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* LadyDrunk: The last time we see Priest's moll, Miss Dewpoint, she is drinking alone in Priest's apartment, begging Duke to keep her company, monaning that nobody understands her.
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* LadyDrunk: The last time we see Priest's moll, Miss Dewpoint, she is drinking alone in Priest's apartment, begging Duke to keep her company, monaning moaning that nobody understands her.
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* AngryBlackMan: The film opens with a startling closeup of a man's face as he shouts into the camera that "The white man is the devil!", and that all other races come from Black men. He appears to be a street organizer.
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* AngryBlackMan: AngryBlackManStereotype: The film opens with a startling closeup of a man's face as he shouts into the camera that "The white man is the devil!", and that all other races come from Black men. He appears to be a street organizer.
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Duke decides that what he really needs to be a big man is a gun (a "piece"); with a gun everybody will be scared of him and take him seriously. He approaches an older gangster and [[Main/TheMafia Mafia]] associate, Priest (Carl Lee, who co-wrote the script with Clarke), and asks for a gun, but Priest demands $50. Duke spends much of the movie trying to scrounge up the money. In the meantime, gang leader Blood (Charles Williams III) brings in a 14-year-old prostitute, Luanne, to basically be the kept woman of the Royal Pythons. Luanne and Duke fall in love. The other Pythons want Duke to take over as leader of the gang, because Blood has a serious heroin problem.
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Duke decides that what he really needs to be a big man is a gun (a "piece"); with a gun everybody will be scared of him and take him seriously. He approaches an older gangster and [[Main/TheMafia Mafia]] associate, Priest (Carl Lee, who co-wrote the script with Clarke), and asks for a gun, but Priest demands $50. Duke spends much of the movie trying to scrounge up the money. In the meantime, gang leader Blood (Charles Williams III) (Creator/ClarenceWilliamsIII) brings in a 14-year-old prostitute, Luanne, to basically be the kept woman of the Royal Pythons. Luanne and Duke fall in love. The other Pythons want Duke to take over as leader of the gang, because Blood has a serious heroin problem.
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Duke decides that what he really needs to be a big man is a gun (a "piece"); with a gun everybody will be scared of him and take him seriously. He approaches an older gangster and {{Mafia}} associate, Priest (Carl Lee, who co-wrote the script with Clarke), and asks for a gun, but Priest demands $50. Duke spends much of the movie trying to scrounge up the money. In the meantime, gang leader Blood (Charles Williams III) brings in a 14-year-old prostitute, Luanne, to basically be the kept woman of the Royal Pythons. Luanne and Duke fall in love. The other Pythons want Duke to take over as leader of the gang, because Blood has a serious heroin problem.
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Duke decides that what he really needs to be a big man is a gun (a "piece"); with a gun everybody will be scared of him and take him seriously. He approaches an older gangster and {{Mafia}} [[Main/TheMafia Mafia]] associate, Priest (Carl Lee, who co-wrote the script with Clarke), and asks for a gun, but Priest demands $50. Duke spends much of the movie trying to scrounge up the money. In the meantime, gang leader Blood (Charles Williams III) brings in a 14-year-old prostitute, Luanne, to basically be the kept woman of the Royal Pythons. Luanne and Duke fall in love. The other Pythons want Duke to take over as leader of the gang, because Blood has a serious heroin problem.
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Jail Bait is now a disambiguation. Deleting/replacing wicks as appropriate
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* JailBait: DiscussedTrope, as Luanne admits that she's only 14 then asks Duke, "What's the matter, you afraid of some jail bait?".
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* JailBait: JailbaitTaboo: DiscussedTrope, as Luanne admits that she's only 14 then asks Duke, "What's the matter, you afraid of some jail bait?".
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* {{Blaxploitation}}: Sometimes considered the UrExample of the blaxploitation film, although it's hardly a perfect example--there is little drug use except for one addict who indulges offscreen, there is no violence towards the end, and it's a speech-based work rather than an action movie. But it does have gangs in Harlem, so it's kind of a blaxploitation movie.
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* {{Blaxploitation}}: Sometimes considered the UrExample of the blaxploitation film, although it's hardly a perfect example--there is little drug use except for one addict who indulges offscreen, there is no violence towards until the end, there's no nudity, and it's a speech-based work rather than an action movie. But it does have gangs in Harlem, so it's kind of a blaxploitation movie.
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Not to be confused with Ralph Bakshi's animation/live-action hybrid, ''Film/CoolWorld''.
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Creator/AntonioFargas has an uncredited part as a gangbanger. Gloria Forster, who played Duke's mom, appeared in ''Film/TheMatrix'' 36 years later. Music/DizzyGillespie composed the soundtrack album.
