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Falling Down

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Falling Down	comment	Falling Down is a 1993 American psychological thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher about one man's mental breakdown, and his feelings of alienation, disgust, and mounting rage against what he perceives to be an increasingly unfair and depersonalized world, as he accumulates weaponry and becomes something like a vigilante while traveling across the city, shoving people out of his way.William Foster (Michael Douglas) is divorced, and living with his widowed mother in Los Angeles. William Foster is under court order to stay away from his ex-wife, and their small daughter. William Foster lost his defense contractor job about a month ago and his mother doesn't know. William Foster wants to attend his daughter's birthday party. William Foster is stuck in traffic. William Foster's 1979 Chevy Chevette's air conditioner has just broken down, on the hottest day of the year.William Foster is having a very bad day. William Foster wants to be reunited with his family and he's not going to stop for anyone in his path.Meanwhile, Sgt. Martin Prendergast (Robert Duvall), on his final day before retirement from the Police Department, faces his own frustrations with reasonably civilized maturity even as he tracks the strange series of violent incidents happening that day, perpetrated by a mysterious man known only by the nickname "D-Fens".This is a tale of urban reality and the adventures of an ordinary man... at war... with the everyday world, set against a backdrop of the LA riots and focusing on themes of violent rebellion against the system.The film reportedly inspired the 1995 Iron Maiden song "Man on the Edge" and the creation of the one-episode character Frank Grimes from The Simpsons episode "Homer's Enemy". Received a parodic Homage in the Foo Fighters' video for "Walk".
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Falling Down / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Falling Down / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Prendergast and his wife, who has some unspecified mental illness. After he's been shown to be constantly needled by his workmates for sacrificing so much of his life and career to her, he says:
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Falling Down / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Falling Down / int_1235f055	comment	The Hispanic gangsters who try to extort and later murder Foster are callous thugs who are unwilling to reason with him, and willing to hurt or kill several innocent bystanders just to hit their target. They also show themselves to be Dirty Cowards; the two thugs at the beginning run away when Foster and his bat have the upper hand, and the surviving thug cravenly begs for Foster not to shoot him when minutes earlier he had tried to do the same to him.
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Falling Down / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Falling Down / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Writer Ebbe Roe Smith has a bit role as a man on the freeway.
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Falling Down / int_1305f045	type	Vanity License Plate
Falling Down / int_1305f045	comment	Vanity License Plate: Foster's license plate is labeled D-FENS.
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Falling Down / int_13645c02	type	TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior
Falling Down / int_13645c02	comment	Troubling Unchildhood Behavior: Played for Laughs. Although extremely nice, the child coaching Foster on how to fire a bazooka knows everything about it, implicitly from watching violent movies way above his recommended age.
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Falling Down / int_14fe0d94	type	Older Hero vs. Younger Villain
Falling Down / int_14fe0d94	comment	Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Prendergast is the older hero to Foster's younger villain.
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Falling Down / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Falling Down / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Sergeant Prendergast is the Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist who starts the film playing second fiddle to the Villain Protagonist Bill Foster, who goes on a rampage across the city to right the wrongs he sees in society. It eventually becomes clear that Prendergast is the real protagonist of the film.
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Falling Down / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Falling Down / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Prendergast. Of course he is played by Robert Duvall.
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Falling Down / int_197877b5	type	Random Passerby Advice
Falling Down / int_197877b5	comment	Random Passerby Advice: Foster decides to give a road crew doing make-work and snarling up traffic "something real to fix" but can't figure out how to operate his rocket launcher. A kid observing the traffic jam helpfully informs him.
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Falling Down / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
Falling Down / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Foster by all means is just an average guy, who you'll find tens of in any at least remotely civilized urban area. But after he snaps, the mayhem he causes seriously sends shivers down your spine.
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Falling Down / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Falling Down / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Played up as a tale of modern revenge, a kind of Death Wish (1974) for the nineties. Robert Duvall's character isn't given any attention despite being the costar of the film.
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Falling Down / int_1c090ec2	type	Troubled Sympathetic Bigot
Falling Down / int_1c090ec2	comment	Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: Foster's attitude towards the Korean store owner is partially fueled by ignorance and bigotry. The store owner is incredibly rude to him to begin with and outrageously overcharges for his merchandise, but Foster even ventures into the use of somewhat bigoted lines like "Do you have any idea how much money my country has given your country?" (when Bill himself doesn't even know) and "You come to my country, take my money, and don't even have the decency to learn my language?" even though the man is speaking English, broken by a thick accent though it may be.
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Falling Down / int_1c7da7f6	type	The Slow Walk
Falling Down / int_1c7da7f6	comment	The Slow Walk: Foster. Also the Ominous Walk, with background music, after the drive-by.
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Falling Down / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Falling Down / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: What Foster believes he's doing. Though the only ones who actually fit "evil" are the hoodlums and the neo-Nazi.
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Falling Down / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Falling Down / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: The caretaker Foster meets offers himself up as a hostage to guarantee his family's safety.
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Falling Down / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Falling Down / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Deconstructed to some extent, thanks in no small part to downtown Los Angeles less than a year after the big 1992 riots. The movie is an exploration of this concept's presence in the real world, in a lot of ways - e.g. inner cities blighted with poverty and gang activity, racial animosities, decrepit infrastructure, and pollution.
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Falling Down / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
Falling Down / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: Prendergast is a patient, soft-spoken man. To his Jerkass colleagues, this makes him a wimp and a joke. However, watch as he cracks the case, treats witnesses with respect rather than frustrating them with a list of questions, stands up to his frustrating wife, punches out a cop who insults her, offers mercy to Foster, and only shoots him when he refuses. It's clear who is the strongest man at the end of the day.
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Falling Down / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Falling Down / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Prendergast is of the first type.
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Falling Down / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Falling Down / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Several instances, perhaps most notably Foster shooting an elderly golfer's golf cart and inducing a heart attack. The pills are in the golf cart, which rolls into a lake.
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Falling Down / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Falling Down / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Or Chekov's water-gun, anyway. Also, Chekhov's baseball bat, Chekhov's butterfly knife, Chekhov's rocket-launcher, and Chekhov's snowglobe, if you can believe it. Also the Hawaiian Tropic billboard and D-FENS's abandoned car. Both of them help Prendergast identify Foster as the unnamed vigilante he's looking for. Subverted with some of the guns in the gym bag. Foster uses an Uzi to shoot the gangbanger in the leg, a TEC-9 at Whammy Burger, a MAC-10 to shoot up the phone, a shotgun at the golf course, and a 1911 towards the end of the film, but there are a large variety of guns in the bag, and even if you assume the last two guns were taken from Nick the Neo Nazi, many of them don't get used. Prendergast's service revolver could be considered Chekhov's lack of gun. He's seen turning it in, as he's on his last day, and consequently finds himself unarmed at an inconvenient moment at the film's climax, forcing him to borrow a wounded Sandra's weapon to face Foster.
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Falling Down / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Falling Down / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Foster's moniker "D-Fens," as aside from his defensive encounters with the Mexican hoodlums and the Neo-Nazi store owner, he's a full blown aggressor throughout the film.
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Falling Down / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Falling Down / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: To the vigilante movie. Foster is presented as a Villain Protagonist who has more in common with a spree killer than anything, his grievances with society justifying his actions less and less as the film progresses.
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Falling Down / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Falling Down / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Prendergast's daughter died from SIDS, contributing to his troubled marriage with his wife. What makes it worse is that his daughter was two years old when she died, making her older than typical SIDS victims.
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Falling Down / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Falling Down / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Grand Theft Auto (its successor); Taxi Driver (what it's a successor to). Possibly to Colors, with its focus on violence in LA, which also featured Robert Duvall as a good cop. God Bless America's first act can easily be seen as Falling Down... Played for Laughs. Unhinged (2020) is also a successor, following an angry man who's been divorced and fired and is now lashing out, although Russell Crowe's character is portrayed much less sympathetically than Foster.
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Falling Down / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Falling Down / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: The Neo-Nazi has a skinhead look, but he's also a middle-aged man who seems to have gone bald naturally.
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Falling Down / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Falling Down / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The whole film takes place during a single day. Many countries even translated the title as "A Day of Fury".
