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* HarsherInHindsight: The film's plot is eerily similar to the real life events documented in ''Film/AmericanFactory'', except the factory is Chinese and there's no happy ending.

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The film's plot is eerily similar to the real life real-life events documented in ''Film/AmericanFactory'', except the factory is Chinese and there's no happy ending.
*** To make matters worse, Japan's economic bubble burst in the 1990s meant that the factory will be closed as many Japanese companies would either scale down their overseas operations or went bankrupt.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Entire movie was made during the 1980s when American auto industries were outcompeted by their Japanese counterpart. Rather than playing on the fear of JapanTakesOverTheWorld as common during the time, the film tried to portray it in a more optimistic tone.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Like a lot of the other pieces of Japanese corporate culture seen in the film, "Ribbons of Shame" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbons_of_shame are very real.]]
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Jimmy Barnes' "Working Class Man", which plays over the end credits.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[Music/ColdChisel Jimmy Barnes' Barnes]]' "Working Class Man", which plays over the end credits.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The film's plot is eerily similar to the real life events documented in ''Film/AmericanFactory'', except the factory is Chinese and there's no happy ending.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Archer Goodwoody is supposed to be at least somewhat sympathetic as a troubled teen scarred by the death of his parents and offering a valid point that simply surviving isn't worth much if you aren't happy as well. In practice, he comes off as a lazy, horny, self-absorbed idiot, who wouldn't be very likable even if he weren't living in a post-apocalyptic world full of killer apes where his antics could get people killed. Even his own brother finds him exasperating and wishes he'd cut it out with the clowning.
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Neither of these are alternative or unintentional. The Americans are not presented as being totally in the right, and they're often wrong. Both sides have to compromise.


* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Depending on how you look at it the Japanese managers were stubborn jerks who mistreated their American workers with unrealistic expectations or the Japanese managers were InnocentlyInsensitive to American cultural norms and were simply tough but fair in their pursuit of getting more from the American workers while the American workers themselves were lazy, uncooperative and ungrateful to their new employers.



* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Buster (the George Wendt character). He loses some sympathy points when he knocks down the one Japanese player during the baseball game, and loses even more later on when he harasses Umeki Kazihiro - Oishi's wife - at the grocery store following his demotion to janitor when Umeki herself had not personally wronged him.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Buster (the George Wendt character). He loses some sympathy points when he knocks down the one Japanese player during the baseball game, and loses even more later on when he harasses Umeki Kazihiro - Oishi's wife - at the grocery store following his demotion to janitor when Umeki herself had not personally wronged him.

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Buster (the George Wendt character). He loses some sympathy points when he knocks down the one Japanese player during the baseball game, and loses even more later on when he harasses Umeki Kazihiro - Oishi's wife - at the grocery store following his demotion to janitor when Umeki herself had not personally wronged him.him.
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* AwesomeMusic: Jimmy Barnes' "Working Class Man", which plays over the end credits.

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* AwesomeMusic: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Jimmy Barnes' "Working Class Man", which plays over the end credits.
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* AwesomeMusic: Jimmy Barnes' "Working Class Man", which plays over the end credits.
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* AlternativecharacterInterpretation: Depending on how you look at it the Japanese managers were stubborn jerks who mistreated their American workers with unrealistic expectations or the Japanese managers were InnocentlyInsensitive to American cultural norms and were simply tough but fair in their pursuit of getting more from the American workers while the American workers themselves were lazy, uncooperative and ungrateful to their new employers.

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* AlternativecharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Depending on how you look at it the Japanese managers were stubborn jerks who mistreated their American workers with unrealistic expectations or the Japanese managers were InnocentlyInsensitive to American cultural norms and were simply tough but fair in their pursuit of getting more from the American workers while the American workers themselves were lazy, uncooperative and ungrateful to their new employers.
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* AlternativecharacterInterpretation: Depending on how you look at it the Japanese managers were stubborn jerks who mistreated their American workers with unrealistic expectations or the Japanese managers were InnocentlyInsensitive to American cultural norms and were simply tough but fair in their pursuit of getting more from the American workers while the American workers themselves were lazy, uncooperative and ungrateful to their new employers.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Buster (the George Wendt character). He loses some sympathy points when he knocks down the one Japanese player during the baseball game, and loses even more later on when he harasses Umeki Kazihiro - Oishi's wife - at the grocery store following his demotion to janitor when Umeki herself had not personally wronged him.
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* FridgeLogic:
** It was established partway through the movie that the workers only manage to almost reach the goal by neglecting their home lives and courting injury on the job. What happens when they let the fever pitch die down and production goes back down?
*** That depends a lot on the sales division and the dealers. Whether they can ''sell'' 15,000 of a single model in a single body style and (tackily-striped, even by mid-80s standards) trim level, is anyone's guess.
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** That depends a lot on the sales division and the dealers. Whether they can ''sell'' 15,000 of a single model in a single body style and (tackily-striped, even by mid-80s standards) trim level, is anyone's guess.

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** *** That depends a lot on the sales division and the dealers. Whether they can ''sell'' 15,000 of a single model in a single body style and (tackily-striped, even by mid-80s standards) trim level, is anyone's guess.
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** It was established partway through the movie that the workers only manage to almost reach the goal by neglecting their home lives and courting injury on the job. What happens when they let the fever pitch die down and production goes back down?

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** It was established partway through the movie that the workers only manage to almost reach the goal by neglecting their home lives and courting injury on the job. What happens when they let the fever pitch die down and production goes back down?down?
** That depends a lot on the sales division and the dealers. Whether they can ''sell'' 15,000 of a single model in a single body style and (tackily-striped, even by mid-80s standards) trim level, is anyone's guess.

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Not sure what was intended here, but my own Fridge Logic moment...


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** It was established partway through the movie that the workers only manage to almost reach the goal by neglecting their home lives and courting injury on the job. What happens when they let the fever pitch die down and production goes back down?
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