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Gran Torino
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Gran Torino is a 2008 film, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, in what was once rumoured to be his final onscreen performancenote It wasn't; he later had lead roles in Trouble with the Curve, The Mule, and Cry Macho as well as a cameo in American Sniper since.He plays Walter "Walt" Kowalski, an elderly retired veteran of The Korean War living in Highland Park, Michigan (a rundown suburb of Detroit), shortly after the death of his wife. He has difficulty relating to his two grown-up sons, who are caught up in their own lives, and generally disapproves of the way the world is changing, such as the influx of the Hmong People, immigrants who fled Laos after The Vietnam War.Next door is Thao Vang Lor, a quiet boy who is pressured into joining his cousin Spider's gang. As part of his "initiation", Thao is pressured to steal Walt's prized possession, a 1972 Ford Gran Torino, but fails, and is caught. For dishonoring his family, Thao's mother asks Walt to accept Thao's help in doing chores around his house, which leads to an Odd Friendship. Spider, upset at Thao's rejection of his gang, begins to retaliate against the family, forcing Walt to intervene.Not to be confused with the series Gran Turismo. Or the My Hero Academia character. | |
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Retired Badass | |
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Retired Badass: Walt Kowalski embodies a realistic version of this trope, as well as being a Deconstruction of the trope. Walt's fighting skills don't help him in his life in the city. His recently deceased wife was all too aware that their two grown sons cannot empathize with Walt, so she asks the local Good Shepherd to keep an eye on him after her death. Walt’s antics and Badass Boasts give him a reputation of a Cranky Neighbor and only make things worse (see My God, What Have I Done?). His real act of bravery is realizing he is a Troubled Sympathetic Bigot, and the conflict is not solved by his acts of violence but with a Batman Gambit that invokes Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!. The only people who really felt protected by him were his neighbors. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Spider's gang rapes Sue to get back at Thao and Walt. This drives Walt over the edge, and into his sacrifice. | |
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Misanthrope Supreme: Walt, at first. | |
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One Last Smoke | |
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One Last Smoke: Once he's decided to face the gangsters, Walt treats himself to a wet shave, a tailor-fitted suit and a cigarette in the bathtub. | |
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Crucified Hero Shot | |
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Crucified Hero Shot: Walt, after he gets shot to death by the Hmong gang at the end of the movie. | |
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Surrogate Soliloquy | |
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Surrogate Soliloquy: Walt talks to his dog, when he gets really stressed he talks to himself. While he is talking to his dog about the woman next door, the woman next door is talking to herself saying the exact same things about him in another language. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: The final straw for Walt is when Sue is gang raped. He drops his shot glass in reaction. | |
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Incurable Cough of Death | |
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Incurable Cough of Death: Complete with coughing up blood for Walt. Justified, considering his age and heavy smoking; it's strongly implied to be lung cancer. | |
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Troubled Sympathetic Bigot | |
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Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: Due to a combination of factors, Walt is a Grade A Grumpy Old Man, and holds certain views about his Hmong neighbors that are continually challenged during the course of the movie. In the end he befriends Thao and gives him the prized Gran Torino. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Walt turns into one for Thao and Sue after becoming a grandfather figure to them. | |
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White Man's Burden | |
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White Man's Burden: Although Walt is bigoted in the beginning, he starts to take compassion to the Hmongs, eventually takes Thao under his wing and saves him from Spider's gang, and eventually manages to put away the gang for good by giving their neighbors a chance to speak out against them when he's murdered. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Walt offers Father Janovich a beer the day after Sue gets raped. Janovich exhaustedly says, "I'd love one." | |
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune | |
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Clint Eastwood co-wrote the song on the end credits. | |
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Knight in Sour Armor | |
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Knight in Sour Armor: Walt again. He's a sour, cynical bastard, but Sue correctly has him pegged as a good man. | |
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Genre Deconstruction | |
