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The crazed group just has one minor problem: their film doesn't have a star yet, so they "acquire" one in Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock (Creator/MelanieGriffith), kidnapping her at the premiere of her latest film. Honey continually tries to stop Demented and his comrades-in-celluloid from making their film and secure her release, but when those close to her begin exposing some nasty things about her private life, she starts to turn to their side and get in on the (lights, camera and) action of Demented's insane film making. HilarityEnsues

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The crazed group just has one minor problem: their film doesn't have a star yet, so they "acquire" one in Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock (Creator/MelanieGriffith), kidnapping her at the premiere of her latest film. Honey continually tries to stop Demented and his comrades-in-celluloid from making their film and secure her release, but when those close to her begin exposing some nasty things about her private life, she starts to turn to their side and get in on the (lights, camera and) action of Demented's insane film making. HilarityEnsuesHilarityEnsues.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality / EvilVsEvil : A rare case in which the [[VillainProtagonist Sprocket Holes]] are the Gray, apposed to the [[{{LawfulStupid}} law-abiding]] and mainstream [[{{TheMan}} Hollywood]] system.

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* BlackAndGrayMorality / EvilVsEvil : A rare case in which the [[VillainProtagonist Sprocket Holes]] are the Gray, apposed to the [[{{LawfulStupid}} law-abiding]] and mainstream [[{{TheMan}} Hollywood]] Hollywood system.
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry. Also, I Ate What is not a character trope.


* [[IAteWhat She's Drinking What?]]: "It's goat urine!"
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%%* HornedHairdo: Raven, at the end.
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A 2000 BlackComedy film by Creator/JohnWaters, starring Stephen Dorff in the title role as deranged "independent director" Cecil B. Demented, the leader of an equally-deranged group of "filmmakers" who call themselves the Sprocket Holes and base themselves in Baltimore, Maryland. Their mission is to bring down mainstream cinema and destroy the studio system of filmmaking to make way for a new generation of film by any means necessary--which includes robbing theaters and stealing things like construction materials and film equipment in order to make their own film.

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A 2000 BlackComedy film by Creator/JohnWaters, starring Stephen Dorff Creator/StephenDorff in the title role as deranged "independent director" Cecil B. Demented, the leader of an equally-deranged group of "filmmakers" who call themselves the Sprocket Holes and base themselves in Baltimore, Maryland. Their mission is to bring down mainstream cinema and destroy the studio system of filmmaking to make way for a new generation of film by any means necessary--which includes robbing theaters and stealing things like construction materials and film equipment in order to make their own film.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Power to the people who punish bad cinema!"]]
--> "I am Cecil B. Demented, and '''this is a [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] kidnapping'''!"

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Power [[caption-width-right:300:''"Power to the people who punish bad cinema!"]]
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cinema!"'']]

->''"I
am Cecil B. Demented, and '''this is a [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] kidnapping'''!"
kidnapping'''!"''
-->-- '''Cecil B. Demented'''
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* FakeShemp: Creator/JohnWaters wrote in his memoir ''Mr Know-It-All'' that Creator/MelanieGriffith had a bad fall on location that left a large cut on her face. For an important scene that hadn't been shot yet, he was forced to use a body double filmed from behind to hide the fact it wasn't really Griffith doing the scene.
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Het Is Ew is a Shipping term.


* DepravedHomosexual: Parodied and subverted with Rodney. One of the other Sprocket Holes is gay for him, but Rodney's actually ''straight'', so [[IncompatibleOrientation he can't return the feeling]]; he takes out [[HetIsEw his hatred of his heterosexuality]] on others.

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* DepravedHomosexual: Parodied and subverted with Rodney. One of the other Sprocket Holes is gay for him, but Rodney's actually ''straight'', so [[IncompatibleOrientation he can't return the feeling]]; he takes out [[HetIsEw his hatred of his heterosexuality]] heterosexuality on others.

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* BombThrowingAnarchists: The Sprocket Holes are a group of guerrilla filmmakers who are willing to resort to kidnapping, torture, destruction of public-property, murder and even martyrdom in order to create a movie meant as an act of protest against American culture and mainstream Hollywood.



* BlackComedyRape [[RapeAsBackstory as Backstory]]: Cherish claims that at the age of 10, she was gang-raped by her entire family, including her grandparents, under the Christmas tree.

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* BlackComedyRape [[RapeAsBackstory as Backstory]]: Cherish claims that at the age of 10, she was gang-raped by her entire family, including her grandparents, under the Christmas tree. The Sprockets find it exasperating (having heard this story before) and Honey doesn't even think that it was real.



%%* DarkMessiah: PlayedForLaughs with Cecil.

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%%* * DarkMessiah: PlayedForLaughs with Cecil.Cecil. While he is clearly mentally unstable, he manages to spark a revolution in people who appreciate niche cinema, including fans of action films and pornography.



* DepravedHomosexual: Parodied and subverted with Rodney. One of the other Sprocket Holes is gay for him, but Rodney's actually ''straight'', so he can't return the feeling; he takes out his hatred of his heterosexuality on others.

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* DepravedHomosexual: Parodied and subverted with Rodney. One of the other Sprocket Holes is gay for him, but Rodney's actually ''straight'', so [[IncompatibleOrientation he can't return the feeling; feeling]]; he takes out [[HetIsEw his hatred of his heterosexuality heterosexuality]] on others.


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* FreudianExcuse: Fidget's parents forbade him from ever watching so much as one R-Rated movie and it's the other Sprocket Holes reminding him of this that strengthens his resolve in staying with them. In the film's climax, they claim that he turned to cinema-terrorism ''because'' he watched R-rated movies.


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* OutWithABang: Cheril and Chardonnay are both shot after the Sprocket Holes break their celibacy.

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