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* {{Diary}}: Grace keeps one, and Beth later finds it.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: [[spoiler:In the novel, Jake leaves the family after Grace's death and lives in a park, where he befriends a homeless man while Beth tries to start a new life without him. In the film, Beth finds out that Bully raped Grace and tells Jake. He subsequently beats and castrates the perpetrator and is arrested,, while his family moves on without him.]]
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: [[spoiler:In the novel, Jake leaves the family after Grace's death and lives in a park, where he befriends a homeless man while Beth tries to start a new life without him. In the film, Beth finds out that Bully raped Grace and tells Jake. He subsequently beats and castrates the perpetrator and is arrested,, arrested, while his family moves on without him.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: Both Jake and Beth.
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* BestFriend: Dooley to Jake, Mavis to Beth, Toot to Grace.
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* CurbStompBattle: Every fight Jake gets into.
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Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook novel]] by Alan Duff, ''Once Were Warriors'' is a 1994 film set in UsefulNotes/NewZealand and dealing with the trials of a dysfunctional working-class Maori family. It was famous on its release as a result of its hard-hitting depiction of low-life, abuse and poverty among poor urban Maori (something of a hot-button issue in New Zealand).
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Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook novel]] by Alan Duff, ''Once Were Warriors'' is a 1994 film set in UsefulNotes/NewZealand and dealing with the trials of a dysfunctional working-class Maori Māori family. It was famous on its release as a result of its hard-hitting depiction of low-life, abuse and poverty among poor urban Maori Māori (something of a hot-button issue in New Zealand).
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Boogie slowly learns that the Maori are a proud warrior people during his time in state care, and Beth even tells Jake the same, and that his own brand of violence is nothing like it.
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Boogie slowly learns that the Maori Māori are a proud warrior people during his time in state care, and Beth even tells Jake the same, and that his own brand of violence is nothing like it.
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* WretchedHive: The whole area where Hekes and other Maori live is a ruined industrial wasteland. The film intentionally begins with a shot of the lush, green trees surrounding a calm, beautiful lake, then zooms out to show it’s nothing more than a billboard. This is TruthInTelevision, as the majority of Maori families live in far more impoverished conditions than white families in New Zealand.
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* WretchedHive: The whole area where Hekes and other Maori Māori live is a ruined industrial wasteland. The film intentionally begins with a shot of the lush, green trees surrounding a calm, beautiful lake, then zooms out to show it’s nothing more than a billboard. This is TruthInTelevision, as the majority of Maori Māori families live in far more impoverished conditions than white families in New Zealand.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness : In the book, Mavis weighs "plus-twenty stone," nearly three hundred pounds.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness : AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, novel, Mavis weighs "plus-twenty stone," nearly three hundred pounds. She's played by a slinky-looking Mere Boynton in the film.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: [[spoiler:In the novel, Jake leaves the family after Grace's death and lives in a park, where he befriends a homeless man while Beth tries to start a new life without him. In the film, Beth finds out that Bully raped Grace and tells Jake. He subsequently beats and castrates the perpetrator and is arrested,, while his family moves on without him.]]
* AdaptationDeviation: The novel focuses almost entirely on Jake, the film is as much a story about Beth and her children, and notably changes the ending to give her a more active role.
* AdaptationalHeroism: A small change, but in the novel Beth's alcoholism is much more pronounced. In the scene were Jake abandons his family in a pub after promising "just one drink," in the novel Beth eventually joins him and only has second thoughts when she realizes several hours have passed and it's too late to visit Boogie.
** Beth is generally a far more irresponsible and unstable character at the beginning, making her and Jake roughly equals whose paths diverge in opposite directions. In the film, despite her flaws she clearly has a moral high ground on him from the beginning, while Jake only gets worse and worse.
* AdaptationalKarma: In the novel, Uncle Bully doesn't get any comeuppance. Grace was either unconscious during [[spoiler:her rape]], or so traumatized that she suppressed the memory. Either way, she doesn't remember who attacked her but suspects it might've been her father, who's too drunk to remember if he did or not. In the film, [[spoiler:Grace was fully conscious and writes about the rape in her diary, Beth finds out and tells Jake, and Jake subsequently beats and castrates Bully.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: In the novel, Beth is more actively opposed to Jake from the beginning, and actively takes step to improve her and her family's life without his help. Notably, in the novel she's the one who pays for the visit to Boogie by quitting drinking and saving up what would've been her drinking money, while in the film Jake pays for the trip with his gambling earnings.
* AdaptationalVillainy: A lot of Jake's character development is cut due to the PerspectiveShift to Beth. In the novel, he seems to be genuinely regretful by his violent behavior by the end and willingly leaves his family. In the film, he's as belligerent as ever and has to be arrested to finally get him away from his family.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: [[spoiler:In the novel, Jake leaves the family after Grace's death and lives in a park, where he befriends a homeless man while Beth tries to start a new life without him. In the film, Beth finds out that Bully raped Grace and tells Jake. He subsequently beats and castrates the perpetrator and is arrested,, while his family moves on without him.]]
* AdaptationDeviation: The novel focuses almost entirely on Jake, the film is as much a story about Beth and her children, and notably changes the ending to give her a more active role.
