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* ShoutOut: The loosely drawn comic art seen in parts of the film (notably the "Maybellene" segment) is an homage to the art style of pioneering cartoonist Creator/OttoMessmer.cartoonists Creator/OttoMessmer and [[KrazyKat George Herriman.]]
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** The Godfather is obviously inspired by the [[Film/TheGodfather film of the same name] (and is meant to be a jab at its depiction of TheMafia).
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* PantyShot: Carole pulls one on purpose during a gig as a Taxi driver, and it gets her fired over it.
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* PantyShot: Carole pulls one on purpose during a gig as a Taxi driver, and it gets to an old man, who literally has a heart attack from the sight, which predictably costs Carole her fired over it.job.
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* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler: Micheal ends up going down a path of crime not unlike his mafioso father, but it doesn't last long in it due to his dad ordering a hit on Micheal for dating Carole.]]
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: It's clear that Carole, with her stubborn, no nonsense attitude, just can't hold a job. She quits her first job as a bartender right after bickering with her boss over Shorty initiating a bar brawl, and gets fired from her second job shortly after starting it by flashing her gams at an old man (which gave him a heart attack). [[spoiler: She and Micheal eventually turn to forming a racket so they can make enough money to move out yo California.]]
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: It's clear that Carole, with her stubborn, no nonsense attitude, just can't hold a job. She quits her first job as a bartender right after bickering with her boss over Shorty initiating a bar brawl, and gets fired from her second job shortly after starting it by flashing her gams at an old man (which gave him a heart attack). [[spoiler: She and Micheal eventually turn to forming a racket so they can make enough money to move out yo California.]]
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* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler: Micheal ends up going down a path of crime not unlike his mafioso father, but it he doesn't last long in it due to his dad ordering a hit on Micheal for dating Carole.]]
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: It's clear that Carole, with her stubborn, no nonsense attitude, just can't hold a job. She quits her first job as a bartender right after bickering with her boss over Shorty initiating a bar brawl, and gets fired from her second job shortly after starting it by flashing her gams at an old man (which gave him a heart attack). [[spoiler: She and Micheal eventually turn to forming a racket so they can make enough money to move out yo California. And after the films ending switches to real life, we find out the real Carole has no luck holding a job either.]]
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: It's clear that Carole, with her stubborn, no nonsense attitude, just can't hold a job. She quits her first job as a bartender right after bickering with her boss over Shorty initiating a bar brawl, and gets fired from her second job shortly after starting it by flashing her gams at an old man (which gave him a heart attack). [[spoiler: She and Micheal eventually turn to forming a racket so they can make enough money to move out yo California. And after the films ending switches to real life, we find out the real Carole has no luck holding a job either.]]
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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: It's clear that Carole, with her stubborn, no nonsense attitude, just can't hold a job. She quits her first job as a bartender right after bickering with her boss, boss over Shorty initiating a bar brawl, and gets fired from her second job shortly after starting it by flashing her gams at an old man (which gave him a patron. heart attack). [[spoiler: She and Micheal eventually turn to forming a racket to so they can make ends meet.enough money to move out yo California.]]
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* GreenEyedMonster: Shorty hates Micheal for Carole preferring a relationship with him over himself.himself (as Carole clearly finds Shorty unpleasant to be around). [[spoiler: This makes Shorty more than willing to carry out Angie's hit on Micheal at the end.]]
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* TheWorldsOldestProfession: Carole poses as a prostitute [[spoiler: in order to set up a businessman for Micheal to kill, so they can both make off with his money.]]
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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: It's clear that Carole, with her stubborn, no nonsense attitude, just can't hold a job. She quits her first job as a bartender right after bickering with her boss, and gets fired from her second job shortly after starting it by flashing her gams at a patron. [[spoiler: She and Micheal eventually turn to forming a racket to make ends meet.]]
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* PantyShot: Carole pulls one on purpose during a gig as a Taxi driver, and it gets her fired over it.
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** After Carole briefly walks out on him, Micheal jokingly remarks "[[Music/TheRollingStones Mick Jagger]], I'm not."
