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== Film - Live Action ==

* [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Played straight, subverted and then played straight again]] with Joey 'The Lips' Fagan in ''[[The Commitments]]''. He claims to have been a session trumpeter who has played with all the greats including Elvis. The trope comes into play when Wilson Pickett comes to Dublin and Jimmy Rabbitte asks Joey if he can get him to play with the Commitments on stage (Joey having claimed with Wilson Pickett on a number of occasions). Joey claims to do so (we never see the meeting) but then Wilson Pickett never turns up to the Commitments' concert so Jimmy Rabbitte assumes that Joey was lying.....until later on as he's going home, he's stopped by the driver of a large limousine asking for directions to the club. Then later on Jimmy gets a postcard from Joey saying he's on tour with a musician...who died five years ago.

* [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Played straight, subverted and then played straight again]] with Joey 'The Lips' Fagan in ''[[The Commitments]]''. He claims to have been a session trumpeter who has played with all the greats including Elvis. The trope comes into play when Wilson Pickett comes to Dublin and Jimmy Rabbitte asks Joey if he can get him to play with the Commitments on stage (Joey having claimed with Wilson Pickett on a number of occasions). Joey claims to do so (we never see the meeting) but then Wilson Pickett never turns up to the Commitments' concert so Jimmy Rabbitte assumes that Joey was lying... until later on as he's going home, he's stopped by the driver of a large limousine asking for directions to the club. Then later on Jimmy gets a postcard from Joey saying he's on tour with a musician...who died five years ago.

* The 1965 film ''The Girls on the Beach'' features not [[The Beach Boys]] (who appear and perform in the film) but [[The Beatles (band)|their trans-Atlantic rivals]] (who do not). A beach bum trying to impress sorority sisters promises a Fab Four performance for their fundraising concert, and fails spectacularly to deliver.

* Subverted in, of all things, the ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' movie. Miley tries impressing people in her hometown by telling them she "knows" Hannah Montana.

* In ''[[Hustle & Flow]]'', {{spoiler|1=DJay's plan to get famous hinges entirely on his connection with old high school buddy Skinny Black, a local boy who made good and became a famous rapper. As it turns out, DJay is lying to his all his friends and had never crossed circles with Skinny Black ever.}}

* In ''[[Hustle & Flow]]'', {{spoiler|DJay's plan to get famous hinges entirely on his connection with old high school buddy Skinny Black, a local boy who made good and became a famous rapper. As it turns out, DJay is lying to his all his friends and had never crossed circles with Skinny Black ever.}}

* ''[[wikipedia:Jazzin' for Blue Jean|Jazzin' for Blue Jean]]'': [[David Bowie]] plays a man who tries to impress a woman by claiming (falsely) to be friends with a rock star she seems interested in; it turns out that she herself is friends with said rock star, who is also played by David Bowie.

* Played with (with a bit of deconstruction) on [[Bollywood]] film ''[[wikipedia:Billu|Billu]]'': when the children of the titular Billu spread the story that their father knows Sahir Khan, the Bollywood star that is filming on their small town, the town folks ask Billu to put therm in contact with the star; but when Billu fails to deliver, the people believe they were duped in the spirit of this trope. The thing is, Billu ''does'' know Sahir, but he believes that the star doesn't remember him after so many years and their reversal of fortunes, and at first he actually tried to ''disuade'' the people from using him to contact the star. When after too much ~~presure~~ he finally attempts to approach the star, bad luck prevents him from actually doing so.

* Played with (with a bit of deconstruction) on [[Bollywood]] film ''[[wikipedia:Billu|Billu]]'': when the children of the titular Billu spread the story that their father knows Sahir Khan, the Bollywood star that is filming on their small town, the town folks ask Billu to put therm in contact with the star; but when Billu fails to deliver, the people believe they were duped in the spirit of this trope. The thing is, Billu ''does'' know Sahir, but he believes that the star doesn't remember him after so many years and their reversal of fortunes, and at first he actually tried to ''disuade'' the people from using him to contact the star. When after too much pressure he finally attempts to approach the star, bad luck prevents him from actually doing so. Near the end, {{Spoiler|during a public event in the town, Sahir independently confirms his relationship with Billu by revealing that he misses his friend but he hadn't managed to contact him in years; then the rest of the town secretly arranges a re-encounter between both men}}.

== Literature ==