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King of New York is a 1990 gangster film directed by Abel Ferrara. The film stars Christopher Walken, Laurence "Larry" Fishburne, Victor Argo, and Giancarlo Esposito and features (in the first major screen roles for each) David Caruso and Wesley Snipes.The story concerns Frank White (Walken), a powerful drug lord who is released from prison after serving a lengthy stretch, and reunited with his old gang, led by streetwise goon Jimmy Jump (Fishburne). Frank claims to have reformed and hobnobs with the cream of New York society to prove it, but continues to engage in his criminal pursuits. He has a dream: to unite the whole New York underworld in one multi-racial organization, with himself at the head, and use some of the profits to build hospitals for the poor and the needy. But there are a few roadblocks, like racist Mafia boss Arty Clay (Frank Gio) and greedy Triad gangster Larry Wong (Joey Chin), who will need to be cleared away first.Meanwhile, the cops, led by the low-key Roy Bishop (Argo), do their best to bring Frank back in on any charge that will stick, but are stymied at every turn by his fleet of high-priced lawyers. Finally, two of Bishop's subordinates, Dennis Gilley (Caruso) and Thomas Flanigan (Snipes), decide to take the law into their own hands, and get Frank by any means necessary...Though initially panned by critics for its enthusiastic use of violent and sexual images and its "glorification" of criminal activity, the film carved out a niche audience among fans of gangster movies and rap, and is today considered a classic example of 1990s crime cinema.
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Man of Wealth and Taste
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Man of Wealth and Taste: Frank lives in a luxury hotel, wears nice suits, and rides in a limo. However, his taste in culture isn't necessarily elevated. While at the theater, he looks like he'd rather be anywhere else.
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Officer O'Hara
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Officer O'Hara: The cops are implied to be largely Irish. Gilley is played by the carrot-topped David Caruso, and even the token black member of the force Flanigan has a very Irish name. Gilley makes a crack about it.
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Gilley and Flanigan go from roughing suspects up a little to putting on balaclavas and hunting them down in a remarkably short period of time.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Gilley makes a sarcastic toast to Frank being "the King of New York."
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Death by Materialism
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Death by Materialism: Joey Dalesio betrays Frank and his crew to a rival gang after they offer him a lot of money. When he later gets caught, Frank orders him to be buried with his spoils to punctuate his disgust.
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Wicked Cultured
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Wicked Cultured: Subverted. Jennifer drags Frank to an avant-garde play, with which he is clearly bored out of his mind.
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Pay Evil unto Evil
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Pay Evil unto Evil: Some of the villains of this movie are really evil. And thus their downfall is going to be what they reap. Tito, who prostituted girls. Artie Clay, who exploited his own workers.
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Mutual Kill
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Mutual Kill: Frank and Bishop shoot each other at the end.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Frank and Jimmy have a close yet non-romantic relationship with each other. Gilley and Flanigan also share a close bond.
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The Stool Pigeon
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The Stool Pigeon: Joey Dalesio tells the NYPD about the criminal activities of Frank and his gang.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: The police are powerless to stop drug dealers who in turn have to spend their days dodging bullets and living in constant fear of death, evil men cannot be reasoned with, only destroyed, anyone who believes in a cause or moral crusade will die for their idealism and in a world of evil, crooked but well-meaning cops and cold-blooded philanthropists are the best anyone can hope for. And for Ferrara, this is upbeat.
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Good Is Not Nice
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Good Is Not Nice: Gilley and Flanigan though we're really stretching the term Good.
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A Party, Also Known as an Orgy
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A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: Frank and company throw one right before it all goes to hell, with plenty of cocaine, naked dancing ladies, and 1980s hip hop.
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The Big Rotten Apple
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The Big Rotten Apple: New York in the movie is shown to be a crime-ridden hellhole which isn't too far from Real Life considering that the crime rates in the city were still relatively high until Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor in 1994 and helped curb crime across the city.
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He Who Fights Monsters
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He Who Fights Monsters: Gilley and Flanigan. While they wish to put an end to the criminal activities of Frank and his gang, they engage in some really brutal if not violent tactics towards their enemies.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: Called on his murderous ways by Bishop, Frank excuses himself by claiming that all his victims were worse than he is, engaging in human trafficking, child prostitution and the like.
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Off on a Technicality
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Off on a Technicality: Why Gilley and Flanigan decide to take the law into their own hands, because they're afraid they can't make a legal case against Frank.
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Cluster F-Bomb
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Cluster F-Bomb: Quite a few, especially from Jimmy and Gilley.
