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** The speech about the number of hoops a congressman has to jump through or work on to accomplish anything certainly resonates well with viewers after the United States suffered a government shut-down in 2013 simply because Congress was unable to agree on a national budget.
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** The speech about the number of hoops a congressman has to jump through or work on to accomplish anything certainly resonates well with viewers after the United States suffered a government shut-down in 2013 (and a couple more since then) simply because Congress was unable to agree on a national budget.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/MrDeedsGoesToTown'', another Frank Capra movie in which a rube from the sticks gets taken advantage of by urban sophisticates, until he rises to the occasion. Also, both films feature Jean Arthur as the cynical girl who exploits the hero before falling for him. This wasn't a coincidence--the original idea was for this to be a sequel to ''Mr. Deeds Goes To Town''. After the filmmakers couldn't get Creator/GaryCooper, they revised the story and changed the main character's name.
* ValuesDissonance: The movie romanticizes the filibuster as a way for Smith to ultimately defeat the Taylor machine. In reality, the filibuster (or the threat of one) has most often been used for things like delaying the passage of civil rights legislation, preventing the passage of meaningful gun reform, and preventing the passage of a minimum wage law, among other things.
* ValuesDissonance: The movie romanticizes the filibuster as a way for Smith to ultimately defeat the Taylor machine. In reality, the filibuster (or the threat of one) has most often been used for things like delaying the passage of civil rights legislation, preventing the passage of meaningful gun reform, and preventing the passage of a minimum wage law, among other things.
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* JerkassWoobie: Senator Paine is an unquestionably corrupt tool of the political machine, but is shown to regret what Taylor pushes him to do to Jefferson Smith. As the film goes on, the guilt is visibly eating away at him culminating in his attempted suicide after Smith collapses.
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* AwardSnub: A lot of people think that Creator/JimmyStewart should have won the Academy Award for his performance as Jeff Smith. Even the Academy seemed to feel guilty for not giving Stewart the award, because they gave him Best Actor the very next year for his performance in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', which most people agree wasn't as good. On a side note, quite a few people wanted Creator/ClaudeRains to win Best Supporting Actor. And Creator/JeanArthur, perhaps owing to her frosty relationship with the studio and the press, wasn't even nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Senator Paine has gathered a fanbase for being an accurate portrayal of how corrupt politicians can be seen as, and being a sympathetic anti-villain who lost his initial zest and is now a jaded shell of his former heroic self, giving him some depth and saving him from being a standard one-dimensional villain. Plus Rains put in an amazing performance to this character.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Senator Paine has gathered a fanbase for being an accurate portrayal of how corrupt politicians can be seen as, and being a sympathetic anti-villain who lost his initial zest and is now a jaded shell of his former heroic self, giving him some depth and saving him from being a standard one-dimensional villain. Plus Rains put in an amazing performance to this character.
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* AwardSnub: A lot of people think that Creator/JimmyStewart should have won the Academy Award UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for his performance as Jeff Smith. Even the Academy seemed to feel guilty for not giving Stewart the award, because they gave him Best Actor the very next year for his performance in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', which most people agree wasn't as good. On a side note, quite a few people wanted Creator/ClaudeRains to win Best Supporting Actor. And Creator/JeanArthur, perhaps owing to her frosty relationship with the studio and the press, wasn't even nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
Actress. It did win for Best Writing, Original Story.
*EnsembleDarkhorse: EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Senator Paine has gathered a fanbase for being an accurate portrayal of how corrupt politicians can be seen as, and being a sympathetic anti-villain who lost his initial zest and is now a jaded shell of his former heroic self, giving him some depth and saving him from being a standard one-dimensional villain. Plus Rains put in an amazing performance to this character.
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** Senator Paine has gathered a fanbase for being an accurate portrayal of how corrupt politicians can be seen as, and being a sympathetic anti-villain who lost his initial zest and is now a jaded shell of his former heroic self, giving him some depth and saving him from being a standard one-dimensional villain. Plus Rains put in an amazing performance to this character.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Sure, it's {{anvilicious}}, but it's a pretty darn good anvil: It's worth it to fight for truth and justice against political corruption, even when it looks like a lost cause.
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** The political majority running a hugely biased media crusade against the opposition? Sounds familiar...
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* MemeticMutation:Jefferson Smith turning towards the Lincoln Memorial and looking at the Gettysburg Address nearby.
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* MemeticMutation:Jefferson EvilIsCool: Well... "evil" is kind of a stretch, but Senator Paine is definitely on the antagonistic side. Claude Rains does a rather memorable performance with his character, and he's shown to have a shade of remorse and caring side underneath his corrupt behavior as shown towards the ending and various points in the film.
* MemeticMutation: Jefferson Smith turning towards the Lincoln Memorial and looking at the Gettysburg Address nearby.
* MemeticMutation: Jefferson Smith turning towards the Lincoln Memorial and looking at the Gettysburg Address nearby.
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* MemeticMutation:Jefferson Smith turning towards the Lincoln Memorial and looking at the Gettysburg Address nearby.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Senator Paine has gathered a fanbase for being an accurate portrayal of how corrupt politicians can be seen as, and showing sympathy and remorse for betraying his biggest fan, plus Rains put in an amazing performance to this character.
** The President of the Senate barely gets any screen time and a minor role in the story, but Harry Carey's performance really made it count, plus he gave Smith some confidence right when things seemed hopeless.
