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How about the trope of telling us early on that one of the characters has a fatal disease. Peak?
Also......]Gran Torino.
I thought GRAN TORINO played it off well .....
I enjoyed the reveal how the neighborhood stood up for Walt and didn't let his sacrifice go in vain.
Not saying your wrong ......
He is wrong. Totally
GT is a great film with a highly original script.
check it ooot!
bruce
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In thrillers, the main character is shown to have a c at or dog in the beginning meaining that animal will be killed by the psycho later in the film.
even the otherwise excellent STRAW DOGS used this trope
bruce
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- WHEN THE FINALE MOMENTS OF THE FILM TAKE AWAY FROM THE "TONE" or "MOOD"
-Am I the ONLY one who lost his shit and started laughing when Clint Eastwood started singing the closing credits song in GRAN TORINO?
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yes, you were the only one!
you sure have a bug up yer ass about this flic, BJ.
tell us, what's the problem - are you o.k.?
bruce
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I have no problem with anyone hating "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (or any other film for that matter). It's only when they try to get *me* to hate it by throwing lame reasons at me that "'Raiders' is realistic but 'Temple' is not" or other such logically inconsistent nonsense --- like the people I wasted my time arguing with when I was younger. I should have just realized they simply didn't like the film and were trying to make sure everyone else didn't enjoy it (as some people, for reasons I'll never understand, tend to do) and ignored them.
yep.
same thing with SKYFALL critics
brm
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In horror movies with families, it's very often the case that mom knows or suspects what's going on, and dad is an incredulous boor who gaslights her and insists on being rational and sane even in the face of mounting evidence that he's completely wrong. It's a tired and lazy character dynamic and I would be very happy never to see it play out again.
X-FILES did a nice reverse on this cliche!!!!
brm
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The police knock on the door of a suspect.
He runs out the back door as the cops give chase.
The cop steps outside, looks right, looks left and goes back into the house.
I mean the suspect couldn;t have gotten far yet they ALWAYS give up immediately!!!!
lotsa variations on this trope
brm
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In nearly every karate film from Hong Kong in the 70's you have scenes where the hero is taking on 6 or 7 heavies and he is beating the crap out of them and if you concentrate on the other guys who he is not fighting him that second they are standing there like idiots, when in fact they could take down the one guy in 30 seconds.
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How true, sadly in life those incidents are over and done with in a few seconds, unless it is one of those hostage incidents.
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Establishing that two characters are siblings by having them address each other as "brother" or "sister" constantly. Some examples:
"Leave it to my big brother here to tell me what's right."
"Hey sis!"
"And just what did you expect, dear brother of mine?"
Etc, etc.
I have two sisters and one brother myself. I tend to address them .... by their actual names!
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Establishing that two characters are siblings by having them address each other as "brother" or "sister" constantly.
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well, to be fair....
sometimes the audience NEEDS that info (but we don't need it 'CONSTANTLY" - you are right about dat!)
brm
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And it's ALWAYS the dad portrayed like this...just once I'd like to see a working MOM portrayed as the bad guy. 
