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A 2006 cult film directed by Rian Johnson, ''Brick'' tells the story of Brendan Frye ([[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]]), a teenage loner silently pining over his ex-girlfriend, Emily. When he gets a phone call from a panicked Emily, and finds her dead in a storm drain soon after, he goes on a one-man quest to bring her murderer(s) to justice, blowing the lid off of his high school's underworld of drugs and crimes.
Even though it takes place in the modern day, the characters in ''Brick'' all speak in an invented slang closely based off of vernacular speech in the '20s, '30s, and '40s. The high school social cliques match surprisingly well with traditional noir archetypes. Much like its inspirations (such as the noir classic, ''[[
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* [[Determinator]]: Brendan. He lets Tug beat the crap out of him, infiltrates a drug ring, and involves himself in a gang war all out of his love for Emily.
* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: The scene near the end between Brendan and {{spoiler|Laura}} was shot with the footage in the film, but then continued when he took off her shirt. Then the scene faded back in with them smoking and her putting it back on and rearranging her clothes. [[Word of God]] says they did, but he edited the film to leave the doubt because they wouldn't in the land of fiction.
* [[Did We Just Have Tea
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[The Dragon]]: Tug, again.
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* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: {{spoiler|The Pin, whose mom serves corn flakes and apple juice to him and his criminal associates}}.
* [[Evil Cripple]]: The Pin.
* [[Fake American]]: Emilie De Ravin does a terrific American accent. So good that many thought Her Australian accent in ''[[
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Laura Dannon
* [[Film Noir]]: The name of the game.
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* [[The Ingenue]]: Subverted with Emily. Even though she is the main character's love interest and [[The Lost Lenore]], it is soon revealed that she left him to date a drug addict, {{spoiler|tried to join the inner circle of a prominent drug dealer, and had sex with the aforementioned drug addict and the dealer's head enforcer.}} All within a span shorter than three months.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Mostly played for laughs in the form of Brad Bramish.
* [[Jerk
* [[Lady in Red]]: Laura wears a red [[Qipao]] when Brendan meets her.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Hung immediately after the entry for [[Not in This For Your Revolution]]:
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* [[Popular Is Dumb]]: Played straight with Brad Bramish, averted with Laura.
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Gruesomely averted.
* [[Riddle for
* [[Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?]]: A lot of the characters go to and from school, more or less at will.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Lots, and from a wide variety of sources. Lines from ''[[
** The line "Oh, now you are ''dangerous''" is taken verbatim from ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''.
** And the convoluted structure owes itself to ''[[The Big Sleep (Literature)|The Big Sleep]]'', and [[Raymond Chandler]]'s style in general.
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** Which actually becomes a central plot-point in the climax.
* [[The Summation]]: Interestingly, Brendan gives it to the mastermind. {{spoiler|Laura, natch!}} Then the mastermind offers a correction...
* [[Sympathy for
* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: And how!
* [[Totally Radical]]: Perhaps the strangest version of this in history. The characters are modern day teenagers who all speak like hardboiled characters in a Dashiel Hammett P.I. story.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: This, plus a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]], makes Tug into an ''extremely'' dangerous character. Even his employer is afraid of him.
* [[The Vamp]]: Kara and {{spoiler|Laura}}.
* [[What Happened to
* [[Wham! Line]]:
{{quote| '''Dode:''' {{spoiler|She was gonna keep it! It was mine, and you couldn't stand that! ...I loved her. And I woulda loved that kid. I'm gonna bury you.}}}}
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