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Falling Down / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Falling Down / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: The golfer who tried to hit Foster suffers a heart attack after being startled by Foster shooting his golf cart is left to die by Foster. The last we see of him he's on the ground and close to death, but still alive, so it's unknown whether if he died or was revived. It's possible that the former happened to him.
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Falling Down / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Falling Down / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Due to his explosive temper, Foster is this to both his wife and mother who are both constantly on edge around him and frightened of invoking his wrath. It's so bad his mother admits she is too frightened to eat with him for fear of pissing him off.
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Falling Down / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Falling Down / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: The gym bag.
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Falling Down / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
Falling Down / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: Bill Foster's mother describes her son this way. He barely speaks to her and behaves like a mindless robot at the dinner table, shoveling food into his mouth with no signs of emotion at all.
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Falling Down / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Falling Down / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: It's a close call, but ultimately subverted. Foster doesn't set out to go on a killing spree, he just kind of falls into that pattern accidentally and then goes with it once it's too late to change anything. The fact that most of his victims are Asshole Victims makes it much easier for him to become an accidental sociopath.
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Falling Down / int_30d43197	type	Remonstrating with a Gun
Falling Down / int_30d43197	comment	Remonstrating with a Gun: A famous example with the Whammy Burger scene. Subverted in that he is a maniac, with Foster using the opportunity to take a stand against the fifth or sixth trivial thing that has pissed him off that day.
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Falling Down / int_319a6fd7	type	Passed in Their Sleep
Falling Down / int_319a6fd7	comment	Passed in Their Sleep: Prendergast's daughter died a number of years ago in her sleep. Supposedly the cause was SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), even though Prendergast notes she was two years old.
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Falling Down / int_32e279c4	type	Humans Are Flawed
Falling Down / int_32e279c4	comment	Humans Are Flawed: Foster's cynical hatred of modern society at first makes it appear as if the film is portraying a Humans Are Bastards message with him as the lone hero willing to fight back against the petty grievances everyone is forced to put up with. The finale reveals that Prendergast is the true hero of the story, accepting that while Foster's views are sympathetic, they aren't an excuse to carve a narcissistic path of retribution against the world simply for existing.
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Falling Down / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
Falling Down / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: This applies to Foster's daughter Adele, as it is her birthday that he's trying to get to. It's also why Foster bought the snowglobe and gets hugely pissed when the Neo-Nazi surplus owner smashes it. Eventually, the climax of the film is a tense standoff with Foster, Prendergast, and Foster's estranged family. And finally, Beth (Foster's ex-wife) remembers Adele's birthday after the standoff and Foster's suicide-by-cop when a group of children show up with presents. Prendergast tells Beth to wait until after the birthday party to tell Adele about her father's fate.
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Falling Down / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Falling Down / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Foster, seeing a plastic surgeon's luxurious home, remarks that he chose the wrong career, echoing a similar lament by Michael Douglas's character, Jack Colton, in Romancing the Stone.
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Falling Down / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Falling Down / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: While some of Foster's frustrations are somewhat understandable, attacking a cashier over the cost of soda and shooting up a fast food joint because they wouldn't serve him breakfast feel like a five-year-old whining over not getting the candy he wanted. The gangbangers act like teenage bullies: attacking what they see as a weak person only to chicken out when they see Foster can defend himself, throwing a furious tantrum over someone having the audacity to fight back, and recklessly firing guns without concern for the innocent people they hurt. When Foster finds one of the gangbangers on the ground after their car crashed, he's whimpering like a little baby. Nick the Neo-Nazi acts like a nasty overgrown schoolyard bully, antagonizing two gay men and Detective Torres for no reason except just to be a dick and happily throwing the word "faggot" around like a hypermasculine teenager. The way he shows off his stash of Nazi paraphernalia to Foster comes off like a teenager bragging about all the cool stuff he has.
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Falling Down / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Falling Down / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: The (supposedly) homeless guy who asks Foster for some money for food, and keeps digging himself deeper.
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Falling Down / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Falling Down / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: The homeless panhandler to whom Foster gives his briefcase just to shut him up. When the panhandler finds that there's nothing inside but a sandwich lunch, he calls Foster a son of a bitch and throws the apple at him, despite saying that he was hungry and could sell the briefcase to buy more food.
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Falling Down / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Falling Down / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Foster takes a moment to muse about him being on a first name basis with the Whammy Burger staff when he doesn't even know them. Sheila (the cashier) tells him he can call her Miss Folsom if he'd like. Later in the scene, when he decides to have lunch after all, he refers to her as such.
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Falling Down / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Falling Down / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The aggressive panhandler who tries to get Foster to give him some money just keeps on telling these, first claiming to have been stranded because he drove down to LA from Santa Barbara to visit a friend who owed him money but never showed up forcing him to sleep in his car, but when Foster asks to see his driver's license, car registration, or car he can produce none of the above. He then claims to be a Vietnam vet, and when Foster points out he's too young switches to claiming to be a Gulf War vet, before finally claiming he hasn't eaten in days...while holding a sandwich he'd been eating throughout this entire interaction. In the beginning of the movie after Foster abandons his car, Prendergast walks up to a cop and the motorist directly behind Foster's car having an argument about the issue and says that they should at least put the car in neutral and push it off the road to keep a lane of traffic open. The cop not only brushes off Prendergast's suggestion but also tells him to get back in his car as there's lots of "Glass and steel rushing by at high speeds" despite the fact that there is currently a massive traffic jam right behind him.
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Falling Down / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Falling Down / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Los Angeles. This film and the film Grand Canyon (and the 1992 riots) popularized the notion that LA was no movie-star paradise. Crash has similar themes.
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Falling Down / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Falling Down / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Foster finally realizes that his criminal activities aren't some grandiose justified cause so much as petty retribution that isn't doing much to change society other than cause some excess collateral damage. However, he refuses to be arrested and forced to watch his daughter grow up through prison bars, so he instead tricks Prendergast into killing him so his family can at least collect the insurance money.
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Falling Down / int_42eb0460	type	Going Postal
Falling Down / int_42eb0460	comment	Going Postal: Foster/D-Fens. He doesn't actually do it while on the job (in fact, it's later revealed that he was fired about a month before and that he was pretending to go to work each day since then), and his lashing out at society involves more threats at gunpoint than murder, but it otherwise serves the purposes of this trope. However, it is subverted by Sgt. Prendergast who faces much the same frustrations Foster does, but handles them with reasonably civilized maturity and empathy. Furthermore, when the two characters meet at the climax at the film, Prendergast cuts down Foster's whining about being deceived by noting that everyone endures that problem, but that is no excuse for the several violent crimes Foster has committed that day.
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Falling Down / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Falling Down / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Foster always tries to stay calm, but his vile temper is clearly on display in many of his interactions, such as the fast food restaurant where he speaks calmly but his nearly murderous rage is clear in his voice.
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Falling Down / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Falling Down / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Prendergast vs. Foster
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Falling Down / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Falling Down / int_4781adbb	comment	Foster as well, but with a heart of gold to some extent. He had a short temper when dealing with his wife and their daughter, and shortly before his rampage, got to the point where his mom not being able to finish her food at the dinner table was enough to invoke a rage-filled Death Glare. He also makes a couple rude remarks about the store owner's admittedly bad English, asking if they don't have "V"'s in China. His issues are linked with anger instead of malice, however.
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Falling Down / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Falling Down / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Deconstructed. Everything goes wrong for Foster throughout the movie, and even before that his life was on a downward spiral. This leads to his Sanity Slippage and him going off the deep end.
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Falling Down / int_4ebd9efb	type	Spree Killer
Falling Down / int_4ebd9efb	comment	Spree Killer: Foster technically isn't one due to his low body count, but he's otherwise framed as a common spree killer archetype, a man who starts shooting up civilians after snapping in frustration with his life.
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Falling Down / int_505f6a99	type	Showdown at High Noon
Falling Down / int_505f6a99	comment	Showdown at High Noon: Invoked and lampshaded by Foster, who wants to go out in a blaze of glory.
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Falling Down / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Falling Down / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
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Falling Down / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Falling Down / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Foster's MO (albeit a milder case). The things with the Neo-Nazi and the Mexican hoodlums don't quite fit the "Disproportionate" part, though. The hoodlums themselves try to kill Foster because he dares to stand up to them. The most notable example of this is when he takes a fast food place hostage just because he wants breakfast, which they stopped serving just a minute or two before he walked in. The real kicker is when he changes his mind and gets lunch anyway! The old golfer throws a fit, yells at his companion, and nearly hits Foster with a golf ball just because he couldn't stand to have his golf game interrupted for a few minutes.
