Oblivion (2013 film): Difference between revisions
A couple more Oblivion tropes.
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* [[Aerial Canyon Chase]]: Complete with [[Dodge by Braking]], taken [[Up to Eleven]] by the ship’s
* [[After the End]]: Of the [[Alien Invasion]] variety.
* [[Arc Words]]:
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{{quote|'''Jack''': Buck up, Bob. Don’t go all shaky on me.}}
* [[Detonation Moon]]: Destroyed by the Scavs sixty years before the events of the movie, in order to lay waste to Earth through earthquakes and tidal waves. {{spoiler|Actually done by the Tet, for the same reasons, a fact that’s hidden from Jack and Vika.}}
* [[Diegetic Switch]]: Happens twice, both times with the record player in Jack’s cabin in the woods.
* [[Dress Hits Floor]]: Done without a cut, but [[Sexy Silhouette|from behind and silhouetted]].
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]:
** For Jack, when he fixes a drone with bubblegame while talking about the Super Bowl and wearing a Yankees cap. Depicts in one scene both his ingenuity and his curiosity and nostalgia for Earth‐related things.
** For Vika, the moment when Jack offers her a patch of grass from the surface, and she wordlessly turns around, throws it off the balcony, and chides Jack for breaking the rules and putting them danger.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]:
{{quote|'''Sally''': Are you an effective team?
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* [[Machine Monotone]]: {{spoiler|Sally from Mission Control speaks in a delightful Southern twang, until she’s revealed to be [[Not Even Human]]—the next time she talks to Jack, her audio starts glitching out and you can hear a synthesized voice underneath.}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Although it’s never mentioned in the movie, the Tet is so named because it is shaped like a [[Sinister Geometry|tetrahedron]].
* [[Oh Crap]]: Jack has this moment when he realizes what he thought was a downed drone in need of repair was a trap set up by the Scavs to capture him.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: At a pivotal moment in the ending.
* [[Rule of Pool]]: Vika pulls Jack into their pool for an impromptu [[Two-Person Pool Party]].
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* [[Sunglasses at Night]]: Beech, whose look is clearly inspired by [[The Matrix|Morpheus]]. Wears his shades even underground and in fights. {{spoiler|He’s never shown without them until after he’s been critically injured in the final firefight.}}
* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]: {{spoiler|“There is no Titan. They lied to us!”}}
* [[The Only One]]: {{spoiler|Beech implies that the other Jack clones he’s encountered weren’t curious, which is why he is so interested in Jack 49’s aberrant behavior.}}
* [[The Tower]]: Tower 49, where Jack and Vika live. {{spoiler|Jack encounters his clone from Tower 52, implying there are at least 50 other towers we haven’t seen.}}
* [[Two-Person Pool Party]]: In an [[Unnecessarily Large Interior|absurdly spacious pool]] [[The Tower|incredibly high above the ground]].
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|That object was the Tet, Jack. The Tet was our mission!}}
** Followed by an even bigger one: {{spoiler|I’m your wife.}}
* [[Wistful Amnesia]]: A [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|memory wipe]] has been performed on the two earth techs for security purposes, but Jack still retains brief glimpses of a past life. It’s implied that Vika does too, but she’s more willing to follow the rules and put those memories out of her mind.
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