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Money Train

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Money Train	label	Money Train
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Money Train	comment	A 1995 movie starring Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez, and Chris Cooper.A pair of foster brothers named Charlie (Harrelson) and John (Snipes) work as transit cops in the New York City subway system. While John is doing pretty well for himself, Charlie is living in something of a downward spiral. Eventually Charlie winds up losing his job, getting berated by his brother, and gets the crap kicked out of him by a Loan Shark for unpaid debt. In an effort to pay off his debts and turn his life around, Charlie implements a plan to steal the "money train," an armored train carrying the New York Subway's weekly revenue.
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Money Train / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
Money Train / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: Charlie. The incredible hostility of Mr. Brown, the loan shark he owes money to, makes an important part of the plot.
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Money Train / int_11ad560b	type	Control Freak
Money Train / int_11ad560b	comment	Control Freak: Patterson refuses to let the money train stop and delay schedule even while his own cops are in the tunnel, acts like the train belongs to him—to the point of having a cherished model of it, gets a pickpocket with no weapons shot for coming too close to the train and then nearly destroys a passenger train of innocents as a means of forcing the money train to stop too.
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Money Train / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Money Train / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Played straight by Chris Cooper's character, aptly named "Torch". He commits robberies with use of flammable materials, pouring gasoline into the station of a subway attendant and threatening to set them on fire if they don't give him the cash they have. He's so much of a psycho and a firebug, however, that he may go ahead and set off the fire anyway, just to see it burn.
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Money Train / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Money Train / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Torch sets women running station booths on fire with a gasoline hose hidden up his sleeve—or at least tries to—while simultaneously trying to rob them. He eventually gets a taste of his own medicine when John's able to use his own hose to set him on fire and Torch also runs into and gets hit by the train in the process too.
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Money Train / int_1f17e9fe	type	High-Altitude Interrogation
Money Train / int_1f17e9fe	comment	High-Altitude Interrogation: Right after Charlie loses at cards to Mr. Brown, Brown's goons hold Charlie over the side of a building while they wait for John to arrive. Amusingly, when John learns that Charlie owes far more than he let on, John pretends to give the mobster permission to drop Charlie.
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Money Train / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Money Train / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Torch.
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Money Train / int_3b069925	type	Turn the Other Fist
Money Train / int_3b069925	comment	Turn the Other Fist: With a two-man twist. One brother will stop the other from hitting someone and pretend to play peacemaker... only for the second brother to use this opportunity to get in a sucker punch himself. Near the end of the movie Charlie and John stop each other from hitting Patterson... and then they both punch him together.
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Money Train / int_3b20d7f4	type	Runaway Train
Money Train / int_3b20d7f4	comment	Runaway Train: Oh, do tell. The money train becomes this for part of the climactic heist because John and Charlie, in a moment of desperation, deliberately sabotage the train so Patterson can't stop it and catch them... and after their sabotage, they can't stop it either. Patterson, not knowing this and assuming the thieves can still stop the train, decides to leave a passenger train on the same track, forcing them to either stop the train or crash and derail both trains. John and Charlie must then devise a way to make the train stop without it getting them or the innocent people on the passenger train killed.
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Money Train / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Money Train / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Patterson would fall under this. The man is not only an abusive jerk, but an insane Control Freak and Knight Templar risking his own cops' lives in the tunnel rather than delaying the money train's schedule; insulting Grace with an offensive accent, trying to make Charlie beg for his job; using a slur against John and then firing both John and Charlie just for hating them too.
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Money Train / int_3e6afe66	type	Drunk Rolling
Money Train / int_3e6afe66	comment	Drunk Rolling: Charlie is a transit cop who plays a decoy drunk to foil a suspected heist, but a couple of prostitutes try to roll him. Grace, a female cop, has to intervene, pretending to be his enraged girlfriend.
