Tropescilloscope: Kubrick Stare

Head down, eyes up, wicked smile or grimace. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Emphasis! Psychological Thriller Genre Savvy The '50s My God, What Have I Done? Killed Mid-Sentence Conspicuous CG Race Against the Clock Daylight Horror Very Loosely Based on a True Story Damsel in Distress Fingore The Mafia Sadistic Choice Action Survivor Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Lost Lenore Police Brutality Femme Fatale Ambiguous Ending Serious Business Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Due to the Dead Henpecked Husband Deliberately Monochrome Wrong Genre Savvy Lampshade Hanging Broken Pedestal From Nobody to Nightmare In Name Only Put on a Bus Suspiciously Specific Denial Retcon Slap-Slap-Kiss Brick Joke Badass in a Nice Suit The Ditz Roaring Rampage of Revenge Blatant Lies Man on Fire Cool Old Guy Jitter Cam Well-Intentioned Extremist Brother–Sister Incest Does This Remind You of Anything? All Just a Dream Dirty Cop Pyrrhic Victory Crazy-Prepared Neck Lift Canadian Movies Heel Realization Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Room Full of Crazy Worthy Opponent Closed Circle Rape as Drama Pretty in Mink Darkest Hour Heterosexual Life-Partners Lighter and Softer Really Gets Around Butt-Monkey Epic Movie Deal with the Devil Heroic Sacrifice An Arm and a Leg Meaningful Background Event Kick the Dog Domestic Abuse Kick the Son of a Bitch Break the Cutie Let's Get Dangerous! Red Shirt Fourth Date Marriage Monumental Damage Not What It Looks Like Costume Porn Bi the Way And the Adventure Continues Tap on the Head An Aesop Almost Kiss Left the Background Music On Dutch Angle British Films No-Holds-Barred Beatdown He Knows Too Much Meaningful Name Rule of Funny Hero Antagonist Superhero Crucified Hero Shot Anti-Villain The Power of Love Unwitting Instigator of Doom Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Calling the Old Man Out Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Eureka Moment Offscreen Moment of Awesome Authority Equals Asskicking "The Reason You Suck" Speech Fun with Acronyms Badass Grandpa The Faceless Woman in White Adult Fear Fantasy Films Victoria's Secret Compartment A God Am I Decoy Protagonist Adaptational Villainy Ship Tease Artistic License – Biology Adaptational Badass Overly Long Gag The Remake Cowboy Cop Unusually Uninteresting Sight Motor Mouth Exactly What It Says on the Tin Disappeared Dad Department of Redundancy Department Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Those Two Bad Guys Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Early-Bird Cameo Madness Mantra The Dog Bites Back "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Never My Fault Fantastic Racism Chekhov's Gunman Romantic False Lead Funny Foreigner All There in the Manual Ambiguous Disorder Deus ex Machina Say My Name BFG Break the Haughty Genre Throwback Took a Level in Jerkass Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Evil Is Hammy Arch-Enemy Ax-Crazy Jerkass Has a Point Famous Last Words Your Cheating Heart Shout-Out Creative Closing Credits Downer Ending Contrived Coincidence Disguised in Drag The Chessmaster You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Dramedy Adaptation Dye-Job French Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Index of Film Westerns Boom, Headshot! 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Twist Ending Every Car Is a Pinto Russian Films Stuff Blowing Up Small Name, Big Ego Rasputinian Death Vitriolic Best Buds Interrupted Suicide Death Glare Leaning on the Fourth Wall Bottomless Magazines Real Life Mundane Made Awesome Imagine Spot Parental Abandonment Needs Wiki Magic Love More Dakka Ascended Extra Sci-Fi Horror Beard of Evil Pay Evil unto Evil Silence Is Golden Retirony Expository Hairstyle Change Driven to Suicide The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Smart Guy The Ghost Darker and Edgier Bullying a Dragon An Axe to Grind Ironic Echo Brainless Beauty Exact Words Australian Movies All Men Are Perverts Unresolved Sexual Tension Casting Gag MacGuffin Straight Gay Guile Hero Manly Tears Freeze-Frame Bonus N-Word Privileges Once More, with Clarity! Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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They Really Do Love Each Other How We Got Here Fatal Family Photo Scare Chord Morality Pet I Need a Freaking Drink Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Good Is Not Nice Anyone Can Die Easily Forgiven Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Drowning My Sorrows Adapted Out Mama Bear Hypocritical Humor Historical Hero Upgrade Heroic BSoD Disproportionate Retribution Funny Background Event What the Hell, Hero? Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Made of Explodium Male Frontal Nudity Annoying Younger Sibling Intergenerational Friendship Film Noir Index Malevolent Masked Men Sir Swears-a-Lot Corrupt Corporate Executive Badass Boast Riddle for the Ages Dumb Blonde Earn Your Happy Ending Daddy's Girl folderlabel timeperiod Antagonist Title Cool Old Lady Light Is Not Good Training Montage Parental Neglect Race Lift Author Appeal Would Hurt a Child Manchild Rich Bitch Establishing Character Moment Punny Name Dirty Coward Stylistic Suck Double-Meaning Title Death by Adaptation Fire-Forged Friends Gory Discretion Shot Dark Action Girl Male Gaze Brutal Honesty Artistic License – Military Catch-Phrase Epic Fail Animal Title Index Central Theme Eiffel Tower Effect Manipulative Bastard Vampire Fiction Yandere The Cavalry Playing Gertrude Big Eater Pre-Mortem One-Liner Corpsing Faking the Dead Only a Flesh Wound Vacation Films Thriller She Cleans Up Nicely Mad Scientist Instant Death Bullet Pragmatic Villainy Villainous Breakdown Anti-Hero Card-Carrying Villain Affably Evil The End... Or Is It? Woman Scorned Bloodier and Gorier Character Development Fiery Redhead Ripped from the Headlines Made of Iron Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Hero Dies Properly Paranoid This Is Gonna Suck Advertised Extra Works Set in World War II Skewed Priorities Improvised Weapon Plucky Comic Relief Knife Nut Becoming the Mask Red Right Hand Deconstruction Framing Device Action Prologue Villain Protagonist Curb-Stomp Battle Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The X of Y Noodle Incident All There in the Script Have a Gay Old Time Betty and Veronica Maybe Ever After Humiliation Conga Unusual Euphemism Informed Ability Deliberate Values Dissonance Anachronism Stew Whole Plot Reference Dark Reprise Credits Gag Artistic License – Gun Safety Developing Doomed Characters Chiaroscuro Sequel Hook Face–Heel Turn Token Minority Mercy Kill Serial Killer Super Strength Title Drop Large Ham Spanner in the Works Totally Radical Suddenly SHOUTING! Artistic License – History Disney Villain Death Red Eyes, Take Warning Depraved Bisexual Flashback Early Installment Weirdness Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Groin Attack Beware the Nice Ones Abusive Parents Chewing the Scenery Vomit Discretion Shot Historical Villain Upgrade Bald of Evil The Reveal Zombie Stories Product Placement Defrosting Ice Queen Homage Foreshadowing Big "NO!" I Have Your Wife Hero of Another Story Spared by the Adaptation Adaptation Distillation Four-Temperament Ensemble Oh, Crap! Bowdlerise Apocalypse How Defiant to the End Scenery Gorn Fan Disservice Bunny-Ears Lawyer Historical In-Joke Big Applesauce Batman Gambit Coming-of-Age Story Leitmotif Broken Aesop After the End Getting Crap Past the Radar Sequel Escalation Friend to All Children Continuity Nod Sinister Minister A Minor Kidroduction Slasher Movie As Long as It Sounds Foreign Blackmail Animated Credits