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Class of 1984

373 statements
73 feature instances
10 referencing feature instances

Class of 1984	type	TVTItem
Class of 1984	label	Class of 1984
Class of 1984	page	ClassOf1984
Class of 1984	comment	Class of 1984 is a 1982 action-thriller movie about a newly hired music teacher at a troubled inner-city school, where students have to pass through a metal detector due to problems with gangs, drugs and violence.It received a thematic sequel in 1990, Class of 1999.
Class of 1984	fetched	2024-03-12T20:45:26Z
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Class of 1984 / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Class of 1984 / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Stegman and his gang can talk tough when they've got weapons and numbers on their victims but they all to a one freeze in terror when Terry brandishes a gun at him, so shocked they answer questions in his class. In the end Patsy gives up Stegman's location out of fear of Andy's wrath and Stegman himself tries pleading for his life before trying to stab Andy to death.
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Class of 1984 / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
Class of 1984 / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Brute: Barnyard is built like a truck and the most physical (and dumb) member of the gang.
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Class of 1984 / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Class of 1984 / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Stegman, who can play piano very well.
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Class of 1984 / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Class of 1984 / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Andy gets this way towards his students. His crusade is started when one of them dies from a drug overdose.
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Class of 1984 / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
Class of 1984 / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: Being soft is not an option in such a hellhole. Mr. Norris is fully willing to kill each member of the gang after seeing how irredeemable they all are.
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Class of 1984 / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Class of 1984 / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: Inverted. We see Terry carries a gun in his briefcase in the very first scene. It reappears in a darkly humorous scene where he brings it to class and holds students at gunpoint to force them to answer questions. Throughout the entire movie, the only thing that the indifferent authorities are willing to go on is eyewitness testimony; since Stegman's gang intimidates anyone who could possibly say a thing, this apparently makes taking action or charging them nearly impossible, though they still all have long rap sheets of confirmed offenses. At the end, this same reliance on witnesses also means that Norris avoids prosecution, despite the overwhelming physical evidence he would've left behind for the forensic team, even in a pre-DNA testing era.
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Class of 1984 / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Class of 1984 / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Literally. Terry Corrigan carries a loaded Colt .45 in his briefcase. After Stegman and his gang drive him to the breaking point, he uses it to teach a biology class where it would be lethal for the students if they get one of his questions wrong.
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Class of 1984 / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Class of 1984 / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Terry believes himself to be one, telling Andy to keep his head down and go through the motions. Ironically, the moment he becomes Andy's lancer, he gets a target on his back and things go horribly for him.
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Class of 1984 / int_24e82330	type	Inner City School
Class of 1984 / int_24e82330	comment	Inner City School: One that's full of delinquent teens and dangerous gangs. They do however have a good music program.
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Class of 1984 / int_26ce6ea7	type	Title by Year
Class of 1984 / int_26ce6ea7	comment	Title by Year: Released in 1982, about a school, so it's implied that 1984 is either the graduation year or the year it's occurring in.
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Class of 1984 / int_2c0bbca0	type	Noose Catch
Class of 1984 / int_2c0bbca0	comment	Noose Catch: The fate of Peter Stegman: falling through a skylight and getting (either) strangled to death or having his neck snapped by the ropes above the stage.
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Class of 1984 / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Class of 1984 / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Stegman is a brutal sadistic neo-Nazi who beats up rival gangs and isn't above raping women. Also, after Terry's "teaching by .45 automatic" class is stopped by Andy, Terry, drunken and crazy, attempts to run over Stegman and the rest of the gang with his car. Sadly, it ends poorly for Terry.
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Class of 1984 / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Class of 1984 / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Stegman is quite the talented piano player.
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Class of 1984 / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Class of 1984 / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Patsy, Stegman's girlfriend, checks out the coke-head applicant, and watches Fallon put her through 'tryouts'. She also seems to greatly enjoy watching the gangrape.
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Class of 1984 / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Class of 1984 / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Because Terry helped Andy save two kids from the gang, they punish him by killing all the animals in his classroom and putting them on display.
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Class of 1984 / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Class of 1984 / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: Played with. Only the gang members are actually that sadistic. Even though there are other troubled kids in the school, Mr. Norris makes a point to stress that there are good kids there; the principal eventually agrees saying, "it's just the bad ones command all our attention".
