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* QuestionableCasting: It's a testament to Creator/GaryOldman's strength as an actor that he can be cast as a scuzzy, brutish, dreadlocked pimp [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy who seemingly thinks he's black]], and ''totally'' make it work.
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* WTHCastingAgency: It's a testament to Creator/GaryOldman's strength as an actor that he can be cast as a scuzzy, brutish, dreadlocked pimp [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy who seemingly thinks he's black]], and ''totally'' make it work.
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** Creator/GaryOldman killing Creator/SamuelLJackson. Twenty-four years later, Samuel L. Jackson would later return the favor in ''Film/TheHitmansBodyguard''.
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* Brokenbase: in the director's cut Alabama shoots Detective Nicky Dimes after he executes Boris. However test audiences disliked it as they had sympathy for Dimes and lost it for Alabama as a result so in the theatrical cut it was re-edited so one of the mafioso shoots him. Fans still disagree which version is better.
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* Brokenbase: BrokenBase: in the director's cut Alabama shoots Detective Nicky Dimes after he executes Boris. However test audiences disliked it as they had sympathy for Dimes and lost it for Alabama as a result so in the theatrical cut it was re-edited so one of the mafioso shoots him. Fans still disagree which version is better.
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* Brokenbase: in the director's cut Alabama shoots Detective Nicky Dimes after he executes Boris. However test audiences disliked it as they had sympathy for Dimes and lost it for Alabama as a result so in the theatrical cut it was re-edited so one of the mafioso shoots him. Fans still disagree which version is better.
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* WTHCastingAgency: It's a testament to Creator/GaryOldman's strength as an actor that he can be cast as a scuzzy, brutish, dreadlocked pimp [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy who seemingly thinks he's black]], and ''totally'' make it work.
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* Clarence expresses his distaste for [[OscarBait awards films]] and lists his preferred films, naming ''Film/MadMax'' among them. Twenty-two years later, a [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Mad Max film]] would get ten Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture, and walk away with six wins.
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Nice Hat is now a disambiguation page.
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** Creator/SamuelLJackson's brief appearance as the drug dealer Big Don with a NiceHat, CoolShades, and a fondness for performing oral sex on women.
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** Creator/SamuelLJackson's brief appearance as the drug dealer Big Don with a NiceHat, nice hat, CoolShades, and a fondness for performing oral sex on women.
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* Clarence expresses his distaste for [[OscarBait awards films]] and lists his preferred films, naming ''Film/MadMax'' among them. Twenty-two years later, a [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Mad Max film]] would get ten Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture, and walk away with six wins.
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* SignatureScene: Creator/DennisHopper vs Creator/ChristopherWalken and their "Sicilians are niggers" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM scene]].
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* SignatureScene: Creator/DennisHopper vs Creator/ChristopherWalken and their "Sicilians are niggers" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM com/watch?v=Jsh4SvPdfl8 scene]].
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** Clarence watches ''Film/ABetterTomorrow II'' on television. Creator/ChristianSlater would later work with Creator/JohnWoo on ''Film/BrokenArrow'' and ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}''.
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** Clarence watches ''Film/ABetterTomorrow II'' on television. Creator/ChristianSlater would later work with Creator/JohnWoo on ''Film/BrokenArrow'' ''Film/BrokenArrow1996'' and ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}''.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "You're So Cool", which has since become RecycledTrailerMusic.
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* Floyd, Dick's stoner roommate played by Brad Pitt, steals the film whenever he's on screen due to Pitt's hilarious performance.
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* Floyd, Dick's stoner roommate played by Brad Pitt, steals the film whenever he's on screen due to Pitt's hilarious performance.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Clarence’s father is dead, a bunch of innocent policemen died, and Clarence and Alabama got away with a lot of stolen money.]]
* HilariousInHindsight: During the scene on the roller coaster, Clarence used the phrase ''Riddle me this, Batman'' while speaking to Elliot. Creator/ValKilmer later starred in ''Film/BatmanForever'', where Batman faced off against the Riddler.
* HilariousInHindsight: During the scene on the roller coaster, Clarence used the phrase ''Riddle me this, Batman'' while speaking to Elliot. Creator/ValKilmer later starred in ''Film/BatmanForever'', where Batman faced off against the Riddler.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Clarence’s [[spoiler:Clarence's father is dead, a bunch of innocent policemen died, and Clarence and Alabama got away with a lot of stolen money.]]
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** Clarence watches ''Film/ABetterTomorrow II'' on television. Creator/ChristianSlater would later work with Creator/JohnWoo on ''Film/BrokenArrow'' and ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}''.
** During the scene on the roller coaster, Clarence used the phrase ''Riddle me this, Batman'' while speaking to Elliot. Creator/ValKilmer later starred in ''Film/BatmanForever'', where Batman faced off against the Riddler.
