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Monkey Man
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Monkey Man is a 2024 action thriller film starring Dev Patel who also makes his directorial debut with the feature. Also starring is Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Sobhita Dhulipala, Sikandar Kher, Vipin Sharma, Ashwini Kalsekar, Adithi Kalkunte, and Makarand Deshpande. Jordan Peele produces.Inspired by the Ramayana, the film follows Kid (Patel), a man who sets off on a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt elite who murdered his mother. The film was released April 5, 2024.Previews: Trailer, Trailer 2 | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: The film's "Sovereign Party" is a very thinly veiled stand-in for the Bharatiya Janata Party, the right-wing ultra-nationalist Hindu party led by current Prime Minister Narendra Modi (whom is definitely not represented in the film by Baba Shakti's government stooge). | |
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Your Mom | |
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Your Mom: Kid attempts a Pre-Mortem One-Liner about his mother during his botched attack on Rana. During the fight that follows, Rana, unimpressed by Kid's fighting prowess, tells him "I hope your mother fucks harder than you fight." | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Whilst Rana is dismissive of Kid as just some wannabe assassin who failed to kill him, his superior is fully aware of the danger that Kid's example poses to them should others be likewise inspired to more blatant acts of rebellion, warning Rana that it's imperative that they find Kid and Make an Example of Them before the situation gets out of hand. | |
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Underestimating Badassery | |
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Underestimating Badassery. Rana's superior, Baba Shakti, is well aware of the danger Kid's quest for Revenge on them poses, and warns Rana he should not do this, ordering him to hunt down the "crazy kid from the gutter" before he becomes something more dangerous. | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: Near the end of the film, this is what Kid does to Rana. After being helpless when watching his mother getting slowly beaten to immobility by Rana with an accessory (his belt) and then killed, Kid does the same to him: slowly beating Rana with an accessory (a shoe) until he can't get up, then actually killing him. To complete the Ironic Death retribution, Kid notices a close associate of Rana and Baba watching on in terror like he once did years ago. | |
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Neon City | |
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Neon City: The urban location of the film only has a few daytime scenes. Every other time, it's set at night, which makes the neon lights along the richer districts more prominent. | |
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Nepotism | |
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Nepotism: Kid's promotion isn't earned by his skill at work; he gets it by promising Alphonso money, tipping him off to the rigged fights at the fight club Kid frequents. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Early on, Kid watches a report on the police force, controlled by Baba Shakti, ignoring or beating minorities like Hijra; later, a group of Hijra rescue Kid and train, then help confront Rana and Baba for their murderous abuse. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Kid's second fight against Rana is brutal, with him clearly taking his time beating Rana to death with a shoe, only hitting him when he tries to get back up again. | |
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Uncertain Doom | |
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Uncertain Doom: After killing Baba Shakti, Kid collapses, having been stabbed in the gut before overpowering Baba Shakti, but the movie ends before it can be confirmed if he lived (having survived life-threatening injuries earlier in the movie) or died (before he falls, he sees a vision of his late mother). | |
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Super Window Jump | |
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Super Window Jump: Attempted but subverted. After his failed attempt to assassinate Rana, Kid attempts to escape by jumping out the window, but just bounces off of it instead and bruises his shoulder. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Maybe. One of the final shots of the film is the Kid slumping over, having just been stabbed in the gut by Baba Shakti. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Once Kid gets serious and returns to the fight club, his first fight is a one-kick Curb-Stomp Battle in the vein of Ong-Bak. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Needing to flee from Rana's goons after his failure to kill him, Kid tries to jump out the window on a high floor of the restaurant to escape. Understandably, a window above a dangerous height is made of strong glass, and without throwing something else at it first to crack and weaken the glass, Kid just bounces off it without leaving a scratch. Later, Kid escapes on-foot and apparently manages to evade the police manhunt, but he's no match for a sniper round to the gut — and this is a jarring change from Kid killing several security guards and cops and escaping from a police van. In addition, it's made very clear that it takes him at least a month to recover from his injuries. Baba Shakti is shown to be in great physical condition and his sandals contain hidden shivs. Neither help him much against Kid, who's in even better shape, has more experience fighting, and is roughly a third his age. That said, it's clear Kid is grievously wounded by his surprise attack, and may be dead by the end of the movie. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: Invoked, given the film's Hindu theming. When Kid botches his assassination attempt and is promptly gut shot and nearly drowned, a predominantly Hijra temple finds him, gives him surgery, and shelters him from the police. It's here Kid receives training and the Hindu iconography becomes extremely prominent, especially in the ensuing Vision Quest. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Kid gets what he wants at the end: Queenie, Rana, and Baba Shakti are all dead and can't hurt anyone any more, and his allies are all safe for now. However, while Rana and Baba are dead, the remainder of the Sovereign Party still stands to enact their misdeeds upon the population, Sita, Alpha, and Alphonso may be wanted criminals in the long run for associating with Kid (Alphonso already ended up on national news earlier after Kid's first assassination attempt), and Kid may or may not have died after the whole ordeal. | |
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Animal Theme Naming: Everyone in the underground fight ring follows this. Three of the combatants are named Monkey Man, King Cobra, Shere Khan, and Baloo the Bear, while the guy in charge is known as Tiger. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Kid's tone is seething with rage at Rana when he tried to assassinate him in the restaurant. despite maintaining a focused demeanour. It's unfortunately Deconstructed, as it makes Kid too hesitant at pulling the trigger, blowing the element of surprise and allowing Rana to knock the gun from his hand before he can fire. It's later on implied that Kid learns how to channel his anger into impulsive, instinctive and immediate primal action in a fight, to avoid the same mistake. | |
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Villains Want Mercy | |
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Villains Want Mercy: Both Rana and Baba beg for mercy when they are cornered; the former's pathetic begging is cathartic for a hulking brute who spends most of the movie taunting Kid | |
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Good Scars, Evil Scars | |
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Good Scars, Evil Scars: Inverted. The unquestionably heroic Kid has gruesome burn scars on his hands whereas Dirty Cop Rana has a thin neat scar across his ear. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Attempted. Kid says "Blessings from my Mother" in Hindi before trying to shoot Rana during his initial assassination attempt. Unfortunately, it just gives Rana warning that he's about to do so, letting him quickly knock the gun from his hand when Kid is distracted. At the end of Kid's fight with Baba Shakti, as the guru begs for mercy, Kid declares "Only God can judge you now!" right before delivering the killing blow. | |
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Hired on the Spot | |
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Hired on the Spot: Played with. Kid asks Queenie if she can give him a job as a display of gratitude for him returning her stolen purse to her. She initially claims she won't just hire anyone and insists on him giving her references and a CV, but he shows her the scars on his hands and tells her they're proof that he'll do any dirty job that no-one else wants to do, no questions asked, and ends up hired as a kitchen cleaner. | |
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The Dragon | |
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A news report early in the film indicates that the police, headed by Rana Singh, are deliberately ignoring crimes against transgender people, the Sovereign Party is shown to be very anti-Christian and anti-Muslim, and Baba Shakti, for all his populist rhetoric, treats the poor like garbage, having them run off their land, mistreating his workers, and downplaying both crimes in the media. | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Baba Shakti desperately begs for his life when Kid has him at his mercy. Not that it does him any good. | |
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Lodged-Blade Recycling | |
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Lodged-Blade Recycling: Several fights have Kid being stabbed with a switchblade, only to pull it out and use it against his attackers. He ultimately kills Baba Shakti with the shivs that the guru tried to stab him with. | |
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Agonizing Stomach Wound | |