* AdaptationalHeroism: A small change, but in the novel Beth's alcoholism is much more pronounced. In the scene were Jake abandons his family in a pub after promising "just one drink," in the novel Beth eventually joins him and only has second thoughts when she realizes several hours have passed and it's too late to visit Boogie.
** Beth is generally a far more irresponsible and unstable character at the beginning, making her and Jake roughly equals whose paths diverge in opposite directions. In the film, despite her flaws she clearly has a moral high ground on him from the beginning, while Jake only gets worse and worse.
* AdaptationalKarma: In the novel, Uncle Bully doesn't get any comeuppance. Grace was either unconscious during [[spoiler:her rape]], or so traumatized that she suppressed the memory. Either way, she doesn't remember who attacked her but suspects it might've been her father, who's too drunk to remember if he did or not. In the film, [[spoiler:Grace was fully conscious and writes about the rape in her diary, Beth finds out and tells Jake, and Jake subsequently beats and castrates Bully.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: In the novel, Beth is more actively opposed to Jake from the beginning, and actively takes step to improve her and her family's life without his help. Notably, in the novel she's the one who pays for the visit to Boogie by quitting drinking and saving up what would've been her drinking money, while in the film Jake pays for the trip with his gambling earnings.
* AdaptationalVillainy: A lot of Jake's character development is cut due to the PerspectiveShift to Beth. In the novel, he seems to be genuinely regretful by his violent behavior by the end and willingly leaves his family. In the film, he's as belligerent as ever and has to be arrested to finally get him away from his family.
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* DemotedToExtra: The Toa gang, and by extension in Nig himself. In the novel, they're a major component of his arc in seeking a surrogate family. In the film, they fade into the background after his initiation, and his own appearances and role in the story are slimmed down considerably.
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* SettingUpdate: Not in time but in location - the film is set in Auckland, while the novel's set in the (fictional) town of Two Rivers, based on the author's hometown of Rotorua ("Two Rivers" is a literal English translation of "Rotorua").
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* BadassGrandpa: The instructor in the traditional Maori ways is at least 50 and he easily takes a stick from Boogie and does some pretty impressive martial arts with it.
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* PetTheDog: A few members of the Toa Aotearoa gang attend [[spoiler:Grace's funeral.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Uncle Bully remains polite and soft-spoken even as he [[spoiler:rapes Grace]].
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* HairTriggerTemper: Jake is a very violent and abusive alcoholic man who beats everyone (including Beth, his wife) at the slightest provocation.
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* WretchedHive: The whole area where Hekes and other Maori live is a ruined industrial wasteland. The film intentionally begins with a shot of the lush, green trees surrounding a calm, beautiful lake, then zooms out to show it’s nothing more than a billboard. This is TruthInTelevision, as Maori families are far more impoverished than white families in New Zealand.
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* WretchedHive: The whole area where Hekes and other Maori live is a ruined industrial wasteland. The film intentionally begins with a shot of the lush, green trees surrounding a calm, beautiful lake, then zooms out to show it’s nothing more than a billboard. This is TruthInTelevision, as the majority of Maori families are live in far more impoverished conditions than white families in New Zealand.
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* WretchedHive: The whole area where Hekes and other Maori live is a ruined industrial wasteland. Film The film intentionally begins with a shot of the lush, green trees surrounding a calm, beautiful lake, then zooms out to show it’s nothing more than a billboard.billboard. This is TruthInTelevision, as Maori families are far more impoverished than white families in New Zealand.
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Varying examples.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Child rape certainly is, as [[spoiler:Grace is driven to suicide because of it]] and the perpetrator is called out on it and beaten to bloody pulp. However, Beth’s rape at the hands of Jake is not treated as anything different from the regular abuse she endures at the hands of Jake and when she forgives him for it, the film no longer comes back to it again.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Child rape certainly is, as [[spoiler:Grace is driven to suicide because of it]] and the perpetrator is called out on it and beaten to bloody pulp. However, Beth’s rape at the hands of Jake is not treated as anything different from the regular abuse she endures at the hands of Jake and when she forgives him for it, the film no longer comes back to it again.
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Varying examples.
Boogie slowly learns that the Maori are a proud warrior people during his time in state care, and Beth even tells Jake the same, and that his own brand of violence is nothing like it.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Child rape certainly is, as [[spoiler:Grace is driven to suicide because of it]] and the perpetrator is called out on it and beaten to a bloody pulp. However, Beth’s rape at the hands of Jake is not treated as anything different from the regular abuse she endures at the hands of Jake and when she forgives him for it, the film no longer comes back to it again.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Child rape certainly is, as [[spoiler:Grace is driven to suicide because of it]] and the perpetrator is called out on it and beaten to a bloody pulp. However, Beth’s rape at the hands of Jake is not treated as anything different from the regular abuse she endures at the hands of Jake and when she forgives him for it, the film no longer comes back to it again.
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* MoodWhiplash: Nearly every scene of beating is preceded and almost immediately followed by bikes, sunglasses and other superficially cool thing.
