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Gleaming the Cube
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A 1989 movie starring Christian Slater, Gleaming the Cube features the exploits of Brian Kelly, who has an adopted Vietnamese brother named Vinh Kelly. Vinh dates a girl named Tina Trac, and he's the straight-arrow kid who, unlike Brian, never gets busted by the cops. As an example, Brian gets busted for illegally skateboarding in someone's emptied pool. Meanwhile, Vinh is fixing up Brian's geometry homework.Brian is your typical 80s skateboarder kid, a lot more interested in hanging out with his skating buddies than in keeping up with his school work. Unfortunately for him, reality intervenes when Vinh gets a little too curious about the activities of the VACRF, an anti-Communist organization whose stated purpose is to send medical supplies to Vietnam.This film is a minor cult classic among people who remember The '80s, but for the most part it tends to be overshadowed by Slater's later, far more memorable works Heathers and Pump Up the Volume.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The meaning of "gleaming the cube" is defined In-Universe as pushing yourself beyond the limit of what is normally possible - if you envision the normal limits of possibility as a cube, if you're beyond that limit then you're outside the cube and can polish the surface to make it shine.Note that this page will have unmarked spoilers about the movie. | |
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Bad Boss: Lawndale is not exactly hesitant about killing underlings. | |
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Covert Group with Mundane Front: The VACRF, ostensibly an anti-Communist medical relief organization, is actually running weapons to resistance groups in Vietnam. | |
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Dirty Communists:Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); }) | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Eight of Brian's friends all come zooming down towards Lawndale's stolen car as Brian himself comes up behind Lawndale to try and stop him from getting away. | |
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Accidental Murder: Brian's adoptive brother, Vinh, is killed when the VACRF mooks question him about what he was doing in their warehouse. | |
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Under the Truck / int_b8f6bc96 | |
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Wiper Start / int_b8f6bc96 |
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