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Cliché Definition, Phrases & Examples

There’s a trope, or you might call it a cliché that is often used in movies. I call it the “Turn in your Badge and Gun” scene. Sometimes like in Silence of the Lambs, or Blade Runner 2049, it’s a literal badge and gun. But I think what it really is that is being asked to be turned over is in some cases your identity (what’s Officer K without the badge and gun), who is Clarice Starling without her badge and gun. So often what is really being turned over is the characters external presence of auth