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Meet John Doe
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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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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: John and Ann both have one, both equally heartbreaking to watch. | |
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Title Drop: Signs for his big speeches saying "Meet John Doe Tonight". | |
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Those Two Guys: Long John and the Colonel. | |
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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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Throwing Out the Script | |
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Throwing Out the Script: A Capra staple trope. | |
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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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Becoming the Mask | |
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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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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–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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Pygmalion Plot | |
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Pygmalion Plot: Ann goes right out and says she has fallen in love with "John Doe". | |
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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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The Everyman | |
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The Everyman: The John Does. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: For John, after the halfway point in the film. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: Ann finally admits how much they're exploiting John. | |
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Mr. Smith: John Doe, The Everyman, as conceived by Ann. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: Ann writes John a stemwinder of a speech, which kicks the John Doe movement into high gear. | |
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Chronic Hero Syndrome | |
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Chronic Hero Syndrome: Near the end, John actually tries to kill himself, in order to revive the Doe movement. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The final line of the movie. | |
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Enforced Method Acting | |
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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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Time-Compression Montage | |
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Time-Compression Montage: One of John criss-crossing the country delivering speeches while John Doe Clubs pop up everywhere. | |
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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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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
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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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Hobos | |
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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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Messianic Archetype | |
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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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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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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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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Lots of them, unfortunately. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: Things go downhill after the Colonel leaves John. | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
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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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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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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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Despair Event Horizon | |
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The Ditz | |
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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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Da Editor | |
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Da Editor: Henry Connell, Ann's cranky, cynical editor. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: John and the Colonel's music. | |
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Strawman News Media | |
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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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