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''[[The Ides of March]]'' is a 2011 political thriller, starring [[George Clooney]], Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright and [[Evan Rachel Wood]]. It was written and directed by [[Directed by Cast Member|Clooney]] (with co-writers Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon), based on Willimon's play ''Farragut North''.▼
 
▲''[[The Ides of March]]'' is a 2011 political thriller, starring [[George Clooney]], [[Ryan Gosling]], [[Philip Seymour Hoffman]], Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright and [[Evan Rachel Wood]]. It was written and directed by [[Directed by Cast Member|Clooney]] (with co-writers Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon), based on Willimon's play ''Farragut North''.
The plot centres around Stephen (Gosling), an idealistic staffer on presidential campaign of Governor Mike Morris (Clooney), who discovers some rather disturbing secrets about Morris and has to decide whether his career is more important than his ideals.▼
 
▲The plot centres around Stephen (Gosling), an idealistic staffer on presidential campaign of Governor Mike Morris (Clooney), who discovers some rather disturbing secrets about Morris and has to decide whether his career is more important than his ideals.
== Tropes In The Film ==
 
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The Presidential candidate never appears in the stage play.
* [[All-Star Cast]]
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Bastard In sheep's clothing]]: {{spoiler|Morris}}
* [[California Doubling]]: Averted. Most of the film was shot in Clooney's childhood home of Cincinnati (bizarrely enough, the film's theatrical credits forgot to mention the city).
* [[Double Standard]]:
{{quote| "You can lie, you can cheat, you can start a war, you can bankrupt the country, but you can't {{spoiler|fuck the interns}}. They get you for that."}}
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|The film ends with Stephen realizing that he has sacrificed all of his ideals for personal ambition.}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Molly, after being essentially abandoned by Stephen and Morris after her abortion.}}
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* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: Understanding much of the plot of the film such as why Senator Thompson's endorsement is so crucial requires some beyond basic understanding of the US presidential primary system. This might've hurt the film's overseas box office performance a bit.
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: {{spoiler|Mike Morris. Stephen by the end of the film.}}
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Tom's plan -- as soon as Stephen walks into the bar, he wins.▼
* [[What Might Have Been]]: [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] (who produced) and [[Star Trek (film)|Chris Pine]] (who played the part onstage) were considered for the lead before Ryan Gosling was cast.
** [[Brad Pitt]] was signed on to play Paul Zara, but left due to scheduling conflicts with ''[[Moneyball]]'' and was replaced by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
* [[Working Title]]: The film was originally named "Farragut North", after the play it was based on. The name change to "The Ides of March" seems to have been a late one as there is no relation to the actual title (unless one interprets it as a modern-day [[Julius Caesar]]).
** Actually, there is a reference to the fifteenth of March aka The Ides of March early in the film.
▲* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Tom's plan -- as soon as Stephen walks into the bar, he wins.
 
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