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* GreenEyedMonster: Shorty hates Micheal for Carole preferring a relationship with him over himself. [[spoiler: This makes Shorty more than willing to carry out Angie's hit on Micheal at the end.]]
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* {{Irony}}: Angie, Micheal's dad, is definetely against his son dating Carole, enough to try and order a hit on him for it. [[spoiler: It turms out he was right to be suspicious of her, but for an entirely different reason than his racism when Carole [[ToxicFriendInfluence drags Micheal into running a crime racket together.]] And just when Micheal starts going down a path of crime like his mafia dad before him, Shorty comes along to pull off the hit on the now corrupt Micheal.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Shortly after starting a racket with Carole and willingly murdering a man for money, Micheal gets shot in the head by his dad's new hitman. Shorty.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Shortly after starting a racket with Carole and willingly murdering a man for money, Micheal gets shot in the head by his dad's new hitman. Shorty.]]
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* AxCrazy / MamaBear: Ida, Michael's Jewish mother, who is really over zealous about keeping him out of the influence of Angelo / Angie, his Italian Catholic father, who is part of the mafia and frequently cheats on her.
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* AxCrazy / MamaBear: Ida, Michael's Jewish mother, who is really over zealous about keeping him out of the influence of Angelo / Angie, his Italian Catholic father, who is part of the mafia and frequently cheats on her. [[spoiler: She even tries--and fails--to stop Shorty from killing her son.]]
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: There are no real heroes or villains in this story, and few if any of the characters are truly sympathetic--all of them are messed up in some form or another, be it physically or mentally, and have their own personal agendas to carry out.
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* CrapsackWorld: Micheal lives in New York, which is very run down seedy and inhabited by the Mafia. Ironically, he draws a lot of his inspiration directly from this environment.
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* DerangedAnimation: The whole film is a surreal fantasy loaded with metaphors and symbolism and a load of topical and biographical undertones.
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* DerangedAnimation: The whole film is a surreal fantasy loaded with metaphors and symbolism and a load of topical and biographical undertones. And besides the rugged and sometimes bizarre designs, the animation really does get pretty crazy, especially [[spoiler: the scene where Micheal gets shot, and it's nightmarish aftermath.]]
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* NighthawksShot : The painting is briefly seen in the background during a scene.
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* RogerRabbitEffect: Some of the scenes in this movie have animated characters over live-action backgrounds; a part has human girls in the backgrounds.
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* RogerRabbitEffect: Some of the scenes in this movie have animated characters over live-action backgrounds; a part has human girls in the backgrounds. However, most of the live action doesn't directly interact with, but compliments the animation.
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* SoundtrackDissonance / StandardSnippet: Vivaldi's "Four Seasons: Spring" plays during the entire Godfather sequence.
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* IHaveNoSon: Angie, Micheal's racist father, tries to get the Mafia to put out a hit on Micheal for "disgracing the family" by dating a black woman. The mafia refuses on the grounds that the hit is personal and not business related, [[spoiler: but then Angie meets up with Carole's devoted bouncer Shorty, who is jealous of Carole dating Micheal and is more than willing to deliver the hit, which he successfully carries through.]]
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* IHaveNoSon: Angie, Micheal's racist father, tries to get the Mafia to put out a hit on Micheal for "disgracing the family" by dating Carole, a black woman. The mafia refuses on the grounds that the hit is personal and not business related, [[spoiler: but then Angie meets up with Carole's devoted bouncer Shorty, who is jealous of Carole dating Micheal and is more than willing to deliver the hit, which he successfully carries through.]]
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* HandicappedBadass: Shorty, a man who is literally missing half of his body, but is quite fast on his wooden cart and, given his profession as a bouncer, will kick your ass with his own bare hands.
* IHaveNoSon: Angie, Micheal's racist father, tries to get the Mafia to put out a hit on Micheal for "disgracing the family" by dating a black woman. The mafia refuses on the grounds that the hit is personal and not business related, [[spoiler: but then Angie meets up with Carole's devoted bouncer Shorty, who is jealous of Carole dating Micheal and is more than willing to deliver the hit, which he successfully carries through.]]
