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''At Play in the Fields of the Lord'' is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. In 1991, Brazilian director Hector Babenco made a [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] with a cast including Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/DarylHannah, Creator/KathyBates, Creator/AidanQuinn, and Music/TomWaits.
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''At Play in the Fields of the Lord'' is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. In 1991, Brazilian director Hector Héctor Babenco made a [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] with a cast including Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/DarylHannah, Creator/KathyBates, Creator/AidanQuinn, and Music/TomWaits.
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* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example. Young Billy is having a wonderful time with the Indian kids his age, running around as stark-naked as they are and making friends of sorts despite the language barrier; but when his mother finds him, he and his companions are [[spoiler:watching a pair of adults frolicking in a hammock]], and he's still completely undressed. This ends about as well as you'd expect given that his mother is a [[spoiler:sexually puritanical fundamentalist Christian with severe underlying issues of her own]], and Randy has to physically intervene when she starts ''beating up'' the Indians immediately afterwards. Afterwards he tears a strip off her for this, stressing the dangers implicit in her use of violence and her failure to understand that [[spoiler:the Indians don't share the missionaries' sense of morals (yet). Furthermore he tells her she risks giving her son a distorted and harmful view of human sexuality.]] When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it."
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* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example. Young Billy is having a wonderful time with the Indian kids his age, running around as stark-naked as they are and making friends of sorts despite the language barrier; but when his mother finds him, he and his companions are [[spoiler:watching a pair of adults frolicking in a hammock]], and he's still completely undressed. This ends about as well as you'd expect given that his mother is a [[spoiler:sexually puritanical fundamentalist Christian with severe underlying issues of her own]], and Randy has to physically intervene when she starts ''beating up'' the Indians immediately afterwards. Afterwards he tears a strip off her for this, stressing the dangers implicit in her use of violence and her failure to understand that [[spoiler:the Indians don't share the missionaries' sense of morals (yet). Furthermore he tells her she risks giving her son a distorted and harmful view of human sexuality.]] When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it.""
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''At Play in the Fields of the Lord'' is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. In 1991, Brazilian director Hector Babenco filmed an adaptation with a cast including Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/DarylHannah, Creator/KathyBates, Aidan Quinn, and Music/TomWaits.
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* IllGirl: A [[spoiler:gender]] inversion, with [[spoiler:Billy]] dying from complications of malaria. If the shooting script were kid lit, it would be guaranteed DeathByNewberyMedal material.
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''At Play in the Fields of the Lord'' is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. In 1991, Brazilian director Hector Babenco filmed an adaptation with a cast including Tom Berenger, Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/DarylHannah, Creator/KathyBates, Aidan Quinn and Music/TomWaits.
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* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example. Young Billy is having a wonderful time with the Indian kids his age, running around as stark-naked as they are and making friends of sorts despite the language barrier; but when his mother finds him, he and his companions are [[spoiler:watching a pair of adults frolicking in a hammock]], and he's still completely undressed. This ends about as well as you'd expect given that his mother is a [[spoiler:sexually puritanical fundamentalist Christian with severe underlying issues of her own]], and Randy has to physically intervene when she starts ''beating up'' the Indians immediately afterwards.
** Afterwards he tears a strip off her for this, stressing the dangers implicit in her use of violence and her failure to understand that [[spoiler:the Indians don't share the missionaries' sense of morals (yet). Furthermore he tells her she risks giving her son a distorted and harmful view of human sexuality.]] When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it."
** Afterwards he tears a strip off her for this, stressing the dangers implicit in her use of violence and her failure to understand that [[spoiler:the Indians don't share the missionaries' sense of morals (yet). Furthermore he tells her she risks giving her son a distorted and harmful view of human sexuality.]] When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it."
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* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example. Young Billy is having a wonderful time with the Indian kids his age, running around as stark-naked as they are and making friends of sorts despite the language barrier; but when his mother finds him, he and his companions are [[spoiler:watching a pair of adults frolicking in a hammock]], and he's still completely undressed. This ends about as well as you'd expect given that his mother is a [[spoiler:sexually puritanical fundamentalist Christian with severe underlying issues of her own]], and Randy has to physically intervene when she starts ''beating up'' the Indians immediately afterwards. \n** Afterwards he tears a strip off her for this, stressing the dangers implicit in her use of violence and her failure to understand that [[spoiler:the Indians don't share the missionaries' sense of morals (yet). Furthermore he tells her she risks giving her son a distorted and harmful view of human sexuality.]] When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it."
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* ShoutOut: The Music/{{Sepultura}} album ''Music/{{Roots}}'' was inspired by the film adaptation.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Creator/DarylHannah has a nude scene.
