The Man Who Knew Too Little: Difference between revisions

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Wallace receives information about the character he should play via a phone call; unknown to him, the calls get mixed up, and he instead receives instructions intended for a real hitman. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

Wallace proceeds to [[Large Ham|ham his way]] through the underworld of secret agents and espionage. He almost immediately decides to break from "the script" and help the person he was ordered to kill: Lori ([[Joanne Whalley]]), a [[Hooker ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold|call-girl with a heart of gold]] who's trying to blackmail the Defense Minister she's been sleeping with. Along the way, Wally accidentally convinces his "superiors" that he's a loose cannon who knows of their devious scheme to restart the Cold War by blowing up the dignitaries at a historic peace accord. And all the while, Wallace thinks the bullets, [[Truth Serums]], car chases, and dead bodies are [[All Part of the Show]].

Wallace proceeds to [[Large Ham|ham his way]] through the underworld of secret agents and espionage. He almost immediately decides to break from "the script" and help the person he was ordered to kill: Lori ([[Joanne Whalley]]), a [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|call-girl with a heart of gold]] who's trying to blackmail the Defense Minister she's been sleeping with. Along the way, Wally accidentally convinces his "superiors" that he's a loose cannon who knows of their devious scheme to restart the Cold War by blowing up the dignitaries at a historic peace accord. And all the while, Wallace thinks the bullets, [[Truth Serums]], car chases, and dead bodies are [[All Part of the Show]].

It should be noted that, beyond the <s>similar titles</s> title which is obviously a [[Shout-Out|reference]] (and [[Mistaken for Spies|superficial plot similarities]]), this film has nothing to do with Hitchcock's thriller ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]''.

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** At the end where Wallace is being recruited to be an assassin, he believes they are hiring him to be an actor and offers to do the work for free for children and old people.

* [[Born Lucky]]: Wallace

* [[The Butcher]]: Boris Blavasky. In this case, it has a dual meaning- "Butcher" because his work as a spy/hitman is so brutal and messy, but also because "butcher" is ''[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|actually his day job]]''.

* [[The Butcher]]: Boris Blavasky. In this case, it has a dual meaning- "Butcher" because his work as a spy/hitman is so brutal and messy, but also because "butcher" is ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|actually his day job]]''.

{{quote| '''Sergei''': Why so gloomy? Is better than being butcher.<br />

'''Boris''': I ''like'' being butcher. You know exactly who you are killing... and ''why''. }}

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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Alfred Molina (Doctor Octopus) as Boris the Butcher

** Peter Gallagher (Buddy Kane from ''[[American Beauty]]'') as the brother-in-law

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Sir Roger and Sergei {{spoiler|get blown up by their own bomb.}}

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Sir Roger and Sergei {{spoiler|get blown up by their own bomb.}}

* [[Hooker ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold]]: Lori, though she insists she's not a call-girl. Even though she accepted money for sex with the Minister of Defense.

* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Lori, though she insists she's not a call-girl. Even though she accepted money for sex with the Minister of Defense.

* [[I Always Wanted to Say That|I Always Wanted To Do That]]: Knocking over traffic cones during a car chase.

* [[Inspector Oblivious]]