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Falling Down / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Falling Down / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: "I think it's out of order."
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Falling Down / int_524f397c	type	Madden Into Misanthropy
Falling Down / int_524f397c	comment	Madden Into Misanthropy: The main character is fired, divorced, and stuck in traffic. Already mentally unstable and prone to violent outbursts, he decides his mission is to spend the day with his daughter on her birthday, no matter what. Turns out, he was always like that...and was fired a WHILE ago, only to keep commuting...and had a restraining order against him...
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Falling Down / int_54d5ad9a	type	Asian Rudeness
Falling Down / int_54d5ad9a	comment	Asian Rudeness: The Korean shopkeeper refuses to give Bill any change unless he buys something (even though his register is already open), and when his high prices won't leave Bill any change to make a phone call, the guy tells him to get lost in harsh broken English.
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Falling Down / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
Falling Down / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: Prendergast is a genuinely good cop aligned against a sympathetic, deeply troubled, yet violent man who can't deal with his problems maturely. While there are other truly bad people in the film, the primary conflict between Prendergast and Foster falls squarely under this.
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Falling Down / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Falling Down / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Foster towards his wife, to the point that she had a restraining order placed against him. Although when she explains to a police officer that the abuse was of an emotional nature (which is still just as serious as physical abuse) and that Bill never got physically violent, the cop is dismissive of her complaint, as if she's making a big deal out of nothing. In home movie footage, we see that Bill's anger issues sometimes manifested in scary outbursts directed toward his wife and child.
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Falling Down / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
Falling Down / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: The Neo-Nazi store owner is this when compared to Foster. While Foster is not "evil" per se, he is quite unhinged. The Neo-Nazi, on the other hand, is a pretty sick bastard, and that's putting it gently. Foster himself even lampshades this:
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Falling Down / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Falling Down / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: "You think I'm a thief? No. I'm not a thief. I'm not the one charging 85 cents for a STINKIN' SODA! You're the thief!"
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Falling Down / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Falling Down / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Foster gets crazier every hour. Should be noted that once he realizes he's just killed the Neo-Nazi, his threats against his wife become increasingly violent and morbid, whilst his actions (such as at the golf course) become more and more crazy. Probably justified, as Foster knows that he will eventually be apprehended for his actions, almost certainly getting life, and decides to throw caution to the wind and at least see his daughter one more time.
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Falling Down / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Falling Down / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Foster. His wife divorced him because of it, and even his mother admits to being frightened of him.
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Falling Down / int_649f5bec	type	Creepy Souvenir
Falling Down / int_649f5bec	comment	Creepy Souvenir: The prized possession of the Neo-Nazi is a used can of Zyklon-B. He fantasizes about how many Jews were gassed with it.
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Falling Down / int_64dd304c	type	Pre-emptive Declaration
Falling Down / int_64dd304c	comment	Pre-emptive Declaration: When Foster uses the phonebooth:
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Falling Down / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Falling Down / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Nothing is going to stop Foster on his way across LA to his ex-wife and daughter.
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Falling Down / int_67b24bc8	type	Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell
Falling Down / int_67b24bc8	comment	Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell: Or more accurately Why We Felt Completely Emasculated When We Lost Our Job Due To The Early 90's Defense Budget Cuts. Or Why D-Fens Is Bummed Communism Fell. It's a major part of the plot and of the subtext of the film. There is no longer one Big Bad who is unambiguously evil, merely a load of lesser evils in a world that some feel is beginning to spin off its axis.
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Falling Down / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Falling Down / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: The Neo-Nazi's private storeroom.
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Falling Down / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Falling Down / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Nick has a private room full of Nazi memorabilia in his shop, including a used can of Zyklon-B nerve gas, which he gleefully shows off to Bill.
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Falling Down / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Falling Down / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While the restaurant manager acts like an ass, his behavior is understandable. Fast food restaurants that served breakfast at that time used the same equipment to serve breakfast and lunch. One would have to clean the stove-tops, fryers, and toasters, then reset their cooking timers and temperatures, which would take several minutes. So it was more than proper to refuse Foster's request, rather than take twenty minutes to serve a single customer just as the lunch rush was starting. And anyone who has worked in a restaurant can tell you that when a customer says, "The customer is always right," it is usually their attempt to justify an unreasonable demand, which explains why the manager gave a sarcastic non-apology. However, when the manager actually acquiesces to Foster's demands, Sheila simply picks up a box that's being kept warm, implying that they still had some breakfasts ready to serve anyway. Many of Foster's gripes, that the traffic jam is solely due to the city spending its inflated construction budget without caring who they inconvenience, that the convenience store owner is a jerk who won't do something as minor as give him change, that the golfer is a rich bastard who could have just let him pass through, that he was fired despite being promised opportunity and decent life, and that the food in Whammy Burger is pathetic compared to what's advertised, are not off base and things many viewers can find themselves in agreement with. His reactions, not so much. While the golfer only had to wait a few minutes for Foster to pass through, and there was absolutely no excuse to pitch a golf ball to try to deliberately injure him, Foster is trespassing on private property.
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Falling Down / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Falling Down / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Foster gets violently angry over slight things, such as the fact that he can't get breakfast at a fast food joint two minutes after they stopped serving it.
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Falling Down / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Falling Down / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Foster. Especially towards the asshole golfer.
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Falling Down / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Falling Down / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: By the end of the day, Foster, having finally passed the point of no return and seen the irrevocable effects on his life that his actions in the film and events prior have culminated in, finally says screw it and invokes Suicide by Cop.
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Falling Down / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
Falling Down / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: When Foster thinks he's accidentally hurt an innocent girl (actually the blood on her came from his cut hand earlier), when he watches old home movies and notices that he acts controlling and short-tempered in them, and finally his Heel Realization that he's "the bad guy." The final nail in the coffin is Prendergast's "The Reason You Suck" Speech which cements his status and leads him to commit Suicide by Cop
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Falling Down / int_6d9c238	type	Fake Food
Falling Down / int_6d9c238	comment	Fake Food: Foster's burger doesn't look even remotely like its marketing picture. This makes him angry.
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Falling Down / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Falling Down / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: While Foster might be a bad-tempered and unstable individual who acts very irrationally, he does make a few valid points about some of the situations and people he encounters. For starters, the convenience store clerk was overcharging for certain items (like a simple can of soda) and wouldn't help Foster break a dollar for change to use the phone. The fast food staff were very unhelpful, patronizing, and wouldn't serve Foster breakfast just one minute past the time when it would've been easy to just give a him a breakfast that was warm and ready to serve anyway. Foster is not quite a model citizen, but he's definitely not a sick bastard like the neo-Nazi surplus store owner. A golf course isn't really a good use of property as a whole. Parks, playgrounds, and a petting zoo would've been a great asset to the local community for minimal cost instead of an exclusive golf course for only a small handful of people who can afford the extravagant fees. The construction crew was tearing up the street and causing a nasty traffic jam for seemingly no practical reason. The construction guy that Foster talks to was also just laying around and was a sarcastic jerk to boot.
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Falling Down / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Falling Down / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: The hoodlums attempt to do this to Foster. It doesn't end well for them.
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Falling Down / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Falling Down / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Prendergast. This changes by the end.
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Falling Down / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Falling Down / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Foster, after leaving his car.
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Falling Down / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Falling Down / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: The neo-Nazi store owner who erroneously thinks Foster shares his beliefs. If you interpret Foster as a Villain Protagonist, he certainly meets this description, given his casual racism to the Korean shopkeeper early in the film.
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Falling Down / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Falling Down / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The film's now famous poster (see above) shows Foster in a white shirt and tie with a shotgun in one hand and a briefcase in the other. He is never actually seen with that combination in the movie: by the time he first draws the shotgun, he has long gotten rid of the briefcase and changed into army fatigues (the only firearm he uses wearing the shirt is the submachine gun).
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Falling Down / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Falling Down / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: After his Heel Realization, Foster draws a water pistol on Prendergast so the cop will shoot him.