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Genre Deconstruction: In defiance of the common Vigilante Man trope Eastwood himself helped popularize, Walt's attempt to drive off the gang alone goes horribly wrong and just results in them being emboldened by their humiliation and brutally retaliating, beating and raping Sue and eventually killing Walt himself. What solves the issue is when Walt gets the police involved and plenty of witnesses to the gang's crimes. | |
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All | |
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All/Heel Realization: Invoked and played straight: Just after Walt accuses Father Janovich of being this, Father Janovitch asks him what Walt knows. Walt realizes that he knows plenty about death, but not a lot about life. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: In retaliation for them assaulting Thao, Walt tracks down Spider and his gang to their house and proceeds to beat and kick the shit out of Smokie when he's alone, before threatening to kill him if he touched Thao again, without raising his voice above a venom-filled whisper. | |
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Heel–Faith Turn | |
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Heel–Faith Turn: Possibly with Walt, even though he isn't technically a bad guy, given that his last words are ""Hail Mary, full of grace." It's a little ambiguous, though. His confession suggests that since the war he's been a curmudgeon, but actually a stand up truly good person with the worst sins he's confessing being either kissing a woman at a Christmas party 40 years prior, not paying the tax after selling an expensive possession, or not being close to his two sons. However, his second confession, to Thao in the basement, is what you'd expect from a veteran. It even is done through a grill similar to his first one. On the other hand, it's not clear that he had a well-formed conscience, at least from a Catholic perspective. e.g. You would think that his (relatively recent) history of using frequent racial slurs against minority groups would merit at least some mention in the confessional, and he also should have confessed that he hadn't been to Confession for X number of years, since Catholics who have attained the age of reason are required (under penalty of grave sin) to go to Confession at least once per year. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Most of the Hmong dialogue is untranslated, and that which does get translated is by interpreters in the scene rather than for the audience's benefit. | |
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Say Your Prayers | |
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Say Your Prayers: Walt whispers the first words of Hail Mary, when he's about to be killed. | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: Walt dislikes being called "Wally" by Sue. He eventually gets used to it. | |
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Jaded Washout | |
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Jaded Washout: Played With. Walt gets no respect from his family or - at first - the neighbors (and he's not really giving any excuse to doubt him), but he does eventually get respect from the neighbors, and has no trouble with money. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: See how Walt's family treat his wife's death and his granddaughter's greed and cruelty. | |
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Collateral Angst | |
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Collateral Angst: Sue spends most of the film as an engaging, intelligent, and interesting character. However, after she is beaten and gang-raped in order to motivate Walt's Heroic Sacrifice, that's it for her agency, and even dialogue, for the rest of the film. We only see her again, still bruised and shell-shocked, in the congregation at Walt's funeral. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Walt himself at the end. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Walt's plan to deal with Spider's gang is to spook them into using their itchy trigger fingers, gunning him down. He turns up unarmed, and creates a ruckus so people will watch his murder. As a result, Spider's gang is arrested for murdering an unarmed old white war hero. He's lucky that the whole gang opens fire on him and not just one or two of them. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Walt's pictures of the Korean War are stills from Kelly's Heroes. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness | |
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Took a Level in Kindness: Initially a grumpy old man, Walt slowly starts to bond with Sue and Thao, especially Thao. He helps set Thao on the right path, protects them from gangs and thugs, and makes the Heroic Sacrifice of baiting Spider and his gang into gunning him down with plenty of witnesses in order to lock them up and leave Thao and Sue alone for good. | |
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First-Name Basis | |
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First-Name Basis: When Walt allows the priest to use his name, it is a dramatic moment. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Walt is dead, but he was terminally ill anyway and his sacrifice lets justice be done. Thao gets the Torino, and has a bright future ahead of him, but Sue is traumatised after being gang-raped, and doesn't seem to be on the way to making any sort of recovery. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Walt finally calms down in the moments before his death. "Oh, I am at peace." | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Walt tries to hide his nice side with a racist exterior, but Sue is indeed correct in saying that he's a good man. | |
