Line #14 Film/EastMeetsWatts


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3	''East Meets Watts'' (also released as ''Dynamite Brothers'') is a 1974 film directed by Al Adamson.
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5	Larry Chin (Creator/AlanTang) has sneaked into the United States via the port of UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to search for his brother (Creator/JamesHong), who disappeared some time before. He crosses paths with Stud Brown, and they combine their efforts to intervene in a gang war, stop a flood of drugs into the ghetto (the Watts area of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles), keep one step ahead of a corrupt cop and find Larry's brother. The film combines elements of {{Blaxploitation}} and MartialArtsMovie styles.
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7	WebVideo/CinematicTitanic riffed on the film for several live shows, one of which was released on DVD.
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10	!!This film provides examples of:
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12	* AlasPoorVillain: Burke (and his girlfriend) is murdered by Razor as he's had enough of being Wei's stooge and makes plans to flee.
13	* AlternateDVDCommentary: WebVideo/CinematicTitanic riffed the movie in 2009.
14	* AndIMustScream: A particularly twisted version as Razor [[spoiler:tortures the mute Sarah to death]].
15	* ChainedHeat: Larry and Stud spend part of the film handcuffed to each other.
16	** At one point, Larry somehow easily takes off his jacket despite still being handcuffed to Stud.
17	* CuteMute: Sarah.
18	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Larry's flashbacks to the death of his wife are tinted in red.
19	* DisproportionateRetribution: Larry's cousin is killed in a car bomb a few minutes after giving Larry an address to find his brother.
20	* DirtyCop: Burke.
21	* TheDragon: Razor, Wei's hit man.
22	* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Even Stud's gang (when they aren't simply shooting people, that is)
23	* HitchhikerHeroes: Larry and Stud flag down Betty Fon, who drives them to Los Angeles. She later assists Larry in trying to find his brother.
24	* IdiotBall: Stud had the foresight to steal [[DirtyCop Burke's]] keys and disable his radio, he also threw away the keys before unlocking [[ChainedHeat his and Larry's handcuffs]].
25	* KungFoley: Lots of it.
26	-->'''Mary Jo Pehl:''' It sounds like they're hitting each other with bags of groceries.
27	* LargeHam: Smiling Man, an unusually badass example.
28	* LiteralCliffhanger: The climactic fight between Larry and Wei while both are driving on a mountainous road.
29	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The brother who Larry Chin has been searching for? Turns out to be the head gangster Wei, the film's BigBad.]]
30	* MrExposition: The conversation between Wei and Razor at the start of the film establishes the basic plot, as they touch on Larry, the drugs, Burke and Smiling Man.
31	* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Averted; Razor kills both [[spoiler:Sarah and Burke's girlfriend]].
32	* NoKillLikeOverkill: Stud empties the magazine of a pump-action shotgun into Razor.
33	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Burke hurls a few racial slurs along the way, which sound even more crude and jarring now than when the film was first released.
34	* TheSeventies: Oh, so much.
35	* SnakePit: Kung Fat and his henchmen throw Larry into a stone pit, then throw a single snake in after him.
36	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Stud empties a six-shot rifle into Razor.
37	* TragicVillain: The film takes a stab at portraying Burke as one, showing him begging Wei for more bribe money and having him express his unhappiness with the position he has put himself in:
38	-->'''Burke:''' You know, sometimes I think I'm crazy, but I used to be a good cop. I really was. What am I now? Nothing, that's what. I could've been different. But oh, no, I had to make it big. Lots of money, the works. What am I, just a dirty cop? ... Ah, the hell with it. I'm stuck. And what's worse is, I like it. I like the dirt and the and the clout goes with it. Who the hell am I kidding?

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