Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,4 (click to see context) from:
A 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as maverick 1940s automaker Preston Tucker, with a supporting cast including Creator/JoanAllen, Creator/MartinLandau, Creator/EliasKoteas, Creator/ChristianSlater, and Frederic Forrest.
to:
A 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as maverick 1940s automaker Preston Tucker, with a supporting cast including Creator/JoanAllen, Creator/MartinLandau, Creator/EliasKoteas, Creator/ChristianSlater, and Frederic Forrest.
Creator/FredericForrest.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 35 (click to see context) from:
* {{Leitmotif}}: Preston Tucker [[InUniverse considers]] "The Tiger Rag" to be this for him, considering that he [[RunningGag constantly sings]] "Hold That Tiger! Hold That Tiger!" [[CatchPhrase throughout the film]].
to:
* {{Leitmotif}}: Preston Tucker [[InUniverse considers]] "The Tiger Rag" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYPwxJQZTNo "Hold That Tiger" by the Mills Brothers]] to be this for him, considering that he [[RunningGag constantly sings]] "Hold That Tiger! Hold That Tiger!" [[CatchPhrase throughout the film]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Relocating trivia
Deleted line(s) 19 (click to see context) :
* CaliforniaDoubling: San Francisco’s City Hall fills in as the exterior of the courtroom where the climactic trial takes place. The courtyard with black and gold gates is Memorial Court on Franklin Street.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Add California Doubling trope
Added DiffLines:
* CaliforniaDoubling: San Francisco’s City Hall fills in as the exterior of the courtroom where the climactic trial takes place. The courtyard with black and gold gates is Memorial Court on Franklin Street.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,4 (click to see context) from:
A 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as maverick 1940s automaker Preston Tucker, with a supporting cast including Creator/JoanAllen, Creator/MartinLandau, Creator/EliasKoteas, Creator/ChristianSlater and Frederic Forrest.
to:
A 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as maverick 1940s automaker Preston Tucker, with a supporting cast including Creator/JoanAllen, Creator/MartinLandau, Creator/EliasKoteas, Creator/ChristianSlater Creator/ChristianSlater, and Frederic Forrest.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,4 (click to see context) from:
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_346.jpeg]]
A 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as maverick 1940s automaker Preston Tucker.
A 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as maverick 1940s automaker Preston Tucker.
to:
A 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as maverick 1940s automaker Preston
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 30 (click to see context) from:
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tucker, his family, Alex Tremoulis and many other figures are actual people. In addition there is a cameo by Creator/HowardHughes (played by Dean Stockwell).
to:
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tucker, his family, Alex Tremoulis and many other figures are actual people. In addition there is a cameo by Creator/HowardHughes (played by Dean Stockwell).Creator/DeanStockwell).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Darkness Induced Audience Apathy was renamed.
Changed line(s) 27 (click to see context) from:
* GenreThrowback: To 50s advertising and industrial films, as well Creator/FrankCapra's movies. Ironically, Capra -- who Coppola and Lucas had approached to be involved in the film, since they considered it an {{Homage}} -- rejected the film because he saw Tucker as a "loser," didn't see him as "little guy against the system" and that it would invoke DarknessInducedAudienceApathy[[invoked]].
to:
* GenreThrowback: To 50s advertising and industrial films, as well Creator/FrankCapra's movies. Ironically, Capra -- who Coppola and Lucas had approached to be involved in the film, since they considered it an {{Homage}} -- rejected the film because he saw Tucker as a "loser," didn't see him as "little guy against the system" and that it would invoke DarknessInducedAudienceApathy[[invoked]].TooBleakStoppedCaring[[invoked]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Frank Capra
Changed line(s) 34 (click to see context) from:
* InTheStyleOf: Creator/FranzCapra films and old-school "propaganda" films. The movie even opens with a "presented to you by the Tucker Corporation" card. Some critics didn't liked how Tucker was painted like some kind of larger-than-life MessianicArchetype, although they admitted that it would make sense with the format.
