpToEleven.up to eleven.
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* ActorAllusion: ''Elephant!'', with its [[TheGrotesque grotesque]], tragic protagonist, is a parody of Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's ''The Phantom of the Opera'', but a subtle layer of this trope also exists given who's playing Dexter. Creator/JeffGoldblum spent most of the first 15 years of his career as a supporting player at best before finding a breakout lead role as the tragically DoomedProtagonist of ''Film/TheFly1986'', which required him to wear extremely heavy, grotesque makeup for much of the shoot. Dexter winds up getting ''his'' big break playing the Elephant Man, and he ends up spending a significant chunk of the third act running about London in full disfiguring makeup to boot!
* AdamWesting: Rowan Atkinson plays Ron Anderson, a hyper-obnoxious version of himself. (The screenplay is partially inspired by Curtis's experiences working with Atkinson.) Even their initials are identical!
* AdamWesting: Rowan Atkinson plays Ron Anderson, a hyper-obnoxious version of himself. (The screenplay is partially inspired by Curtis's experiences working with Atkinson.) Even their initials are identical!
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* ActorAllusion: ''Elephant!'', with its [[TheGrotesque grotesque]], tragic protagonist, is a parody of Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's ''The Phantom of the Opera'', but a subtle layer of this trope also exists given who's playing Dexter. Creator/JeffGoldblum spent most of the first 15 years of his career as a supporting player at best before finding a breakout lead role as the tragically DoomedProtagonist of ''Film/TheFly1986'', which required him to wear extremely heavy, grotesque makeup for much of the shoot. Dexter winds up getting ''his'' big break playing the Elephant Man, and he ends up spending a significant chunk of the third act running about London in full disfiguring makeup to boot!
makeup.
* AdamWesting: Rowan Atkinson plays Ron Anderson, a hyper-obnoxious version of himself. (The screenplay is partially inspired by Curtis's experiences working with Atkinson.) Even their initials areidentical!identical.
* AdamWesting: Rowan Atkinson plays Ron Anderson, a hyper-obnoxious version of himself. (The screenplay is partially inspired by Curtis's experiences working with Atkinson.) Even their initials are
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* TheGrovel: The climax hinges on Dexter delivering this to [[spoiler: Kate, who has dumped him over his affair with Cheryl]]. Exaggerated in that he is ''so'' sincere and desperate that he does this while [[spoiler: she's at the hospital trying to attend to a bunch of lorry accident victims]] ''and'' [[spoiler: said victims become more concerned with ''his'' situation than their own]]!
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* TheGrovel: The climax hinges on Dexter delivering this to [[spoiler: Kate, who has dumped him over his affair with Cheryl]]. Exaggerated in that he is ''so'' sincere and desperate that he does this while [[spoiler: she's at the hospital trying to attend to a bunch of lorry accident victims]] ''and'' [[spoiler: said victims become more concerned with ''his'' situation than their own]]!own]].
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-->'''Ron Anderson''': [''softly''] Listen, Dexter, is there something troubling you? Something that you would like to talk to someone about?
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-->'''Ron Anderson''': [''softly''] Listen, Dexter, is there something troubling you? Something that you would like to talk to someone about?
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-->'''Ron Anderson''': [''snaps''] Then for fuck's sake talk to someone about it, will you? And sort it out before I sack you and hire a lobotomized monkey to play your role. Okay?
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-->'''Ron Anderson''': [''snaps''] Then for fuck's sake talk to someone about it, will you? And sort it out before I sack you and hire a lobotomized monkey to play your role. Okay?