* IHaveNoSon: Angie, Micheal's racist father, tries to get the Mafia to put out a hit on Micheal for "disgracing the family" by dating a black woman. The mafia refuses on the grounds that the hit is personal and not business related, [[spoiler: but then Angie meets up with Carole's devoted bouncer Shorty, who is jealous of Carole dating Micheal and is more than willing to deliver the hit, which he successfully carries through.]]
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: [[spoiler: Carole eventually drives Micheal along with her into a life of crime to make ends meet, including murder for profit.]]
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* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler: Micheal becomes this near the end.]]
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: Micheal gets shot in the head by Shorty, and it is depicted in very gruesome detail, all filmed in slow motion. Then it turns out that's just an animated metaphor for Micheal losing a game of pinball in real life--and given the films recursive symbolism, losing a game of real life in general.]]
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: Micheal gets shot in the head by Shorty, and it is depicted in very gruesome detail, all filmed in slow motion. Then it turns out that's just an animated metaphor for Micheal losing a game of pinball in real life--and given the films recursive symbolism, losing a game of real life in general.]]
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* [[AllJustADream All Just A Day Dream]]: [[spoiler: After Micheal gets shot in the head at the climax, it turns out the films animated sequences were all in his head as the film switches to a real life Micheal for the last several minutes. And given it happens after Micheal loses a game of pinball (a recurring symbolism piece) and how closely his real life parllels that of the cartoon fantasy, and not to mention the films POV driven nature was constantly foreshadowed throughout the film (with the frequent mixing of animation and live action, and film literally starting with a real life Micheal playing the pinball game) this twist actually comes off as very well thought out.]]
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* [[AllJustADream All Just A Day Dream]]: [[spoiler: After Micheal gets shot in the head at the climax, it turns out the films animated sequences were all in his head as the film switches to a real life Micheal for the last several minutes. And given it happens after Micheal loses a game of pinball (a recurring symbolism piece) and how closely his real life parllels parallels that of the cartoon fantasy, and not to mention the films POV driven nature was constantly foreshadowed throughout the film (with the frequent mixing of animation and live action, and film literally starting with a real life Micheal playing the pinball game) this twist actually comes off as very well thought out.]]
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* [[AllJustADream All Just A Day Dream]]: [[spoiler: After Micheal gets shot in the head at the climax, it turns out the films animated sequences were all in his head as the film switches to a real life Micheal for the last several minutes. And given it happens after Micheal loses a game of pinball (a recurring symbolism piece) and how closely his real life parllels that of the cartoon fantasy, and not to mention the films POV driven nature was constantly foreshadowed throughout the film (with the frequent mixing of animation and live action, and film literally starting with a real life Micheal playing the pinball game) this twist actually comes off as very well thought out.]]
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->"''Where is it all going, where is it all going?"''
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->"''Where is it all going, where is it all going?"''
-->--'''Michael'''
->''"Its animation--but it's not a cartoon. It's funny--but it's not a comedy--its Heavy. Heavy Traffic."''
-->--'''Tagline in the films trailer'''
Creator/RalphBakshi cites ''Heavy Traffic'' as his favorite film in his career. This was originally to be Ralph's first film; however, it was [[DevelopmentHell "put on hold"]] because the producer believed that he couldn't sell this film due to Bakshi's inexperience as a film director; the success of ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'', the first animated film to be [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids rated X]] in the United States, [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell saved the production]] of ''Heavy Traffic''.
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!!This film provides examples of the following:
* AnimatedMusicVideo: Although only in one segment, Music/ChuckBerry's "Maybellene" is played while in the style of UndergroundComics and the design sense is a homage to Creator/OttoMessmer.
* ArtShift: Only happens two times. The scenes that go into underground comic book form, and [[spoiler:the live-action at the ending climax of the film]].
* AxCrazy: Michael's mother
* BlackBestFriend: Subverted; Carol is Michael's girlfriend.
* BlackComedy
* CoolCar: The Godfather has one of these.