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Falling Down / int_73f8d546	type	Working-Class Hero
Falling Down / int_73f8d546	comment	Working-Class Hero: Depending on how you view him, Foster is either a very dark Anti-Hero version of this, or a straight deconstruction. While he is an educated man, he made his bones as an aerospace engineer working for a paycheck rather than a scientist or an academic. When he snaps after being laid off, he is the Angry White Man personified, raging at a society that left him and others like him behind and treading a very dark path that leaves nothing but destruction. For every cogent point he raises about the world he, the other characters, and the viewer live in, he then proceeds to cast a very dark shadow over it through his increasingly horrifying actions and his pettier and more questionable concerns.
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Falling Down / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Falling Down / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Not economically viable.
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Falling Down / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Falling Down / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Downplayed, but Foster does make an effort to be nicer to kids than adults. During the Whammy Burger scene, he tries to reassure a clearly frightened child and he later makes polite conversation with and tries to protect the kid who shows him how to use the rocket launcher. He also becomes immediately, immensely concerned for the safety of the little girl in the barbecuing family when, after he holds her hand with his bloody one and thus sees blood on hers, he worries that he's somehow hurt her accidentally.
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Falling Down / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
Falling Down / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Invoked by the neo-Nazi nutcase when he fantasizes about a black inmate raping Foster in prison.
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Falling Down / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
Falling Down / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: Deconstructed! Foster wants to go back to about three years ago, before he was divorced and living with his mom, and on a thematic level he wants to go back to the early sixties (the age of the "American Dream," and also when Koreans had a harder time getting into the country). Also Prendergast to a lesser extent, but here it's just treated like a "healthy" mid-life identity crisis. Furthermore, Prendergast gets over it in the end. Foster doesn't, and dies in Suicide by Cop.
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Falling Down / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Falling Down / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: The first weapon Michael Douglas gets is a sawed-off baseball bat he takes from a convenience store clerk. He later uses it on a group of hoodlums who try to take his briefcase.
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Falling Down / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Falling Down / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: How a really bad day can turn into a total nightmare, The Movie.
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Falling Down / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
Falling Down / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: The Neo-Nazi incorrectly assumes Foster shares his abhorrent views on race, gender, and sexuality. When Foster sets him straight, he's not happy.
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Falling Down / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Falling Down / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Foster is an Angry White Man formerly employed at an American arms company that makes missiles for the government, believes in American Exceptionalism and sees The '60s as The Good Old Days. He tells an immigrant with a thick accent that he should learn English and assumes that America gives his country money. He also takes offense to a Neo-Nazi idolizing him and gives him a lecture on civil rights, calling himself "an American" and drawing a line between the two.
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Falling Down / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
Falling Down / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: After the gangbangers crash their car performing a drive-by shooting, Foster shoots one of the injured gangbangers in the leg.
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Falling Down / int_7ac1f1e5	type	Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist
Falling Down / int_7ac1f1e5	comment	Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Sgt. Martin Prendergast is the Hero Antagonist. He opposes and tries to calm down the rampage of the Villain Protagonist.
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Falling Down / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Falling Down / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Most notably in the breakfast scene, where Foster's initial attempts to calm down the other patrons at the Whammy Burger are bungled by accidentally shredding part of the ceiling because his finger was on the trigger, and the rocket launcher scene, where it's less than a second between the kid telling him where the trigger is on the launcher and him accidentally firing while he's off-target, again because he had his finger on said trigger. Then again, Foster certainly isn't an expert. It's pretty scary that a random kid on the street knows how to properly use a rocket launcher, though.note It's explained that he learned about it from TV. Thankfully averted when Prendergast is instructed to surrender his sidearm before his retirement by a uniformed cop in the precinct. He opens the revolver's chamber and removes all the bullets before carefully offering the grip side to the officer, taking care to keep the barrel facing away from them both.
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Falling Down / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Falling Down / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Sgt. Prendergast puts Foster in his place during the final showdown.
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Falling Down / int_7e1184d8	type	Suspect Is Hatless
Falling Down / int_7e1184d8	comment	Suspect Is Hatless: When Prendergast asks Angie to describe D-FENS: Afterwards, the best description Prendergast can come up with for the mysterious D-FENS is that he's a middle-aged white man wearing a white shirt and tie and carrying a gym bag. Captain Yardley finds this...less than helpful:
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Falling Down / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Falling Down / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Foster, aka D-Fens. Even if he was unstable, you can sympathize with him when you see how his country "thanked" him for his services.
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Falling Down / int_7f413791	type	Wall of Weapons
Falling Down / int_7f413791	comment	Wall of Weapons: Everything really goes to hell after Foster gains possession of a duffel bag full of loaded firearms.
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Falling Down / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Falling Down / int_8042e814	comment	Blink and you'll miss it, but Yardley actually starts smiling after this, implying that Prendergast's return to the force by the end of the movie will now be a more pleasant one and segueing this trope into Yardley's moment.
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Falling Down / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Falling Down / int_808cbaeb	comment	Many of Foster's gripes, that the traffic jam is solely due to the city spending its inflated construction budget without caring who they inconvenience, that the convenience store owner is a jerk who won't do something as minor as give him change, that the golfer is a rich bastard who could have just let him pass through, that he was fired despite being promised opportunity and decent life, and that the food in Whammy Burger is pathetic compared to what's advertised, are not off base and things many viewers can find themselves in agreement with. His reactions, not so much.
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Falling Down / int_815db542	type	Phony Veteran
Falling Down / int_815db542	comment	Phony Veteran: The homeless guy tries to pass himself off as a Vietnam vet. Foster wisely points out that he's barely older than 30 and would've been a kid at the time of the war. The homeless guy insists that he meant to say that he served in the Gulf war.
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Falling Down / int_82384b1	type	Never Hurt an Innocent
Falling Down / int_82384b1	comment	Never Hurt an Innocent: Bill has no qualms about using violence (or the threat of violence) against people who piss him off, but he's horrified at the idea that the groundskeeper at the plastic surgeon's house believes he would hurt his wife and children.
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Falling Down / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Falling Down / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: "I'm going home! Clear a path you motherfucker, I'm going home!!!"
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Falling Down / int_8355aa1b	type	Revenge Is Not Justice
Falling Down / int_8355aa1b	comment	Revenge Is Not Justice: Deconstructed. Foster's rampage is caused by stress revolving around the loss of his job, marriage, and access to his child, and the general degradation of modern society. It gradually gets more dangerous and destructive. He busts up a shop because the owner was rude to him and all his merchandise was offensively overpriced, he attacks some thugs for trying to rob him and subsequently drive-by-shoot him, he lets an angry old man die from a heart attack after trying to hit him with a golf ball just because he was passing through the golf course, destroys a road to give a wasteful construction crew something to really fix, he kills a man for breaking his daughter's birthday gift and trying to turn him into the police, and Prendergast believes he might be planning to kill his ex-wife, daughter, and himself. Sergeant Prendergast empathizes with him because he lost his daughter to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, but he rejects Foster's excuse because none of these things gave him the right to go on a rampage.
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Falling Down / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Falling Down / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: In real life, Foster's crimes and his Suicide by Cop would leave his family with nothing, because insurance companies don't pay out benefits for losses incurred during the commission of a felony. Of course, Foster himself doesn't know that.
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Falling Down / int_853f8327	type	Unconfessed Unemployment
Falling Down / int_853f8327	comment	Unconfessed Unemployment: As Foster goes on his violent rampage throughout the city, the cops discover that he has actually lost his job as a missile engineer a month before as a result of budget cuts in the military. All that time he has nevertheless been going out every day fully dressed, but apparently doing nothing. Neither his ex-wife nor even his mother, whom he was living with at the time, knew this.
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Falling Down / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Falling Down / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: The Neo-Nazi was highly enamored of Foster when he thought his actions were a vigilante spree directed solely at homosexuals and racial minorities, to the extent that he hides him from the police and kits him out with a combat suit and a rocket launcher, gratis, so he can continue his rampage in the same fashion. When Foster points out that he couldn't be more wrong, he turns extremely vicious. Done on a narrative level with the audience regarding Foster himself. The film has the audience believe that Foster is the hero and that his anger towards the world for treating him as expendable is justified... until the end, where Prendergast confronts Foster and reveals he was the villain all along. No matter how asshole-ish people were, no matter what they did to him, Foster still had no right to violently vent his frustrations on everyone, which is what he was actually doing the entire time. This is marked as the moment Foster realizes what he's become, and the moment the audience's admiration for him is broken as they, too, are forced to see that they were essentially supporting a criminal. Fittingly, the movie poster above depicts Foster standing on a pedestal not unlike a hero's statue, which echoes the audience's initial impression of him.
