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* VillainBall: Mr. Sir has his moments.
** He knows that the Warden doesn't really care about "building character" and is actually looking for [[spoiler:Kate Barlow's treasure.]] Despite this, he chooses to report Stanley's supposed theft of his sunflower seeds by telling the Warden that Stanley "found something." Naturally, she gets excited, only to learn the real purpose of their visit. Small wonder she ends up striking Mr. Sir across the face with rattlesnake venom.
** There's also a small scene in the film where Pendanski can be heard chewing out Mr. Sir over [[spoiler:Stanley's attempt to steal the water truck.]] Which might not have happened if Mr. Sir hadn't left the keys in the ignition. At a camp for juvenile delinquents. And this is ''after'' they accepted a new camper who got arrested for [[spoiler:''stealing a car.'']]
** He knows that the Warden doesn't really care about "building character" and is actually looking for [[spoiler:Kate Barlow's treasure.]] Despite this, he chooses to report Stanley's supposed theft of his sunflower seeds by telling the Warden that Stanley "found something." Naturally, she gets excited, only to learn the real purpose of their visit. Small wonder she ends up striking Mr. Sir across the face with rattlesnake venom.
** There's also a small scene in the film where Pendanski can be heard chewing out Mr. Sir over [[spoiler:Stanley's attempt to steal the water truck.]] Which might not have happened if Mr. Sir hadn't left the keys in the ignition. At a camp for juvenile delinquents. And this is ''after'' they accepted a new camper who got arrested for [[spoiler:''stealing a car.'']]
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** The book and movie both seem to take a swipe at the rationale of punitive sentencing and the prison-industrial complex. Forcing the kids to dig holes all day doesn't actually solve the problems that led them to commit crimes, and many of kids are effectively stuck on a chain gang for crimes that aren't all that serious. [[spoiler: The fact that the Warden's real goal is to use kids digging holes to find treasure]] is a subtle reference to how prison labor is for the purposes of enriching corrupt capitalists, not actually helping convicts better themselves. Meanwhile, Stanley actually does something to help Hector better himself: teaching him how to read, and is told not too by the prison staff who only see Hector as being good for digging.
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** The book and movie both seem to take a swipe at the rationale of punitive sentencing and the prison-industrial complex. Forcing the kids to dig holes all day doesn't actually solve the problems that led them to commit crimes, and many of kids are effectively stuck on a chain gang for crimes that aren't all that serious. [[spoiler: The fact that the Warden's real goal is to use kids digging holes to find treasure]] is a subtle reference to how prison labor is for the purposes of enriching corrupt capitalists, not actually helping convicts better themselves. Meanwhile, Stanley actually does something to help Hector better himself: teaching him how to read, and is told not too to by the prison staff who only see Hector as being good for digging.
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* IdiotPlot: The boys at Camp Green Lake are tasked to dig holes everyday and, if they come across anything interesting, to show it to the Warden. Stanley's first reaction to this is that they are obviously looking for something, a conclusion that no one else seems to have realized. When Stanley actually does "find something interesting" and shows it to the Warden, she makes them dig out every inch of that same spot for the next few days. This just erases any doubt for Stanley that they are looking for something, yet no one, ranging from the other campers to the court system, seems to realize this.
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* ItWasHisSled: The fact that the Warden is female is a surprise to both Stanley and the reader, but nowadays, most people know about it going in -- thanks in no small part to Creator/SigourneyWeaver's killer performance in the movie. Most discussions of the story don't even try to hide her gender anymore.
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* ItWasHisSled: The fact that the Warden is female is a surprise to both Stanley and the reader, but nowadays, most people know about it going in -- thanks in no small part to Creator/SigourneyWeaver's killer performance in the movie. Most discussions of the story don't even try to hide her gender anymore.anymore, especially since it is a rather minor revelation anyways.
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This entry is not a BLAM, it's a supernatural element that was not explained—it clearly is connected to the story and the entry makes it sound like it is referenced back to as well as being foreshadowing. | Trout Walker is a villain, at least to as much an extent as Kissin' Kate, his crimes are not the mere "being a jerk" that this trope requires.
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** The movie has an early {{Foreshadowing}} scene where Stanley sees the ghosts of Sam and Mary Lou while his bus passes through the desert. Stanley never even learns who they are and this event is never mentioned again. One could argue the point was less 'to go somewhere' and more to convey that the consequences of Sam's fate still loom over Green Lake and the characters in the present. Though he doesn't have many scenes, the presence of Sam permeates Stanley's and Zero's story: his boat and onion field are how the boys survive the brutal desert, and the aridification of Green Lake is heavily implied to be some kind of divine consequence of his murder--a kind of curse in and of itself, by which his presence lingers after death. By finding Kate's loot and finally having the Walker family brought to some kind of justice, Stanley and Zero bring all these to a close. Also, it helps that this isn't the only time Sam appears in ambiguous ghost form: he appears twice more around the boat he died in, once to Kate just before her death and once more after Stanley runs away from Camp Green Lake. The nature of all three appearances is played as something between mirage and hallucination, but all three remind the viewer just how much of the story continues to be affected by Sam's death.