** The President of the Senate barely gets any screen time and a minor role in the story, but Harry Carey's performance really made it count, plus he gave Smith some confidence right when things seemed hopeless.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Senator Paine has gathered a fanbase for being an accurate portrayal of how corrupt politicians can be seen as, and showing sympathy being a sympathetic anti-villain who lost his initial zest and remorse for betraying is now a jaded shell of his biggest fan, plus former heroic self, giving him some depth and saving him from being a standard one-dimensional villain. Plus Rains put in an amazing performance to this character.
** The President of the Senate barely gets any screen time and a minor role in the story, but Harry Carey's performance really made it count, plus he gave Smith some confidence right when things seemedhopeless.hopeless, and is a funny comic relief character.
** The President of the Senate barely gets any screen time and a minor role in the story, but Harry Carey's performance really made it count, plus he gave Smith some confidence right when things seemed
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* TearJerker: The finale.
** Smith breaking down at the Lincoln Memorial after being publicly accused of corruption by the man he admired as a child.
** Smith breaking down at the Lincoln Memorial after being publicly accused of corruption by the man he admired as a child.
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*EnsembleDarkhorse: Senator Paine has gathered a fanbase for being an accurate portrayal of how corrupt politicians can be seen as, and showing sympathy and remorse for betraying his biggest fan, plus Rains put in an amazing performance to this character.
** The President of the Senate barely gets any screen time and a minor role in the story, but Harry Carey's performance really made it count, plus he gave Smith some confidence right when things seemed hopeless.
** The President of the Senate barely gets any screen time and a minor role in the story, but Harry Carey's performance really made it count, plus he gave Smith some confidence right when things seemed hopeless.
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** The political majority running a hugely biased media crusade against the opposition? Sounds familiar...
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* AwardSnub: A lot of people think that Creator/JimmyStewart should have won the Academy Award for his performance as Jeff Smith. Even the Academy seemed to feel guilty for not giving Stewart the award, because they gave him Best Actor the very next year for his performance in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', which most people agree wasn't as good. On a side note, quite a few people wanted Creator/ClaudeRains to win Best Supporting Actor.
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* AwardSnub: A lot of people think that Creator/JimmyStewart should have won the Academy Award for his performance as Jeff Smith. Even the Academy seemed to feel guilty for not giving Stewart the award, because they gave him Best Actor the very next year for his performance in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', which most people agree wasn't as good. On a side note, quite a few people wanted Creator/ClaudeRains to win Best Supporting Actor. And Creator/JeanArthur, perhaps owing to her frosty relationship with the studio and the press, wasn't even nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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* AwardSnub: A lot of people think that Creator/JimmyStewart should have won the Academy Award for his performance as Jeff Smith. Even the Academy seemed to feel guilty for not giving Stewart the award, because they gave him Best Actor the very next year for his performance in Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory, ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', which most people agree wasn't as good. On a side note, quite a few people wanted Creator/ClaudeRains to win Best Supporting Actor.
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* TheWoobie: Jefferson Smith. He just wants Truth, Justice and the American Way! But Washington just isn't run that way anymore.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Look, Claude Rains was fantastic in this movie (and he was basically unrecognizable under the hair and makeup), but really, did he even try to sound American?
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Look, Claude Rains was fantastic in this movie (and he was basically unrecognizable under TheWoobie: Jefferson Smith. He just wants Truth, Justice and the hair and makeup), but really, did he even try to sound American? American Way! But Washington just isn't run that way anymore.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Look, Claude Rains was fantastic in this movie (and he was basically unrecognizable under the hair and makeup), but really, did he even try to sound American?
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** Smith breaking down at the Lincoln Memorial after being publicly accused of corruption by the man he admired as a child.
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** The speech about the number of hoops a congressman has to jump through or work on to accomplish anything certainly resonates well with viewers after the United States suffered a government shut-down in 2013 simply because Congress was unable to agree on a national budget.
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Not a YMMV trope.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[DeletedScene The original script]] ended with a sequence back in Smith's home state where [[spoiler: the Taylor machine gets busted, there's a parade in honor of Smith, Smith and Paine reconcile, and Smith introduces Saunders to his mother and his collection of pets.]] Test audiences found it anticlimactic, so it was cut.
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* ValuesResonance: A tale of corruption in the highest body of law is more relevant in the post-Watergate era than it was in the 1930s.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[DeletedScene The original script]] ended with a sequence back in Smith's home state where [[spoiler: the Taylor machine gets busted, there's a parade in honor of Smith, Smith and Paine reconcile, and Smith introduces Saunders to his mother and his collection of pets.]] Test audiences found it anticlimactic, so it was cut.
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* TheWoobie - Jefferson Smith. He just wants Truth, Justice and the American Way! But Washington just isn't run that way anymore.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Sure, it's {{anvilicious}}, but it's a pretty darn good anvil: It's worth it to fight for truth and justice against political corruption, even when it looks like a lost cause.
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YMMV doesn\'t go on YMMV, doubly so if there is a fridge page already
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* FridgeLogic: Taylor's master plan was to make Jeff Smith the legal owner of the land which he wishes to dam. How does Taylor profit from this?
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* HarsherInHindsight: Two guesses who's running the US government today...
** Who, the corrupt billionaires, or the naive freshman politicians who believe that compromise is a weakness of character? Oh wait...
** Who, the corrupt billionaires, or the naive freshman politicians who believe that compromise is a weakness of character? Oh wait...
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