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Money Train / int_4484e50a	type	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
Money Train / int_4484e50a	comment	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: After Charlie loses the money he was going to pay his Loan Shark with, (because some random pickpocketing lady stole it while he was riding the subway) he reaches the Despair Event Horizon and accepts the beating to come and the chance that he might well be killed by the loan shark's goons. The loan shark sees this and sees that threatening to hurt or kill Charlie is no longer going to get him paid, so threatens to go after John. This is what drives Charlie to attempt the heist.
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Money Train / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Money Train / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: On the backstory, Charlie was adopted by John's family when he was a kid and (current vitriol aside), Charlie always looked up to John. He does say at one point, however, that he always felt his foster mother loved John best. He treats that as kind of inevitable, as John was her biological son, but apparently he does feel a little irked by it.
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Money Train / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Money Train / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Torch thinks he's doing this to John.
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Money Train / int_57c004fc	type	Threat Backfire
Money Train / int_57c004fc	comment	Threat Backfire: Lampshaded and subverted by Mr. Brown the Loan Shark when he comes to threaten Charlie in the third act: he sees Charlie is completely tired of living and knows that threatening to hurt him at this stage wouldn't work, so he threatens to hurt Charlie's brother John instead, leading to Charlie deciding to perform the climactic heist on the money train.
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Money Train / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Money Train / int_72856b70	comment	Patterson. The man oversees the running of the money train on time and with its full money reserve (which he goes as far as to call "his" money) as something more important than human lives. Early on he doesn't even apologizes for the train's guards shooting dead a small-time, unarmed crook that was running at them (while running away from John) and during the climactic heist his big plan to stop the train (although probably he believed it was the Godzilla Threshold, seeing that a thick steel barricade didn't stop it earlier) was to keep a passenger train on the same route and allow the money train to crash with it, even going so far as to radio the money train and tell John and Charlie that the resulting crash would be their fault. He also belittled Grace just for being a Latino woman, for which she gets her due payback by arresting him in the end for endangering innocent lives, and immediately suspects John and Charlie when the train runs several thousand short on a run that they were helping protect (and when it turns out that someone else did it, he doesn't apologizes and wants them fired for comments they did when he accused them of stealing).
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Money Train / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Money Train / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Patterson refers to John as a "Negro" the first time he has Charlie and John in his office, (which visibly pisses off John) and later mocks Grace by pronouncing her last name Santiago with an exaggerated accent. Mr. Brown calls John the n-word when talking to Charlie. Later, when John comes goes into Brown's club and beat the crap out of him and his goons to make them back off on Charlie, he gives Mr. Brown a little extra beating for that.
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Money Train / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Money Train / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: The loan shark Mr. Brown is only on screen for a couple of minutes with a handful of lines. If not for the debt that Charlie owes him and more importantly, his threat to start going after John because of Charlie's inability to pay his debt, the heist at the end of the film (which is the culmination of Charlie's downward spiral) would have never happened.
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Money Train / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Money Train / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Charlie and John, respectively. Charlie is impulsive, emotional, and has control issues. John is by no means The Stoic, but he keeps far better control of himself, doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve, and has his life in much better shape than Charlie.
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Money Train / int_8d1ec905	type	Nose Nuggets
Money Train / int_8d1ec905	comment	Nose Nuggets: The two brothers get even with a Jerkass who spat at Wesley Snipe's character by simultaneously punching him out and then firing off two snot rockets at him while he's down.
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Money Train / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Money Train / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Patterson is in such a crazed state of rage after the money train crashes that he personally begins searching and pushing through the crowd for whoever could be the ones who stole it with a violent and rabid intent on full display.