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Utopia Justifies the Means
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Utopia Justifies the Means: Frank sincerely believes his actions are necessary for creating a better city.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Gilley and Flanigan can be nice guys when not on the job, as the wedding scene shows.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: Practically everyone is killed, and Frank's hope of redemption go unfulfilled.
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Workaholic
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Workaholic: Bishop. While the other cops drink, laugh and dance at a wedding reception, he ducks out so he can go home, sit in front of his computer and pore over Frank's file.
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The Atoner
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The Atoner: Frank is a very strange example, bordering on a subversion. He does want to do good after a lifetime of crime but he never really changes his behavior, just directing towards a different cause, and he makes clear he doesn't feel remorse for many of the people he's killed, whom he claims were much worse than he was.
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Jimmy and Blood each get one in the opening sequence: Seconds later...
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Provided that you're not on his bad side, Frank can be a rather jovial and warm fellow. Jimmy has these moments. He even hands out money to an old lady and her grandkids after a cashier barks at them to stay away from the arcade machines.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: Jimmy is the right-hand man of Frank.
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Guns Akimbo
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Guns Akimbo: Jimmy's favored battle stance.
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The Aggressive Drug Dealer
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The Aggressive Drug Dealer: Frank mocks this trope while talking to Bishop, pointing out that drug consumption went up while he was in jail.
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Lean and Mean
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Lean and Mean: Frank is tall, lanky, and merciless.
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Police Are Useless
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Police Are Useless: The police don't accomplish much in the first two thirds of the film. When they finally do start to take down Frank's gang members, it's a rather clumsy "off the books" operation and they appear to lose almost as many on their own side as gangsters killed. At one point, Frank drives up and shoots a police officer in broad daylight, in front of a funeral full of other cops, who just watch as he drives away.
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Pragmatic Villainy
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Pragmatic Villainy: Frank tries to talk it out with Larry Wong, suggesting that they should become partners in drug distribution. He is rebuffed.
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We Have Reserves
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We Have Reserves: When one of Frank's right-hand floozies is grappling with an assassin, Frank rather remorselessly guns them both down.
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Falsely Reformed Villain
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Falsely Reformed Villain: After his release, Frank makes every effort to rebuild his image, attending swanky plays and ritzy restaurants, hobnobbing with politicians and celebrities, raising money for hospitals and jokingly announcing that his new life goal is to be Mayor. All while making eight-figure heroin deals and killing rival gangsters left and right.
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Better Living Through Evil
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Better Living Through Evil: Three thugs mug Frank on the subway. After scaring them with his pistol, he gives them a wad of cash and offers them all jobs. Two of them are later seen among his Mooks.
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Disconnected by Death
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Disconnected by Death: One of the Colombian drug dealers killed in the opening sequence is done in while placing a call from a phone booth.
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Politically Incorrect Villain
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Arty Clay, who drops three or four racial slurs against blacks in less than five total minutes of screen time.
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Grey-and-Gray Morality
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Grey-and-Gray Morality: Frank is a drug dealer who builds hospitals for poor people. His opponents are cops who decide to get him even if it means murdering a whole bunch of people in cold blood.
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"Rise and Fall" Gangster Arc
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"Rise and Fall" Gangster Arc: Frank White is released from prison and immediately begins rebuilding his criminal empire, uniting many of the gangs of New York in an Equal-Opportunity Evil alliance and dealing major blows against his Mafia rivals. This soon draws the attention of the police, who start chipping away at Frank's influence. Most of Frank's gang is either killed in chaotic shoot-outs with other gangs or the detectives targeting Frank and he becomes increasingly unhinged and careless as a result. After he shoots the lead detective in public with tons of witnesses around, he attempts to flee before dying ignominiously, bleeding out in the back of a cab from a gunshot wound as waves of cops surround him, denying him even a Dying Moment of Awesome.
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Police Brutality
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Police Brutality: Consistently applied by Gilley and Flanigan.
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Bullying a Dragon
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Bullying a Dragon: Arty Clay insults Frank to his face, then threatens his life, despite being unarmed and all his men being covered by Frank's goons. Maybe he thought being The Don made him bulletproof.
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World of Ham
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World of Ham: Victor Argo seems to be the only one who didn't get the memo.
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Black-and-Gray Morality
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Black-and-Gray Morality: Frank is a ruthless drug dealer and cold-blooded murderer who is working towards a noble end and genuinely trying to change. The police are correct when they say it's obscene how Frank can get away with murder but are willing to break those same laws to catch him. The victims of Frank's reign are despicable individuals though, who engaged in vile activities such as child prostitution and scamming illegal immigrants.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: When Frank first meets his gang after getting out of prison, it seems like there's a tension between them, but then they share some sort of goofy private joke between them and reveal that they're still best buddies.
