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* FlashBack: See PensieveFlashback
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->''"Mr. Cleg... How many shirts are you wearing? One, two, three... Four! Now really, is this absolutely necessary?"''
->''"Oh indeed it is, Madam. Clothes maketh the man; and the less there is of the man, the more the need for the clothes."''
''Spider'' is a 2002 psychological thriller from Creator/DavidCronenberg starring Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/GabrielByrne and Creator/MirandaRichardson, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on a book/screenplay]] by Patrick [=McGrath=].
->''"Oh indeed it is, Madam. Clothes maketh the man; and the less there is of the man, the more the need for the clothes."''
''Spider'' is a 2002 psychological thriller from Creator/DavidCronenberg starring Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/GabrielByrne and Creator/MirandaRichardson, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on a book/screenplay]] by Patrick [=McGrath=].
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->''"Mr. Cleg... How many shirts are you wearing? One, two, three... Four! Now really, is this absolutely necessary?"''
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''"Oh indeed it is, Madam. Clothes maketh the man; and the less there is of the man, the more the need for the clothes."''
''Spider'' is a 2002 psychological thriller from Creator/DavidCronenberg starring Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/GabrielByrne and Creator/MirandaRichardson, [[TheFilmOfTheBook basedon on]] a [[Literature/Spider1990 1990 book/screenplay]] by Patrick [=McGrath=].
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''"Oh indeed it is, Madam. Clothes maketh the man; and the less there is of the man, the more the need for the clothes."''
''Spider'' is a 2002 psychological thriller from Creator/DavidCronenberg starring Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/GabrielByrne and Creator/MirandaRichardson, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based
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* [[AndThatLittleGirlWasMe And That Little Boy Was Me]]: That we're seeing a FlashBack isn't made apparent until we see Adult Spider repeat and eventually pre-empt Boy Spider's lines.
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* [[AndThatLittleGirlWasMe And That Little Boy Was Me]]: That we're seeing a FlashBack isn't made apparent until we see Adult Spider repeat and eventually pre-empt Boy Spider's lines.
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* WindmillCrusaderWindmillCrusader: The title character.
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* RummageSaleReject: Adult Spider appears to wear his entire wardrobe at the same time; several pairs of trousers, many shirts and a hulking great shabby overcoat.
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* RummageSaleReject: Adult Spider appears to wear his entire wardrobe at the same time; time: several pairs of trousers, many shirts shirts, and a hulking great hulking, great, shabby overcoat.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: TruthInTelevision to an extent; schizophrenia is still a poorly understood illness, and at the period this film is set Britain was busy releasing mental patients into the public with little or no assistance under its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_in_the_community Care in the Community]] programme.
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness
* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: Spider, an institutionalized paranoid schizophrenic, has very poor personal hygiene. He also constantly wears at least five layers of clothing which he never seems to change.
* TheUnintelligible: As well as a bad case of the mumbles, [[TheIllegible Mr. Clegg writes constant gibberish in his journal]].
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness
* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: Spider, an institutionalized paranoid schizophrenic, has very poor personal hygiene. He also constantly wears at least five layers of clothing which he never seems to change.
* TheUnintelligible: As well as a bad case of the mumbles, [[TheIllegible Mr. Clegg writes constant gibberish in his journal]].
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: TruthInTelevision to an extent; schizophrenia is still a poorly understood illness, and at the period this film is set set, Britain was busy releasing mental patients into the public with little or no assistance under its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_in_the_community Care in the Community]] programme.
*ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity
ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Dennis's issue with [[spoiler:his mother and Yvonne.]]
*ThroughTheEyesOfMadness
ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The protagonist is schizophrenic.
* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: Spider, an institutionalized paranoid schizophrenic, has very poor personalhygiene.hygiene, particurly noticeable with his right hand's thumb, forefinger, and middle finger being perpetually covered in some yellowish substance. He also constantly wears at least five layers of clothing which he never seems to change.
* TheUnintelligible: As well as a bad case of the mumbles, [[TheIllegible Mr.Clegg Cleg writes constant gibberish in his journal]].
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* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: Spider, an institutionalized paranoid schizophrenic, has very poor personal
* TheUnintelligible: As well as a bad case of the mumbles, [[TheIllegible Mr.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Spider being afraid of the gas towers, staring at the canal under the bridge and crying in an allotment.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Spider being afraid of the gas towers, staring at the canal under the bridge bridge, and crying in an allotment.
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I don't know about the book, but in the film it's got one "g"
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->''"Mr. Clegg...Cleg... How many shirts are you wearing? One, two, three... Four! Now really, is this absolutely necessary?"''
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It tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic, the titular Spider (real name Dennis Clegg), who is released from a mental asylum into a halfway house in London. Here he relives his traumatic 1960s childhood as he tries to piece his life back together and come to terms with his madness.
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It tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic, the titular Spider (real name Dennis Clegg), Cleg), who is released from a mental asylum into a halfway house in London. Here he relives his traumatic 1960s childhood as he tries to piece his life back together and come to terms with his madness.
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''Spider'' is a 2002 psychological thriller from Creator/DavidCronenberg starring Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/GabrielByrne and Miranda Richardson, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on a book/screenplay]] by Patrick [=McGrath=].
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''Spider'' is a 2002 psychological thriller from Creator/DavidCronenberg starring Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/GabrielByrne and Miranda Richardson, Creator/MirandaRichardson, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on a book/screenplay]] by Patrick [=McGrath=].
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->''"Mr. Clegg... how many shirts are you wearing? One, two, three... four! Now really, is this absolutely necessary?"''
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->''"Mr. Clegg... how How many shirts are you wearing? One, two, three... four! Four! Now really, is this absolutely necessary?"''
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** This might be an inside reference to ''TheFly'', where Creator/JeffGoldblum's character's only clothes are multiple versions of the same suit, but he doesn't wear them all at once.
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** This might be an inside reference to ''TheFly'', ''Film/TheFly1986'', where Creator/JeffGoldblum's character's only clothes are multiple versions of the same suit, but he doesn't wear them all at once.
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* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Clegg is horrified to discover that he murdered his mother during one of his hallucinations as a kid. It's the reason he's been institutionalized ever since.]]
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: A half-way example. Clegg is horrified to discover that he murdered his mother during one of his hallucinations as a kid. It's the reason he's been institutionalized ever since.]]
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* FlashBack: Much of the story is told through Spider's flashbacks... [[UnreliableNarrator even of scenes he couldn't possibly have seen]].
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* PensieveFlashback: Much of the story is told through Spider's flashbacks where he watches himself as a young boy... [[UnreliableNarrator even of scenes he couldn't possibly have seen]].
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* ActingForTwo: Miranda Richardson plays [[YouALLLookFamiliar three distinctly different roles]], [[MindScrew two of which were played by different actresses earlier in the film]]. Her performances are so distinctly different that many people don't notice the change on the first viewing.
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* DoingItForTheArt[=/=]NoBudget: Most of the actors, as well as the director and producers, deferred their wages so that the film could be made with it's minimal budget of $8m.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/HarryPotter Voldemort]] is the son of [[TheUsualSuspects Keaton]] and [[{{Blackadder}} Mad Queen Bess]]!