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Bait the Dog | |
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Bait the Dog: When Thao is being harassed by a gang of Mexican thugs, Spider and his gang come over to scare them off. At first, it seems like they're protecting Thao. However, as the film progresses, it becomes more or less clear that their first act of kindness was not at all genuine. | |
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Intergenerational Friendship | |
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Intergenerational Friendship: Walt is (based on the fact that he's a Korean War vet) in his late seventies or early eighties. He befriends siblings Thao and Sue, who are teenagers. Youa (also a teenager), the siblings' mother (in her thirties or forties), and Father Janovich, who is 27. Before them, he is Vitriolic Best Buds with Martin the barber, who's in his forties. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: Averted when Spider burns Thao's cheek with a cigarette. Played straight when Walt witnesses a ceremony where his Hmong neighbors cut the head off of a chicken. The cut itself is never shown but it's heard when it shown Walt's reaction to it. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: A funeral. | |
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Awesome McCoolname | |
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Awesome McCoolname: It’s implied that Spider gave himself the nickname because he thought it sounded cooler than his actual name, Fong. Sue apparently disagrees with this notion as she mocks him for what she sees as an Atrocious Alias. | |
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Vigilante Injustice | |
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Vigilante Injustice: Walt's attempt to help the Vang Lor family by assaulting a gang member leads to a drive-by shooting, the injury of Thao, and the kidnapping and rape of Sue. While Thao desires revenge, Walt imprisons him so he can't take revenge since Walt knows from experience that killing others isn't as glorious as Thao thinks. Walt instead orchestrates his own death, sacrificing himself so that Spider and the gang can be arrested. | |
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Convenient Terminal Illness | |
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Convenient Terminal Illness: It's implied Walt has lung cancer, as he coughs up blood several times during the movie. | |
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Not The Illness That Killed Them | |
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Not The Illness That Killed Them: While Walt does have some type of lung disease, he ends up getting murdered by Hmong gang in a Thanatos Gambit that gets them arrested. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: Walt levels quite a few over the course of the film. The film starts out with him glaring at virtually the whole cast. Walt's son turns around and gives one to Thao when Walt leaves his car to the young man instead of his grand daughter. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Walt provokes the gang into killing him in public so the members will be put away for his murder. | |
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Last Disrespects | |
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Last Disrespects: During the funeral of Walt Kowalski's wife, his granddaughter was dressed inappropriately and can be seen fiddling around on her cell phone during the service. Walt's sons start asking Walt if he wants to go to a "nice retirement place" so they could sell the house, and the same disrespectful granddaughter starts asking whether she could have some of the furniture and other possessions in the house. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_69681e01 | type |
Big Brother Instinct | |
| Gran Torino / int_69681e01 | comment |
Big Brother Instinct: Played straight with Sue when she bulldogs one of Spider's boys trying to kidnap Thao. | |
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Gran Torino / int_69681e01 | |
| Gran Torino / int_6a0dd0 | type |
Pretend Prejudice | |
| Gran Torino / int_6a0dd0 | comment |
Pretend Prejudice: Walt. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
| Gran Torino / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: After Sue was raped, Thao vowed revenge on Spider with the intention of killing him. Walt then had a very good reason to lock Thao in the basement, knowing the horrors of killing a person and that Thao giving into revenge could be a slippery slope that would make him end up just like Spider. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_6c7136b7 | type |
Tactful Translation | |
| Gran Torino / int_6c7136b7 | comment |
Tactful Translation: Sue attempts to provide one of these for her Racist Grandma's insults to Walt as "Welcome to our home", but given how angry the grandma is, even Walt who doesn't speak a word of Hmong gets the gist of what she's telling him. | |
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Gran Torino / int_6c7136b7 | |
| Gran Torino / int_6cbcd596 | type |
Gangbangers | |
