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Creator/YaphetKotto has cited this film -- and Brando's performance therein -- as his inspiration to get into acting.
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*TheAtoner: Terry is unwittingly used in Johnny Friendly's plot to kill Joey. Terry's guilt over causing Joey's death is what sets him on the path to fighting Friendly's malign criminal influence in the dockworker's union.
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* BadassPreacher: Father Barry. This guy punches former boxer Terry halfway across a room as Terry threatens people with a revolver, and in the final scene is ready to do the same to Friendly's goons. At the outset of the film is the only character willing to stand up to Friendly.
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*BadassBoast: Father Barry vows to stand up for the workers against Johnny Friendly's goons as long as they're willing to stand up for themselves.
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* UnionsSuck: The Stevedore's union is controlled by mob boss Johnny Friendly, who uses it to extort workers to line his own pockets and sliences or kills anyone who tries to stop him.
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Nominated for 12 UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, the film won eight of them including Best Picture, Best Director (Kazan), Best Actor (Brando), Best Supporting Actress (Saint), and Best Screenplay (Schulberg).[[note]]The other Oscar wins: Best Black & White Cinematography, Best Black & White Art/Set Decoration, Best Film Editing. Cobb, Malden, and Steiger were all nominated for Best Supporting Actor, but none of them won, likely due to splitting the vote. Bernstein's score was also nominated but didn't win.[[/note]] It is also notable for being the only film scored by Music/LeonardBernstein that is not a musical. Creator/FredGwynne plays one of Friendly's goons and Creator/PatHingle and Martin Balsam turn up in uncredited bit parts.
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Nominated for 12 UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, the film won eight of them including Best Picture, Best Director (Kazan), Best Actor (Brando), Best Supporting Actress (Saint), and Best Screenplay (Schulberg).[[note]]The other Oscar wins: Best Black & White Cinematography, Best Black & White Art/Set Decoration, Best Film Editing. Cobb, Malden, and Steiger were all nominated for Best Supporting Actor, but none of them won, likely due to splitting the vote. Bernstein's score was also nominated but didn't win.[[/note]] It is also notable for being the only film scored by Music/LeonardBernstein that is not a musical. Creator/FredGwynne plays one of Friendly's goons and Creator/PatHingle and Martin Balsam Creator/MartinBalsam turn up in uncredited bit parts.
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*NeverMyFault: Charley claims that Terry's trainer and manager ruined his career by pushing him too far too fast. In reality, of course, it was Charley (and Johnny Friendly) who ruined Terry's boxing career by pressuring him to throw a high profile fight so that they could win a lot of money by betting on Terry's less skilled opponent.
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*FauxAffablyEvil: Superficially at least, Johnny Friendly lives up to his nickname as long as you're loyal and unquestioningly obedient. The moment you even try to contradict or challenge him over anything, he drops the "friendly" facade.
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*FreudianExcuse: Johnny Friendly claims something of the sort when he tells Terry that his hardscrabble, impoverished childhood entitles him to keep everything that he earned, regardless of what means he uses to "earn" it.
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*HeroicSacrifice: Charley lets Terry out of the cab rather than delivering him to Friendly, knowing that his [[BlatantLies claim that he never found his brother wouldn't be believed]]. Shortly after, Terry finds [[spoiler: Charley's body riddled with bullets and hanging from a longshoreman's hook]].
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* BadassPreacher: Father Barry. This guy punches Marlon Brando halfway across a room and at the outset of the film is the only character willing to stand up to Friendly.
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*BrokenPedestal: Terry looked up to his brother Charley, until he owned up to the fact that it was Charley who ruined his boxing career and that no good could come of Charley's gangster lifestyle.
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*GoodIsNotSoft: Father Barry. He's a kind man who believes in Christ's teachings, but not only is he not intimidated by violent goons, he's willing to stand up with them with his fists. It helps that he's quite a large and intimidating man in his own right.
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* AndStarring: Eva Marie Saint gets an "an introducing" credit.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: Johnny Friendly, despite his non-threatening name, is a cruel mobster.
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''On the Waterfront'' is a 1954 crime drama film directed by Creator/EliaKazan and written by Budd Schulberg, starring Creator/MarlonBrando, Creator/EvaMarieSaint, Creator/KarlMalden, Lee J. Cobb, Creator/LeeJCobb, and Creator/RodSteiger.
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* VictoriousLoser: Johnny Friendly technically "wins" his fight against Terry, but he had to get a bunch of his goons to help him out. Terry managing to pull himself together and the dockworkers ignoring Johnny's impotent threats proves who really won in the end.
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* TheDeterminator: Terry, barely alive after a brutal beating by Friendly's goons, wills himself to the front of the worker's line to demand he work that day in spite of Friendly's death threats.
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* TheDeterminator: {{Determinator}}: Terry, barely alive after a brutal beating by Friendly's goons, wills himself to the front of the worker's line to demand he work that day in spite of Friendly's death threats.
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* BittersweetEnding: Terry survives the beating of Friendly's goons and while Friendly still has power, he's lost the fear everyone had of him.
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* BittersweetEnding: Terry survives the beating of Friendly's goons and while Friendly still has power, he's lost the fear everyone had of him. It's also quite likely that Friendly will eventually be indicted due to the testimony against him.
