History Tropers / Samhuddy

Samhuddy is a troper and sometimes writer. He was one of the last people ever to be born in the 1980s, and lives in Pasadena.

He provides examples of the following tropes:

* BrilliantButLazy
* DeadGuyJunior
* GentlemanAdventurer: Traipsed across Israel in a hat and tie.
* MametSpeak
* NiceJewishBoy
* ExpansionPackPast
* SharpDressedMan

Creator of the following pages:

* MonkeesEqualsMonkees
* [[Film/ZoDiAc Zodiac]]
* [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties Useful Notes: The Nineties]]
* PopRevival

He also has a website, where he's reviewed the films listed below. His favourite movie year is 2007.

* ''[[{{Film/Saboteur}} Saboteur]]''
* ''StageFright''
* ''TimeBandits''
* ''GosfordPark''
* ''StyleWars''
* ''WelcomeToSarajevo''
* ''[[{{Film/Marnie}} Marnie]]''
* ''[[{{Film/Sisters}} Sisters]]''
* ''YoungFrankenstein''
* ''[[{{Film/Sleeper}} Sleeper]]''
* ''[[{{Film/Carrie}} Carrie]]''
* ''BroadwayDannyRose''
* ''AFishCalledWanda''
* ''VelvetGoldmine''
* ''[[{{Film/Gallipoli}} Gallipoli]]''
* ''TheMakiokaSisters''
* ''ClearHistory''
* ''SweetSweetbacksBaadasssssSong''
* ''[[{{Film/Fitzcarraldo}} Fitzcarraldo]]''
* ''OSS117CairoNestOfSpies''
* ''FourLions''
* ''SeekingAsianFemale''
* ''ThePlotAgainstHarry''
* ''BlackHawkDown''
* ''[[{{Film/Zardoz}} Zardoz]]/[[{{Film/Excalibur}} Excalibur]]'' (reviewed together)
* ''MalcolmX''
* ''TheLastDetail''
* ''FrancesHa''
* ''MenInBlack3''
* ''CrystalFairy''
* ''TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord''
* ''TheClaim''
* ''ParanoidPark''
* ''ThePurpleRoseOfCairo''
* ''TheMaster''
* ''TheLivesOfABengalLancer''
* ''HannahAndHerSisters''
* ''InsideLlewynDavis''
* ''[[{{Film/ThreeTenToYuma}} 3:10 to Yuma]]''
* ''HocusPocus''

He also has a website, where he's reviewed the films listed below. Although he reviews any movie he sees for the first time, he seems particularly taken by AlfredHitchcock (3 films reviewed), MichaelWinterbottom (2), JohnBoorman (2), and WoodyAllen (4).

* HighSchoolHustler.
* IdenticalStranger: This guy Tyler was always getting me in trouble. [[FightClub Or was he me all along]]? No, he wasn't.

He also has experience with the following tropes:

* AgonyOfTheFeet
* BerserkButton
* TheCaper
* ChekhovsSkill
* CloudCuckooland
* CoolTeacher
* DressCodedForYourConvenience
* DrunkenMaster
* DuelingShows: Monty Park vs ICarly. iCarly won. So did my dignity.
* FunTShirt
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp
* HighSchoolRocks
* HighSchoolSweethearts
* HoistByHisOwnPetard
* TheIngenue
* InnerCitySchool
* ItWillNeverCatchOn
* ManicPixieDreamGirl
* NewTransferStudent
* TheNineties
* ObliviousToLove
* OneGenderSchool
* PeopleOfHairColor
* ShowerOfLove
* StrawmanU
* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge
* TurnOfTheMillennium
* UmbrellaDrink

* [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties]]

* ManInWhite

* IdenticalStranger: Damn you Tyler!

*TheNineties

*[[Film/ZODIAC Zodiac]]

*Film/Zodiac
*UsefulNotes/TheNineties

*[[Film/ZodiaC Zodiac]]
*{{UsefulNotes/TheNineties]]

*[[Film/ZODIAC Zodiac]]

*TurnOfTheMillennium

*DuelingShows: Monty Park vs iCarly. iCarly won. So did my dignity.

He is working on a short film called ''Thank God for Napalm.'' It's loosely based on real events in the winter of [[TheSeventies 1973]], and follows two Pasadena police detectives investigating a bunch of fires that were started by a fourteen-year-old girl. [[BlackComedy It's a comedy.]] which uses the following tropes:

*AuthorAppeal: Julia was a real-life person...who just happened to live in the writer's home, albeit decades earlier. And she was never caught.
*CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Beautifully averted.
*CowboyCop: ''Thank God for Napalm'' is both a satire of actual events, and a tribute to the Cowboy Cop genre of the 1960s and 70s.
*DefectiveDetective: Michael Strummer.
*NothingButHits: Averted. The music heard would have been popular at the time, but you'd be hard-pressed to hear them now.
*PaleSkinnedBrunette: Julia. And several other characters in the series. See AuthorAppeal.
*PyroManiac: [[spoiler:Julia]].
*ShoutOut: The unicorn on Strummer's desk is a shout out to BladeRunner, which of course hadn't yet come out when the film is set. It's meant to be a reflection of Gant's line "[[spoiler:Of course she won't live! But who does?]]" Especially creepy if you know that the film is set in 1973, and [[spoiler:The real Julia Clement committed suicide in 1976]].