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Class of 1984 / int_3bc846b2	type	ScarfOfAssKicking
Class of 1984 / int_3bc846b2	comment	Scarf Of Ass Kicking: Drugstore wears one in the climax.
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Class of 1984 / int_3f71c185	type	Teenage Wasteland
Class of 1984 / int_3f71c185	comment	Teenage Wasteland: The school and the town are well on their way to becoming this. Stegman himself runs a miniature club version of this, as a drug dealer and pimp who recruits various young girls and boys to earn him money.
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Class of 1984 / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Class of 1984 / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Andy literally saves Stegman from taking a bullet to the head. Instead of backing off from the feud, it only intensifies between the pair to the point where Stegman and his gang rape Andy's wife and take her hostage.
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Class of 1984 / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Class of 1984 / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: All the gang are dead and Andy gets away with the killings because there were no witnesses. He and his wife still have to put up with the trauma of the events, not to mention every student in the school seeing Stegman die by hanging, and the likable Terry didn't survive to see Stegman's end.
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Class of 1984 / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Class of 1984 / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Terry display all of this when he finally faces down Stegman with his .45 to ask him what an amphibian is.
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Class of 1984 / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
Class of 1984 / int_44bed14c	comment	Hostage Situation: After being driven to drink and insanity by Stegman and his gang, Terry Corrigan holds the entire class at gunpoint and asks them biology questions. Terry seems poised to shoot anyone that answers incorrectly, but Andy disarms him before he can actually kill anyone. At the end, Stegman's gang takes Andy's wife hostage in order to try to get Andy alone to kill him.
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Class of 1984 / int_498a6a21	type	Badass Teacher
Class of 1984 / int_498a6a21	comment	Badass Teacher: Mr. Norris when Stegman and his gang go too far.
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Class of 1984 / int_5145f24	type	Deadly Graduation
Class of 1984 / int_5145f24	comment	Deadly Graduation: A youngster eager to join the gang is ordered to kill a witness.
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Class of 1984 / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Class of 1984 / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Stegman slams his head off of a mirror and a sink and then wipes his blood onto Mr. Norris' hand to get him suspended.
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Class of 1984 / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Class of 1984 / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Mostly played straight. Its lampshaded that they can't do anything as long as the offenders are minors.
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Class of 1984 / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Class of 1984 / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Complete with the failed "give me your hand" trick. Stegman falls to his death through the window of the school auditorium after being punched by Norris after trying said trick.
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Class of 1984 / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Class of 1984 / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': One kid buys drugs off the gang and takes a sniff. Five minutes later he climbs the flag pole and falls to his death.
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Class of 1984 / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Class of 1984 / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Terry Corrigan is a very reluctant one to Andy Norris. Considering his eventual fate in the film, he wasn't entirely wrong being hesitant, no matter how morally right it was.
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Class of 1984 / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Class of 1984 / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Arthur's friend trips out on the PCP Stegman's gang gives him and he climbs the top of the flagpole before falling to his death.
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Class of 1984 / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Class of 1984 / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Terry Corrigan, Andy's only real ally at the school, dies at the beginning of the third act in an attempt to take out Stegman, driving home the point that Andy's not safe either, and neither is his wife.
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Class of 1984 / int_63b12059	type	Villainous Friendship
Class of 1984 / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: Barnyard screams Drugstore's real name ("Joshua") when he thinks he's in trouble and is driven into a mad fury to avenge him after he's mortally wounded by Andy.
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Class of 1984 / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Class of 1984 / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The main character is called Norris. Ring any bells?
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Class of 1984 / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Class of 1984 / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Played with. Any stops Terry from shooting Stegman in the head. As a result, Terry goes completely insane and dies trying to kill Stegman with his car later, and Stegman takes advantage of Andy being away from home a few days later to corner Andy's wife, where he and the rest of his male cohorts gang rape her. Terry attempts to kill Stegman hitting his with his car. Granted, he is already insane at that point, still, it ends poorly for him. Stegman's final plan assumes Andy won't show the photo of his kidnapped wife to an auditorium full of people, including authorities.
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Class of 1984 / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Class of 1984 / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Stegman and the rest of his gang. They're vocal Neo-Nazis.
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Class of 1984 / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Class of 1984 / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "I am the future!"
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Class of 1984 / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Class of 1984 / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: The battle between Andy and Stegman gets more and more brutal as the film goes on. Terry's life also spirals once he reluctantly quits hiding in the background, to the point where his lab animals get slaughtered, his alcoholism worsens, he becomes mentally unstable and ends his teaching career by threatening Stegman and his gang to answer questions with a gun. Then he dies trying to kill Stegman.