| Gran Torino / int_6cbcd596 | comment |
Gangbangers: The Hmong boys are somewhere on the scale between this and a Generic Ethnic Crime Gang. | |
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Affectionate Gesture to the Head | |
| Gran Torino / int_6dbd3711 | comment |
Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Walt pats the head of a child in a Hmong household as a gesture of kindness; the family of the child is shocked by this due to their cultural differences. | |
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Gran Torino / int_6dbd3711 | |
| Gran Torino / int_6fb4d332 | type |
Invulnerable Knuckles | |
| Gran Torino / int_6fb4d332 | comment |
Invulnerable Knuckles: Averted. When Walt gives Smokie a beatdown to intimidate him and his fellow gang members into leaving Thao alone, Sue notices his bruised knuckles the next day. He further messes them up against his kitchen cabinets after Sue's rape. | |
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Gran Torino / int_6fb4d332 | |
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Suicide by Cop | |
| Gran Torino / int_73328e84 | comment |
Suicide by Cop: Walt pretends to have a gun so the gang will kill him and get locked up for murder. | |
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Gran Torino / int_73328e84 | |
| Gran Torino / int_7815ba15 | type |
N-Word Privileges | |
| Gran Torino / int_7815ba15 | comment |
N-Word Privileges: The film examines the rules around this a lot; Walt assumes N-word privileges towards everyone. Interestingly, Walt never actually uses literal N-word privileges, and when confronted by black thugs he opts for the common 1950's - 1970's racist terms "spook" and "spade" (the use of such seem to confuse the young men, or at least leaves them briefly nonplussed). | |
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Gran Torino / int_7815ba15 | |
| Gran Torino / int_79e43350 | type |
Bleak Abyss Retirement Home | |
| Gran Torino / int_79e43350 | comment |
Bleak Abyss Retirement Home: If Walt had let his son force him into a nursing home, odds are it would have been one of these. Walt certainly expects this trope to be in effect. | |
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Gran Torino / int_79e43350 | |
| Gran Torino / int_7a143509 | type |
Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
| Gran Torino / int_7a143509 | comment |
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Walt is kind of one. "The thing that haunts a man the most, are the orders he doesn't want to follow." | |
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Gran Torino / int_7a143509 | |
| Gran Torino / int_7cf2f728 | type |
Boomerang Bigot | |
| Gran Torino / int_7cf2f728 | comment |
Boomerang Bigot: Walt is a white Pole who throws derogatory slurs at everyone, including Poles and whites. | |
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Gran Torino / int_7cf2f728 | |
| Gran Torino / int_7d34f23a | type |
Reckless Gun Usage | |
| Gran Torino / int_7d34f23a | comment |
Reckless Gun Usage: Hinted at when Thao inadvertently points a rifle at Walt while examining it, evoking an unspoken rebuke. | |
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Gran Torino / int_7d34f23a | |
| Gran Torino / int_7de3aec2 | type |
What Does She See in Him? | |
| Gran Torino / int_7de3aec2 | comment |
What Does She See in Him?: Lampshaded when Walt is talking to Thao about attracting women, when he mentions that he, an unpleasant man, managed to marry a wonderful woman like his late wife. | |
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Gran Torino / int_7de3aec2 | |
| Gran Torino / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
| Gran Torino / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: Walt becomes a platonic example toward his Hmong neighbors. He says racist things to them and acts bothered by their help, but even they don't seem to buy it. | |
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Gran Torino / int_7ef728b1 | |
| Gran Torino / int_8163e2bb | type |
Dramatic Drop | |
| Gran Torino / int_8163e2bb | comment |
Dramatic Drop: Walt drops his glass when Sue returns from being gang-raped. | |
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Gran Torino / int_8163e2bb | |
| Gran Torino / int_8355aa1b | type |
Revenge Is Not Justice | |
| Gran Torino / int_8355aa1b | comment |
Revenge Is Not Justice: In a deconstruction of vigilante justice, Walt's attempt to help the Vang Lor family by assaulting a gang member leads to a drive-by shooting, the injuring of Thao, and the kidnapping and raping Sue. While Thao desires revenge, Walt imprisons him so he can't act on his revenge since Walt knows from experience that killing others isn't as glorious as Thao thinks. Walt instead orchestrates his own death so Spider and the gang can be arrested. | |
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Gran Torino / int_8355aa1b | |
| Gran Torino / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| Gran Torino / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: Walt has a few: "Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while that you shouldn't have fucked with? That's me." "Yeah, I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack fucks like you five feet high in Korea ... used you for sandbags." | |
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| Gran Torino / int_87802c9a | type |
Rice Burner | |
| Gran Torino / int_87802c9a | comment |
