In Bruges: Difference between revisions

* [[Career Killers]]: Ken, Ray, Harry.

* [[Chekhov's Armoury]] - {{spoiler|Between Harry's honor code against killing children, his purchase of "dum-dums" and the prevalence of the midget, there's quite a lot of [[Foreshadowing]] of the ending.}}

** Also, {{spoiler|Ray constantly commenting on how many midgets end up shooting themselves in the head}}

** And that's forgetting {{spoiler|the tower custodian refusing to take Ken's just-short spare change.}}

** The {{spoiler|Canadian}} that Ray hits, the fat Americans that go to the top of the tower and the gun Ray steals from Chloe/Erik.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]] - Ray, sometimes Ken, and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshadingly-so]] with Harry Waters.

** The DVD contains all the profanity in the movie [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDyEbUUpiLc edited into a single montage]. Despite very rapid editing, it runs over a minute and a half.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGiCVdrYji4 You're an inanimate ******* object] [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix]]

* [[First Law of Tragicomedies]]: Not as adhered to as most: even in the tensest situations, there's comedic exchanges like {{spoiler|Ray and Harry concocting a plan to continue their shootout outside}}.

* [[Genre Savvy]]

* [[Go Through Me]]

* [[Grievous Bottley Harm]]: "In my book, though, [[Foreshadowing|someone comes at you with a bottle]], I'm sorry, that is a deadly weapon, he's gotta take the consequences."

** The Canadian Ray hits is Zeljko Ivanek, who played the governor on ''[[Oz]]'', the Magister on ''[[True Blood]]'' and Prosecutor Ed Danvers in ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]''. As well as [[Heroes (TV series)|Danko]], and the shooter from "Last Resort" on ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''.

* [[Hookers and Blow]]

* [[Infant Immortality]]: The impetus of the plot.

* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Interrupted ''by'' someone trying to kill the guy who is trying to kill himself. Awkward.

* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: Averted. Ray laments that his revolver is "a bloody girl's gun" when Ken shows him his own automatic.

* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: Ray confessing to [[My Greatest Failure]] on a first date, and Chloe admitting to her profession in response, both laughing it off as a big joke;

'''Chloë:''' I sell cocaine and heroin to Belgian film crews. }}

* [[Say My Name Trailer]]: "Bruges." "Bruges." "Bruges." "Bruges." "Where is that?" "It's in Belgium."

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: The Conversation between Harry and Eirik at Yuri's house

* [[Title Drop]]: Sort of.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: In Harry's opinion, Eirik, the man who tried to mug Ray with a gun full of blanks.

'''Harry:''' I mean basically if you're robbing a man and you're only carrying blanks and you allow your gun to be taken off you and you allow yourself to be shot in the eye with a blank, which I assume that the person has to get quite close to you to do, then yeah. Really it's all your fault for being such a poof, so why don't you stop whinging and cheer the fuck up. }}

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Harry won't push past the pregnant hotel owner to get up the stairs at Ray. This might be due to his [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]] rule, though. Averted when Ray hits the Canadian woman, though he's put on the defensive about it later and insists that it was self defense.