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Falling Down / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Falling Down / int_875615dd	comment	A car full of gang members pulls a drive-by on Foster. They shoot up the street, hitting everyone except Foster, and crash into another car, killing themselves and leaving a bag full of weapons for Foster to find. Somewhat Truth in Television as all too often, bystanders rather than the actual target get killed in street shootings, not to mention, they don't know how to aim.
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Falling Down / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Falling Down / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Foster isn't truly a bad guy throughout most of the movie, but his unwillingness to deal with his serious anger issues and leave his wife in peace makes him close to one. The other genuine bad guys in the movie are clearly utter scum, from murderous gangsters to murderous neo-nazis. Only Prendergast represents a higher moral standard, but he's been so beaten-down by the world (and his wife) that he's forgotten that.
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Falling Down / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Falling Down / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Nick the Neo-Nazi to Bill Foster.
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Falling Down / int_88f16cee	type	Go Out with a Smile
Falling Down / int_88f16cee	comment	Go Out with a Smile: Foster smiles after Prendergast shoots him, reveals that he never had anything but a water gun, and jokes that he "would have got" him.
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Falling Down / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Falling Down / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Foster
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Falling Down / int_8af721f7	type	Joke Item
Falling Down / int_8af721f7	comment	Inverted after the rocket launcher gets used. Foster switches to a shotgun once he's used up the rocket, moves down to a 1911 pistol when he arrives at the house in Venice Beach, and finally to a water pistol after Beth tosses the 1911 off the pier.
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Falling Down / int_8e3980c7	type	Mistaken Nationality
Falling Down / int_8e3980c7	comment	Mistaken Nationality: Foster at first believes the Korean-American shopkeeper is from China. Later, Prendergast has to be told by his Japanese-American colleague that he can't translate what the shopkeeper is saying, as he isn't Korean.
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Falling Down / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Falling Down / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Foster's MO (albeit a milder case). The things with the Neo-Nazi and the Mexican hoodlums don't quite fit the "Disproportionate" part, though. The hoodlums themselves try to kill Foster because he dares to stand up to them. The most notable example of this is when he takes a fast food place hostage just because he wants breakfast, which they stopped serving just a minute or two before he walked in. The real kicker is when he changes his mind and gets lunch anyway!
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Falling Down / int_8f233b1b	type	Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness
Falling Down / int_8f233b1b	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness: Played straight. Oh, so played straight, to the point that comparisons to Grand Theft Auto have come up. An unstable but harmless middle class white guy gets out of his car. He steals an Asian shopkeeper's baseball bat. He uses the baseball bat to beat up a couple hoodlums, and pockets their butterfly knife. Then he steals their duffel bag full of firearms. Then he takes a combat suit and a shoulder-fired rocket launcher from an army surplus store. Inverted after the rocket launcher gets used. Foster switches to a shotgun once he's used up the rocket, moves down to a 1911 pistol when he arrives at the house in Venice Beach, and finally to a water pistol after Beth tosses the 1911 off the pier.
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Falling Down / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Falling Down / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: A child sees Foster having trouble with the bazooka. He assumes that Foster is an actor shooting a movie and coaches him about how to fire it on the spot.
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Falling Down / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Falling Down / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Nick the Neo Nazi's reaction to being stabbed with a butterfly knife is to stare in shock and mutter that the knife isn't one of his.
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Falling Down / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Falling Down / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: More or less the whole plot. Also counts as Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter
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Falling Down / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Falling Down / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Happens when Foster waves a gun in the face of a woman eating at the fast food joint and he asks if she's enjoying her meal.
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Falling Down / int_94e7d8f	type	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!
Falling Down / int_94e7d8f	comment	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: In Foster's Suicide by Cop he pulls a watergun, invoking this trope.
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Falling Down / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Falling Down / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: It's essentially one of these spread throughout a movie.
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Falling Down / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Falling Down / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Of the slow-burning variety. It begins when Foster is sitting in his wife's home watching an old home movie. He appears visibly upset and perhaps even a tad remorseful when he sees himself blowing up at his wife over something trivial. It takes from that point to the end of the movie for it to fully sink in. Prendergast's "The Reason You Suck" Speech is the Coup de GrÃ¢ce which makes Foster realize just how far he's fallen.
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Falling Down / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Falling Down / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Foster can come across like this on occasion, such as in Whammy Burger where he makes casual conversation with other customers and tells them to keep eating their food after he pulls out a gun. It's an unusual case as it's likely intended to be a genuine display of manners and to keep people from panicking but it comes across as this anyway. He also deliberately adopts this tone with the golfer.
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Falling Down / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Falling Down / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Prendergast had to go through the ordeal of losing his own daughter to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), made even worse by the fact that she was two years old. His wife was never the same afterward, and Prendergast sacrificed his career for a desk job because he was afraid of leaving his wife alone should he die as well. Unfortunately, his devotion to his wife earned him nothing but scorn from his Jerkass colleagues, which he had to put up with for years on top of his wife's mental problems.
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Falling Down / int_95ff52c7	type	Guns Do Not Work That Way
Falling Down / int_95ff52c7	comment	Guns Do Not Work That Way: Contrary to what Nick says, M72 LAW is not a heatseeker nor guided missile, just plain old rocket-propelled anti-armor grenade. It would also never be able to traverse the underground canal all the way to the end. It would just blow up at first collision after its fuse being primed.
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Falling Down / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
Falling Down / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: Gang members attempt to get revenge on Bill Foster with a drive-by shooting, but end up wounding everyone else on the block except him, before crashing into a telephone pole and being either killed or severely injured themselves.
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Falling Down / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Falling Down / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Where was Foster going every day after he lost his job?
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Falling Down / int_9843db6	type	Gangbangers
Falling Down / int_9843db6	comment	Gangbangers: Foster accidentally ends up on the self-proclaimed territory of some Hispanic gangsters, who subsequently try to mug him. After he fights them off, they try killing him in a drive by shooting, which fails spectacularly when they miss him entirely and crash their car.
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Falling Down / int_98b5f82b	type	Basement-Dweller
Falling Down / int_98b5f82b	comment	Basement-Dweller: It is revealed that Foster lives with his mother. Justified as Foster is divorced and lost his job.
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Falling Down / int_99ff79ee	type	Heat Wave
Falling Down / int_99ff79ee	comment	Heat Wave: The movie takes place on the hottest day of the summer. The heat adds to the tension of scenes nicely and adds yet another reason for Bill's breakdown.
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Falling Down / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Falling Down / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Bill's evolution from a normal everyday man into a Travis Bickle-like Vigilante Man. Also Prendergast, who after spending years working behind a desk rather than the streets as a police officer to please his wife, is the one who takes down Bill at the end of his rampage.
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Falling Down / int_9c63834f	type	BoringYetPractical
Falling Down / int_9c63834f	comment	Boring Yet Practical: The Neo-Nazi surplus store owner talks about two kinds of combat boots to Foster. The first is a pair of top of the line, expensive boots with glowing recommendations from the Sierra Club but, which he quite loudly notes so a gay couple browsing can hear, "are for pussies and faggots." The other is a pair of Vietnam jungle boots that he notes cost half as much, will last twice as long and, again in his words, are "great for stomping queers." In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment during the rocket launcher scene, you can see that Foster is actually seen wearing the expensive boots, probably out of spite and with no actual monetary cost to himself.
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Falling Down / int_9cb5e4bb	type	Evil Costume Switch
Falling Down / int_9cb5e4bb	comment	Evil Costume Switch: Foster isn't a good guy by any means, but he doesn't actually kill anyone directly until his visit to the Neo Nazi's army surplus store. After killing Nick, he changes from his white shirt into a set of combat fatigues, which are darker in colour, signifying his transition from an almost sympathetic character to someone rather irredeemable. The first scene he's depicted wearing this outfit is even his "point of no return" speech to Beth, further hammering the trope home.