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* ActorAllusion: As something of an inside joke, Creator/FredGwynne plays a character named Mladen Sekulovich, which happens to the be real-name of co-star Creator/KarlMalden.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Kayo Dugan often makes sarcastic remarks about the basic rottenness of the way Friendly runs the union.
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* SacrificialLion: Kayo Dugan's death, made to look like an "accident" at the docks, shows us what happens to anyone who stands up to Friendly. We saw this earlier with Joey's death, but unlike Joey who was killed off at the beginning, the audience gets to know Dugan.
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* SacrificialLion: Kayo Dugan's death, made to look like an "accident" at the docks, shows us what happens to anyone who stands up to Friendly.Johnny Friendly and his goons. We saw this earlier with Joey's death, but unlike Joey who was killed off at the beginning, the audience gets to know Dugan.
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* DovesMeanPeace: Joey likes to keep pigeons, which is used as Rule of Symbolism to highlight his saintly nature. However, Joey is shoved off a roof later in the film and his pigeons are killed by Jimmy (in a bid to get back at Terry for snitching), showing that while pigeons represent goodness and innocence, these traits are vulnerable to more violent characters.
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Towards the climax of the film, the corpse of [[spoiler:Terry's brother Charlie]] is found strung up on a wall.
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* StuffedInTheFridge: Towards the climax of the film, the corpse of [[spoiler:Terry's brother Charlie]] is found strung up on a wall.
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* InspiredBy: "Crime on the Waterfront", a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning series of muckraking articles about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin crime on the waterfront]], written by Malcolm Johnson for New York's ''Sun'' newspaper and published in 24 installments throughout 1948.
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* InspiredBy: "Crime on the Waterfront", a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning series of muckraking articles about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin crime on the waterfront]], written by Malcolm Johnson for New York's ''Sun'' newspaper and published by ''The New York Sun'' in 24 installments throughout 1948.
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''On the Waterfront'' is a 1954 drama film directed by Creator/EliaKazan, written by Budd Schulberg (who was inspired in part by a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning 1948 series of muckraking articles in New York's ''Sun'' newspaper), and starring Creator/MarlonBrando, Creator/EvaMarieSaint, Creator/KarlMalden, Lee J. Cobb, and Rod Steiger.
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''On the Waterfront'' is a 1954 crime drama film directed by Creator/EliaKazan, Creator/EliaKazan and written by Budd Schulberg (who was inspired in part by a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning 1948 series of muckraking articles in New York's ''Sun'' newspaper), and Schulberg, starring Creator/MarlonBrando, Creator/EvaMarieSaint, Creator/KarlMalden, Lee J. Cobb, and Rod Steiger.
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* InspiredBy: The source of this film was a 1949 Pulitzer-winning series of articles about corruption on the waterfront.
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* InspiredBy: The source of this film was "Crime on the Waterfront", a 1949 Pulitzer-winning UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning series of muckraking articles about corruption about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin crime on the waterfront.waterfront]], written by Malcolm Johnson for New York's ''Sun'' newspaper and published in 24 installments throughout 1948.
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''On the Waterfront'' is a 1954 drama film directed by Creator/EliaKazan, written by Budd Schulberg (who was inspired in part by a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning 1948 series of muckraking articles in New York's ''Sun'' newspaper), and starring Creator/MarlonBrando, Creator/EvaMarieSaint, Creator/KarlMalden, Lee J. Cobb, and Rod Steiger.
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* CrucialCross: Throughout the movie, every set of TV antennae is framed to look like a cross, putting into visual language that the Crucifixion did not just happen at Cavalry, but happens at every unjust and tyrannical murder. This informs the climatic sermon that Father Barry makes against organized crime and sets up [[http://screenprism.com/insights/article/how-does-on-the-waterfront-use-christian-symbolism-and-imagery a lot more symbolism]].
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** Crucifixion is also an important symbol in the film. Crucifixion is tied up with the death of Jesus, and the idea of sacrificing oneself for the greater good. And, in this film, Father Barry applies this symbol to Joey and Dugan, who've both been killed by Johnny's mob after word got out that they were planning on turning police informant. He references this in one of his peptalks to the remaining rebelers. Also, it's not just the villains committing them. [[DirtyCoward It's the cowardice]] [[UngratefulTownsfolk and indifference of bystanders.]] If the other longshoremen followed Joey's lead and turned against Johnny — who hadn't been helping them at all, anyway — Johnny wouldn't have stood a chance. Terry's act of courage at the movie's end finally shakes everyone out of their cowardice and makes them abandon Johnny together, once and for all.
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** Crucifixion [[CrucialCross Crucifixion]] is also an important symbol in the film. Crucifixion is tied up with the death of Jesus, and the idea of sacrificing oneself for the greater good. And, in this film, Father Barry applies this symbol to Joey and Dugan, who've both been killed by Johnny's mob after word got out that they were planning on turning police informant. He references this in one of his peptalks to the remaining rebelers. Also, it's not just the villains committing them. [[DirtyCoward It's the cowardice]] [[UngratefulTownsfolk and indifference of bystanders.]] If the other longshoremen followed Joey's lead and turned against Johnny — who hadn't been helping them at all, anyway — Johnny wouldn't have stood a chance. Terry's act of courage at the movie's end finally shakes everyone out of their cowardice and makes them abandon Johnny together, once and for all.