to:
* InTheStyleOf: Creator/FranzCapra Creator/FrankCapra films and old-school "propaganda" films. The movie even opens with a "presented to you by the Tucker Corporation" card. Some critics didn't liked how Tucker was painted like some kind of larger-than-life MessianicArchetype, although they admitted that it would make sense with the format.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* InTheStyleOf: Creator/FranzCapra films and old-school "propaganda" films. The movie even opens with a "presented to you by the Tucker Corporation" card. Some critics didn't liked how Tucker was painted like some kind of larger-than-life MessianicArchetype, although they admitted that it would make sense with the format.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The president of the Tucker Company only cares about getting the Torpedo made fast and sold without any of the additions that Tucker had promised and many clients had already paid for, or following the design as Tucker made it, deeming it too idiosyncratic.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 36,38 (click to see context) from:
* MisplacedRetribution: The SEC was embittered over Kaiser-Frazer receiving millions in grants and squandering almost all of it, so they punished all startup businesses by putting them under intense scrutinization, even Tucker, who didn't take ''any'' government money.\\
\\
His biggest innovation, selling accessories for the car before it entered production (which guaranteed them a spot on the waiting list) and selling cars to dealerships before it was produced (for $7,500 to $30,000 each, in a total of 2,000 dealerships), is probably what drew the SEC's attention. It is also probably why the War Assets Administration, who leased him the Chicago Dodge Plant [[note]] Which built the massive Wright R-3350 Cyclone engine for the B-29 Superfortress[[/note]], denied his bids for two steel mills to supply the steel needed for the cars.
\\
His biggest innovation, selling accessories for the car before it entered production (which guaranteed them a spot on the waiting list) and selling cars to dealerships before it was produced (for $7,500 to $30,000 each, in a total of 2,000 dealerships), is probably what drew the SEC's attention. It is also probably why the War Assets Administration, who leased him the Chicago Dodge Plant [[note]] Which built the massive Wright R-3350 Cyclone engine for the B-29 Superfortress[[/note]], denied his bids for two steel mills to supply the steel needed for the cars.
to:
* MisplacedRetribution: The SEC was embittered over Kaiser-Frazer receiving millions in grants and squandering almost all of it, so they punished all startup businesses by putting them under intense scrutinization, even Tucker, who didn't take ''any'' government money.\\
\\
His biggest innovation, selling accessories for the car before it entered production (which guaranteed them a spot on the waiting list) and selling cars to dealerships before it was produced (for $7,500 to $30,000 each, in a total of 2,000 dealerships), is probably what drew the SEC's attention. It is also probably why the War Assets Administration, who leased him the Chicago Dodge Plant [[note]] Which built the massive Wright R-3350 Cyclone engine for the B-29 Superfortress[[/note]], denied his bids for two steel mills to supply the steel needed for the cars.cars.
* TheMountainsOfIllinois: Scenes set in Michigan prominently feature typical California brown hills in the background.
\\
* TheMountainsOfIllinois: Scenes set in Michigan prominently feature typical California brown hills in the background.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 19 (click to see context) from:
* ConfucianConfusion: "Big ships fine," Confucius say. "Rowboats long in tooth, make big noise, go nowhere."
to:
* ConfucianConfusion: Tucker tries to shake off the legal eagles with a quote about shipbuilding he attributes to Confucius.
-->'''Preston Tucker''': "Big ships fine," Confucius say. "Rowboats long in tooth, make big noise, go nowhere."
-->'''Preston Tucker''': "Big ships fine," Confucius say. "Rowboats long in tooth, make big noise, go nowhere."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* {{Leitmotif}}: Preston Tucker [[InUniverse considers]] "The Tiger Rag" to be this for him, considering that he [[RunningGag constantly sings]] "Hold That Tiger! Hold That Tiger!" [[CatchPhrase throughout the film]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ConfucianConfusion: "Big ships fine," Confucius say. "Rowboats long in tooth, make big noise, go nowhere."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 20 (click to see context) from:
* DoomedMoralVictor: Tucker won his case and vindicated himself yet his business failed and his product never became a success. Despite this, all his innovations were adopted in later decades and vitally changed the automobile business.
to:
* DoomedMoralVictor: Tucker won his case and vindicated himself yet his business failed and his product never became a success. Despite this, all his innovations were [[VindicatedByHistory adopted in later decades and vitally changed the automobile business.business]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 24 (click to see context) from:
* GenreThrowback: To 50s advertising and industrial films, as well Creator/FrankCapra's movies. Ironically, Capra -- who Coppola and Lucas had approached to be involved in the film, since they considered it an {{Homage}} -- rejected the film because he saw Tucker as a "loser" and didn't see him as "little guy against the system".
to:
* GenreThrowback: To 50s advertising and industrial films, as well Creator/FrankCapra's movies. Ironically, Capra -- who Coppola and Lucas had approached to be involved in the film, since they considered it an {{Homage}} -- rejected the film because he saw Tucker as a "loser" and "loser," didn't see him as "little guy against the system".system" and that it would invoke DarknessInducedAudienceApathy[[invoked]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7,8 (click to see context) from:
Though well received by critics, it was a notorious box office bomb.
to:
[[AcclaimedFlop Though well received by critics, it was a notorious box office bomb.
bomb]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22,24 (click to see context) from:
** The senate hearing and presentation by Tucker where he shows grisly images of car accidents and the unsafety of many automobiles was obviously a reference to the crisis in Big Auto in the late 60s and early 70s around the time of Ralph Nader's ''Unsafe at Any Speed''. Tucker proposes that [[CassandraTruth his cars have measures that will improve passenger safety]] and convenience. It would be much later when the other cars followed suit.
** Tucker's final speech at the Court has him noting that the ability of large corporations to crush independent inventors and entrepreneurs will hold back American ingenuity and knowhow and that eventually Japan and Germany will surpass them in consumer electronics and cars. By the time Coppola made this film in the 80s, this became increasingly true, and its especially prescient in the 21st Century.
* GenreThrowback: To 50s advertising and industrial films, as well Creator/FrankCapra's movies. Ironically, Capra who Coppola and Lucas had approached to be involved in the film, since they considered it a {{Homage}} rejected the film because he saw Tucker as a [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint "loser" and didn't see him as "little guy against the system"]].
** Tucker's final speech at the Court has him noting that the ability of large corporations to crush independent inventors and entrepreneurs will hold back American ingenuity and knowhow and that eventually Japan and Germany will surpass them in consumer electronics and cars. By the time Coppola made this film in the 80s, this became increasingly true, and its especially prescient in the 21st Century.
* GenreThrowback: To 50s advertising and industrial films, as well Creator/FrankCapra's movies. Ironically, Capra who Coppola and Lucas had approached to be involved in the film, since they considered it a {{Homage}} rejected the film because he saw Tucker as a [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint "loser" and didn't see him as "little guy against the system"]].
to:
** The senate hearing and presentation by Tucker where he shows grisly images of car accidents and the unsafety of many automobiles was obviously a reference to the crisis in Big Auto in the late 60s and early 70s around the time of Ralph Nader's ''Unsafe at Any Speed''. Tucker proposes that [[CassandraTruth his cars have measures that will improve passenger safety]] safety and convenience. It would be much later when the other cars followed suit.
** Tucker's final speech at the Court has him noting that the ability of large corporations to crush independent inventors and entrepreneurs will hold back American ingenuity and knowhow and that eventually Japan and Germany will surpass them in consumer electronics and cars. By the time Coppola made this film in the 80s, this became increasingly true, andits it's especially prescient in the 21st Century.
* GenreThrowback: To 50s advertising and industrial films, as well Creator/FrankCapra's movies. Ironically, Capra -- who Coppola and Lucas had approached to be involved in the film, since they considered ita an {{Homage}} -- rejected the film because he saw Tucker as a [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint "loser" and didn't see him as "little guy against the system"]].system".
** Tucker's final speech at the Court has him noting that the ability of large corporations to crush independent inventors and entrepreneurs will hold back American ingenuity and knowhow and that eventually Japan and Germany will surpass them in consumer electronics and cars. By the time Coppola made this film in the 80s, this became increasingly true, and
* GenreThrowback: To 50s advertising and industrial films, as well Creator/FrankCapra's movies. Ironically, Capra -- who Coppola and Lucas had approached to be involved in the film, since they considered it
Changed line(s) 28,29 (click to see context) from:
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In Anahid Nazarian's own words, "[T]the president of the Tucker Company was a good guy really, but we needed a villain, so we made him a villain."
** The Big Three are hinted as being threatened by Tucker, when in actuality they couldn't care less about a startup independant car company. They decided to reduce competition by cutting prices in 1953, which ultimately put Studebaker-Packard and Kaiser-Jeep out of business. In reality, Tucker was targeted by an overzealous SEC (see MisplacedRetribution below) rather than rival auto companies.
** The Big Three are hinted as being threatened by Tucker, when in actuality they couldn't care less about a startup independant car company. They decided to reduce competition by cutting prices in 1953, which ultimately put Studebaker-Packard and Kaiser-Jeep out of business. In reality, Tucker was targeted by an overzealous SEC (see MisplacedRetribution below) rather than rival auto companies.
to:
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** In Anahid Nazarian's own words, "[T]the president of the Tucker Company was a good guy really, but we needed a villain, so we made him a villain."