** Right after Stanley turns down Zero's request to teach him how to read, Armpit swaggers out of the Wreck Room and starts dancing. The music even sounds like it's going to lead into a sudden all-camp coordinated dance, but it ends abruptly soon after Armpit raises his, well, armpits.
** The movie has an early {{Foreshadowing}} scene where Stanley sees the ghosts of Sam and Mary Lou while his bus passes through the desert. Stanley never even learns who they are and this event is never mentioned again. One could argue the point was less 'to go somewhere' and more to convey that the consequences of Sam's fate still loom over Green Lake and the characters in the present. Though he doesn't have many scenes, the presence of Sam permeates Stanley's and Zero's story: his boat and onion field are how the boys survive the brutal desert, and the aridification of Green Lake is heavily implied to be some kind of divine consequence of his murder--a kind of curse in and of itself, by which his presence lingers after death. By finding Kate's loot and finally having the Walker family brought to some kind of justice, Stanley and Zero bring all these to a close. Also, it helps that this isn't the only time Sam appears in ambiguous ghost form: he appears twice more around the boat he died in, once to Kate just before her death and once more after Stanley runs away from Camp Green Lake. The nature of all three appearances is played as something between mirage and hallucination, but all three remind the viewer just how much of the story continues to be affected by Sam's death.
** Right after Stanley turns down Zero's request to teach him how to read, Armpit swaggers out of the Wreck Room and starts dancing. The music even sounds like it's going to lead into a sudden all-camp coordinated dance, but it ends abruptly soon after Armpit raises his, well, armpits.
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** The movie has an early {{Foreshadowing}} scene where Stanley sees the ghosts of Sam and Mary Lou while his bus passes through the desert. Stanley never even learns who they are and this event is never mentioned again. One could argue the point was less 'to go somewhere' and more to convey that the consequences of Sam's fate still loom over Green Lake and the characters in the present. Though he doesn't have many scenes, the presence of Sam permeates Stanley's and Zero's story: his boat and onion field are how the boys survive the brutal desert, and the aridification of Green Lake is heavily implied to be some kind of divine consequence of his murder--a kind of curse in and of itself, by which his presence lingers after death. By finding Kate's loot and finally having the Walker family brought to some kind of justice, Stanley and Zero bring all these to a close. Also, it helps that this isn't the only time Sam appears in ambiguous ghost form: he appears twice more around the boat he died in, once to Kate just before her death and once more after Stanley runs away from Camp Green Lake. The nature of all three appearances is played as something between mirage and hallucination, but all three remind the viewer just how much of the story continues to be affected by Sam's death.
**BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Right after Stanley turns down Zero's request to teach him how to read, Armpit swaggers out of the Wreck Room and starts dancing. The music even sounds like it's going to lead into a sudden all-camp coordinated dance, but it ends abruptly soon after Armpit raises his, well, armpits.
** The movie has an early {{Foreshadowing}} scene where Stanley sees the ghosts of Sam and Mary Lou while his bus passes through the desert. Stanley never even learns who they are and this event is never mentioned again. One could argue the point was less 'to go somewhere' and more to convey that the consequences of Sam's fate still loom over Green Lake and the characters in the present. Though he doesn't have many scenes, the presence of Sam permeates Stanley's and Zero's story: his boat and onion field are how the boys survive the brutal desert, and the aridification of Green Lake is heavily implied to be some kind of divine consequence of his murder--a kind of curse in and of itself, by which his presence lingers after death. By finding Kate's loot and finally having the Walker family brought to some kind of justice, Stanley and Zero bring all these to a close. Also, it helps that this isn't the only time Sam appears in ambiguous ghost form: he appears twice more around the boat he died in, once to Kate just before her death and once more after Stanley runs away from Camp Green Lake. The nature of all three appearances is played as something between mirage and hallucination, but all three remind the viewer just how much of the story continues to be affected by Sam's death.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Whether you like the book or not, ''everyone'' remembers Katherine and Sam, and they're nearly universally-beloved in the fandom. Katherine even still has fans after she becomes Kissin' Kate Barlow (some people loved her even ''more'' after that). It also helps that the film gives her AdaptationalHeroism, only killing people who were part of the lynch mob.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Whether you like the book or not, ''everyone'' remembers Katherine and Sam, and they're nearly universally-beloved in the fandom. Katherine even still has fans after she becomes Kissin' Kate Barlow (some people loved her even ''more'' after that). It also helps that the film gives her AdaptationalHeroism, only killing people who were part of the lynch mob. This is all despite the fact that they're not main characters, just part of the backstory element.
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* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Kissin' Kate is a murderous outlaw who kills and robs men...but Trout Walker is considered to be more reprehensible for driving her to madness by lynching her beloved and burning her house to the ground.
