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The Foreign Subtitle is about the title of the whole film, not subtitles for the dialogue.


* TheForeignSubtitle: When first released in the West movie theater owners were forced to add English subtitles to the film, because nobody could understand the very thick Jamaican patois used in the film.
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* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Ivanhoe is eventually murdered by the police, just when he was making it big as a musical star]].

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* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Ivanhoe DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ivanhoe is eventually murdered by the police, just when he was making it big as a musical star]].
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* PopCulturalOsmosis: Outside of Jamaica the soundtrack album is better known among the general public than the film itself.



* RefrainFromAssuming: Despite being a Jamaican movie it does not feature any reference to Rastafarianism (though Ivan's associate Pedro was played by an actual Rasta, Ras Daniel Heartman, complete with dreadlocks), nor Music/BobMarley. The movie was released before Marley broke through internationally, thus explaining why Music/JimmyCliff was cast as star, seeing that he most the most famous reggae star before Marley surpassed him.

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''The Harder They Come'' is a 1972 film directed by Perry Henzell. It was the first feature film ever produced in UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}}. A massive hit in its home country, it also managed to become a CultClassic in the rest of the world. In the United States it was marketed on the ''midnight movie'' circuit as something of an exotic {{Blaxploitation}} movie, featuring lots of {{Reggae}} music, a genre that was beginning to attract an audience outside of Jamaica. While technically an English-language film, subtitles were required to help audiences understand the local Jamaican patois. It was successful enough to be included in [[DannyPearyCultMoviesList Danny Peary's first volume of "Cult Movies" in 1981]].

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''The Harder They Come'' is a 1972 film directed by Perry Henzell. It was the first feature film ever produced in UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}}. A massive hit in its home country, it also managed to become a CultClassic in the rest of the world. In the United States it was marketed on the ''midnight movie'' circuit as something of an exotic {{Blaxploitation}} movie, featuring lots of {{Reggae}} music, a genre that was beginning to attract an audience outside of Jamaica. While technically an English-language film, subtitles were required to help audiences understand the local Jamaican patois. It was successful enough to be included in [[DannyPearyCultMoviesList Danny Peary's first volume of "Cult Movies" ''Literature/CultMovies'' in 1981]].
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* FilmWithinAFilm: Ivan and his friend Jose are seen watching ''Film/{{Django}}'' in a movie theater. Spaghetti westerns were very much [[CultClassic cult movies]] in their own right in Jamaica.

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* FilmWithinAFilm: Ivan and his friend Jose are seen watching ''Film/{{Django}}'' in a movie theater. Spaghetti westerns {{Spaghetti Western}}s were very much [[CultClassic cult movies]] in their own right in Jamaica.



* NobleFugitive and {{Outlaw}}: Ivanhoe is chased by the police and wanted for murder, but he was forced to go into crime in order to survive.

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* NobleFugitive and {{Outlaw}}: NobleFugitive[=/=]{{Outlaw}}: Ivanhoe is chased by the police and wanted for murder, but he was forced to go into crime in order to survive.

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The film is notable for starring Music/JimmyCliff in the lead role, who was the biggest reggae star before Music/BobMarley came along (Cliff actually helped Marley get his first record deal). Cliff wrote and performed most of the songs on the CultSoundtrack, which all became hits in their own right: "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "The Harder They Come" and "Many Rivers To Cross". Other famous reggae songs in the film are "Rivers Of Babylon" by The Melodians, "Pressure Drop" by The Maytals and "007 (Shanty Town)" by Desmond Dekker. The hit songs made the soundtrack a genuine bestseller and many people in the West bought this CultSoundtrack without ever having seen the film. Some might not even be aware that it is a companion to a movie! The album is considered to have popularized reggae in the rest of the world, laying the grounds for future acts, most notable Music/BobMarley.

Magazine/TimeMagazine included the album in their [[TimeAllTime100Albums 2006 list of 100 timeless and essential albums.]] Magazine/RollingStone placed it at #122 in [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime their list of the greatest albums of all time]]. In 2003, UMG reissued the album, bundling it with a disc compiling other singles from the early days of reggae.

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The film is notable for starring Music/JimmyCliff in the lead role, who was the biggest reggae star before Music/BobMarley came along (Cliff actually helped Marley get his first record deal). Cliff wrote and performed most of the songs on the CultSoundtrack, which all became hits in their own right: "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "The Harder They Come" and "Many Rivers To Cross". Other famous reggae songs in the film are "Rivers Of Babylon" by The Melodians, "Pressure Drop" by The Maytals and "007 (Shanty Town)" by Desmond Dekker. The hit songs made the soundtrack a genuine bestseller and many people in the West bought this CultSoundtrack without ever having seen the film. Some might not even be aware that it is a companion to a movie! The album is considered to have popularized reggae in the rest of the world, laying the grounds for future acts, most notable Music/BobMarley.

Magazine/TimeMagazine included the album in their [[TimeAllTime100Albums 2006 list of 100 timeless and essential albums.]] Magazine/RollingStone placed it at #122 in [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime their list of the greatest albums of all time]].
Music/BobMarley. In 2003, UMG reissued the album, bundling it with a disc compiling other singles from the early days of reggae.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: In ''Cult Movies'', Danny Peary mentions that when it first hit America, it was often seen as a grittier, darker version of ''Film/BlackOrpheus'', since they're both films with all-black casts set in tropical locations about a poor, struggling, musically talented man, with iconic music scores that popularized their particular genres. They were often paired as a double feature.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: In ''Cult Movies'', Danny Peary mentions that when it first hit America, it was often seen as a grittier, darker version counterpart of ''Film/BlackOrpheus'', since they're both films with all-black casts set in tropical locations about a poor, struggling, musically talented man, with iconic music scores that popularized their particular genres. They were often paired as a double feature.

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