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Money Train / int_9a5eca2e	type	Mob Debt
Money Train / int_9a5eca2e	comment	Mob Debt: Early in the movie, Charlie, one of the two main protagonists, loses a fairly large sum to Mr. Brown (who is either a Loan Shark or some other sort of shady underworld character) in a poker game. When Charlie is already at a pretty low point in his life, his foster brother John gives him some money to pay off Mr. Brown... only for a pickpocket to take the envelope filled with cash out of Charlie's jacket on the way to pay off Brown. Mr. Brown's threat to target John for vengeance if Charlie doesn't come up with the money drives Charlie to attempt a nigh-suicidal one man heist to get the cash he needs.
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Money Train / int_a632f7fa	type	Cool Train
Money Train / int_a632f7fa	comment	Cool Train: The titular money train is a rolling vault.
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Money Train / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Money Train / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The old lady pickpocket that took Charlie's money.
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Money Train / int_b3fc9d55	type	An Ass-Kicking Christmas
Money Train / int_b3fc9d55	comment	An Asskicking Christmas: The events of the movie happen on late December, with the heist occurring during New Year's Eve.
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Money Train / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Money Train / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Foster brothers John and Charlie are both interested in their new coworker Grace Santiago. Trouble is that while she gets along with Charlie well enough and even calls out John for his initial reluctance to save Charlie near the end of the film, romantically speaking she's only interested in John.
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Money Train / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Money Train / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Patterson is an obsessive Control Freak who doesn't mind that an unarmed, young pickpocket was shot and killed just for getting too close to the train carrying the city's cash reserve, he keeps the train going despite the danger it could be to two of his own cops and shrugs off the possibility of the passenger train crashing and killing everyone as a necessary loss just to guarantee the money train stops once it's taken over.
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Money Train / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Money Train / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: For both the brothers it's calling Charlie a fuck up.
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Money Train / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Money Train / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: John goes into his savings and gives Charlie some money to pay off his gambling debts. Charlie's life is finally giving him a chance at a clean slate... and then Charlie legitimately loses the money to a pickpocket. Nobody believes him, the loan shark's goons kick the crap out of him, and John assumes he just gambled it away.
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Money Train / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Money Train / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Part of Torch's death is setting himself on fire. Very fitting, considering his MO.
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Money Train / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Money Train / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Charlie and John, foster brothers. Their constant bickering is a Running Gag that runs as far as a good chunk of the credits, but when the going gets tough they work together.
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Money Train / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Money Train / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Grace is a tough, no-nonsense female cop who can keep up with her male coworkers.
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Money Train / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Money Train / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Patterson. The man oversees the running of the money train on time and with its full money reserve (which he goes as far as to call "his" money) as something more important than human lives. Early on he doesn't even apologizes for the train's guards shooting dead a small-time, unarmed crook that was running at them (while running away from John) and during the climactic heist his big plan to stop the train (although probably he believed it was the Godzilla Threshold, seeing that a thick steel barricade didn't stop it earlier) was to keep a passenger train on the same route and allow the money train to crash with it, even going so far as to radio the money train and tell John and Charlie that the resulting crash would be their fault. He also belittled Grace just for being a Latino woman, for which she gets her due payback by arresting him in the end for endangering innocent lives, and immediately suspects John and Charlie when the train runs several thousand short on a run that they were helping protect (and when it turns out that someone else did it, he doesn't apologizes and wants them fired for comments they did when he accused them of stealing). Mr. Brown the evil loan shark threatens to kill both brothers throughout the film unless Charlie pays up — he was okay with just hurting Charlie, but at the climax he threatens to kill John (and calls him the n-word as well) because Charlie had accepted his fate.
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Money Train / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
Money Train / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: All of the climax happens because Charlie encounters a little old lady who happens to be a pickpocket while he's on his way to pay the loan shark.
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Money Train / int_f0f7ac01	type	Letterbox Arson
Money Train / int_f0f7ac01	comment	Letterbox Arson: Torch pours gasoline through the exchange slot of a token booth, soaking the attendant and the compartment's interior. Torch then demands all the cash while thumbing a lighter. He gets the loot, then ignites the booth anyway, For the Evulz.
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