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Falling Down / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Falling Down / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The black protester who gets arrested is wearing the same shirt and tie as Foster. "Not economically viable" anyone? At the beginning of the film, Fosterâ€™s way of trying to deal with the fly in his car subtly shows off his anger issues. When Foster uses his newspaper to cover the hole in his shoe, the audience can clearly see that he's circled several job adverts, foreshadowing the later revelation that he's lost his job.
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Falling Down / int_9eeb5455	type	Evil Virtues
Falling Down / int_9eeb5455	comment	Evil Virtues: Nick doesn't sell Foster out when he thinks Bill's a fellow nazi.
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Falling Down / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
Falling Down / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: An interesting version where not only does the protagonist Bill Foster aka D-FENS become "the bad guy," but the roles are also reversed with his Hero Antagonist Sergeant Prendergast, who initially seems like a forgettable side character. Foster starts the film by lashing out at the societal annoyances he sees around him, but his actions become increasingly bolder as he takes an entire restaurant hostage to complain about the service and food, blows up a construction site, and causes at least two deaths. By the time that Foster and Prendergast come face to face,and Foster realizes that he's the bad guy in all this and the Decoy Protagonist, it comes as a shock to the audience who are likely identifying with Bill up until then.
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Falling Down / int_a0ee1da5	type	Kitsch Collection
Falling Down / int_a0ee1da5	comment	Kitsch Collection: Foster's mom's glass figurines. Also the Neo-Nazi's... stuff.
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Falling Down / int_a1154544	type	Grumpy Old Man
Falling Down / int_a1154544	comment	Grumpy Old Man: The golfer who tries to hit Foster with a golf ball is an old man who is very pissy, even to his friend.
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Falling Down / int_a1a3ec96	type	Bratty Food Demand
Falling Down / int_a1a3ec96	comment	Bratty Food Demand: Foster pulls out a gun at a burger joint when the manager refuses to serve him breakfast.
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Falling Down / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Falling Down / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Foster has this reaction when he thinks he's hurt the little girl he holds the hand of while leading her and her family out of view. Also, while he watches his home movies and sees how much he berated his wife and daughter, he seems to feel genuine shame.
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Falling Down / int_a32dcd7f	type	Desk Jockey
Falling Down / int_a32dcd7f	comment	Desk Jockey: Detective Prendergast is called this by his colleagues because he asked to be taken off the streets and given a desk job. What he never told them was that he didn't leave the streets out of cowardice, but to calm down his wife's hysterical fear that he would be killed on duty.
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Falling Down / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Falling Down / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: The two golfers that Foster comes across. One of them is more chill and believes him to be a groundskeeper trying to pass through, while his friend, Frank, is pissy enough to not only curse at him, but try and hit him with a golf ball when he refuses to get off the course. Even if Foster was a groundskeeper, it seems that Frank would have still tried to hit him with a golf ball.
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Falling Down / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Falling Down / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Strangely, William Foster is credited as D-Fens, his license plate number, despite never being called that in the film.
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Falling Down / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Falling Down / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The gang members manage to shoot just about everyone on the street except Foster during the drive-by. Although actually, drive-by shootings that kill several people but miss the intended target are known to happen quite often in real life. Combine with blatant abuse of Gangsta Style, and you have a recipe for disaster. Moments later, Foster picks up a gun, takes aim at one of the injured gang members, and misses from point blank range. He succeeds at the second attempt.
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Falling Down / int_a7e47a11	type	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
Falling Down / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Foster is very seriously pissed off when the neo-Nazi praises him for shooting people and says "We're the same, you and me."
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Falling Down / int_aa822c89	type	Disappointed by the Motive
Falling Down / int_aa822c89	comment	Disappointed by the Motive: After a whole film following Foster's rampage throughout L.A., Prendergast finally learns what's wrong with Foster. He's just an unemployed Angry White Man who unfairly lost his job for stupid economic reasons, and right now he's only trying to go to his daughter's birthday, though it may be implied that he was going to do much worse (Foster's wife even tells the cops that he needed professional help). Most of the other victims are the result of Foster getting pissed at people for the pettiest reasons. In the final act, the Sergeant gives Foster a "The Reason You Suck" Speech that goes like this:
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Falling Down / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Falling Down / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Foster's is his explosive temper. It's the cause of much of his behavior and the reason why his wife left him before the film's events take place.
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Falling Down / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Falling Down / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Bill himself to a degree, being emotionally abusive toward his wife and child, as well as his mother, though he's portrayed in a more sympathetic and relatable way.
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Falling Down / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Falling Down / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: The Korean shopkeeper's No-Sell response after Foster assumes that America sends Korea money and tries to use it against him.
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Falling Down / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
Falling Down / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The movie repeatedly shows that Foster has harmed innocent people with his bad temper and violent rampage, and that his misfortunes do not justify his behavior. During the climax, Prendergast tells him outright that being lied to does not excuse his rampage, and pities Foster's pettiness.
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Falling Down / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Falling Down / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Both Foster and Prendergast have their moments. Prendergast: Foster:
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Falling Down / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Falling Down / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: The encounter at the convenience store is drawn out and destructive, and ends in Foster finally getting some change for the phone, only to find the line is busy. Foster pulls out a gun at Whammy Burger because the manager refused to serve him breakfastâ€¦ only to later decide that he doesnâ€™t want breakfast anymore and orders from the lunch menu. However, it's implied that Foster only drew a gun because the manager was very rude to him.
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Falling Down / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Falling Down / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Prendergast is henpecked at home by a needy and probably mentally ill wife who forced him to take a degrading desk job with the police department. He's also treated with ridicule and open contempt by the police chief and fellow police officers because they think he's a coward for working behind a desk. He tolerates all of the above stoically until the Foster case lands in his lap.
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Falling Down / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Falling Down / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: In Foster's mind being sent to prison is this as he refuses to surrender when he is cornered by Pendergast:
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Falling Down / int_b2407a69	type	Talk to the Fist
Falling Down / int_b2407a69	comment	Talk to the Fist: Both Foster and Prendergast get one each: Foster punches out a guy who's stuck in traffic midway through his rant at a woman who has cut him off. Prendergast punches out his Jerkass colleague for insulting his wife.
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Falling Down / int_b2ed4736	type	Bare Midriffs Are Feminine
Falling Down / int_b2ed4736	comment	Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: The Camp Gay man that is homophobically abused into at the store is wearing a crop top.
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Falling Down / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Falling Down / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: A much lighter case, but still. Foster deals with a lot of various annoyances, but sees nothing wrong with his disproportionately (except in the case of the Neo-Nazi and hoodlums) violent reactions. An example is when he attacks the Korean store-owner's shop. He is offended that the guy rudely refuses to give him change despite his register being open, overprices everything, speaks rudely with a heavy accent, and thinks he's a robber and tries to attack him with a bat. Foster is willing to pay a fair price for his soda, but he sees nothing wrong with smashing up the man's store for the overpricing, making rude and ignorant remarks in response to the store-owner's rudeness, and taking his bat for trying to attack him. Prendergast sums it up quite nicely:
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Falling Down / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Falling Down / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Foster has clearly gone off the deep end, but he is very disturbed by the Neo-Nazi and becomes enraged when he claims to find him a kindred spirit. He is also offended when he realizes that the groundskeeper assumed Foster would hurt his family and when the grocery store clerk thinks he's a thief.
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Falling Down / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Falling Down / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Not only do the gangsters fail to shoot Foster during a drive-by but they also end up crashing their car almost immediately after that which results in their death.
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Falling Down / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Falling Down / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Foster. While it's clear he was always a guy with a very bad temper, he also endured some terrible luck and it's clear he's as much a victim of his anger as everyone else around him is.
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Falling Down / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Falling Down / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Foster pulls out a gun at the burger joint because he doesn't want lunch, dammit, he wants breakfast! When he catches an old dude trying to sneak out, though, he seems to worry, and says "stay and finish your lunch!" and amusingly caves in totally, asking the terrorized staff for lunch after all.
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Falling Down / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Falling Down / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Doubles as a Brick Joke. Blink and you'll miss it, but Yardley actually starts smiling after this, implying that Prendergast's return to the force by the end of the movie will now be a more pleasant one and segueing this trope into Yardley's moment.