* CreepyCrossdresser: Snowflake.
* DeadpanSnarker: Michael
* DeathByCameo: [[spoiler:A caricature of Ralph gets killed off by Michael during a racket in the movie]].
* FictionalPinballGame: Michael repeatedly plays a pinball game throughout the movie, in a metaphor for the randomness of existence.
* {{Gayngster}}: Snowflake and his brothers.
* MeaningfulName: The title of the film; the "Heavy" is the dilemmas of life, and the "Traffic" is the people who experience it.
* NighthawksShot : The painting is briefly seen in the background during a scene.
* RogerRabbitEffect: Some of the scenes in this movie have animated characters over live-action backgrounds; a part has human girls in the backgrounds.
* ShoutOut: The loosely drawn comic art seen in parts of the film (notably the "Maybellene" segment) is an homage to the art style of pioneering cartoonist Creator/OttoMessmer.
* {{Symbolism}}: The recurring pinball machine Micheal plays is meant to be symbolic of fate and peoples place in the universe, per word of Ralph; that once you step outside, ''anything'' can happen, and the only influence you have over the universe is the flippers. Sometimes you make it big and get the high score, other times you have to put another quarter in.
* TakeThat: Creator/RalphBakshi really dislikes TheMafia, and the film ''Film/TheGodfather''. Which is why the Mafia is really portrayed negatively in this and ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}''.
* UndergroundComics: Michael is an underground cartoonist.
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->"''Where is it all going, where is it all going?"''
-->--'''Michael'''
->''"Its animation--but it's not a cartoon. It's funny--but it's not a comedy--its Heavy. Heavy Traffic."''
-->--'''Tagline in the films trailer'''
Creator/RalphBakshi cites ''Heavy Traffic'' as his favorite film in his career. This was originally to be Ralph's first film; however, it was [[DevelopmentHell "put on hold"]] because the producer believed that he couldn't sell this film due to Bakshi's inexperience as a film director; the success of ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'', the first animated film to be [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids rated X]] in the United States, [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell saved the production]] of ''Heavy Traffic''.
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!!This film provides examples of the following:
* AnimatedMusicVideo: Although only in one segment, Music/ChuckBerry's "Maybellene" is played while in the style of UndergroundComics and the design sense is a homage to Creator/OttoMessmer.
* ArtShift: Only happens two times. The scenes that go into underground comic book form, and [[spoiler:the live-action at the ending climax of the film]].
* AxCrazy: Michael's mother
* BlackBestFriend: Subverted; Carol is Michael's girlfriend.
* BlackComedy
* CoolCar: The Godfather has one of these.
* CreepyCrossdresser: Snowflake.
* DeadpanSnarker: Michael
* DeathByCameo: [[spoiler:A caricature of Ralph gets killed off by Michael during a racket in the movie]].
* FictionalPinballGame: Michael repeatedly plays a pinball game throughout the movie, in a metaphor for the randomness of existence.
* {{Gayngster}}: Snowflake and his brothers.
* MeaningfulName: The title of the film; the "Heavy" is the dilemmas of life, and the "Traffic" is the people who experience it.
* NighthawksShot : The painting is briefly seen in the background during a scene.
* RogerRabbitEffect: Some of the scenes in this movie have animated characters over live-action backgrounds; a part has human girls in the backgrounds.
* ShoutOut: The loosely drawn comic art seen in parts of the film (notably the "Maybellene" segment) is an homage to the art style of pioneering cartoonist Creator/OttoMessmer.
* {{Symbolism}}: The recurring pinball machine Micheal plays is meant to be symbolic of fate and peoples place in the universe, per word of Ralph; that once you step outside, ''anything'' can happen, and the only influence you have over the universe is the flippers. Sometimes you make it big and get the high score, other times you have to put another quarter in.
* TakeThat: Creator/RalphBakshi really dislikes TheMafia, and the film ''Film/TheGodfather''. Which is why the Mafia is really portrayed negatively in this and ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}''.
* UndergroundComics: Michael is an underground cartoonist.
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