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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Mahana, you ugly!"]] |
3 | ''Johnny Lingo'' is a 1969 short film based on a [[https://orion.math.iastate.edu/hentzel/class.545.10/Johny short story]] by Patricia [=McGerr=]. The film was directed by Wetzel O. Whitaker and [[MediaNotes/MormonCinema produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. The film is about Johnny Lingo, a successful trader who is searching for a wife. Like the short story, the film takes place on the Kiniwata island of Hawaii. |
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5 | The short film was adapted into a [[TheMovie feature film]] titled ''Film/TheLegendOfJohnnyLingo'', released in 2003. |
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7 | Watch the whole film on the Internet Archive [[https://archive.org/details/johnnylingo_201512 here]]. |
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10 | !!This short film provides examples of: |
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12 | * AccidentalBargainingSkills: Moki starts the dowry negotiations with a demand for three cows (an average price, but considered ridiculously exorbitant for a homely girl considered almost too old to get married), and Johnny Lingo raises it to eight cows. |
13 | * AdaptationalNameChange: Mahana's character is named Sarita in the original short story. |
14 | * AnAesop: |
15 | --> '''Johnny Lingo''': Many things can happen to make a woman beautiful. The thing that matters most is what she thinks of herself. |
16 | * BeautifulAllAlong: Mahana goes from everybody calling her ugly to one of the most beautiful girls on the island. |
17 | --> '''Johnny Lingo''': I have loved her ever since we were children. She was always beautiful. |
18 | * CreepyChildrenSinging: "Johnny Lingo had a cow / Trade it for an ugly wife / Johnny Lingo's married now / He'll be sorry all his life" |
19 | * DowryDilemma: Averted. Johnny Lingo has no problem paying eight cows for Mahana's dowry. |
20 | * TheFreelanceShameSquad: Almost everybody laughs at Moki for demanding a dowry of three cows for Mahana to Johnny Lingo. |
21 | * {{GASP}}: Everybody gasps when Johnny Lingo offers eight cows for Mahana's dowry. |
22 | * GreekChorus: The American shopkeeper provides commentary on the story. |
23 | * ProtagonistTitle: Johnny Lingo is a traveling (and apparently wealthy) merchant. |
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