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''At Play in the Fields of the Lord'' is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. In 1991, Brazilian director Hector Babenco filmed an adaptation with a cast including Tom Berenger, JohnLithgow, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/DarylHannah, Creator/KathyBates, Aidan Quinn and Music/TomWaits.
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* TearJerker: Randy's affirmative answer to [[spoiler:his young son]]'s question: [[spoiler:Am I going to die?]] By the time he asks it, the audience knows the answer is yes, and soon.
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* HopeSpot: Randy gives the antibiotics to Moon.
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* TearJerker: Randy's affirmative answer to [[spoiler:his young son]]'s question: [[spoiler:Am I going to die?]] By the time he asks it, the audience knows the answer is yes, and soon.
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Randy's wife]] ends up this way, although there's clear evidence earlier in the film that her sanity isn't long for the world. Guess who they got to play her? [[ActorAllusion Kathy Bates]], of course, who'd just done an Oscar-winning star turn as Annie Wilkes in ''Misery.''
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* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example. Young Billy is having a wonderful time with the Indian kids his age, running around as stark-naked as they are and making friends of sorts despite the language barrier; but when his mother finds him, he and his companions are watching a pair of adults frolicking in a hammock. This ends about as well as you'd expect, given that his mother is a sexually puritanical fundamentalist Christian who's played by Kathy Bates, and Randy has to physically intervene when she starts ''beating up'' the frisky Indians immediately afterwards.
** Afterwards he tears a strip off her for this, stressing the dangers implicit in her use of violence and her failure to understand that the Indians don't share the missionaries' sense of morals (yet). Furthermore he tells her she risks giving her son a distorted and harmful view of human sexuality. When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it."
** Afterwards he tears a strip off her for this, stressing the dangers implicit in her use of violence and her failure to understand that the Indians don't share the missionaries' sense of morals (yet). Furthermore he tells her she risks giving her son a distorted and harmful view of human sexuality. When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it."
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* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example. Young Billy is having a wonderful time with the Indian kids his age, running around as stark-naked as they are and making friends of sorts despite the language barrier; but when his mother finds him, he and his companions are watching [[spoiler:watching a pair of adults frolicking in a hammock. hammock]], and he's still completely undressed. This ends about as well as you'd expect, expect given that his mother is a sexually [[spoiler:sexually puritanical fundamentalist Christian who's played by Kathy Bates, with severe underlying issues of her own]], and Randy has to physically intervene when she starts ''beating up'' the frisky Indians immediately afterwards.
** Afterwards he tears a strip off her for this, stressing the dangers implicit in her use of violence and her failure to understand thatthe [[spoiler:the Indians don't share the missionaries' sense of morals (yet). Furthermore he tells her she risks giving her son a distorted and harmful view of human sexuality. ]] When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it."
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* IllGirl: A [[spoiler:gender]] inversion, with [[spoiler:Billy]] dying from complications of malaria. If the shooting script were kid lit, it would be guaranteed DeathByNewbery DeathByNewberyMedal material.
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* IllGirl: A [[spoiler:gender]] inversion, with [[spoiler:Billy]] dying from complications of malaria. If the shooting script were kid lit, it would be guaranteed DeathByNewbery material.
* PottyFailure: [[spoiler:Billy wets his bed]] at one point in the film, but in this case it's meant as an ominous sign that his illness is worsening. Specifically, [[spoiler: his malaria is progressing to blackwater fever and his kidneys are failing.]]
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* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example. Young Billy is having a wonderful time with the Indian kids his age, running around as stark-naked as they are and making friends of sorts despite the language barrier; but when his mother finds him, he and his companions are watching a pair of adults frolicking in a hammock. This ends about as well as you'd expect, given that his mother is a sexually puritanical fundamentalist Christian who's played by Kathy Bates, and Randy has to physically intervene when she starts ''beating up'' the frisky Indians immediately afterwards.
** Afterwards he tears a strip off her for this, stressing the dangers implicit in her use of violence and her failure to understand that the Indians don't share the missionaries' sense of morals (yet). Furthermore he tells her she risks giving her son a distorted and harmful view of human sexuality. When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it.""
* ValuesDissonance: An in-universe example. Young Billy is having a wonderful time with the Indian kids his age, running around as stark-naked as they are and making friends of sorts despite the language barrier; but when his mother finds him, he and his companions are watching a pair of adults frolicking in a hammock. This ends about as well as you'd expect, given that his mother is a sexually puritanical fundamentalist Christian who's played by Kathy Bates, and Randy has to physically intervene when she starts ''beating up'' the frisky Indians immediately afterwards.
** Afterwards he tears a strip off her for this, stressing the dangers implicit in her use of violence and her failure to understand that the Indians don't share the missionaries' sense of morals (yet). Furthermore he tells her she risks giving her son a distorted and harmful view of human sexuality. When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it.