** The Big Three are hinted as being threatened by Tucker, when in actuality they couldn't care less about a startup independant car company. They decided to reduce competition by cutting prices in 1953, which ultimately put Studebaker-Packard and Kaiser-Jeep out of business. In reality, Tucker was targeted by an overzealous SEC investigation (see MisplacedRetribution below) rather than rival auto companies.
** In Anahid Nazarian's own words, "[T]the president of the Tucker Company was a good guy really, but we needed a villain, so we made him a villain."
** The Big Three are hinted as being threatened by Tucker, when in actuality they couldn't care less about a startup independant car company. They decided to reduce competition by cutting prices in 1953, which ultimately put Studebaker-Packard and Kaiser-Jeep out of business. In reality, Tucker was targeted by an overzealous SEC investigation (see MisplacedRetribution below) rather than rival auto companies.
Changed line(s) 34,35 (click to see context) from:
His biggest innovation, selling accessories for the car before it entered production (which guarenteed them a spot on the waiting list) and selling cars to dealerships before it was produced (for $7,500 to $30,000 each, in a total of 2,000 dealerships), is probably what drew the SEC's attention. It is also probably why the War Assets Administration, who leased him the Chicago Dodge Plant [[note]] Which built the massive Wright R-3350 Cyclone engine for the B-29 Superfortress[[/note]], denied his bids for two steel mills to supply the steel needed for the cars.
* ShownTheirWork: Creator/JeffBridges was allowed by the Tucker family to wear Preston Tucker's rings, and were very involved in the making.
* ShownTheirWork: Creator/JeffBridges was allowed by the Tucker family to wear Preston Tucker's rings, and were very involved in the making.
to:
His biggest innovation, selling accessories for the car before it entered production (which guarenteed guaranteed them a spot on the waiting list) and selling cars to dealerships before it was produced (for $7,500 to $30,000 each, in a total of 2,000 dealerships), is probably what drew the SEC's attention. It is also probably why the War Assets Administration, who leased him the Chicago Dodge Plant [[note]] Which built the massive Wright R-3350 Cyclone engine for the B-29 Superfortress[[/note]], denied his bids for two steel mills to supply the steel needed for the cars.
*ShownTheirWork: ShownTheirWork:
** Creator/JeffBridges was allowed by the Tucker family to wear Preston Tucker's rings, and were very involved in the making.
*
** Creator/JeffBridges was allowed by the Tucker family to wear Preston Tucker's rings, and were very involved in the making.
Changed line(s) 39 (click to see context) from:
** An article on the film's authenticity was written by the [[http://www.tuckerclub.org/html/movieinfo.html Official Tucker Club of America]].
to:
** An article on the film's authenticity was written by the [[http://www.tuckerclub.org/html/movieinfo.html Official Tucker Club of America]].America]].
----
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,4 (click to see context) from:
''Tucker: The Man and His Dream'' is a 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as maverick 1940s automaker Preston Tucker.
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,5 (click to see context) from:
[[quoteright:214:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tucker_The_Man_and_His_Dream_7123.jpg]]
''Tucker: The Man and His Dream'' is a 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as 1940s automaker Preston Tucker.
''Tucker: The Man and His Dream'' is a 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as 1940s automaker Preston Tucker.
to:
''Tucker: The Man and His Dream'' is a 1988 [[BioPic Biopic]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and starring Creator/JeffBridges as maverick 1940s automaker Preston Tucker.
Added DiffLines:
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: At one point Tucker walks past two large paintings of Nikola Tesla and Robert Goddard, two American geniuses and pioneers whose inventions didn't get attention from the mainstream. Another scene has Tucker and Abe discussing their project before a giant painting commemorating the New Deal's WPA projects, symbolizing a time when America was committed to homegrown infrastructure and innovation.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 11 (click to see context) :
* ArtisticLicenseHistory
Added DiffLines:
** Howard Hughes knows game when he sees one, and invites Tucker in the middle of the night to an abandoned airstrip where his Spruce Goose gathers dust. Hughes comes off as wacky and spaced-out but offers Tucker invaluable business advice and genuine encouragement.
Added DiffLines:
* HatesBeingTouched: Howard Hughes refuses a handshake from Tucker, befitting his famous hypochondriac ways.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tucker, his family, Alex Tremoulis and many other figures are actual people. In addition there is a cameo by Creator/HowardHughes (played by Dean Stockwell).
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tucker, his family, Alex Tremoulis and many other figures are actual people. In addition there is a cameo by Creator/HowardHughes (played by Dean Stockwell).