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Falling Down / int_bc502e4b	type	You Are What You Hate
Falling Down / int_bc502e4b	comment	You Are What You Hate: The neo-Nazi freak hates homosexuals, but dresses as a Manly Gay and obviously goes through sexual tension with Foster.
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Falling Down / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Falling Down / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Insulting Prendergast's wife. For all her issues, he still loves her enough to defend her from anyone who speaks badly of her. This is the premise of Foster's story, in a way. It just takes a while.
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Falling Down / int_bdf2a460	type	Tragic Dream
Falling Down / int_bdf2a460	comment	Tragic Dream: William just wants to reunite with his wife and daughter. That's not so hard...right?
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Falling Down / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
Falling Down / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Foster invokes this to the rude golfer he startled into having a heart attack.
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Falling Down / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
Falling Down / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": Prendergast finally confronts the man who snapped and went on a rampage in an attempt to get home, trying to make him face up to what he's become.
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Falling Down / int_bf3c7344	type	Snooty Sports
Falling Down / int_bf3c7344	comment	Snooty Sports: a wealthy golfer is one of Foster's Asshole Victims.
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Falling Down / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Falling Down / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Foster does this when the Neo-Nazi surplus owner destroys the snowglobe that he bought for his daughter.
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Falling Down / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Falling Down / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Foster. You don't become a defense contractor by being dumb.
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Falling Down / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Falling Down / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: How much worse can Foster's day get?
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Falling Down / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Falling Down / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Despite his troubled home life and the various humiliations he has to endure, Prendergast is unfailingly polite, tolerant, and friendly with everybody, to the point of being an Extreme Doormat. At least until he's pushed too far...
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Falling Down / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Falling Down / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Although Foster is eventually revealed to have not been very stable in terms of staying calm for a long time, the film still starts with him finally having enough of being stuck in a traffic jam and deciding to abandon his car and walk his way home come hell or high water.
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Falling Down / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Falling Down / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Foster pulls a milder one during the climax.
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Falling Down / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Falling Down / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Played with. It's Prendergast's last day working as a cop, and he's actually going into early retirement because he's afraid of getting killed on the job. Much lampshaded and discussed by his colleagues. Not only does Prendergast survive, but he decides not to retire after all.
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Falling Down / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
Falling Down / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: Foster goes on a mission to right the wrongs he sees in society by breaking a lot of laws. Foster himself denies that he's a vigilante, however, insisting that he's just trying to get to his daughter's birthday party and that everyone's getting in the way of that.
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Falling Down / int_cc86a5a1	type	Ballistic Discount
Falling Down / int_cc86a5a1	comment	Ballistic Discount: Rendered against a Neo-Nazi dealer in army surplus goods. Foster did not actually intend to rob him when he first walked in, but after he murders the guy during a scuffle, he figures he might as well take the guy's rocket launcher and a set of combat fatigues and army boots since he's probably going to prison anyway.
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Falling Down / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
Falling Down / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: When Foster first pulls out the bazooka, a group of bystanders mistake it for a movie shoot.
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Falling Down / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Falling Down / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Both Angie and Jim the golfer try to stop their friends from messing with Bill when he crosses their paths, but are ignored. Prendergast himself carries this throughout the film, being the only person on the police force to be paying enough attention to the day's events to piece together the links between reported crimes. Everyone around him but his partner Sandra thinks he's off his rocker.
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Falling Down / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Falling Down / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: William "D-FENS" Foster is dangerously insane and becomes increasingly violent, but at the same time he's also clearly a victim of powers beyond his control, and the audience is encouraged to feel catharsis through his actions even as the movie condemns them.
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Falling Down / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Falling Down / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Combat fatigues, actually, stolen from the neo-Nazi store owner, but the jacket reaches far enough past his waist to give a similar effect.
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Falling Down / int_d46a809e	type	Gangland Drive-By
Falling Down / int_d46a809e	comment	Gangland Drive-By: Foster gets into a scuffle with Hispanic gangsters when they try to rob him. They come back for revenge by performing a drive-by shooting against him. Unfortunately for them, they're such poor shots that they injure several other people but miss him completely before crashing their car.
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Falling Down / int_d47f35de	type	First Father Wins
Falling Down / int_d47f35de	comment	First Father Wins: While there's no romantic rival, reuniting with his wife and daughter is William Foster's primary motivation. Foster doesn't just have "frustrating flaws" the way so many First Dads have; he's insane to the point that his own mother is terrified of him, and his ex will do anything to keep away from him. Since it's a drama, it doesn't end well; Foster ends up committing Suicide by Cop.
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Falling Down / int_d5a060a8	type	Interchangeable Asian Cultures
Falling Down / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Prendergast asks an Asian-American detective to translate what a Korean store owner is saying. The detective points out that he's actually Japanese. Ironically, the actor who plays the Korean man (Michael Paul Chan) is Chinese, and the actor who plays the Japanese cop (Steve Park) is actually Korean. Winds up in Hypocritical Humor when the Japanese cop tries telling the Korean man, in Japanese, not to smoke in the station.
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Falling Down / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Falling Down / int_d67239d2	comment	Even Evil Can Be Loved: When the gangbangers' car crashes and they are injured and/or killed, their friend Angie (who is implied to be the girlfriend of one of them) races up to the scene, crying. Zigzagged with Foster. His wife and mother both seem to love him but are also frightened of his explosive temper, and it's clear that his anger has taken a serious toll on his relationships with each of them.
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Falling Down / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Falling Down / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Foster's nickname, D-FENS, taken from his Vanity License Plate, is a strange example. Nobody in the film calls him this but the closing credits do.
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Falling Down / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
Falling Down / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: A couple of candid point-of-view panning shots are used in the fast-food holdup scene. These pinpoint the moment where Foster realizes it is unreasonable to take an eatery full of people hostage just because they happened to stop serving breakfast a couple minutes before he walked in.
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Falling Down / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Falling Down / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Bill's briefcase. He refuses to give it up to a pair of thugs, making it appear to be something of value he needs to hold onto. He later gives it up to a homeless guy who discovers it contains nothing but Bill's packed lunch. It was all about the principle of the thing. This is also foreshadowing, as it's one of the first pieces of evidence that Foster wasn't actually going to work.
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Falling Down / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Falling Down / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Sergeant Prendergast just happens to be a few cars behind Foster on the freeway when he decides to abandon his car and walk home. This helps him identify Foster as a suspect later in the film. A car full of gang members pulls a drive-by on Foster. They shoot up the street, hitting everyone except Foster, and crash into another car, killing themselves and leaving a bag full of weapons for Foster to find. Somewhat Truth in Television as all too often, bystanders rather than the actual target get killed in street shootings, not to mention, they don't know how to aim. Foster decides to buy some shoes as his current ones are falling apart. The first shop that sells shoes that he happens to walk into is a military surplus shop run by a neo-Nazi who just so happens to have heard about Foster's exploits on the radio and just so happens to have come to the erroneous conclusion that Foster shares his prejudices, to the point that he is willing to protect Foster from the police and show Foster his collection of exotic weapons.
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Falling Down / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Elizabeth was emotionally abused by her husband Foster, who has a Hair-Trigger Temper, which motivated her to divorce and file a restraining order against him to protect their young daughter. When her daughter's birthday comes, her husband is gunning for both of them, restraining order be damned. He eventually does succeed in meeting them both, and it turns out he had a gun on him. Prendergast even theorizes Foster intended to kill his family and then himself, which he denies. Prendergast's marriage is also hardly a happy one. His wife is needy, clingy and apparently mentally ill. Among other things, she basically ruined her husband's career and self-respect by forcing him to take a desk job and later into early retirement. Losing a daughter to SIDS at age two might have contributed to it. It's not until he takes on Foster's case that he stands up to her. It's later subverted as Prendergast still loves his wife deep down and defends her from anyone who thinks badly of her, such as the Jerkass police sergeant who gets punched in the face for it.
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Falling Down / int_df332911	comment	Hellish L.A.: Traffic, heat waves, racial tensions, rich fat cats, apathetic service workers, homeless bums with made-up sob stories, neo-Nazis, gangbangers, the defense jobs laying everyone off now that the Cold War is over... welcome to Los Angeles in the early '90s.
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Falling Down / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: It seems like the story's main character is Bill Foster and Prendergast is a Hero Antagonist, but as the movie progresses and Foster becomes increasingly unhinged, they switch roles.