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** When Stanley and Zero come back to camp Green Lake, The Warden, Mr. Pendanski, and Mr. Sir show a complete lack of concern when [[spoiler:the boys are covered with yellow-spotted lizards]]. What makes this a tragic example for the Warden? See JerkassWoobie for how she became the uncaring jerk she is in the present day.
** Mr. Pendanski arguably has ''two'' moments worthy of this. Not only does he show an appalling lack of concern when [[spoiler:he sees the lizards]], he then has the nerve to taunt Stanley and say [[spoiler:his lawyer proved him innocent, and gloat "too bad you weren't there for it!"]] That's right, he has absolutely ''no remorse'' over the fact that [[spoiler:he just put a completely innocent child who didn't deserve any form of punishment through all that torment, and all the blood, sweat, and tears involved with it]]. Granted it isn't terribly out of character, but still.
** Mr. Pendanski arguably has ''two'' moments worthy of this. Not only does he show an appalling lack of concern when [[spoiler:he sees the lizards]], he then has the nerve to taunt Stanley and say [[spoiler:his lawyer proved him innocent, and gloat "too bad you weren't there for it!"]] That's right, he has absolutely ''no remorse'' over the fact that [[spoiler:he just put a completely innocent child who didn't deserve any form of punishment through all that torment, and all the blood, sweat, and tears involved with it]]. Granted it isn't terribly out of character, but still.
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** Mr.Pendanski arguably has ''two'' moments worthy of this. Not Pendanski, when not only does he show an appalling lack of concern when [[spoiler:he sees the lizards]], he then has the nerve to taunt Stanley and say [[spoiler:his lawyer proved him innocent, and gloat "too bad you weren't there for it!"]] That's right, he has absolutely ''no remorse'' over the fact that [[spoiler:he just put a completely innocent child who didn't deserve any form of punishment through all that torment, and all the blood, sweat, and tears involved with it]]. Granted it isn't terribly out of character, but still.
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** Zeroni's curse seems to have the hidden message of "treat the outcasts of society well." Both Zeronis, Hector and Madame, were outcasts in their time and place. Elya and Stanley were the only people to treat their respective Zeroni's as friends. Elya, however, accidentally abandoned his friend and was cursed. Stanley not only came to care about Hector, but risked further punishment to rescue him from dying in the desert. Carrying Hector up the mountain wasn't just about fulfilling his ancestor's debt: Madame Zeroni's ghost was touched seeing Elya's descendant give her misfit descendant love and kindness when no one else did and gave Stanley good luck as a reward.
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* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Kissin' Kate is a murderous outlaw who kills and robs men...but Trout Walker is considered to be more reprehensible for driving her to madness by lynching her beloved and burning her house to the ground.
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** The book and movie both seem to take a swipe at the rationale of punitive sentencing and the prison-industrial complex. Forcing the kids to dig holes all day doesn't actually solve the problems that led them to commit crimes, and many of kids are effectively stuck on a chain gang for crimes that aren't all that serious. [[spoiler: The fact that the Warden's real goal is to use kids digging holes to find treasure]] is a subtle reference to how prison labor is for the purposes of enriching corrupt capitalists, not actually helping convicts better themselves. Meanwhile, Stanley actually does something to help Hector better himself: teaching him how to read, and is told not too by the prison staff who only see Hector as being good for digging.
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* AccidentalAesop: Elya's story seems to have its moral "don't go out of your way to romance someone who you've only seen from afar." Elya wastes a lot of time and effort getting a pig for Myra, only to realize how horrific it would actually be to be married into her family. If he heeded Madame Zeroni's advice, he wouldn't have been trapped in the curse.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It's left deliberately ambiguous whether Zero's mother intentionally abandoned him or got separated from him by accident (the film leans toward the latter, while the book heavily implies the former). While they're shown to be reunited at the end of the story, the audience's interpretation of their reunion will likely vary depending on how they choose to answer that question.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It's left deliberately ambiguous whether Zero's mother intentionally abandoned him or got separated from him by accident (the film leans toward the latter, while the book heavily implies the former). While they're shown to be reunited at the end of the story, the audience's interpretation of their reunion will likely vary depending on how they choose to answer that question.
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* AccidentalAesop: AccidentalAesop:
** Elya's story seems to haveits it's moral "don't go out of your way to romance someone who you've only seen from afar." Elya wastes a lot of time and effort getting a pig for Myra, only to realize how horrific it would actually be to be married into her family. If he heeded Madame Zeroni's advice, he wouldn't have been trapped in the curse.
** The Walkers' backstory seems to have the message of KnowWhenToFoldEm when something you want is difficult if not impossible. Trout starts the whole fiasco by hitting on Kate Barlow when she's Miss Katherine, schoolteacher, and she politely turns him down in favor of giving him an education. When he realizes he can't have her, he burns down the schoolhouse and kills Sam, which may have led to Green Lake suffering a drought for a century. Then he tries to interrogate Kate twenty years later for her bank robbery loot; her response is to let a yellow-spotted lizard bite her and to curse him that his children and grandchildren will ''never'' find the treasure. [[spoiler:Ms. Walker, even knowing that her grandfather was an obsessed paranoiac, kept up the crusade by using legal child labor rather than selling the land, which she was eventually forced to do, and starting a new life]]. If they had just given up and pursued other ventures, they would have been happier.
