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== This film includes examples of: ==
* [[Answer Cut]]: Technically not a question, but close enough
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The character of George was written and/or cast with Sydney Pollack, the director, playing the part at Hoffman's suggestion, to incorporate some of the real-life tension between the two of them into the movie itself.
* [[Reality Subtext]]: Michael Dorsey ''is'' Dustin Hoffman. All the insane ways Dorsey gets fired or quits from a production? They ''really'' happened.
* [[The Reveal]]: The big reveal for both the fictional soap and the actual movie, when Michael takes off his wig and many of his feminine touches and reveals himself to be a man during a live
* [[Ripped From the Headlines]]: The reveal of Emily Kimberly to be her brother Edward Kimberly on ''Southwest General'' was based on a real plot twist on the soap ''[[General Hospital]]'', in which the character Sally Armitage was revealed to really be Max Hedges.
* [[Self Deprecation]]: Let's just see it's easy to see a lot of Michael's behavior in Dustin Hoffman's career.
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