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* MoodWhiplash: Nearly every scene of beating is preceded and almost immediately followed by bikes, sunglasses and other superficially cool thing.things.
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* LightningBruiser: Jake is one in bar fights. Early on in the film, he beats uthe tar our of a guy who is more muscular and much younger than him by being faster and attacking first, going for the head before he realised what happened.
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* LightningBruiser: Jake is one in bar fights. Early on in the film, he beats uthe the tar our out of a guy who is more muscular and much younger than him by being faster and attacking first, going for the head before he realised what happened.
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* LightningBruiser: Jake is one in bar fights. Early on in the film, he beats up a guy who is bigger than him by being faster and attacking first, going for the head before he realised what happened.
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* LightningBruiser: Jake is one in bar fights. Early on in the film, he beats up uthe tar our of a guy who is bigger more muscular and much younger than him by being faster and attacking first, going for the head before he realised what happened.
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* AbusiveParents: Jake, obviously, but Beth also realizes she is emotionally abusive towards Grace and physically abusive to Nig. She even tells Grace that a woman's lot in life is to be saddled with an abusive husband.
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* HopeSpot: The moment after [[spoiler:Beth is savagely beaten and raped by Jake]] has them seemingly re-unite and go to family picnic, before drunkenness and beatings continue.
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* HopeSpot: The moment after [[spoiler:Beth is savagely beaten and raped by Jake]] has them seemingly re-unite and go to a family picnic, picnic to see Boogie, before Jake's drunkenness and beatings continue.takes over again.
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Mavis. Beth too, until she slaps Nig for pointing out she's a drunken mess which triggers her to change for the better.
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* FreudianExcuse: At one point Jake seems to justify his actions by saying that he comes from a long line of slaves. Given what he does in the film, no-one buys it.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: This is the true source of Jake's violence, selfishness and cruelty. He never measured up to the standards of Beth's family when they first married and he even comments on how he'd like to see them try to disrespect him now. He picks fights at his local bar to let everyone know he's the top dog and he physically or verbally abuses Beth every time she tries to stand up to him or treat him like he's not the king of his castle. The only way he knows how to respond to the triggering of his feelings of inadequacy is to lash out with extreme violence.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Jake is so lightning fast with his fists that practically all of his fights turn into one. His beating of Beth is also this extreme, and [[spoiler:he beats Uncle Bully to near death when he finds out he raped Grace.]]
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Jake is so lightning fast such a LightningBruiser with his fists that practically all of his fights turn into one. His beating of Beth is also this extreme, and [[spoiler:he beats Uncle Bully to near death when he finds out he raped Grace.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jake is a completely amoral bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he is badly shaken by [[spoiler:Grace's suicide]], and [[spoiler:beats Uncle Bully to a bloody pulp in a blind rage when he finds out he raped her.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jake is a completely amoral selfish uncaring violent bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he is badly shaken by [[spoiler:Grace's suicide]], and [[spoiler:beats Uncle Bully to a bloody pulp in a blind rage when he finds out he raped her.]]
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* ClusterFBomb: When Jake gets angry, he's either dropping these, or giving someone a NoHoldsBarredBeatDown
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* ClusterFBomb: When Jake gets angry, he's either dropping these, these or giving someone a NoHoldsBarredBeatDownNoHoldsBarredBeatDown, or doing both at the same time.
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* ClusterFBomb: When Jake gets angry, he's either dropping these, or giving someone a NoHoldsBarredBeatDown
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Jake is so lightning fast with his fists that practically all of his fights turn into one. His beating of Beth is also this extreme, and [[spoiler:he beats Uncle Bully to near death when he finds out he raped Grace.]]
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness : In the book, Mavis weighs "plus-twenty stone," nearly three hundred pounds.
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* AdaptedOut : Beth's second son, Abe. In the book, she has six children: Nig, Abe, Boog, Grace, Polly, and Huata.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Jake finally undergoes one when [[spoiler:Grace hangs herself]], unable to hit Beth when directly confronted by her and reduced to smashing furniture and pointlessly attempting to chop down the tree [[spoiler: she hung herself from].
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* VillainousBreakdown: Jake finally undergoes one when [[spoiler:Grace hangs herself]], unable to hit Beth when directly confronted by her and reduced to smashing furniture and pointlessly attempting to chop down the tree [[spoiler: she hung herself from].from]].
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* VillainousBreakdown: Jake finally undergoes one when [[spoiler:Grace hangs herself]], unable to hit Beth when directly confronted by her and reduced to smashing furniture and pointlessly attempting to chop down a tree.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Jake finally undergoes one when [[spoiler:Grace hangs herself]], unable to hit Beth when directly confronted by her and reduced to smashing furniture and pointlessly attempting to chop down a tree.the tree [[spoiler: she hung herself from].
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* MamaBear: Beth. Especially after [[spoiler:race's death]].
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* MamaBear: Beth. Especially after [[spoiler:race's [[spoiler:Grace's death]].
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* HeelRealization: After [[spoiler:Grace's suicide]], a visibly shaken Jake wonders if he had been too tough on her.
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* WouldntHurtAChild: A third party variation when Dooley stops Jake from beating Grace, referring to her as "just a kid."