Rice Burner: Walt's will gives the Gran Torino to Thao on the condition that "you don't chop-top the roof like one of those beaners, don't paint any idiotic flames on it like some white trash hillbilly, and don't put a big, gay spoiler on the rear end like you see on all the other zipperheads' cars." Spider's car is a straight example. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_890d4ef2 | type |
Humiliation Conga | |
| Gran Torino / int_890d4ef2 | comment |
Humiliation Conga: Trey, in his one scene. He and Sue are accosted by three black youths who treat him with only contempt, tell him to go away, and start coming on strongly to an uninterested Sue. After he completely fails to defend Sue, Walt shows up and rescues her at gunpoint. When Trey tries to make nice with Walt, Walt treats him with even more contempt. We never see him again. | |
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Gran Torino / int_890d4ef2 | |
| Gran Torino / int_8a1215e0 | type |
Bratty Teenage Daughter | |
| Gran Torino / int_8a1215e0 | comment |
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Ashley Kowalski, granddaughter in this case. She smokes in Walt's garage and starts tactlessly asking for his possessions after he dies. | |
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Gran Torino / int_8a1215e0 | |
| Gran Torino / int_8a295a46 | type |
Cool Car | |
| Gran Torino / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: Everyone wants Walt's 1972 Gran Torino. | |
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Gran Torino / int_8a295a46 | |
| Gran Torino / int_8ae880f7 | type |
Deconstruction | |
| Gran Torino / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: What Unforgiven did for the Westerns that Clint Eastwood starred in, this film does for Clint Eastwood's other major genre, the urban vigilante film. | |
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Gran Torino / int_8ae880f7 | |
| Gran Torino / int_8b568cb7 | type |
Posthumous Character | |
| Gran Torino / int_8b568cb7 | comment |
Posthumous Character: Walt's wife. She was apparently a very religious woman and active in her local Catholic church. Walt loved her deeply. | |
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Gran Torino / int_8b568cb7 | |
| Gran Torino / int_8ec35181 | type |
Cranky Neighbor | |
| Gran Torino / int_8ec35181 | comment |
Cranky Neighbor: Walt, initially. The elderly Hmong lady next door is only too happy to return his sentiments. | |
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Gran Torino / int_8ec35181 | |
| Gran Torino / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Gran Torino / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: After Walt's wife dies, his sons and their families disrespectfully tried to get their hands on Walt's possessions. By the end of the film, Walt leaves them with nothing. | |
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Gran Torino / int_90e31482 | |
| Gran Torino / int_94d295c0 | type |
The Precious, Precious Car | |
| Gran Torino / int_94d295c0 | comment |
The Precious, Precious Car: Walt's Gran Torino. Not only is it vintage, Walt has a personal attachment to its construction: he was on the line where it was built. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_94e7d8f | type |
Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet! | |
| Gran Torino / int_94e7d8f | comment |
Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: Walt uses this in his sacrifice, pointing a finger gun at all of the armed gangsters and then drawing a lighter in an aggressive-looking manner, so the gang gets arrested for murdering an unarmed man. | |
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Gran Torino / int_94e7d8f | |
| Gran Torino / int_9820c37a | type |
Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! | |
| Gran Torino / int_9820c37a | comment |
Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: The reason Walt gets away with universal N-Word Privileges. | |
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Gran Torino / int_9820c37a | |
| Gran Torino / int_984ef9ef | type |
"Not So Different" Remark | |
| Gran Torino / int_984ef9ef | comment |
"Not So Different" Remark: Walt basically says this to himself when he's in the bathroom at the neighbor's house. He looks in the mirror says that, "God, I've got more in common with these gooks than I have with my own spoiled-rotten family." | |
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Gran Torino / int_984ef9ef | |
| Gran Torino / int_9cbf01d6 | type |
Stay in the Kitchen | |
| Gran Torino / int_9cbf01d6 | comment |
Stay in the Kitchen: The Hmong people traditionally believe that gardening, cooking and cleaning are women's work. Even Spider, who's less into the heritage than his cousins, invokes this trope, mostly to make fun of Thao for how often he's seen cleaning and gardening. Walt, on the other hand and in a surprising turn, doesn't invoke sexism of any kind. | |
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Gran Torino / int_9cbf01d6 | |
| Gran Torino / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Gran Torino / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The newspaper article (see the quote at the top of the page) foreshadows events at the end of the film. | |
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Gran Torino / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Gran Torino / int_a1154544 | type |
Grumpy Old Man | |
| Gran Torino / int_a1154544 | comment |