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** Clarence watches ''Film/ABetterTomorrow II'' on television. Creator/ChristianSlater would later work with Creator/JohnWoo on ''Film/BrokenArrow'' and ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}''.
** During the scene on the roller coaster, Clarence used the phrase ''Riddle me this, Batman'' while speaking to Elliot. Creator/ValKilmer later starred in ''Film/BatmanForever'', where Batman faced off against the Riddler.
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* TearJerker: Alabama, the nicest character and a complete sweetheart [[spoiler:receiving an absolutely ''brutal'' beat down given by Virgil]] is arguably the hardest scene to watch in the whole movie, [[spoilers:which makes it all the more [[CatharsisFactor satisfying]] when she fights back against the hulking hitman and, through sheer determination and pragmatism, she ''wins'']].
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* TearJerker: Alabama, the nicest character and a complete sweetheart [[spoiler:receiving an absolutely ''brutal'' beat down given by Virgil]] is arguably the hardest scene to watch in the whole movie, [[spoilers:which [[spoiler:which makes it all the more [[CatharsisFactor satisfying]] when she fights back against the hulking hitman and, through sheer determination and pragmatism, she ''wins'']].
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* TearJerker: Alabama, the nicest character and a complete sweetheart [[spoiler: receiving an absolutely ''brutal'' beat down given by Virgil]] is arguably the hardest scene to watch in the whole movie.
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* TearJerker: Alabama, the nicest character and a complete sweetheart [[spoiler: receiving [[spoiler:receiving an absolutely ''brutal'' beat down given by Virgil]] is arguably the hardest scene to watch in the whole movie.movie, [[spoilers:which makes it all the more [[CatharsisFactor satisfying]] when she fights back against the hulking hitman and, through sheer determination and pragmatism, she ''wins'']].
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* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Drexl Spivey only appears in a few scenes at the beginning of the film, but he's one of the most memorable parts of the film thanks to being extremely bombastic and hammy, and being played to loathsome perfection by Creator/GaryOldman.
** Clarence’s father Clifford and Vincenzo Coccotti, thanks to their shared scene being one of the film’s highlights and being played by Creator/DennisHopper and Creator/ChristopherWalken, respectively.
** Drexl Spivey only appears in a few scenes at the beginning of the film, but he's one of the most memorable parts of the film thanks to being extremely bombastic and hammy, and being played to loathsome perfection by Creator/GaryOldman.
** Clarence’s father Clifford and Vincenzo Coccotti, thanks to their shared scene being one of the film’s highlights and being played by Creator/DennisHopper and Creator/ChristopherWalken, respectively.
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* HilariousInHindsight: During the scene on the roller coaster, Clarence used the phrase ''Riddle me this, Batman'' while speaking to Elliot. Creator/ValKilmer later starred in ''Film/BatmanForever'', where Batman faced off against the Riddler.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Alabama's original fate, as hinted in ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', remains canon while the events within the films ''happy ending'' was a fantasy that Alabama written in her journal as a means to give her and Clarence some form of closure.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Alabama's original fate, as hinted in ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', remains canon while the events within the films film's ''happy ending'' was a fantasy that Alabama written in her journal as a means to give her and Clarence some form of closure.
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* TearJerker: Alabama, the nicest character and a complete sweetheart [[spoiler: receiving an absolutely ''brutal'' beat down given by Virgil]] is arguably the hardest scene to watch in the whole movie.
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* TearJerker: Alabama, the nicest character and a complete sweetheart [[spoiler: receiving an absolutely ''brutal'' beat down given by Virgil]] is arguably the hardest scene to watch in the whole movie.movie.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Aside from [[Film/BatmanReturns Max Schreck]] playing a mafia don, [[Film/BatmanForever Batman]] is Elvis and [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Commissioner Gordon]] is Drexl. There's also Coccotti talking of angels and the AntiChrist. Two years later, [[Film/TheProphecy he'd be one of those angels.]]
** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/EightMM the same thing would happen again]].
** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/EightMM the same thing would happen again]].
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* SensoryAbuse: Alabama's raging scream that ensues at the end of the bathroom fight, complete with beating [[spoiler: Virgil's]] body with a shotgun.
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** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/8MM that [[Film/EightMM the same thing would happen again]].
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** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/{8MM} that would happen again]].
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** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/{8MM} [[Film/8MM that would happen again]].
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** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/{8MM} that would happen again...]]
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** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/{8MM} that would happen again...]]again]].
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** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[{8MM} that would happen again...]]
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** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[{8MM} [[Film/{8MM} that would happen again...]]
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** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/8MM that would happen again...]]
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** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/8MM [[{8MM} that would happen again...]]