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Meet John Doe

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Meet John Doe	comment	Meet John Doe is a 1941 comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.Ann Mitchell (Stanwyck), a reporter who is about to be laid off from her newspaper, fabricates a letter from a John Doe who says he will kill himself on Christmas Eve to protest the state of the country. Ann's unsuspecting editor runs the letter, and John Doe becomes a media sensation. The newspaper, wishing to exploit the hype, hires John Willoughby (Cooper), a hobo who's a former baseball player, to portray this fictional person in public.All John wants is some money so he can get his arm fixed for another shot at the major leagues, but Ann writes him a speech which he delivers on the radio, and the "John Doe" movement begins. Unfortunately, the owner of Ann's paper, D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), wishes to exploit the John Doe movement for his own cynical political ends.One of Capra's lesser-known films today, but still highly regarded. Won an Academy Award for original screenplay.
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Meet John Doe / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Meet John Doe / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: John and Ann both have one, both equally heartbreaking to watch.
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Meet John Doe / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Meet John Doe / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Signs for his big speeches saying "Meet John Doe Tonight".
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Meet John Doe / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Meet John Doe / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Long John and the Colonel.
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Meet John Doe / int_2a2d62a0	type	Talking Down the Suicidal
Meet John Doe / int_2a2d62a0	comment	Talking Down the Suicidal: Ann, the Colonel, and the founders of the John Doe Clubs meet John atop City Hall, and desperately try to talk him out of jumping.
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Meet John Doe / int_373273af	type	Throwing Out the Script
Meet John Doe / int_373273af	comment	Throwing Out the Script: A Capra staple trope.
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Meet John Doe / int_4143f84f	type	Leg Focus
Meet John Doe / int_4143f84f	comment	Leg Focus: Connell, describing Ann on the phone, makes a point of mentioning that she has "as fine a pair" as "ever walked into this office."
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Meet John Doe / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Meet John Doe / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: John comes to believe in the "John Doe" philosophy as written by Ann, and sincerely wants to lead a movement for reform.
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Meet John Doe / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Meet John Doe / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Connell's conscience drives him to tell John the truth about Norton's plot. Ann is driven by her conscience and her love of John.
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Meet John Doe / int_642594ea	type	Pygmalion Plot
Meet John Doe / int_642594ea	comment	Pygmalion Plot: Ann goes right out and says she has fallen in love with "John Doe".
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Meet John Doe / int_6a1a1f8a	type	Glasses Pull
Meet John Doe / int_6a1a1f8a	comment	Glasses Pull: A villainous and understated example. Norton has a habit of taking off and cleaning his pince-nez when he's saying something important. He takes them off when he tells Connell to mind his own business, and again when he explains to Ann his plot to use the John Doe Clubs to win the White House, and again when he tells John that he'll destroy John if John doesn't play ball.
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Meet John Doe / int_6de438eb	type	The Everyman
Meet John Doe / int_6de438eb	comment	The Everyman: The John Does.
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Meet John Doe / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Meet John Doe / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: For John, after the halfway point in the film.
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Meet John Doe / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Meet John Doe / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Ann finally admits how much they're exploiting John.
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Meet John Doe / int_9ebca7d9	type	Mr. Smith
Meet John Doe / int_9ebca7d9	comment	Mr. Smith: John Doe, The Everyman, as conceived by Ann.
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Meet John Doe / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Meet John Doe / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Ann writes John a stemwinder of a speech, which kicks the John Doe movement into high gear.
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Meet John Doe / int_ab68c5cc	type	Chronic Hero Syndrome
Meet John Doe / int_ab68c5cc	comment	Chronic Hero Syndrome: Near the end, John actually tries to kill himself, in order to revive the Doe movement.
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Meet John Doe / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Meet John Doe / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The final line of the movie.
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Meet John Doe / int_bbc17998	type	Enforced Method Acting
Meet John Doe / int_bbc17998	comment	Enforced Method Acting: In-Universe; in order to get John to make a convincing angry face for the paper, Ann pretends to be an umpire who's just called one of his pitches, a perfect strike down the middle of the plate, a ball. It works.
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Meet John Doe / int_be272a3	type	Time-Compression Montage
Meet John Doe / int_be272a3	comment	Time-Compression Montage: One of John criss-crossing the country delivering speeches while John Doe Clubs pop up everywhere.
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Meet John Doe / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Meet John Doe / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: At the climax of the movie, a distraught and guilt-ridden Ann pleads desperately to John, at the top of City Hall, not to kill himself. At the height of her emotions, she confesses her love for him, and in the next instant, sinks in his arms in a dead faint. As a result, as John finally decides not to jump at the end of the film and Henry tells off a defeated Norton with a Take That!. Ann is thoroughly passed out throughout and misses all of this.
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Meet John Doe / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Meet John Doe / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: This is a movie made in 1941, a parable about the dangers of fascism. D.B. Norton and his black-clad motorcycle troops are the Nazi stand-ins. Norton talks of bringing "an iron hand" and "discipline", and Connell the editor calls Norton the "fifth column" (a direct reference to Franco's takeover in Spain).
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Meet John Doe / int_c326149a	type	Hobos
Meet John Doe / int_c326149a	comment	Hobos: John and the Colonel, among others. John is just down on his luck, but the Colonel sincerely believes in the hobo way of life, with its freedom from responsibilities.
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Meet John Doe / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
Meet John Doe / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Multiple references comparing John Doe and the John Doe idea to Christ. For example, after John is jeered and pelted by a mob at the convention, Connell says "Well, boys, you can chalk up another one to the Pontius Pilates." Later, Christ is described by Ann as "The first John Doe."
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Meet John Doe / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Meet John Doe / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: John is supposed to be a baseball pitcher who had a shot at the big leagues. Gary Cooper's pitching motion is exceptionally unconvincing. (This also proved a problem when Cooper played Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees.
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Meet John Doe / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Meet John Doe / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: John and the Colonel, mostly the Colonel. The Colonel's theory of "the helots" being responsible for giving decent people a lot of grief is an inversion of the facts. Helots were slaves in ancient Sparta. They were the "John Does" — did all the hard work and were regularly and violently oppressed by the owning class.
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Meet John Doe / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Meet John Doe / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Lots of them, unfortunately.
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Meet John Doe / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Meet John Doe / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Things go downhill after the Colonel leaves John.
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Meet John Doe / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
Meet John Doe / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: Ann, and the founders of the John Doe Clubs, meeting John at the top of City Hall, trying to convince him not to jump.
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Meet John Doe / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Meet John Doe / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Ann and the John Doe fans talk John into sticking around, a disgusted Colonel leaves.
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Meet John Doe / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Meet John Doe / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon
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Meet John Doe / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Meet John Doe / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: John is pretty much an amiable dunce. An operator for a rival newspaper has to explain to him that his participation in the John Doe hoax will make it impossible for him to make it in major league baseball.
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Meet John Doe / int_f641252f	type	Da Editor
Meet John Doe / int_f641252f	comment	Da Editor: Henry Connell, Ann's cranky, cynical editor.
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Meet John Doe / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Meet John Doe / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: John and the Colonel's music.
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Meet John Doe / int_ff7b34f9	type	Strawman News Media
Meet John Doe / int_ff7b34f9	comment	Strawman News Media: Ann doesn't hesitate to write an entirely fake John Doe letter and pass it off as real. Her newspaper eagerly pushes the hoax along in order to boost circulation. And then newspaper owner D.B. Norton uses the John Doe movement for his own dark political ends.
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