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''At Play in the Fields of the Lord'' is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. In 1991, Brazilian director Hector Babenco filmed an adaptation with a cast including Tom Berenger, JohnLithgow, Creator/DarylHannah, KathyBates, Creator/KathyBates, Aidan Quinn and Music/TomWaits.
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''At Play in the Fields of the Lord'' is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. In 1991, Brazilian director Hector Babenco filmed an adaptation with a cast including Tom Berenger, JohnLithgow, [[{{Creator/DarylHannah}} Daryl Hannah]], Creator/DarylHannah, KathyBates, Aidan Quinn and [[{{Music/TomWaits}} Tom Waits]].
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!!This work provides us examples of:
* BadassNative: Moon
* DefectorFromDecadence: Moon
* DownerEnding
* GagPenis: When Randy asks Andie how she knew Moon wanted her, she says "Don't be such a child."
* AGodAmI: Moon takes on the identity of Kisu.
* JustForPun: Nowhere/Now Here
* {{Loincloth}}: In the film version. The Niaruna wear "bellybands" in the novel. When Moon gets an erection, the bellyband hurts.
** An explanation might be required for the bellybands: In the Amazon, men bind their foreskins and tie the binding material around their waists.
* LostTribe: Theorized to be a lost tribe of Sioux or a lost tribe of Jews.
* LoveDodecahedron: Moon likes Andie. Randy likes Andie. Randy is married. So is Andie.
* MightyWhitey: Deconstructed, since Moon is a halfbreed Cheyenne. Further deconstructed since he accidentally starts an epidemic of the common cold, killing them all.
* MushroomSamba: Moon gets a lot of tropes.
* NakedOnArrival: Moon, to the Niaruna.
* NationalGeographicNudity
* NativeAmericanMythology and all associated (or at least Sioux and Cheyenne) tropes.
* ANiceJewishBoy: Averted by Wolf, who is anything but nice.
* NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat: Moon
* NudeNatureDance: Played with, though the film version is definitely not fanservice, since it's Kathy Bates [[spoiler: and her character's basically gone nuts]].
* RapeAsDrama: Moon sees Andie naked. But he can't have her since she's married, so he goes home and rapes his wife, Pindi.
* ShaggyDogStory: Moon wants to help the Niaruna, but in the end, he gives them the flu, which kills them.
* {{Shotacon}}: When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it."
* TheAmazon
''At Play in the Fields of the Lord'' is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. In 1991, Brazilian director Hector Babenco filmed an adaptation with a cast including Tom Berenger, JohnLithgow, [[{{Creator/DarylHannah}} Daryl Hannah]], KathyBates, Aidan Quinn and [[{{Music/TomWaits}} Tom Waits]].
Missionaries try to save the Indian, while mercenaries try to wipe them out.
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!!This work provides us examples of:
* BadassNative: Moon
* DefectorFromDecadence: Moon
* DownerEnding
* GagPenis: When Randy asks Andie how she knew Moon wanted her, she says "Don't be such a child."
* AGodAmI: Moon takes on the identity of Kisu.
* JustForPun: Nowhere/Now Here
* {{Loincloth}}: In the film version. The Niaruna wear "bellybands" in the novel. When Moon gets an erection, the bellyband hurts.
** An explanation might be required for the bellybands: In the Amazon, men bind their foreskins and tie the binding material around their waists.
* LostTribe: Theorized to be a lost tribe of Sioux or a lost tribe of Jews.
* LoveDodecahedron: Moon likes Andie. Randy likes Andie. Randy is married. So is Andie.
* MightyWhitey: Deconstructed, since Moon is a halfbreed Cheyenne. Further deconstructed since he accidentally starts an epidemic of the common cold, killing them all.
* MushroomSamba: Moon gets a lot of tropes.
* NakedOnArrival: Moon, to the Niaruna.
* NationalGeographicNudity
* NativeAmericanMythology and all associated (or at least Sioux and Cheyenne) tropes.
* ANiceJewishBoy: Averted by Wolf, who is anything but nice.
* NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat: Moon
* NudeNatureDance: Played with, though the film version is definitely not fanservice, since it's Kathy Bates [[spoiler: and her character's basically gone nuts]].
* RapeAsDrama: Moon sees Andie naked. But he can't have her since she's married, so he goes home and rapes his wife, Pindi.
* ShaggyDogStory: Moon wants to help the Niaruna, but in the end, he gives them the flu, which kills them.
* {{Shotacon}}: When Randy's wife says "What if one of those things lays a hand on Billy?", Randy simply replies "He might like it."
* TheAmazon
