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6 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hard_Luck_3499.jpg]] |
7 | [[caption-width-right:350:Goodbye, cruel world.]] |
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9 | ->''Fired from his job, jilted by his girl, down on his luck...'' |
10 | -->-- '''opening title''' |
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12 | In this 1921 short, a despondent Creator/BusterKeaton decides to end it all, but then he gets a job, meets a girl (Creator/VirginiaFox) and his luck changes -- or does it? {{Hilarity ensues}}. |
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14 | "Hard Luck" can be seen at [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8727552817849141561# Google Video.]] |
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17 | !!"Hard Luck" contains examples of |
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19 | * AlliterativeName: Lizard Lip Luke. |
20 | * AnvilOnHead: Averted. Buster tries to set this up with a safe being hoisted with a rope and pulley, but fails. |
21 | * BeachEpisode: Much of the action is set at a country club with a pool. |
22 | %%* BearsAreBadNews |
23 | * BlackComedy: Did I mention that Buster spends much of the film trying to die? |
24 | * BornUnlucky: Luck just hates Buster in this entire short. |
25 | * BungledSuicide: In a bit of BlackComedy, Buster attempts to kill himself several times, only for it to fail spectacularly. |
26 | %%* ChaseScene |
27 | %%* CunningLikeAFox |
28 | * DiggingToChina: Or in this case, diving to China. |
29 | * DraggedByTheCollar: Literally, and by the seat of his pants. |
30 | * DrinkingOnDuty: A crafty waiter who conceals his whiskey by labeling it as poison. |
31 | * {{Fanservice}}: The country club's pool is an excuse to put several actresses in bathing suits; later, Buster takes a dip and dresses accordingly. |
32 | %%* GloveSlap |
33 | %%* HorribleCampingTrip |
34 | %%* HumanLadder: Actually, human mounting block. |
35 | %%* IHaveYouNowMyPretty |
36 | * ImprovisedWeapon: Fishing rod versus handgun. |
37 | * IncrediblyLamePun: Some time after Buster tries to hang himself from a tree. |
38 | -->'''Safari sponsor:''' "Are you attached to a scientific organization?" |
39 | -->'''Buster:''' "I was attached to a branch of the zoo." |
40 | * InterruptedSuicide: The first fourth of the film is a series of unsuccessful suicide attempts. |
41 | * LargeAndInCharge: Joe Roberts as Lizard Lip Luke. |
42 | %%* LoveAtFirstSight |
43 | %%* LoveTriangle |
44 | %%* TheManTheyCouldntHang |
45 | %%* NobodyHereButUsStatues |
46 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Why Buster hunts for an armadillo. |
47 | %%* OutsideRide |
48 | %%* PaperThinDisguise |
49 | * RailroadTracksOfDoom: Subverted in Buster's suicide attempt involving a trolley. |
50 | * RuleOfFunny: How Buster survives his high dive. |
51 | %%* ShotInTheAss |
52 | %%* {{Slapstick}} |
53 | * SlobsVersusSnobs: Buster wanders into a country club and joins a fox hunt. |
54 | %%* TrainEscape |
55 | %%* UnsuspectinglySoused |
56 | * WalkOnWater: Subverted. Buster tries to mimic a man walking on the surface of a swimming pool -- he turns out to be wearing stilts. |
57 | %%* WantedPoster |
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