#Tvtropes burn notice movie
The writing is surprisingly aggressive in avoiding the typical action movie clichés: cars don't explode unless someone plants a bomb on it, characters get hurt and are forced to spend several episodes limping around, and making escapes involve either dangerous stunts or being small enough to squeeze through an air vent.
Through this method, the show addresses a large number of tropes (most of them spy-related) and plays with them in a variety of ways. Viewers can think of Michael the Narrator as a slightly different character from Michael Westen. Michael is the show's Narrator, explaining to the viewer why he chooses a particular course of action - but instead of being done as a real time Inner Monologue, the voiceover is done as if he's giving a lecture to a class of students. Sharon Gless (of Cagney and Lacey fame) plays Michael's mother, Madeline, who often helps Michael find new clients (and sometimes plays a part in helping Michael's operations). Sam is played by famous chin Bruce Campbell. Fiona is played by Gabrielle Anwar, most famous for her brief role as Al Pacino's dancing partner in Scent of a Woman. It's better to fight your wars with duct tape duct tape makes you smart." The other theme is crafting identities out of nothing when dealing with the bad guys, Michael and company often pretend to be criminals (be they rivals or friends) or even innocent civilians, but they never show their true colors unless their hand is forced.Īs noted above, Michael is played by Jeffrey Donovan, a previously under-the-radar actor (prior to Burn Notice, he had guest-starring roles on Law and Order and Homicide: Life on the Street, and he showed up in the best-forgotten Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2). Unconventional warfare is something of a theme at one point, Michael says, "Guns make you dumb. All of the members of this team are very good at crafting primitive explosive devices and homemade spy gear out of household items. From Season Four onwards, the team is joined by Jesse Porter, another former spy who was burned - accidentally - by Michael.
Michael relies on Fiona Glenanne (his girlfriend and a former IRA operative) and Sam Axe (a retired spy/ex-Navy SEAL who Michael worked with in the past) to watch his back as he takes on con artists, mobsters, gang leaders, and various other underworld riff-raff. While these tasks take up the majority of an episode, time is also spent on Michael's various attempts to figure out who in the government burned him (and why), as well as his interpersonal relationships with his friends and family. These problems usually involve saving said clients from various life-threatening situations, mostly of the "good guy gets deep in debt to bad guys" variety. Michael doesn't have any money or income, and he can't exactly get a job recommendation from his former employers - to make ends meet, he reluctantly accepts clients from around the Miami area and works to help them with their problems under the table. Michael is lucky, though: he has family, friends, and an old girlfriend there. Michael's burn notice happens right in the midst of a covert mission he barely escapes, passes out on a plane, and eventually wakes up in Miami.
#Tvtropes burn notice series
Jeffrey Donovan stars as series protagonist Michael Westen (no, not that one), an American spy who has been blacklisted by the government (the titular " burn notice"). Burn Notice is a USA Network original series which debuted in 2007.
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