Grumpy Old Man: Walt Kowalski, complete with the classic "Get off my lawn!" line. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
| Gran Torino / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Done non-verbally, when Walt learns that his attempt to intimidate the Hmong gang ended up getting Sue beaten and raped. And this is on top of the drive-by at her house. Then he goes home and starts punching up his cabinets — even the glass ones — while verbally berating himself. Played comically by the priest when Walt finally comes to his church for confession. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_a5ff4294 | type |
Phoneaholic Teenager | |
| Gran Torino / int_a5ff4294 | comment |
Phoneaholic Teenager: Ashley, Walt's granddaughter, whines about not getting any coverage...during her grandmother's funeral. | |
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Gran Torino / int_a5ff4294 | |
| Gran Torino / int_a6c69bd | type |
MacGuffin | |
| Gran Torino / int_a6c69bd | comment |
MacGuffin: The Gran Torino. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_a6cda066 | type |
Rule of Three | |
| Gran Torino / int_a6cda066 | comment |
Rule of Three: Several examples include: Walt using a gun as a means to threaten 3 times, Thao and his attempt to steal the Gran Torino is mentioned three times including him actually trying to steal it and Walt visiting the Barber 3 times. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_b0ad6a1e | type |
Wrestler in All of Us | |
| Gran Torino / int_b0ad6a1e | comment |
Wrestler in All of Us: A blink if you miss moment, but before Walt steps out with his gun to stop the gang from dragging Thao, Sue bulldogs one of the members grabbing him. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_b1dde8fd | type |
Loophole Abuse | |
| Gran Torino / int_b1dde8fd | comment |
Loophole Abuse: Thao's family forces him to do work for Walt to make up for trying to steal his Gran Torino; Walt, however, doesn't want this, and only accepts when the family insists declining would be a grave insult. However, nobody specifies what sort of jobs he should do, so Walt's first job for him is something simple and meaningless: counting the number of birds in the trees around his house. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_b1e8a3b3 | type |
Coming of Age Story | |
| Gran Torino / int_b1e8a3b3 | comment |
Coming of Age Story: A delayed example — Walter Kowalski, even when he is a senior who has raised a family, still lives emotionally as the young soldier that crossed the Moral Event Horizon during the Korean War. He must assume he is a grumpy, jaded, cranky, Racist Grandpa who has alienated his own family and now that his wife has died is completely alone, so he can be a real Papa Wolf. | |
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| Gran Torino / int_b43dfc8d | type |
Your Days Are Numbered | |
| Gran Torino / int_b43dfc8d | comment |
Your Days Are Numbered: A longtime smoker, Walt suffers from coughing fits, occasionally coughing up blood. When he finally goes to see a doctor about it, it's made clear he doesn't have long to live, making his Heroic Sacrifice all the more understandable. | |
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Gran Torino / int_b43dfc8d | |
| Gran Torino / int_b6cc7fc0 | type |
Dysfunctional Family | |
| Gran Torino / int_b6cc7fc0 | comment |
Dysfunctional Family: Both Walt's and Thao's families. Walt's sons and their families hate him and just want his inheritance for their own selfish gains, while Thao is the cousin of Spider, who is a leader of the gang and the Big Bad. | |
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Gran Torino / int_b6cc7fc0 | |
| Gran Torino / int_b77eb3b2 | type |
Revenge by Proxy | |
| Gran Torino / int_b77eb3b2 | comment |
Revenge by Proxy: Spider's gang rapes Sue to get back at Thao and Walt. | |
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Gran Torino / int_b77eb3b2 | |
| Gran Torino / int_b84491a3 | type |
Wrong Insult Offence | |
| Gran Torino / int_b84491a3 | comment |
Wrong Insult Offence: This exchange occurs between Walt and Sue, a spunky teenaged member of the Hmong family who'd moved in next door, concerning an old stereotype about Asians eating dogs: | |
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Gran Torino / int_b84491a3 | |
| Gran Torino / int_b8dbe475 | type |
Blood from the Mouth | |
| Gran Torino / int_b8dbe475 | comment |
Blood from the Mouth: Walt periodically coughs up blood throughout the movie, foreshadowing his eventual death — though, interestingly, it's not whatever's causing that cough that does him in. | |
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Gran Torino / int_b8dbe475 | |
| Gran Torino / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
| Gran Torino / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: It's hard not to press Walt's: it is best not to steal his Gran Torino, get him to move into a retirement home, or, in a more heartwarming example, hurt Thao and Sue. | |
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Real Men Love Jesus | |
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Real Men Love Jesus: Walt disparages his local Good Shepherd but develops a respect for him. He reveals himself to be a believer in the end, when he says a Hail Mary before his death and ultimately donates his house to the church. | |
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You're Not My Father | |
