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* The German movie ''Der Blaue Engel'' (''[[The Blue Angel (Film)|The Blue Angel]]''). It starts off with the main character (a respected professor) falling for nightclub singer Marlene Dietrich. He gets fired from his job because he spends the night with his new girlfriend and comes in late for work and joins her group who travel from place to place performing, where he quickly ends up spending what little money he has saved up. They can't make enough money so he's pressured in to becoming a clown; part of his act involving him having eggs pulled from his ear and then crowing like a rooster. Eventually the group decides that they should go back to his home town and make him perform there. {{spoiler|He does, to an audience of his old colleagues and students who came specifically to laugh at him. His wife, who he did all this for, cheats on him during his act and he attacks her, while repeatedly crowing like a rooster. After he fails to kill her, he goes to his old desk at the school where it is implied he kills himself. It doesn't sound so bad written out but watching it is just painful and horribly depressing.}}

** To be fair, the professor in "Der Blaue Engel/The Blue Angel" kind of had it coming. The film portrays him as a cliched evil teacher from hell at the start of the film, and his downfall itself is centered on the fact that he only goes to the nightclub to catch his underage students there in order to further torment them by way of busting them for sneaking into a nightclub.