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resolved No Title Film
Is there a trope for No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in the context of Domestic Abuse?
resolved You have n hours Film
The boss asks technicians how much time they need to complete a task. They honestly answer they need like two days. Their boss says they have only one day, and nobody complains. (Generally they manage to do said task in that arbitrary shorter time due to the power of doing their jobs).
(I think Mad Max the Road Warrior did that, and Speed Racer the film played with that).
Edited by gropcbfresolved why did they drop their weapon Film
I don't think this is Do Not Drop Your Weapon which is about video games.
I am thinking of cases in which the protagonist abandons weapons in spite of still being in danger. This is especially obvious in The Raid in which the protagonist loses his police baton and his knife, then makes his injured buddy drop his combat knife, then has to do some surgey using a butter knife. And after that he walks in a corridor ignoring his own baton (plainly visible onscreen), and ends up fighting weaponless against people with machetes.
(In this case this is obviously because Rule of Cool).
Edited by gropcbfresolved character named after actor Film
Hi, is there a trope for characters having a name related to the actor playing them?
resolved driver doesn't watch the road Film
This is super dangerous, but happens all the time in films. Most of the time this is just an acting convention, but sometimes it does matter.
What is the trope for this ? That doesn't seem to be Blind Driving, so I am thinking of Drives Like Crazy.
resolved So short, the camera misses him (SOLVED) Film
Is there a trope for when a character is depicted as comically short, so the camera pans to him, he's nowhere to be found, then the camera pans down? Can be inverted, where the camera pans up to see his face.
A variation is when all characters are standing side by side, but we can only see the short character's hat.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Unique in the Original, commonplace in the EU Film
In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke uses a desperate, improvised maneuver to destroy one of the giant armored walkers in Hoth - he shoots an emergency grappling hook and circles the rope around its legs, causing it to tumble down.
Even though it was supposed to be a last resort in the movie, a bunch of Extended Universe works have the same thing happen, going as far as showing it to be a common technique, since it's such a memorable scene.
Is there a trope for a scenario like that? Something that was supposed to be an one-time thing in the original work, ends up showing up all the time in sequels, adaptations and expansions?
resolved Omnidisciplinary Cop Film
The cop who's involved with every aspect of the olice procedural - he's working a beat when he finds the drugs, then leads the investigation to pinpoint the distributors, drives across states to catch them, leads the SWAT raid on the distribution facility, drives the prison truck to jail and watches over the criminals when they're talking with their lawyers.
resolved everyone comes back for the ending Film
A comedy where the main character meets lots of people throughout the movie (often during a road trip), and in the last scene everyone shows up, usually for a party or something. Or, the character is spends the movie helping people out expecting nothing in return, then in the end when all hopes are lost, the characters show up to help him back.
resolved Two Children-related tropes Film
1 - When a movie that features rauchy humor or extreme gore has a child actor, scenes are often edited so that the kid isn't present during the recording of the dirty/violent scenes, because the crew is worried about the kid's psychological balance. Some movies make a point of showing the editing so viewers can relax knowing the innocent little actor wasn't subjected to graphic images. (for example, that scene from Clerks where Randall is listing off a bunch of porn movies he needs to buy, and a lady with a baby is hearing it with a shocked expression). What trope would that be?
2 - Some works (or some episodes of a certain work) feature kids in a realistic setting that celebrates the bittersweet innocence of childhood, as opposed to setting the kids up as wiser than their elders, sarcastic, competent, mature, or involved in speculativeFiction tropes. I'm thinking in particular of the "kids being kids" episodes of South Parklike "Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers". Is there a trope for that?
resolved Orson Welles making frozen pea commercials Film
Is there a trope, in-universer or out, for accomplished creators/athletes/performers whose careers drop to comically humiliating lows, thanks to a perceived decrease in skill, abrasive personality, offscreen antics (including legal troubles) or a refusal to compromise their ethical values?
A more extreme version would be an actor being reduced to making porn.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Dousing something in gasoline and setting it alight Film
Where a bad guy douses a car (or person) in gasoline, then drops his cigarette or lighter on it to get rid of it - also done when he covers the target, walks away leaving a trail of gasoline, then lights the very end of the trail so he's further from the conflagration.
resolved Blueprints-dropping future villain Film
Is there a trope for a geeky character who's carrying around a bunch of papers (of their own inventions and/or research), who drops them awkwardly, being humiliated by the boss? I noticed it happening with Cheetah in the new Wonder Woman movie, and the same thing happened with Electron in Amazing Spider Man 2, and Catwoman...
resolved Genius cam Film
When a character is a genius, savant, etc., shots from their perspective show things like diagrams and mathematical equations, often in glowing white lines. Like in The Good Doctor.
resolved Last Scene New Monster Film
Is there a trope for when the last scene of a movie features a new monster oe enemy, so the hero can do the whole "I've got this!" thing and ride off to fight it? The idea being that now the hero's confident enough, and that he'll be having many more adventures after the movie.
resolved Old-timey fast-talking newspaperwoman Film
Is there a trope for the stock character of a female journalist having fast exchanges with other people in the office, being portrayed as tough, clever and competitive? Usually in stories set before the 1960s, where there would be a single woman in the bullpen and she had to work hard to compete with the boys
I can think of Paige Sinclair from Bojack Horseman as a parody of that type of character.
resolved Personality-Reflecting Swag Film
When a character is being introduced, and the camera focus to some personal items of his to help reveal his personality.
For instance, the characters enter a guy's house, and the camera focus on the american flag on the wall, the old pictures of army buddies, a rack with old guns on the wall... gives viewers an idea of what the character will be like.
Related, but might be a separate trope, is when a character is approaching by car, and the camera focus on dashboard toys, air fresheners and fuzzy dice inside the vehicle, without showing his face.
resolved There's so much evidence against me, I must be innocent! Film
A crime's been committed and all the evidence points to one suspect. So much evidence, in fact, that it seems like the suspect's being framed - he'll say stuff like "If I was going to kill him, don't you think I'd be smart enough to take off my personalized cufflinks before doing so?"
Of course, that raises another hypothesis - he committed the crime and made it obvious it was him just so he could claim he was framed - especially if he made a big deal of making the "evidence" freely accessible.
resolved Conflict over child's future in family business Film
Is there are troupe in this index about the conflict between parent (or parent-like figure) and child about the child's future occupation? Dad wants Son to stay at home and work in the Family Business, while Son wants to "Make it on his own." Some examples that come to mind include October Sky (Dad wants son to be a coal miner like him — son wants to become a rocket scientist), Annapolis, kind of (Dad wants son to work with him as a ship builder, Son wants to join the navy), Star Wars, A New Hope (Uncle Owen wants Luke to continue working on the farm, Luke wants to go to the Imperial Academy).
What do you call the trope when a character dies just as they finally achieved something in their lives and have grown as a person. Best exemplified by the Nostalgia Critic's comment on a lot of Hilary Swank films in his review of the The Next Karate Kid: