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[[File:cryinggame_3417.jpg|frame|The original [[The Mighty Boosh|great confuser]].]]
 
 
{{quote|Those eyes, those thighs,
''Surprise!''
It's the Crying Gaaaaame!
''I didn't order that!''
''I didn't order that!''|'''[[Billy Crystal]]''' ([[Filk Song|to the tune of "The Tender Trap"]]), during his famous song-and-dance bit at the 1992 [[Academy AwardsAward|Oscars]]; the best, most succinct summary of the movie ever}}
 
So you [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|want to know about]] ''[[The Crying Game]]''? The movie is best remembered for its [[It Was His Sled|now infamous]] plot twist, but there's more to it than that.
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Having no other course of action, Fergus makes his way to London to honor Jody's last request. He reinvents himself as Jimmy and finds Dil working as a hairdresser and sometime lounge singer. Though he means to tell her the truth about himself, he finds himself falling for her first. But, he's not the only one with a secret.
 
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: David for Dil.
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: [[Trope Namer]].
** This film is mostly remembered for the fact that one of the characters is transsexualtransgender. The reason it codified ''this'' trope is because {{spoiler|said transsexualtransgender is graphically shown to be PREpre-OPop}}. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may have spoiled this for future audiences by nominating Davidson as best supporting '''actor''' before it opened in Australia.
*** TheIt's too bad that's not really the important part. There's a whole massive mess of political intrigue going on as the movie continues, and the movie is also psychologically interesting in how Stephen Rhea's character, who is basically a decent person, tries to deal with bad situations and people. But all this was arguably ruined by the way the director handled the reveal of Dil's transsexualitygender identity.▼
** The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may have spoiled this for future audiences by nominating Davidson as best supporting '''actor''' before it opened in Australia.
** It's too bad that's not really the important part. There's a whole massive mess of political intrigue going on as the movie continues.
▲*** The movie is also psychologically interesting in how Stephen Rhea's character, who is basically a decent person, tries to deal with bad situations and people. But all this was arguably ruined by the way the director handled the reveal of Dil's transsexuality.
** Movie posters and DVD boxes featured Miranda Richardson to try to confuse the issue.
** "Hot Shots! Part Deux" includes a spoiler for ''The Crying Game'' in the [[Credits Gag|closing credits]].
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* [[Ate His Gun]]: Dil wants to, but Fergus won't let her.
* [[Award Bait Song]]: Averted. "The Crying Game" wasn't original, so it wasn't eligible for an Academy Award.
* [[Bad Dreams]]: Fergus has them about Jody.▼
* [[Badass Boast]]:
{{quote|'''Jimmy:''' Have you ever picked up your teeth with broken fingers?}}
▲* [[Bad Dreams]]: Fergus has them about Jody.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Fergus is out of the IRA, but in jail. He and Dil seem to be together, though}}.
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Jody.
** [[Bound and Gagged]]: Jody. And again, with the film's usual irony, {{spoiler|Fergus}}.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Fergus is pretty slow on the uptake regarding Dil and who knew about this and that and so on.
* [[Conspicuously Public Assassination]]: The IRA wants Fergus to perform one of these.
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* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Peter.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:
{{quote|''' {{spoiler|Dil}}''': You're doing time for me. No greater love, as the man says. Wish you'd tell me why.
''' {{spoiler|Fergus}}''': [[Frog and The Scorpion|As the man said, it's in my nature]]. }}
* [[Honey Trap]]: The IRA gets Jody by sending one of these (played by Miranda Richardson) after him.
* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: Implied to be the resolution for {{spoiler|Dil and Fergus}}.
* [[Important Haircut]]: One for Fergus (though done off-screen) when he reinvents himself as Jimmy. Another for Dil when she has to go into hiding.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Dil continues to call Fergus loving terms {{spoiler|after [[The Reveal]], to his consternation.}}
* [[Lima Syndrome]]
* [[Male Frontal Nudity]]: Used for [[The Reveal]].
* [[Manslaughter Provocation]]: Probably what {{spoiler|Fergus gets convicted of}}.
* [[Nausea Fuel]]: [[The Reveal]], for [[In-Universe|Fergus]].
* [[Resignations Not Accepted]]: Jude to Fergus.
{{quote|'''Fergus:''' No way. I'm out.
'''Jude:''' ''(practically rolling her eyes)'' You're ''never'' out. }}
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: {{spoiler|Dil on Jude}}.
* [[Shower of Angst]]: This famous post-revelation scene has been harkenedhearkened back to many times, most-famously spoofed in ''[[Ace Ventura]]''.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Eddie.
* [[Suspiciously Apropos Music]]: The film opens "When a Man Loves a Woman", and ends with "Stand By Your Man".
* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]: {{spoiler|Dil}}.
* [[Title Drop]]: The eponymous song is song by Dil.
* [[TranssexualismTransgender]]: {{spoiler|In the famous twist, Dil}}.
* [[Traumatic Haircut]]: Dil. {{spoiler|The last thing she wants to be is a boy again}}. The only way Dil agrees is that Fergus insists that he's doing it for love; she still cries as her hair is cut.
{{quote|'''Fergus''': Do anything for me?
'''Dil''': Anything... ''(Fergus starts to cut her hair)'' '''[[Anything But That|NO WAY!]]'''<br />
'''Fergus''': You said ''anything''.<br />
'''Dil''': Girl has to draw the line ''somewhere''. }}
* [[Unrequited Love]]: The theme of the film.
* [[We Do Not Know Each Other]]: When {{spoiler|the IRA comes after Fergus again}}, he tries to get Dil to play along with this. He puts her up in a hotel and cuts her hair, but his plan doesn't quite work out.
* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: Fergus gets one of these when it's time to kill Jody. He can't bring himself to do it.
** Given an [[Ironic Echo]] when {{spoiler|Dil}} wants to kill Fergus, but can't bring herself to do it, either.
 
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