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Villain with Good Publicity
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Villain with Good Publicity: Frank harvests an image of himself as a benefactor for the poor. This, more than anything else, is what Gilley and Flanigan hate about him.
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Villain Protagonist
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Villain Protagonist: Frank and Jimmy, all the way. Even with having sympathetic motives and their fair share of Pet the Dog moments, they still commit numerous crimes.
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Most of the murders probably qualify, but sending three assassins armed with shotguns and machine pistols to kill one guy trapped in a phone booth and unable to reach his weapon takes the cake.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Tito and Artie Clay get killed by Frank's goons, establishing him as a brutal kingpin, but they were nasty pieces of work themselves.
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Villainous Breakdown: When Jimmy gets shot by Detective Gilley, he starts raving furiously and gloating about his previous murder of Detective Flanigan until Gilley has had enough and goes in for a Coup de Grâce. Frank becomes increasingly unhinged as his criminal empire starts collapsing around him, proceeding to murder cops in broad daylight and with multiple witnesses around, ranting at the police captain pursuing him about how everyone he killed had it coming, holding an innocent woman hostage, and finally dying in the backseat of a taxi from a previously sustained gunshot wound while surrounded by cops gathered to arrest him.
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Bodyguard Babes: Frank White rarely goes anywhere without his attractive pair of bodyguards, Melanie and Raye.
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Bodyguard Crush
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Bodyguard Crush: In the opening scenes, it is very heavily implied that the first thing Frank did after getting back to New York was to have a threesome with Melanie and Raye.
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Odd Couple
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Odd Couple: Frank is a cool, collected and erudite kingpin, while Jimmy is a crass, flippant street hoodlum.
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Coup de Grâce
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When Jimmy gets shot by Detective Gilley, he starts raving furiously and gloating about his previous murder of Detective Flanigan until Gilley has had enough and goes in for a Coup de Grâce.
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Dead Guy on Display: After Larry Wong tells Frank and Jimmy where his barrels of heroin are hidden, they kill him and string him upside down in the storage room.
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White Shirt of Death: Both Frank and Bishop make the mistake of wearing one for the last twenty minutes.
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Arbitrarily Large Bank Account
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Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: Frank apparently saved up quite a bit before going to jail. He rides around in a limousine, stays at the Plaza, wears fancy suits, and doesn't even blink before ordering his lawyers to put up $2 million in bail for Jimmy and Blood. This, despite the fact that he's been off the streets for eight years.
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: The whole NYPD. The best of the lot is Bishop, and even he goes along with kidnapping Frank as a form of intimidation.
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Da Chief
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Da Chief: Bishop is the New York police chief who is the boss of Gilley and Flanigan.
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As Himself
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As Himself: Columnist Pete Hamill and singer Freddie Jackson.
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Fingertip Drug Analysis
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Fingertip Drug Analysis: Jimmy lectures Test Tube that the proper way to test cocaine for purity is to snort it. Later, Lance takes a lick out of one of Larry Wong's barrels of heroin to see if it's the real deal.
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Mob War
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Mob War: A very brief one, between Frank and Larry Wong.
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Trademark Favorite Food
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Trademark Favorite Food: In spite of being a hardened and coke-snorting gangster, Jimmy Jump loves his root beer.
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Hookers and Blow
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Hookers and Blow: The favored method of recreation for Frank and his men.
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I Did What I Had to Do
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I Did What I Had to Do: Gilley and Flanigan often tries to justify their actions this way.
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Bottomless Magazines
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Bottomless Magazines: During the car chase, a lot of bullets get fired and no one seems too bothered about the possibility of running out
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Moral Myopia
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Moral Myopia: Both Frank and Gilley are guilty of this.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Frank and his men kill quite a few enemies by using the tactic of "pulling out a gun and shooting them," which their targets seem, for some reason, to be complete unprepared for.
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Amoral Attorney
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Amoral Attorney: Frank's attorneys are complicit in his criminal activities. One attorney Jennifer, is so in love with him that she basically behaves as his consiglieri.
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The Don
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The Don: Arty Clay is a Deconstruction, being a fairly accurate representation of what Mafia gangsters from Michael Corleone's generation were really like.
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"Hey, You!" Haymaker
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"Hey, You!" Haymaker: A Boom, Headshot! is perpetrated in this fashion.
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Cycle of Revenge: Jimmy shoots and mortally wounds Flanigan, so Gilley kills Jimmy. Frank gets back at him by blowing his head off with a shotgun at Flanigan's funeral.