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Creator/AntonioFargas has an uncredited part as a gangbanger. Frederick Wiseman, who later became a legendary documentarian, earned his first film credit by producing this movie. Gloria Forster, who played Duke's mom, appeared in ''Film/TheMatrix'' 36 years later. Music/DizzyGillespie composed the soundtrack album.
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* {{Blaxploitation}}: Sometimes considered the UrExample of the blaxploitation film, although it's hardly a perfect example--there is little drug use except for one addict who indulges offscreen, there is no violence towards the end, and it's a speech-based work rather than an action movie. But it does have gangs in Harlem, so it's kind of a blaxploitation movie.
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Duke decides that what he really needs to be a big man is a gun; with a gun everybody will be scared of him and take him seriously. He approaches an older gangster and {{Mafia}} associate, Priest (Carl Lee, who co-wrote the script with Clarke), and asks for a gun, but Priest demands $50. Duke spends much of the movie trying to scrounge up the money. In the meantime, gang leader Blood (Charles Williams III) brings in a 14-year-old prostitute, Luanne, to basically be the kept woman of the Royal Pythons. Luanne and Duke fall in love. The other Pythons want Duke to take over as leader of the gang, because Blood has a serious heroin problem.
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Duke decides that what he really needs to be a big man is a gun; gun (a "piece"); with a gun everybody will be scared of him and take him seriously. He approaches an older gangster and {{Mafia}} associate, Priest (Carl Lee, who co-wrote the script with Clarke), and asks for a gun, but Priest demands $50. Duke spends much of the movie trying to scrounge up the money. In the meantime, gang leader Blood (Charles Williams III) brings in a 14-year-old prostitute, Luanne, to basically be the kept woman of the Royal Pythons. Luanne and Duke fall in love. The other Pythons want Duke to take over as leader of the gang, because Blood has a serious heroin problem.
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* AmusementPark: Luanne lives such a constrained life that she has no idea that New York is on an ocean. So Duke takes her to Coney Island for the beach and a trip to the amusement park. They have what looks like a pretty fun date where they play games and go on rides and he wins her a stuffed animal...then, oddly, she disappears, leaving Duke to call for her before he gives up and goes home. She's never seen again.
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* TheBigRottenApple: Harlem, with crime and gangs and rat-infested apartments.
* CallBack: All the excited chatter from Duke's buddies about how he's going to be "a cold killer" once he gets his piece is played back at the end, as Duke is taken away to jail.
* ComingOfAgeStory: A very grim one, as a young man living in the crime-ridden slums of Harlem makes a deliberate decision to being a gangbanger, and over the course of the film graduates from minor crimes like purse-snatching all the way to murder.
* CallBack: All the excited chatter from Duke's buddies about how he's going to be "a cold killer" once he gets his piece is played back at the end, as Duke is taken away to jail.
* ComingOfAgeStory: A very grim one, as a young man living in the crime-ridden slums of Harlem makes a deliberate decision to being a gangbanger, and over the course of the film graduates from minor crimes like purse-snatching all the way to murder.
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* LadyDrunk: The last time we see Priest's moll, Miss Dewpoint, she is drinking alone in Priest's apartment, begging Duke to keep her company, monaning that nobody understands her.
* MacGuffin: The gun ("piece") that Duke wants so badly and spends so much of the movie trying to get. He never does get one, and carries only a knife into the big fight at the end with the Wolves.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The last shot is the police car taking Duke away, after he is arrested apparently within minutes of killing Angel.
* POVCam: A lot of wildly jittering POVCam from Duke's POV as he flees the scene after murdering Angel.
* MacGuffin: The gun ("piece") that Duke wants so badly and spends so much of the movie trying to get. He never does get one, and carries only a knife into the big fight at the end with the Wolves.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The last shot is the police car taking Duke away, after he is arrested apparently within minutes of killing Angel.
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* ToAbsentFriends: Before the big fight with the Wolves, one of the Royal Pythons pours out some wine in honor of "the boys upstate"--in prison, that is.
* TheUnreveal: Luanne simply disappears from her date on Coney Island with Duke and is never seen again. The other gangbangers suppose that she is "gone" of her own accord but no one ever finds out.
* TheUnreveal: Luanne simply disappears from her date on Coney Island with Duke and is never seen again. The other gangbangers suppose that she is "gone" of her own accord but no one ever finds out.
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''The Cool World'' is a 1963 film directed by Shirley Clarke.
Duke (his real name is Robert, but only his mom calls him that) is a 15-year-old gangbanger in Harlem. With nothing in the way of prospects, and apparently not going to school, Duke only has one thing in life to give him hope: his gang, the Royal Pythons. It seems that gang violence has been on the wane of late thanks to social workers, but Duke and his gang hope to change that. Specifically, they want to fight their rival gang, the Wolves, seemingly not for any concrete objective but just for the sake of fighting.