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** It's left deliberately ambiguous whether Zero's mother intentionally abandoned him or got separated from him by accident (the film leans toward the latter, while the book heavily implies the former). While they're shown to be reunited at the end of the story, the audience's interpretation of their reunion will likely vary depending on how they choose to answer thatquestion.question.
** Linda, Kate's former student, and Trout's wife, is subject to this given she only has one scene in the book and movie alike. It's unknown if Trout groomed her given she was no older than eight or nine when Sam died, or if she was desperate and greedy enough to overlook his bad attitude and smelly feet for the dwindling Walker fortune. The book hints it's the former, while the movie hints it's the latter. She still calls Kate "Miss Katherine" and looks guilty when Kate says Trout can't make her wish she was dead.
** Did Trout ever feel remorse for what he did to Sam and Kate? His last scene in the movie is ordering his granddaughter, [[spoiler:a young Ms. Walker]], to keep digging for the treasure, hinting at that point it's a compulsive obsession brought about by her DyingCurse rather than a matter of principle.
** Elya's story seems to have
** The Walkers' backstory seems to have the message of KnowWhenToFoldEm when something you want is difficult if not impossible. Trout starts the whole fiasco by hitting on Kate Barlow when she's Miss Katherine, schoolteacher, and she politely turns him down in favor of giving him an education. When he realizes he can't have her, he burns down the schoolhouse and kills Sam, which may have led to Green Lake suffering a drought for a century. Then he tries to interrogate Kate twenty years later for her bank robbery loot; her response is to let a yellow-spotted lizard bite her and to curse him that his children and grandchildren will ''never'' find the treasure. [[spoiler:Ms. Walker, even knowing that her grandfather was an obsessed paranoiac, kept up the crusade by using legal child labor rather than selling the land, which she was eventually forced to do, and starting a new life]]. If they had just given up and pursued other ventures, they would have been happier.
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** It's left deliberately ambiguous whether Zero's mother intentionally abandoned him or got separated from him by accident (the film leans toward the latter, while the book heavily implies the former). While they're shown to be reunited at the end of the story, the audience's interpretation of their reunion will likely vary depending on how they choose to answer that
** Linda, Kate's former student, and Trout's wife, is subject to this given she only has one scene in the book and movie alike. It's unknown if Trout groomed her given she was no older than eight or nine when Sam died, or if she was desperate and greedy enough to overlook his bad attitude and smelly feet for the dwindling Walker fortune. The book hints it's the former, while the movie hints it's the latter. She still calls Kate "Miss Katherine" and looks guilty when Kate says Trout can't make her wish she was dead.
** Did Trout ever feel remorse for what he did to Sam and Kate? His last scene in the movie is ordering his granddaughter, [[spoiler:a young Ms. Walker]], to keep digging for the treasure, hinting at that point it's a compulsive obsession brought about by her DyingCurse rather than a matter of principle.
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* CaptainObviousReveal: Mr. Sir isn't using his real name. Given how ridiculous the name "Mr. Sir" is, that's hardly a surprise.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Linda Walker nee Miller, as well as her children with Trout, with at least one of them being [[spoiler:Ms. Walker's parent given she and Trout have the same surname. During the twenty years that Kate doesn't see Trout, Linda goes from a pretty third-grader to a sunburnt blotchy-faced GoldDigger. Yet she doesn't say much about her relationship with Trout, only that they're desperate for money. Then there's the matter that Ms. Walker's parents had to dig holes all over the lake basin, and forced her to participate as well. After all, what kind of adult would leave their grandchild alone with a delusional old man that would make them dig every day, even on Christmas]]?
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* AccidentalAesop: Elya's story seems to have its moral "don't go out of your way to romance someone who you've only seen from afar." Elya wastes a lot of time and effort getting a pig for Myra, only to realize how horrific it would actually be to be married into her family. If he heeded Madame Zeroni's advice, he wouldn't have been trapped in the curse.
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** While it doesn't end well for him, Elya ditches Myra after realizing how much of a shallow dunce she is.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Stanley probably should have realized that having Zero help him dig his hole each day would not endear him to his fellow campers who were stuck digging their holes all on their own. It's hard to blame D Tent when they end up turning on him completely.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It's left deliberately ambiguous whether Zero's mother intentionally abandoned him or got separated from him by accident (the film leans toward the latter, while the book heavily implies the former). While they're shown to be reunited at the end of the story, the audience's interpretation of their reunion will likely vary depending on how they choose to answer that question.