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Falling Down / int_dfe34623	comment	Nazisploitation: During the army surplus scene, Foster glances over some of the items the neo-Nazis owner possesses. Several books are clearly Nazi pornography.
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Falling Down / int_e0113647	comment	Decon-Recon Switch: A rare inversion of the usual mechanic. The first two acts basically build up Foster into a badass vigilante, even giving him the nickname of D-Fens, for the audience to root for...and then the final third deconstructs this premise entirely and shows that Prendergast is the real hero.
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Falling Down / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: The somewhat unassuming citizen Bill Foster reaches his Rage Breaking Point and becomes a feared vigilante known by the moniker "D-Fens" in the span of a day.
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Falling Down / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Prendergast. Sorta lampshaded when in the end Foster's daughter asks him what his name is.
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Falling Down / int_e2cbeee9	comment	The gang members manage to shoot just about everyone on the street except Foster during the drive-by. Although actually, drive-by shootings that kill several people but miss the intended target are known to happen quite often in real life. Combine with blatant abuse of Gangsta Style, and you have a recipe for disaster.
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Falling Down / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: Prendergast, Sandra, Adele, and perhaps Beth aside, most of the characters in this film are deeply unpleasant people. Bill Foster was an emotionally abusive husband to Beth and scared her so much that she slapped a restraining order on him. The people he encounters on his journey across the city include Gangbangers, a Neo Nazi, a Phony Veteran looking to mooch off him, a greedy shop owner who won't break a bill for a man in need and overcharges for everything in his store, a restaurant manager who won't give him a breakfast order despite the fact that breakfast only ended a minute prior and they still have breakfast meals warmed and ready to serve, a construction crew screwing up the roads for no reason other than justifying their inflated budget, and a golfer who intentionally attempts to hit him with a golf ball. Even some of Prendergast's colleagues at the LAPD are pricks, especially his captain and Sandra's new partner.
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Falling Down / int_e313b4e7	comment	Womanchild: Prendergast's wife is this: constantly whining about everything, forcing Prendergast to give up his work time to deal with her anxieties, and ordering him around to an inexcusable degree. At one point, Prendergast has to soothe her by singing a lullaby.
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Falling Down / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: The gay customers at the army surplus store. Also, we get hints that its neo-Nazi owner might be a closeted one, despite being a homophobe.
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Falling Down / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Foster, aka D-Fens. He's the definition of this. All he wants to do is get 20 miles across smog-infested LA in time for his daughter's birthday...on foot...and he will mow through anyone who tries to stop him.
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Falling Down / int_e5a6888c	comment	Quick Draw: Invoked by Foster during his duel with Prendergast, which turns out to be a Suicide by Cop.
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Falling Down / int_e5b75009	comment	"Psycho" Strings: Every now and then when Foster gets angry.
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Falling Down / int_e5e5d228	comment	Abusive Offspring: Foster was cruel to his mom, even blaming her for his failed marriage.
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Falling Down / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: While already a terrible setting filled with deeply self-centered and opportunistic people, these villains stand out as particularly odious: The Hispanic gangsters who try to extort and later murder Foster are callous thugs who are unwilling to reason with him, and willing to hurt or kill several innocent bystanders just to hit their target. They also show themselves to be Dirty Cowards; the two thugs at the beginning run away when Foster and his bat have the upper hand, and the surviving thug cravenly begs for Foster not to shoot him when minutes earlier he had tried to do the same to him. Nick the Neo Nazi is easily the most unpleasant of them all, for being bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic, racist and an all-around unrepentant Jerkass. It makes it all the more worth it that he is the only person in the film Foster straight up directly murders in cold-blood.
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Falling Down / int_e7fe3ece	comment	Ominous Walk: Foster hangs up the phone, turns around, and oh so slowly walks over to the crashed car of a group of gangbangers who moments ago attempted to kill him in a drive-by, but failed.
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Falling Down / int_ead7e42e	comment	Walking Armory: Quite literally as Foster carries a bag full of weapons and uses many of them on anyone who provokes his wrath, never using the same weapon twice.
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Falling Down / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Prendergast punches out his Jerkass colleague for insulting his wife.
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Falling Down / int_ec9a5f50	comment	Deconstructed Character Archetype: Foster is a deconstruction of Angry White Man characters. He believes that the world around him is oppressing him and is to blame for the problems he has in his personal life, and thus sees his violent backlash against the world around him to be righteous, yet he fails to see until at the very end of the movie that it's in fact that very same violent behavior that has led to many of his worst personal tragedies, primarily the domestic abuse he committed towards his wife and child that destroyed his marriage. Prendergast is a deconstruction of the Hero Antagonist. As a member of the L.A. Police Department, he is the antagonist of the film, and in most vigilante films, the fact that he's part of the system is supposed to make the audience side with Foster, an average joe who lost his job for trivial reasons and desperately wants to reunite with his family. The killings he participates in are also portrayed as heroic. However, Prendergast is gradually revealed to be similar to Foster, beaten down by Jerkass people, a mentally unstable spouse, and life in general, giving him a similar cynical outlook. His conflict with Foster is the moment when the film gets turned on its head. It's the lawful Prendergast who ultimately wins, sympathizing with Foster's troubles yet calling the latter out for being a petty, angry man who uses a bullshit excuse to justify his horrible actions. Foster reaches a Heel Realization over what a horrible person he's become and commits Suicide by Cop.
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Falling Down / int_f1919d5b	comment	Being Evil Sucks: Foster's not really "evil," but due to his unstable temper, he loses his wife and daughter and is forced to become a lonely fugitive.
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Falling Down / int_f197c220	comment	Burger Fool: With the misfortune to host Foster for a disappointing lunch.
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Falling Down / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Prendergast's wife was apparently one as a younger woman.
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Falling Down / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Prendergast and Torres are quite close, often meeting for lunch, but they're clearly just police partners and very good friends. Prendergast's wife goes mental when she answers his phone.
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Falling Down / int_f8394279	comment	Happier Home Movie: The film ends on one. An earlier one, however, subverts this by establishing that Bill was always someone with a horrid temper who often unleashed it on his wife, showing us that the breakdown of his marriage was a long time coming even before everything fell apart for him.
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Falling Down / int_f8df38e6	comment	Pater Familicide: Prendergast claims that Foster intends to do this to his wife and daughter, even though he refuses to admit it. It's ambiguous whether he planned to hurt them or not, but he almost certainly planned to take his own life at least. Earlier in the film, he does unambiguously threaten to kill his wife.
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Falling Down / int_f8e010ce	comment	The neo-Nazi store owner who erroneously thinks Foster shares his beliefs.
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Falling Down / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: This movie shows what could happen if a hard-working, white collar family man snaps. Although granted, Foster is shown to have already had anger management issues in the first place.
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Falling Down / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Foster's vigilantism makes him into this.
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Falling Down / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: The police captain Yardley gives Prendergast a verbal beating and says he's never liked him because he's never heard him curse. This sets up the moment at the very end of the film when the captain tries to honor Prendergast on news television and Prendergast curses for the first and only time in the film.
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Falling Down / int_fe793a63	comment	Last-Second Chance: The ending has Sgt. Martin Prendergast asking Foster to surrender so that he can still watch his little girl grow up. Foster refuses, insisting instead on a final shoot-out with Prendergast. It turns out to be Suicide by Cop, since Foster only has a water pistol.
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Falling Down / int_ff66d4c1	comment	Not So Similar: Many characters in the movie can be seen as twisted foils to Foster. Compare Foster's own patriotism, ignorance (seeming to hold the view that America is a godsend to the entire world, insisting his country gave Korea a ton of money for some unexplained reason), and how his acts of violence up until meeting the Nazi have only been directly harmful to a gang-banger who tried to kill him, with the Neo-Nazi who of course is an outright bigot who was apparently prepared to shoot two innocent people dead for getting pissed off at his slurs, and the gangsters themselves who tried to mug him at knife-point for being in their territory when he was already on his way out, and then tried to kill him anyway.
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Falling Down / int_ff7f34c5	comment	He also has a literal Pet the Dog at his daughter's home in Venice: After Beth and Adele make a run for it, Foster watches the home movie from when he bought the puppy. In the present day, he pets the dog lovingly. Though the rest of the footage shows him quickly getting angry, establishing that he always had a bad temper.
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