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Agonizing Stomach Wound: Kid is Made of Iron throughout multiple horrific injuries, but is finally defeated at the end by a stomach wound from Baba Shakti, though it's left ambiguous whether it's fatal. | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Acknowledged. Kid asks Baba Shakti if he knows his mother's name or the names of any of the people he's had killed. He doesn't answer, but the true reply is heavily implied to be "no." It's also ambiguous if Rana doesn't recognize the fact his killer is the son of the woman he personally assaulted and murdered — his insults towards the Kid's mother may just be generic insults, or he recognizes the boy of the woman who was a persistent thorn in his side. | |
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Eating the Eye Candy | |
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Eating the Eye Candy: Some of the people at Alpha's temple are vocally appreciative of Kid taking off his shirt while training. | |
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Made of Plasticine | |
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Made of Plasticine: Kid uses a metal serving platter to sever a finger near the end of the movie. It doesn't appear to be particularly sharp, mind, so how it cuts through bone isn't quite clear. | |
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Fatal Fireworks | |
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Fatal Fireworks: In lieu of guns, Kid repurposes Diwali fireworks as both a ranged weapon and improvised dynamite to blow away gun-toting goons during the climax. | |
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Kid is heavily associated with bleach, each instance tying into his plot for revenge. First, he claims that the burns on his hands came from cleaning with bleach, both covering up their true origin and convincing Queenie to give him the jobs "no one else wants". Next, he names himself after a bleach brand when Alphonso asks him for his name, and his connection to Alphonso is how he's able to get in proximity to Rana and make his move. Thirdly, to lure Rana away from the rest of the party, he tips some powdered bleach from the same brand into a capsule and passes it off to him as cocaine, giving him a sudden nosebleed and intense pain. Finally, when he resumes his violent campaign against Rana, Kid bleaches his monkey mask white to associate it with Hanuman and also give him a disguise to get to the King's Club during Diwali. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: A news report early in the film indicates that the police, headed by Rana Singh, are deliberately ignoring crimes against transgender people, the Sovereign Party is shown to be very anti-Christian and anti-Muslim, and Baba Shakti, for all his populist rhetoric, treats the poor like garbage, having them run off their land, mistreating his workers, and downplaying both crimes in the media. Tiger — an Amoral Afrikaner — gets some Cheap Heat in the underground fight club by casually bringing up possible Muslims or Christians in the majority-Hindu crowd, causing much boos. | |
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High-Class Call Girl | |
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High-Class Call Girl: King's Group has a roster of glamorous, beautiful women whose job is to "service" their VIPs. Kid has multiple encounters with one, Sita, who turns out to be all too happy to help him hurt their abusive employers. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: Alphonso talks to Kid about how nice his car is while the camera lingers on an expensive sports car... before switching to show his car is a tuk tuk. To be fair, it's a nice tuk tuk. | |
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Villain with Good Publicity | |
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Villain with Good Publicity: By allying themselves with a far right political party, the villains give themselves an air of legitimacy, even framing Kid's first attempt to kill Rana as the act of a terrorist. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: Roots, and their association with nature and/or goodness. Flashbacks to Kid's childhood see that the forest grounds around his hometown were absolutely covered with roots; the forest was razed to make way for Baba Shakti's factory. Kid's mom refers to the creases on his hand as roots, and in the present day they're covered up by blackened burn scars to symbolize his loss of innocence after his mother was killed, while another character sees the burn scars as a symbol of his determination to do good at all costs. The temple is covered all over its walls with roots, and it is threatened to be razed by Baba Shakti, which none of the good characters want. The Hanuman iconography is heavily enmeshed from the get-go, opening with Kid's mother reading him the story of Hanuman and calling him her little Hanuman, Hanuman-associated stories being brought up from time to time, Kid's mask being that of a monkey (Hanuman was a monkey), and Kid even re-enacts the iconography of Hanuman opening his chest to reveal Lord Rama and Sita inside, albeit so that he relieves his memories of his village being destroyed and Rana killing his mother to renew his devotion to bringing down Rana. All of this ties into the association that Hanuman is a warrior of the people; like him, Kid represents the downtrodden masses and fights in their favor. The three main villains - a corrupt Godman and head of a violent Hindu nationalist party, a corrupt trigger-happy chief of police who refuses to do any actual police work besides