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* {{Applicability}}: The plot hinges on a group of juvenile delinquents being exploited as unpaid laborers by an unscrupulous prison warden, who tries to use them to get rich. Intentionally or not, this can be pretty easily read as a commentary on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison-industrial_complex prison-industrial complex]].
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* GeniusBonus: Mr. Sir creates a tough, cowboy persona in order to get over the embarrassment of his real name: [[spoiler:Marion]]. This is very similar to '''Marion''' Robert Morrison, better known as [[spoiler:Creator/JohnWayne]].
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** In the film adaptation, Mr. Sir creates a tough, cowboy persona in order to get over the embarrassment of his real name: [[spoiler:Marion]]. This is very similar to '''Marion''' Robert Morrison, better known as[[spoiler:Creator/JohnWayne]].[[spoiler:Creator/JohnWayne]].
** Stanley is initially told that his great-great-grandfather was cursed by a "one-legged Gypsy woman", but it turns out that Madame Zeroni was actually ''Egyptian''. The term "Gypsy" (a racial slur for Romani people) is actually derived from "E'''gyp'''tian", and originated as an insulting reference to the Romani people's dark skin complexion.
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** Stanley is initially told that his great-great-grandfather was cursed by a "one-legged Gypsy woman", but it turns out that Madame Zeroni was actually ''Egyptian''. The term "Gypsy" (a racial slur for Romani people) is actually derived from "E'''gyp'''tian", and originated as an insulting reference to the Romani people's dark skin complexion.
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* CompleteMonster: Trout Walker
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* NarmCharm: "Dig It." On paper, the movie adaptation of a book like ''Holes'' having a ThemeTuneRap performed by it's all-teen cast sounds like a TotallyRadical gimmick to [[WereStillRelevantDammit attract "the kids."]] In practice, however, the actors are clearly are musically capable enough to pull it off and the whole thing fits the story to a tee.
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* NarmCharm: "Dig It." On paper, the movie adaptation of a book like ''Holes'' having a ThemeTuneRap performed by it's its all-teen cast sounds like a TotallyRadical gimmick to [[WereStillRelevantDammit attract "the kids."]] In practice, however, the actors are clearly are musically capable enough to pull it off and the whole thing fits the story to a tee.
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* NarmCharm: "Dig It." On paper, the the movie adaptation of a book like ''Holes'' having a ThemeTuneRap performed by it's all-teen cast sounds like a TotallyRadical gimmick to [[WereStillRelevantDammit attract "the kids."]] In practice, however, the actors are clearly are musically capable enough to pull it off and the whole thing fits the story to a tee.
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* NarmCharm: "Dig It." On paper, the the movie adaptation of a book like ''Holes'' having a ThemeTuneRap performed by it's all-teen cast sounds like a TotallyRadical gimmick to [[WereStillRelevantDammit attract "the kids."]] In practice, however, the actors are clearly are musically capable enough to pull it off and the whole thing fits the story to a tee.
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** The movie has an early {{Foreshadowing}} scene where Stanley sees the ghosts of Sam and Mary Lou while his bus passes through the desert. Stanley never even learns who they are and this event is never mentioned again.
*** One could argue the point was less 'to go somewhere' and more to convey that the consequences of Sam's fate still loom over Green Lake and the characters in the present. Though he doesn't have many scenes, the presence of Sam permeates Stanley's and Zero's story: his boat and onion field are how the boys survive the brutal desert, and the aridification of Green Lake is heavily implied to be some kind of divine consequence of his murder--a kind of curse in and of itself, by which his presence lingers after death. By finding Kate's loot and finally having the Walker family brought to some kind of justice, Stanley and Zero bring all these to a close.
*** Also, it helps that this isn't the only time Sam appears in ambiguous ghost form: he appears twice more around the boat he died in, once to Kate just before her death and once more after Stanley runs away from Camp Green Lake. The nature of all three appearances is played as something between mirage and hallucination, but all three remind the viewer just how much of the story continues to be affected by Sam's death.
*** One could argue the point was less 'to go somewhere' and more to convey that the consequences of Sam's fate still loom over Green Lake and the characters in the present. Though he doesn't have many scenes, the presence of Sam permeates Stanley's and Zero's story: his boat and onion field are how the boys survive the brutal desert, and the aridification of Green Lake is heavily implied to be some kind of divine consequence of his murder--a kind of curse in and of itself, by which his presence lingers after death. By finding Kate's loot and finally having the Walker family brought to some kind of justice, Stanley and Zero bring all these to a close.
*** Also, it helps that this isn't the only time Sam appears in ambiguous ghost form: he appears twice more around the boat he died in, once to Kate just before her death and once more after Stanley runs away from Camp Green Lake. The nature of all three appearances is played as something between mirage and hallucination, but all three remind the viewer just how much of the story continues to be affected by Sam's death.
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** The movie has an early {{Foreshadowing}} scene where Stanley sees the ghosts of Sam and Mary Lou while his bus passes through the desert. Stanley never even learns who they are and this event is never mentioned again.