Opening Captain Obvious German Films Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Science Fiction Films Based on a True Story 20 Minutes into the Future Blood from the Mouth Villain with Good Publicity Rewatch Bonus Facial Horror Undying Loyalty Taking You with Me Throwing Your Sword Always Works Kubrick Stare Wicked Cultured As Himself You Killed My Father Determinator Honor Before Reason Stock Footage Running Gag Evil vs. Evil Accidental Murder Slasher Smile Wham Line Love Triangle There Is No Kill Like Overkill B-Movie Hidden Depths Dirty Old Man Karma Houdini Black Comedy Not Even Bothering with the Accent In the Back Shirtless Scene Obviously Evil Trailers Always Spoil The Bad Guy Wins Cool Car Off-into-the-Distance Ending Adaptational Attractiveness Bury Your Gays Car Fu Pimped-Out Dress Chase Scene Mooks My Beloved Smother Dramatic Irony Call-Forward The '70s Mexican Standoff Badass Bookworm Not Quite Dead Important Haircut Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Translation Convention Refuge in Audacity Genre Shift Laughing Mad Truth in Television Alpha Bitch Real Life Writes the Plot Villain Song Mistaken for Gay Actor Allusion Catapult Nightmare Make It Look Like an Accident The Atoner Actually Pretty Funny Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Here We Go Again! Improbable Aiming Skills Our Vampires Are Different Face Death with Dignity Market-Based Title Chekhov's Skill Grey and Gray Morality Rousing Speech The Casanova Hoist by His Own Petard The Smurfette Principle Married to the Job Mugging the Monster Tranquil Fury I'm a Humanitarian Heroes Want Redheads Karmic Death Immune to Bullets Hypocrite Abhorrent Admirer Names to Run Away from Really Fast Older Than They Look Ghost Fiction Broken Bird Composite Character Slashed Throat Cat Scare As the Good Book Says... Bring My Brown Pants "Shaggy Dog" Story Fat Bastard Insistent Terminology Aluminum Christmas Trees Those Wacky Nazis Laser-Guided Karma Lock and Load Montage Love at First Sight Line-of-Sight Name Outrun the Fireball Jerk Jock Would Hit a Girl Author Avatar Missing Mom Spiteful Spit Italian Films Fate Worse than Death Soundtrack Dissonance Irony What Happened to the Mouse? Adaptation Name Change Scenery Porn Shoot the Shaggy Dog Distracted by the Sexy Documentary Hope Spot Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dying Moment of Awesome Self-Deprecation Award-Bait Song Country Matters Bland-Name Product Mood Whiplash The Film of the Book Beta Couple Camp Gay Curse Cut Short Ms. Fanservice The '80s Bound and Gagged Toplessness from the Back I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Reality Is Unrealistic The '60s Film Series Those Two Guys Take a Third Option Artistic License – Law The Vamp No Name Given Film Noir Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Danny Peary Cult Movies List Evil Laugh Peek-a-Boo Corpse Silent Movie Only in It for the Money Auto Erotica Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sole Survivor From Bad to Worse Eye Scream Gratuitous English Rule of Symbolism Idiot Ball Dropped a Bridge on Him Even Evil Has Standards Setting Update Cassandra Truth The Oner Dressing as the Enemy Cold-Blooded Torture Off with His Head! Obstructive Bureaucrat Eagleland Didn't Think This Through Call-Back Men Are the Expendable Gender The Stinger Bloody Hilarious Mighty Whitey Children Are Innocent Novelization The Alcoholic Implacable Man Dramatic Gun Cock Last-Name Basis Shut Up, Hannibal! Be Careful What You Wish For Wretched Hive Captain Ersatz Greater-Scope Villain Reality Ensues Police are Useless Smoking Is Cool Chekhov's Gun Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Neck Snap Black and Gray Morality Arranged Marriage The Starscream Sanity Slippage Guns Akimbo Empathic Environment Adaptation Expansion '80s Hair Together in Death Fake Shemp