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''[[The Salton Sea]]'' is a 2002 crime / neo-noir film starring [[Val Kilmer]], Vincent D'Onofrio and [[Peter Sarsgaard]]. It follows the story of Danny Parker (Val Kilmer), a former trumpet player and
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* [[Arms Dealer]]: A particularly quirky one who has an unusual style of speaking and doesn't seem to blink. {{spoiler|He re-appears later in Danny's imagination in a crucial moment of trying to remember whether the revolver he bought can hold eight or nine rounds}}
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Bobby the dealer is incoherent and rambling, and threatens Danny and his friend Jimmy with a spear gun. But he's somewhat ineffectual due to being drugged out from his own drug supply. Pooh-Bear on the other hand is both crazy and incredibly dangerous. The first scene we see with Pooh-Bear is him and his buddies recreating the JFK assassination with
* [[Book Dumb]]: Jimmy is this, particularly when he asks Danny who [[John F. Kennedy]] is and whether he was assassinated or not. Most of the junkies Danny hangs out with seem to be this also.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Danny speaks directly to the viewer multiple times throughout the movie.
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* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Whilst it's not really the point of the film, it shows the crowd that Danny hangs out with as being unintelligent and pitiful. Danny's own use of drugs {{spoiler|As a way of dealing with his Wife's death}} seems have sent him into a downward spiral.
* [[Facial Horror]]: Pooh-bear's nose, or lack thereof
* [[Framing the Guilty Party]]: Sort of. Danny gives his neighbour some illegal drugs to plant in her apartment so she can call the cops on her boyfriend. Though the
* [[Gag Nose]]: We are told the character Pooh-Bear had to have his nose cut off from snorting too many drugs. You get to see how he looks without his nose briefly before he
* [[Honey Trap]]: A much lighter version, but {{spoiler|Danny's next door neighbour, whom he almost becomes intimate with, actually sets him up because her boyfriend has her daughter held hostage}}.
* [[Imagine Spot]]
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* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: {{spoiler|Pooh-Bear uses a unique one on Danny Parker in which he forces him to bring his member near am angry badger stuck in a cage at gun point}}
* [[Needs More Love]]:
<!--* [[Redneck]]: Pooh-Bear and any of his friends or henchmen that you get to see.-->
* [[Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty]]: Very much on the gritty side, with a focus on urban streets during the night.
* [[Split Personality]]: Not so much the mental illness variety, but between his old life as a trumpet player happily in love with his wife and his new life into the dark world of illegal drugs and being an informant for the police. At the start of the film, Danny even asks the viewer to make up his or her mind which one the protagonist is. {{spoiler|At the end, he
* [[Survivor Guilt]]: {{spoiler|Danny talks briefly about feeling guilty when he is shot and his wife is killed in front of him.}}
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: There is quite a bit of this between Danny and his neighbour, that almost get's resolved in one scene.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: {{spoiler|After Val Kilmer shoots Pooh-bear's friends/
* [[Zany Scheme]]: Some of Danny's friend talk about stealing Bob Hope's stool specimen, and then to sell it. We are briefly shown a look of how wrong it could go.
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:The Salton Sea]]
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[[Category:Film]]
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