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You're Not My Father: While they don't actually say this, it's clear Walt's two sons have irreconcilably denounced/disowned him as their father long before the film's events due to their established distant relationship, only caring to hope for his impeding death out of Irrational Hatred behind his back to relieve them of his existence to completely inherit his precious belongings for their own ends. However, they do express some grief at his funeral, one of them noticeably having tears in his eyes. | |
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I Have No Son! | |
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I Have No Son!: If Walt cutting off his sons and their families out of his will after his Heroic Sacrifice is any indication, likely for their Irrational Hatred of Walt and despicable You're Not My Father nature towards him in life. | |
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Asians Eat Pets | |
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Asians Eat Pets: The grumpy old man protagonist pesters his Hmong neighbors with dog-eating remarks. In turn Sue, the young neighbor, snarks they only do cats. He seems to be confused about whether or not to believe in the stereotype, but is willing to give them some trust over the matter. In the end, when his last will is read, it turns out he wished to leave his dog in their care on the condition they won't eat him. | |
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Higher Education Is for Women | |
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Higher Education Is for Women: | |
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Insult of Endearment | |
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Insult of Endearment: Walt's incessant use of racial slurs more or less matches this. He and his old friends at the barber shop call each other all kinds of names. | |
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Peer Pressure Makes You Evil | |
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Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: Sue notes that the women in Hmong society go to college while the men go to prison. We see Thao heavily pressured to join his cousin's gang. | |
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Good Shepherd | |
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Good Shepherd: The rookie priest Father Janovich tries his best to be this, and Walt's wife clearly liked him; Walt's not nearly as impressed, but then, he's a curmudgeon. In the end, Janovich admits to having learned a bit from Walt. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
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That Came Out Wrong: Thoa's attempt at speaking like a guy: | |
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Gangland Drive-By | |
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Gangland Drive-By: The gang shoots at Walt's windows in a drive-by. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite/Small Name, Big Ego: As a lot of Racist Grandpas, Walt regards himself as a man who knows plenty about life and death, and who is abused by those (other races) surrounding him. Everyone else thinks is just a Grumpy Old Man. The movie shows his Character Development from this to a realistic assessment of his qualities and weakness. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Walt's idea of male friendship is based around this setup, as shown with his barber and the construction foreman, and later Thao. Walt and Sue also have this going: she is the only Hmong he really respects at first because she refuses to take any crap from him. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: "Christ All Friday." Possibly meant as a Curse of The Ancients as well. | |
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Racist Grandma | |
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Racist Grandma: Walt is a deconstruction of this trope. The whole point of the movie is that Walt realizes the people who he has being directing racial slurs all his life aren't so different, that his experience as a soldier only let him know much more about death than about life, and that he is a Know-Nothing Know-It-All. | |
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Thanatos Gambit | |
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Thanatos Gambit: Walt's plan to bring the gangsters to justice involves his death. | |
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Punch a Wall | |
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Punch a Wall: Walt ends up doing this after Sue's rape, breaking several of his cabinet doors - even the glass ones - in his rage. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Before we are introduced to Spider and his gang, we have Walt's sons and their selfish families at the beginning of the movie planning to swindle Walt out of his possessions and their Irrational Hatred of their father. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Father Janovich goes Oh, Crap! when Walt finally decides to confess. | |
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy | |
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Trey, Sue's friend, acts and behaves like a ghetto rapper. None of this impresses the gangbangers who harass Sue, nor Walt, who finds him pathetic and annoying. | |
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Deconstructed Character Archetype | |