Duke decides that what he really needs to be a big man is a gun; with a gun everybody will be scared of him and take him seriously. He approaches an older gangster and {{Mafia}} associate, Priest (Carl Lee, who co-wrote the script with Clarke), and asks for a gun, but Priest demands $50. Duke spends much of the movie trying to scrounge up the money. In the meantime, gang leader Blood (Charles Williams III) brings in a 14-year-old prostitute, Luanne, to basically be the kept woman of the Royal Pythons. Luanne and Duke fall in love. The other Pythons want Duke to take over as leader of the gang, because Blood has a serious heroin problem.
Creator/AntonioFargas has an uncredited part as a gangbanger. Gloria Forster, who played Duke's mom, appeared in ''Film/TheMatrix'' 36 years later. Music/DizzyGillespie composed the soundtrack album.
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* AngryBlackMan: The film opens with a startling closeup of a man's face as he shouts into the camera that "The white man is the devil!", and that all other races come from Black men. He appears to be a street organizer.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: It turns out that Blood, a heroin user and gang dealer, has a brother named Douglas who wears a suit and has just gotten back from going down south with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders Freedom Riders]]. Douglas pleads with Blood to turn over a new leaf but Blood, who is not interested in a lecture, accuses his brother of acting white and tells him to get lost.
* {{Gangbangers}}: Possibly the UrExample. Duke is a teenaged gangbanger who wants nothing more than to get a gun so he can be an even more dangerous fighter and really scare the rival Wolves.
* InnerMonologue: Quite a lot of this from Duke throughout the movie, as he fantasizes how awesome it would be to have a gun and wonders how he can scrape up $50 to buy one.
* JailBait: DiscussedTrope, as Luanne admits that she's only 14 then asks Duke, "What's the matter, you afraid of some jail bait?".
* SinisterSwitchblade: Duke, who really really wants to raise $50, flicks out a switchblade and at knifepoint forces another young boy to buy a joint.
* TheStarscream: Duke has ambitions of replacing Blood as leader of the Royal Pythons. He has mixed feelings about it, respecting Blood while also hoping to usurp him. The other gang members support Duke, what with Blood being addicted to heroin.
* WouldHitAGirl: Priest slaps his moll, "Miss Dewpoint", in the face when she mouths off to him.
Duke (his real name is Robert, but only his mom calls him that) is a 15-year-old gangbanger in Harlem. With nothing in the way of prospects, and apparently not going to school, Duke only has one thing in life to give him hope: his gang, the Royal Pythons. It seems that gang violence has been on the wane of late thanks to social workers, but Duke and his gang hope to change that. Specifically, they want to fight their rival gang, the Wolves, seemingly not for any concrete objective but just for the sake of fighting.
Duke decides that what he really needs to be a big man is a gun; with a gun everybody will be scared of him and take him seriously. He approaches an older gangster and {{Mafia}} associate, Priest (Carl Lee, who co-wrote the script with Clarke), and asks for a gun, but Priest demands $50. Duke spends much of the movie trying to scrounge up the money. In the meantime, gang leader Blood (Charles Williams III) brings in a 14-year-old prostitute, Luanne, to basically be the kept woman of the Royal Pythons. Luanne and Duke fall in love. The other Pythons want Duke to take over as leader of the gang, because Blood has a serious heroin problem.
Creator/AntonioFargas has an uncredited part as a gangbanger. Gloria Forster, who played Duke's mom, appeared in ''Film/TheMatrix'' 36 years later. Music/DizzyGillespie composed the soundtrack album.
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* AngryBlackMan: The film opens with a startling closeup of a man's face as he shouts into the camera that "The white man is the devil!", and that all other races come from Black men. He appears to be a street organizer.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: It turns out that Blood, a heroin user and gang dealer, has a brother named Douglas who wears a suit and has just gotten back from going down south with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders Freedom Riders]]. Douglas pleads with Blood to turn over a new leaf but Blood, who is not interested in a lecture, accuses his brother of acting white and tells him to get lost.
* {{Gangbangers}}: Possibly the UrExample. Duke is a teenaged gangbanger who wants nothing more than to get a gun so he can be an even more dangerous fighter and really scare the rival Wolves.
* InnerMonologue: Quite a lot of this from Duke throughout the movie, as he fantasizes how awesome it would be to have a gun and wonders how he can scrape up $50 to buy one.
* JailBait: DiscussedTrope, as Luanne admits that she's only 14 then asks Duke, "What's the matter, you afraid of some jail bait?".
* SinisterSwitchblade: Duke, who really really wants to raise $50, flicks out a switchblade and at knifepoint forces another young boy to buy a joint.
* TheStarscream: Duke has ambitions of replacing Blood as leader of the Royal Pythons. He has mixed feelings about it, respecting Blood while also hoping to usurp him. The other gang members support Duke, what with Blood being addicted to heroin.
* WouldHitAGirl: Priest slaps his moll, "Miss Dewpoint", in the face when she mouths off to him.