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Blood from the Mouth: Flanigan's mouth is bloody after he's shot, showing that the bullets did real damage.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Gilley and Flanigan care more about getting Frank arrested than following the rules.
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Sawed-Off Shotgun
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Sawed-Off Shotgun: Frank uses one to reduce Gilley's head to chunky salsa.
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Car Fu
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Car Fu: The car chase/shootout has a lot of bumper car action. Jimmy also uses his car to ambush Flanigan and Gilley.
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True Companions
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True Companions: Frank and his crew. When he gets out of prison, Jimmy Jump and the others are really excited to have him back.
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Badass Bookworm
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Badass Bookworm: Test Tube, who is the crew's resident chemist and wields a mean pistol.
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Boom, Headshot!
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Boom, Headshot!: One each for Gilley and Jimmy.
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I Control My Minions Through...
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I Control My Minions Through...: Kindness and money. All of Frank's goons seem to love him. Except Dalesio.
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Bulletproof Vest
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Bulletproof Vest: Flanigan's doesn't do him much good.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Larry Wong and his crew are unlikely fans of classic cinema. He screens Nosferatu for his gang while meeting with Dalesio and says he's got Frankenstein coming up next.
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Jimmy's "welcome home" present to Frank is to kill a bunch of Colombian drug dealers he apparently had a grudge against.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Bishop is the only one who have the guts to call out Gilley and Flanigan for their extreme actions.
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Rabid Cop
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Rabid Cop: Gilley and Flanigan decide to go after Frank White and his gang guns blazing after the legal system fails them. This results in both of them dying violently in a Cycle of Revenge.
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Villainy Discretion Shot
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Villainy Discretion Shot: Rampant. We see Frank kill a lot of gangsters, but we never see the effects of his drug dealing on the people of Harlem.
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All Girls Want Bad Boys
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Every woman given more than two cumulative minutes of screen time will get in Frank's pants. Or Jimmy's pants. Or both.
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Reasonable Authority Figure
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Bishop. Compared to Gilley and Flanigan, he does not engage in brutal tactics against criminals.
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Giggling Villain
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Giggling Villain: Jimmy really loves to laugh.
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The Triads and the Tongs
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The Triads and the Tongs: They are represented in the film by Larry Wong.
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Briefcase Full of Money
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Briefcase Full of Money: Frank's men kill a Colombian drug dealer for his in the opening sequence. Also subverted during the same sequence, when another Colombian thinks he's getting one, but opens it to find it full of tampons.
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Equal-Opportunity Evil
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Equal-Opportunity Evil: Frank, Test Tube and Melanie are white. The rest of the gang is black. This is one of the things that Arty Clay holds against Frank.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Gilley and Flanigan, both of them being the nastiest cops, ever. Jimmy is pretty personally unpleasant to anyone outside the gang.
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: The first three-quarters or so of the movie is made of this. Though when the comedown hits, it hits hard.
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Conspicuous Consumption
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Conspicuous Consumption: Frank and company live it up.
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Murder Is the Best Solution
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Murder Is the Best Solution: Frank and Jimmy murder all of their problems. Gilley and Flanigan also decide that killing Frank is the only way to get him off the street.
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Well-Intentioned Extremist
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Gilley and Flanigan. Despite their brutal methods, they want to put an end to the crime wave engulfing New York City and Frank's illicit activites. Frank too. He wants to build a multi-ethnic crime syndicate to build hospitals for the poor and needy and generally improve the city.
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Evil Is Hammy
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Evil Is Hammy: "Larry" Fishburne is still picking the scenery out of his teeth.
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Pet the Dog
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Pet the Dog: Frank's hospital project. Zig-zagged when Jimmy visits the chicken shop. He's insufferably rude to the cashier but then hands out money to an impoverished family after the cashier barks at them.
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Bolivian Army Ending / int_8843b0a7
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster! / int_8843b0a7
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Death by Materialism / int_8843b0a7
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Equal-Opportunity Evil / int_8843b0a7
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Falsely Reformed Villain / int_8843b0a7
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Films of 1990–1994 / int_8843b0a7
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Gangster Fiction / int_8843b0a7
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Giggling Villain / int_8843b0a7
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Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters / int_8843b0a7
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Rabid Cop / int_8843b0a7
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"Rise and Fall" Gangster Arc / int_8843b0a7
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Salt and Pepper / int_8843b0a7
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The Triads and the Tongs / int_8843b0a7
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Villain with Good Publicity / int_8843b0a7
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Villainy Discretion Shot / int_8843b0a7