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Deconstructed Character Archetype: As mentioned in the above, this film deconstructs the usual Clint Eastwood character in his crime films like Unforgiven did for his western character. Walt in this movie has the usual grouchy standoffish behavior that Eastwood characters usally have. This also means his own family can't deal with him because of how difficult he is and likewise he has very few friends. When (like in the usual Eastwood movie) he tries to intervene in-between the conflict with Thao's family and the gang, he only makes the situation worse. Walt in the end also defeats the gang members in the end not by shooting them like what you expect in a Eastwood movie, but instead out smarting them into killing him in front of a whole bunch of witnesses that will in turn get them sent to prison for the rest of their life. | |
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Duct Tape for Everything | |
| Gran Torino / int_ed3e90f3 | comment |
Duct Tape for Everything: Or to be exact, duct tape, vise-grips and WD40 for half of everything. | |
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Artistic License – Cars | |
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Artistic License – Cars: Walt claims to have installed the steering wheel in his Gran Torino. All Gran Torinos were assembled in Lorain, Ohio, not the Metro Detroit area Ford Plant. Walt's Torino's license plate has three letters, followed by three numbers followed by one letter on a white background with a blue top band. Michigan license plates have three letters followed by four numbers. However, since he's owned it and the truck since new (and Walt being a Grumpy Old Man is unlikely to turn in still valid plates for new ones), they should both have the early 70s pattern license plate with three letters followed by three numbers on a red background. | |
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Anti-Climax | |
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Anti-Climax: Walt's confrontation with the gang members at their house is framed like a massive gunfight is going to happen, like the one from the finale of Unforgiven. Then Walt reaches into his jacket... and is promptly riddled with bullets, and falls over dead. Exactly as Walt planned: an entire neighborhood that had been scared into silence by the gang or were unwilling to snitch because of cultural ties was now motivated to talk to the police, and no judge would side with a gang of known hooligans over a white, decorated and more importantly unarmed war veteran who they murdered in cold blood in the street. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: Walt sacrifices himself to save Thao and Sue after a life of guilt for the things he did in war, most specifically killing a young man about Thao's age when he was trying to surrender. Walt's last scene with Thao, spoken through a screen door, acts like a final confession before death. | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: Walt's monologue to Thao near the end of the movie in a way of persuading him to not get involved in killing someone: | |
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Passed-Over Inheritance | |
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Passed-Over Inheritance: His family are shocked to find that in his will Walt leaves them absolutely nothing. His house is donated to the church and, much to the horror of his bratty granddaughter, whose face lit up at the mention of the car, his Gran Torino goes to Thao. | |
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Perp Walk | |
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Perp Walk: Spider has one as he's being led out in cuffs. | |
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A Real Man Is a Killer | |
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A Real Man Is a Killer: Invoked and ultimately defied. After his sister get raped, Thao eagerly asks Walt to tell him "what it's like to kill a man". Walt's response is a furious rebuttal, telling him that no matter what the reason, he does not want to know what it's like, much less actually do so and have to live with it. | |
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Hard-Work Montage | |
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Hard-Work Montage: Thao trying to make amends for trying to steal from Walt. | |
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Minor Major Character | |
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Minor Major Character: Officer Chang, the Hmong policeman who arrests Spider at the end of the film. Thematically as well as in-universe, since in the context of the film he shows that Thao falling into the same life as his cousins was never a foregone conclusion. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: The gifts Walt receives from the Hmong neighbors after saving Thao. He at first doesn't want them, but then relents as persuading them doesn't work. So he tells them where to place them. Later on, when he's had enough and tried to persuade them again, one of them brings him a chicken dumpling meal, which he earlier enjoyed at the BBQ, which he accepts. | |
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Mighty Whitey | |
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Mighty Whitey: Walter. It apparently takes one elderly auto-worker to figure out how to fix everything that his Hmong neighbors can't, whether that's teaching Theo how to "be a man" or stopping the local gang. At the cost of his life, mind you, but still. | |
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