Stranger Than Fiction: Difference between revisions

** Not ''nearly'' as much as the end credit sequence, especially after watching the special features about the the design company.

* [[Fourth Wall Observer]]: A variation: Harold can hear the narrator, but {{spoiler|turns out the Fourth Wall isn't technically up in the first place}}

** But not before Harold has his own. The guy does find out he is going to die in a pretty unconventional and profound way, after all. That poor, poor lamp...

* [[Fridge Horror]]: Invoked. So [[Post Modernism|Po Mo]] that this even happens [[In Universe]]: Karen Eiffel was a well known author whose [[Signature Style]] was the [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|tragic death of each of her protagonists]]. Harold Crick was the only one who figured it out, and she prevented his death from happening. So how many people did Karen kill before she realized she was controlling real people? When Karen realizes this possibility, it [[Heroic BSOD|hits her like a freight train.]]

* [[Slipstream]]: Genre-wise, it's more this than [[Magical Realism]], both in terms of the movie itself and possibly in Karen's book, what with the watch being portrayed as vaguely sentient.

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: According to the professor, all of Karen Eiffel's previous novels have ended this way, and the rough draft of Harold Crick's story is no different.

* [[Take That]]: in universe. The reason Harold is able to find Karen Eiffel is because she had been auditted ten years prior, which is also around the time she started writing a book about an IRS agent who would inevitably die.

* [[Take Our Word for It]]: The brilliance of Eiffel's original ending.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Professor Hilbert's copious coffee consumption.

* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: The movie was portrayed as typical Will Ferrel comedy in advertisements, which it is decidedly not.

* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: In-universe example. While Harold is being distracted by Karen, someone asks him what the product of 67 and 453 is. He answers with 30351, which Karen says is wrong, and that the real answer is 31305, which he quickly corrects to. Because he is obviously distracted, it seems very probable that he would have gotten it wrong. He hadn't, and had the correct answer the first time. Of course, she may have just been messing with him, but why?

** It's a typo in a movie about a novel. The movie is filled with mathematical references and in-jokes. When a writer names every character after a famous mathematician, they can probably do basic multiplication.

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