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Class of 1984 / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Class of 1984 / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: Terry considers himself to be one, calling himself a failure as a teacher.
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Class of 1984 / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Class of 1984 / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Terry Corrigan is completely disillusioned and drinks to compensate. His drinking only worsens when he starts reluctantly teaming up with Andy. After Stegman and his gang get revenge by slaughtering and displaying every animal in his biology lab, Terry is inconsolable and his drinking becomes rampant.
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Class of 1984 / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Class of 1984 / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The gang beating up another rival gang.
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Class of 1984 / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Class of 1984 / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: While Mc Dowall's performance is really understated and chilling throughout most of the film, he really lets loose in the scene where he's trying to run over Stegman, cackling and shrieking maniacally.
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Class of 1984 / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Class of 1984 / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Stegman and his gang rape Andy's pregnant wife. This ends up being the last straw for Andy.
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Class of 1984 / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Class of 1984 / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: All members of the gang die violent and well-deserved deaths.
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Class of 1984 / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Class of 1984 / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Stegman spends the whole film running rampant because he's a minor and there are no witnesses to his crimes so he's almost never arrested. After Andy kills him, as well as most of the rest of his gang, Andy isn't prosecuted and gets away with killing all of them completely, because...The police couldn't find any witnesses to Stegman's murder.
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Class of 1984 / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Class of 1984 / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Stegman, the leader of the gang plaguing the school.
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Class of 1984 / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Class of 1984 / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: How Drugstore dies.
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Class of 1984 / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Class of 1984 / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Averted with the gang who all die brutal deaths. But Andy gets away with killing them although he is a sympathetic version of this trope.
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Class of 1984 / int_a761b580	type	Useless Security Camera
Class of 1984 / int_a761b580	comment	Useless Security Camera: If the whole school is monitored, why didn't it register who killed Terry's animals?
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Class of 1984 / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Class of 1984 / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Early in the film, Deneen mentions that she can play many music instruments as well as conduct. In the end, she steps in when Andy runs off to find his wife.
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Class of 1984 / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
Class of 1984 / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Stegman's home life consists of a deceased father (that Peter himself might have possibly killed in the past) and a mother that continues to shelter and make excuses for him as a misunderstood genius, in spite of his long rap sheet of delinquency, beating and rape charges. Rather than humanize him, this gives his sadism an even more loathsome quality, showing that he's an intelligent young man with genuine promise who hurts people for the sheer thrill of it, and squanders his gifts by using them as excuses; he only demonstrates his talent for piano when he tries to force Norris into admitting him to his music class, then complains to the principal that he, "the best pianist in this school", was kept out because Andy has a personal vendetta against him. Best summed up by this exchange:
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Class of 1984 / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
Class of 1984 / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: Stegman proves to be one when he is really pure evil by raping Andrew Norris' wife and slaughtering Terry Corrigan's biology animals and putting them on display, making Terry lose his sanity as a result. After Terry's car flips and explodes, a number of the gang members crow around the wreck, even warming their hands on it like the explosion that killed Terry is nothing more than a campfire.
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Class of 1984 / int_be9392d	type	The Quincy Punk
Class of 1984 / int_be9392d	comment	The Quincy Punk: Probably the best example of this trope. The gang all have classic punk looks and are portrayed as violent and sadistic because of it.
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Class of 1984 / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Class of 1984 / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Andy defuses the hostage situation between Terry and Stegman and the rest of the class he's holding at gunpoint and Terry seems to pull himself together and leave, indicating that while Terry's teaching career is most certainly over, and he's probably facing jail time, he might be able to save himself. Then in the very next scene we see him drinking and stalking Stegman and his gang in his car before he attempts to run them over. Unfortunately, he didn't think the gambit through and he pays for it with his life after accidentally crashing. After Terry's death, Andy's wife, who said she would stand by him as long as he stayed at the school changes her mind and elects to stay with her mother until after the baby is born. She doesn't leave soon enough to avoid being attacked by Stegman and his gang.
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Class of 1984 / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Class of 1984 / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: And Roddy McDowall as Corrigan.
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Class of 1984 / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: One girl at the club flashes her breasts. Also, a girl trying to get a job working for Stegman goes completely nude. For the other side, the shirtless band member on stage.
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