***again. One could argue the point was less 'to go somewhere' and more to convey that the consequences of Sam's fate still loom over Green Lake and the characters in the present. Though he doesn't have many scenes, the presence of Sam permeates Stanley's and Zero's story: his boat and onion field are how the boys survive the brutal desert, and the aridification of Green Lake is heavily implied to be some kind of divine consequence of his murder--a kind of curse in and of itself, by which his presence lingers after death. By finding Kate's loot and finally having the Walker family brought to some kind of justice, Stanley and Zero bring all these to a close. \n*** Also, it helps that this isn't the only time Sam appears in ambiguous ghost form: he appears twice more around the boat he died in, once to Kate just before her death and once more after Stanley runs away from Camp Green Lake. The nature of all three appearances is played as something between mirage and hallucination, but all three remind the viewer just how much of the story continues to be affected by Sam's death.
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** Kate getting [[spoiler:her revenge on the town for Sam. She starts by shooting the sheriff and leaving him to rot in the prison with a kiss. Then she rides off and starts robbing travelers left and right. In the film she takes it further by hunting down Sam's would-be murderers and putting a bullet in each of their heads. By the time Trout Walker and his TrophyWife Linda catch up to her, they're forced to admit that it hasn't rained since Sam was murdered, meaning they lost their fortune and the town has gone to ruin. While Kate is too dead on the inside to gloat, you can see a hint of satisfaction in her eyes]].
*** And immediately after that, [[spoiler:Kate gets bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard (deliberately in the movie) and then smirks at Trout and Linda, telling them to start digging, laughing at them as they futilely try to get her to tell them where she buried her treasure before she fades away]].
*** And immediately after that, [[spoiler:Kate gets bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard (deliberately in the movie) and then smirks at Trout and Linda, telling them to start digging, laughing at them as they futilely try to get her to tell them where she buried her treasure before she fades away]].
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** Kate getting [[spoiler:her revenge on the town for Sam. She starts by shooting the sheriff and leaving him to rot in the prison with a kiss. Then she rides off and starts robbing travelers left and right. In the film she takes it further by hunting down Sam's would-be murderers and putting a bullet in each of their heads. By the time Trout Walker and his TrophyWife Linda catch up to her, they're forced to admit that it hasn't rained since Sam was murdered, meaning they lost their fortune and the town has gone to ruin. While Kate is too dead on the inside to gloat, you can see a hint of satisfaction in her eyes]].
*** And immediatelyeyes]]. Immediately after that, [[spoiler:Kate gets bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard (deliberately in the movie) and then smirks at Trout and Linda, telling them to start digging, laughing at them as they futilely try to get her to tell them where she buried her treasure before she fades away]].
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*WhatAnIdiot: Stanley probably should have realized that having Zero help him dig his hole each day would not endear him to his fellow campers who were stuck digging their holes all on their own. It's hard to blame D Tent when they end up turning on him completely.
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* MemeticBadass: Sam the onion picker can fix anything. He could even fix a broken marriage, according to Twentyfour frames of Nick.
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* NarmCharm: "Dig It." On paper, the the movie adaptation of a book like ''Holes'' having a ThemeTuneRap performed by it's all-teen cast would most likely [[WereStillRelevantDammit earn eye-rolling and questions of which [[ExecutiveMeddling out-of-touch executive]] was [[TotallyRadical trying to be hip with "the kids."]] In practice, however, the actors are clearly are musically capable enough to pull it off and the whole thing fits the story to a tee.
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* NarmCharm: "Dig It." On paper, the the movie adaptation of a book like ''Holes'' having a ThemeTuneRap performed by it's all-teen cast would most likely sounds like a TotallyRadical gimmick to [[WereStillRelevantDammit earn eye-rolling and questions of which [[ExecutiveMeddling out-of-touch executive]] was [[TotallyRadical trying to be hip with attract "the kids."]] In practice, however, the actors are clearly are musically capable enough to pull it off and the whole thing fits the story to a tee.
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* NarmCharm: "Dig It." In any other case, a movie based on a book like ''Holes'' with a rap number over the credits would be reek of being TotallyRadical, but the boys are musically inclined enough to make it work.
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* NarmCharm: "Dig It." In any other case, a On paper, the the movie based on adaptation of a book like ''Holes'' with having a rap number over the credits ThemeTuneRap performed by it's all-teen cast would most likely [[WereStillRelevantDammit earn eye-rolling and questions of which [[ExecutiveMeddling out-of-touch executive]] was [[TotallyRadical trying to be reek of being TotallyRadical, but hip with "the kids."]] In practice, however, the boys actors are clearly are musically inclined capable enough to make pull it work.off and the whole thing fits the story to a tee.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Nowadays, Creator/ShiaLaBeouf's better known as Sam Witwicky in the first three live-action ''Film/{{Transformers|Film Series}}'' movies.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Nowadays, Creator/ShiaLaBeouf's better known Granted, Creator/ShiaLaBeouf wasn't a complete unknown at the time, being the star of the Creator/DisneyChannel sitcom ''Series/EvenStevens'', but today he's typically more associated with his role as Sam Witwicky in the first three live-action ''Film/{{Transformers|Film Series}}'' movies.movies than either Disney project.
