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Hoodlum
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Hoodlum is a 1997 American movie directed by Bill Duke about the NYC Gangsterland during The Great Depression, the numbers racket in Harlem and the subsequent gang wars for control over it. The main conflict is between the black mob, led by Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne), and the Jewish mafia, under the rule of Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth). There are also the Italians, headed by Lucky Luciano (Andy GarcÃa), but they apparently try to play neutral and keep out of the battles over the numbers racket.See also Godfather of Harlem, a TV series starring Forest Whitaker as Bumpy Johnson, as well as The Cotton Club, an earlier movie in which Fishburne played a legal distinct "Bumpy Rhodes". | |
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Dropped link to Foil: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to TheMafia: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black: For all the atrocities he commits, Bumpy is still more sympathetic than Dutch. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: American Gangster | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Dutch Schultz, much like in real-life. His first scene has him going from chatting amiably with a man to shooting out his throat and then cutting his balls off. The last part, just for fun. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Dutch forces Bub, a loyal minion, to wrap up and take home his lunch scraps. Purely to humiliate him, and in front of his hated rival Foley, no less. Just to hammer home what an utter prick Schultz is. Also, Bumpy forces a teenage ice cream parlor worker to eat a poisoned sundae at gun point in spite of the boy’s desperate pleas for forgiveness after a botched attempt on his life ordered by one of his own men. | |
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| Hoodlum / int_396e1c2a | type |
Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Dutch Schultz. Despite getting shot in a men's room by a ridiculously disposable henchman, he takes it in a calm manner, silences his killer with a look full of contempt and uses whatever life is left in him to walk to a restaurant table to avoid dying near a urinal. Of note is the fact he is shot for a third time when he initially attempts this but pushes on despite it, his assassin being too shocked to follow up anymore. | |
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Nay-Theist | |
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Nay-Theist: | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending/Downer Ending: Bumpy tricks Lucky into killing Dutch for him and becomes the undisputed mob king of Harlem in the process, but has lost his best friend, his girlfriend and much of his humanity along the way. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Bumpy forces an teenage ice cream parlor worker to eat a poisoned sundae, originally intended for him to eat. | |
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Kosher Nostra | |
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Kosher Nostra: Dutch & his associates. | |
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Spinning Paper | |
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Spinning Paper | |
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Nobody Poops | |
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Nobody Poops: averted. Schultz gets shot at a urinal, right after taking a piss. | |
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Chess Motifs | |
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Chess Motifs: See above. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Dutch drops racial slurs to every person of color he comes into contact with from “nigger� to Bumpy and his organization, “dago� for Lucky and the Italians, “spic� for Henry Miro and “Mick� for Foley. Foley himself also qualifies which causes great tensions between him and Bub, who’s black. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Tim Roth as Dutch Schultz. | |
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Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves | |
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Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Lulu betrays Schultz and immediately goes to Luciano for his reward. He's promptly executed in turn. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
| Hoodlum / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality: Intially this, with Bumpy being more of an Anti-Hero to Dutch’s monstrous villain, but as Bumpy devolves it ends up being Evil vs. Evil. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Bumpy, although he starts out as an Anti-Hero. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "YOU DON'T. WRITE. A GODDAMN THING. IN HARLEM!!!" | |
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EvilVsEvil | |
| Hoodlum / int_aac2244a | comment |
Evil vs. Evil: What the story is at the end, with Bumpy only being slightly more sympathetic then Dutch. | |
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Based on a Great Big Lie | |
| Hoodlum / int_b2e94341 | comment |
In Thomas Dewey's case, the story is Based on a Great Big Lie. The real Dewey was utterly incorruptible and, in fact, was the man to put Luciano himself behind bars. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Bumpy apparently really hates having almonds and fudge in his ice cream. Considering the almonds were used to disguise rat poison, you can kinda understand his displeasure. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: Dutch flashes this on and off throughout the whole movie, just to highlight that he really, really enjoys what he does. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
| Hoodlum / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Bumpy starts out as this, but devolves into a Villain Protagonist as the movie progresses. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
| Hoodlum / int_d62dd556 | comment |
The Chessmaster: "Bumpy" Johnson. It is even shown explicitly, when he plays chess (being the black side, of course) and knocks over the white king. | |
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Artistic License – Sports | |
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Artistic License – Sports: A scene is introduced with the title card "December 1934" and then shows Dutch Schultz listening to a Yankees game in his office. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Besides the fact that the characters were real people, almost nothing is based on fact. In Thomas Dewey's case, the story is Based on a Great Big Lie. The real Dewey was utterly incorruptible and, in fact, was the man to put Luciano himself behind bars. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Unlike other portrayals of the gangster, this Dutch Schultz is is an unrepentant, bigoted, psychotic murderer who's obsessed with controlling and abusing everyone around him. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: NYPD Chief Jack Foley and most of the other members of the NYPD is in the pockets of Dutch. Illinois lampshades it saying “He’s as crooked as the letter s.� | |
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