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* TheWoobie: Zero. Left orphaned and homeless in his youth, and bullied by the other kids and adults at Camp Green Lake, with only Stanley as his closest and best friend. [[spoiler: Thankfully, in the end, he is reunited with his mother, and becomes neighbors with Stanley!]]
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** [[spoiler:Zero]] smacking [[spoiler:Mr. Pensanski]] in the face with a shovel after [[spoiler:[[TheDogBitesBack one insults too many]]]]
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** [[spoiler:Zero]] smacking [[spoiler:Mr. Pensanski]] Pendanski]] in the face with a shovel after [[spoiler:[[TheDogBitesBack one insults too many]]]]
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** Let's face it, this book as multiple of them, but the best ones have to be when [[spoiler: Zero]] slams [[spoiler: Mr. Pensanski]] in the face with a shovel after [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack one insults too many]]]], [[spoiler: Stanley denying the Warden a chance to see what's in the suitcase (chest in the movie) that she had been looking for years]], but most well known, the fact [[spoiler: Stanley is able to break the curse Madame Zeroni put on his family without realizing it]].
** Kate getting [[spoiler:her revenge on the town for Sam. She starts by shooting the sheriff and leaving him to rot in the prison with a kiss. Then she rides off and starts robbing travelers left and right. In the film she takes it further by hunting down Sam's would-be murderers and putting a bullet in each of their heads. By the time Trout Walker and his TrophyWife catch up to her, they're forced to admit that it hasn't rained since Trout killed Sam, meaning they lost their fortune and the town has gone to ruin. While Kate is too dead on the inside to gloat, you can see a hint of satisfaction in her eyes]].
** Three words: [[spoiler:Kate calmly picks up a venomous lizard and lets it bite her before Trout Walker can torture her for information on her treasure. She seals the deal by saying, [[FamousLastWords "Start diggin', Trout"]]]].
** Let's face it, this book as multiple of them, but the best ones have to be when [[spoiler: Zero]] slams [[spoiler: Mr. Pensanski]] in the face with a shovel after [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack one insults too many]]]], [[spoiler: Stanley denying the Warden a chance to see what's in the suitcase (chest in the movie) that she had been looking for years]], but most well known, the fact [[spoiler: Stanley is able to break the curse Madame Zeroni put on his family without realizing it]].
** Kate getting [[spoiler:her revenge on the town for Sam. She starts by shooting the sheriff and leaving him to rot in the prison with a kiss. Then she rides off and starts robbing travelers left and right. In the film she takes it further by hunting down Sam's would-be murderers and putting a bullet in each of their heads. By the time Trout Walker and his TrophyWife catch up to her, they're forced to admit that it hasn't rained since Trout killed Sam, meaning they lost their fortune and the town has gone to ruin. While Kate is too dead on the inside to gloat, you can see a hint of satisfaction in her eyes]].
** Three words: [[spoiler:Kate calmly picks up a venomous lizard and lets it bite her before Trout Walker can torture her for information on her treasure. She seals the deal by saying, [[FamousLastWords "Start diggin', Trout"]]]].
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** [[spoiler:Stanley denying the Warden a chance to see what's in the suitcase (chest in the movie) that she hadbeen spent her whole life looking for years]], but most well known, the for]]
** The fact[[spoiler: Stanley that [[spoiler:Stanley is able to break the curse Madame Zeroni put on his family without even realizing it]].
** Kate getting [[spoiler:her revenge on the town for Sam. She starts by shooting the sheriff and leaving him to rot in the prison with a kiss. Then she rides off and starts robbing travelers left and right. In the film she takes it further by hunting down Sam's would-be murderers and putting a bullet in each of their heads. By the time Trout Walker and his TrophyWife Linda catch up to her, they're forced to admit that it hasn't rained sinceTrout killed Sam, Sam was murdered, meaning they lost their fortune and the town has gone to ruin. While Kate is too dead on the inside to gloat, you can see a hint of satisfaction in her eyes]].
** Three words: *** And immediately after that, [[spoiler:Kate calmly picks up gets bitten by a venomous yellow-spotted lizard (deliberately in the movie) and lets it bite then smirks at Trout and Linda, telling them to start digging, laughing at them as they futilely try to get her to tell them where she buried her treasure before Trout Walker can torture her for information on her treasure. She seals the deal by saying, [[FamousLastWords "Start diggin', Trout"]]]].she fades away]].
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* CryForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Kate Barlow is established as one of the most ruthless bandits in the Wild West. We find out she's a BrokenBird whose true love was lynched for being black and she's basically robbing wealthy passerby for the fun of it. There is also the fact that she spared Stanley Yelnats I, for seemingly no reason. Her death is SuicideByCop in the film where she goads a lizard into biting her fatally, while in the book it seemed to sense she was suicidal and did the job for her. Not to mention that after all that, she was an AccidentalHero for Stanley Yelnats IV and Zero; by sparing Stanley I, Stanley IV was able to figure out what "God's thumb" was and her spiced peaches were in the remains of Sam's boat]].
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* CryForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Kate Barlow is established as one of the most ruthless bandits in the Wild West. We find out she's a BrokenBird whose true love was lynched for being black and she's basically robbing wealthy passerby passersby for the fun of it. There is also the fact that she spared Stanley Yelnats I, for seemingly no reason. Her death is SuicideByCop in the film where she goads a lizard into biting her fatally, while in the book it seemed to sense she was suicidal and did the job for her. Not to mention that after all that, she was an AccidentalHero for Stanley Yelnats IV and Zero; by sparing Stanley I, Stanley IV was able to figure out what "God's thumb" was and her spiced peaches were in the remains of Sam's boat]].
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* InferredHolocaust: [[spoiler:The town dried up with the lake after Sam died. While a good portion of the town deserved it, including Trout Walker, Linda Miller and the sheriff, try not to think about how many innocent children suffered]].
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* InferredHolocaust: [[spoiler:The town dried up with the lake after Sam died. While a good portion of the town deserved it, including Trout Walker, Linda Miller and the sheriff, try not to think about how many innocent children suffered]].suffered (assuming their families didn't just pack up and leave)]].
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* CatharsisFactor: Let's face it, this book as multiple of them, but the best ones have to be when [[spoiler: Zero]] slams [[spoiler: Mr. Pensanski]] in the face with a shovel after [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack one insults too many]]]], [[spoiler: Stanley denying the Warden a chance to see what's in the suitcase (chest in the movie) that she had been looking for years]], but most well known, the fact [[spoiler: Stanley is able to break the curse Madame Zeroni put on his family without realizing it]].
** Three words: [[spoiler: [[FamousLastWords "Start diggin', Trout"]]]].
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** Let's face it, this book as multiple of them, but the best ones have to be when [[spoiler: Zero]] slams [[spoiler: Mr. Pensanski]] in the face with a shovel after [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack one insults too many]]]], [[spoiler: Stanley denying the Warden a chance to see what's in the suitcase (chest in the movie) that she had been looking for years]], but most well known, the fact [[spoiler: Stanley is able to break the curse Madame Zeroni put on his family without realizing it]].
** Kate getting [[spoiler:her revenge on the town for Sam. She starts by shooting the sheriff and leaving him to rot in the prison with a kiss. Then she rides off and starts robbing travelers left and right. In the film she takes it further by hunting down Sam's would-be murderers and putting a bullet in each of their heads. By the time Trout Walker and his TrophyWife catch up to her, they're forced to admit that it hasn't rained since Trout killed Sam, meaning they lost their fortune and the town has gone to ruin. While Kate is too dead on the inside to gloat, you can see a hint of satisfaction in her eyes]].
** Three words:[[spoiler: [[spoiler:Kate calmly picks up a venomous lizard and lets it bite her before Trout Walker can torture her for information on her treasure. She seals the deal by saying, [[FamousLastWords "Start diggin', Trout"]]]].
** Let's face it, this book as multiple of them, but the best ones have to be when [[spoiler: Zero]] slams [[spoiler: Mr. Pensanski]] in the face with a shovel after [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack one insults too many]]]], [[spoiler: Stanley denying the Warden a chance to see what's in the suitcase (chest in the movie) that she had been looking for years]], but most well known, the fact [[spoiler: Stanley is able to break the curse Madame Zeroni put on his family without realizing it]].
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* ItWasHisSled: The fact that the Warden is female is a surprise to both Stanley and the reader, but nowadays, most people know about it going in -- thanks in no small part to Creator/SigourneyWeaver's killer performance in the movie. Most discussions of the story don't even try to hide her gender anymore.
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* CatharsisFactor: Let's face it, this book as multiple of them, but the best ones have to be when [[spoiler: Zero]] slams [[spoiler: Mr. Pensanski]] in the face with a shovel after [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack one insults too many]]]], [[spoiler: Stanley denying the Warden a dance to see what's in the suitcase (chest in the book) that she had been looking for years]], but most well known, the fact [[spoiler: Stanley is able to break the curse Madame Zeroni put on his family without realizing it]].
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* CatharsisFactor: Let's face it, this book as multiple of them, but the best ones have to be when [[spoiler: Zero]] slams [[spoiler: Mr. Pensanski]] in the face with a shovel after [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack one insults too many]]]], [[spoiler: Stanley denying the Warden a dance chance to see what's in the suitcase (chest in the book) movie) that she had been looking for years]], but most well known, the fact [[spoiler: Stanley is able to break the curse Madame Zeroni put on his family without realizing it]].
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** Three words: [[spoiler: FamousLastWords "Start diggin', Trout"]]]].
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