razing entire villages and assaulting women, and a spoiled Rich Bitch "goddess" who abuses everyone vaguely below her and especially desperate women she's forced into sex trafficking - are emblematic representations of common issues in India. A fourth minor villain is a government figurehead who gives all his power to the Godman, and another is a Amoral Afrikaner right from South Africa, which has historically racially abused its Indian populace with Apartheid. Kid is heavily associated with bleach, each instance tying into his plot for revenge. First, he claims that the burns on his hands came from cleaning with bleach, both covering up their true origin and convincing Queenie to give him the jobs "no one else wants". Next, he names himself after a bleach brand when Alphonso asks him for his name, and his connection to Alphonso is how he's able to get in proximity to Rana and make his move. Thirdly, to lure Rana away from the rest of the party, he tips some powdered bleach from the same brand into a capsule and passes it off to him as cocaine, giving him a sudden nosebleed and intense pain. Finally, when he resumes his violent campaign against Rana, Kid bleaches his monkey mask white to associate it with Hanuman and also give him a disguise to get to the King's Club during Diwali. | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil: All of the villains are rich and/or powerful people. Baba Shakti is a populist political leader whose faction razes the natural world, works the poor to death, and targets minorities like transgender people. Rana Singh is Shakti's right-hand man, who personally executes Shakti's orders to destroy Kid's hometown up to and including killing Kid's mom. The two are regular patrons of the high-class King's Club, ran by Queenie Kapoor, a drug seller and abusive pimp. For more broader examples, the decadent rich skyline contrasted against the suffering, poor slums are a recurring camera shot throughout the film; in one scene Kid points out how little the rich world cares about the poor. | |
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It's Personal with the Dragon | |
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It's Personal with the Dragon: Because Rana killed the Kid's mother right in front of him and set his home ablaze rather than giving the order to drive the locals off their land by any means necessary, Rana is dealt a brutal drawn out beatdown, while the Guru is given a quicker death. | |
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The Hecate Sisters | |
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The Hecate Sisters: The three women that aid Kid on his quest for vengeance. Kid's mother Neela is the mother, who provides a guiding light and his motivation in his revenge plot. Sita is the maiden, as a young and beautiful sex worker who has a Ship Tease with Kid (though it comes to nothing); Kid fights one of her customers. Alpha is the crone, a fierce trans woman who adopts Kid and teaches him to focus and find his spirituality in order to complete his mission. | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence: Queenie is in the middle of threatening Kid at gunpoint before Sita kills her with a dinner tray to the head. | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
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Obfuscating Disability: The wheelchair-bound salesman-turned-pickpocket who steals Queenie's purse quickly discards his wheelchair in order to better escape the scene of the crime. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: One fight scene has Boney M.'s "Rivers of Babylon" as its backing track — a chilled-out, mellow song to accompany Kid shivving several security guards. | |
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Scars Are Forever | |
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Scars Are Forever: The palms of Kid's hands are heavily scarred with burns from his mother's corpse being set alight. Rana has a thin scar across his ear from when Kid's mother tried to stab him with a knife. | |
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ShakyCam | |
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Shaky Cam: Nearly all fight scenes are filmed with a neurotic shake that still keeps the action clear; much of this is to channel that Kid is not a classically trained fighter and is either berserk with anger, trying to fight a much larger enemy force, or trying to run. | |
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Bathroom Brawl | |
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Bathroom Brawl: Kid's first assassination attempt on Rana starts in a bathroom. He manages to kill several of his henchmen but not Rana himself. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Kid goes into PTSD-induced shock whenever his mother is insulted; during combat, especially when Rana cracks about Kid's mom several times, he noticeably picks up a Heroic Second Wind and fights more viciously than ever. | |
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Exploding Fish Tanks | |
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Exploding Fish Tanks: There's a fish tank in the gents' bathroom at the Kings' club - it cracks and starts leaking after being shot during the first fight between Kid and Rana, and Kid later smashes it completely during his attempt to flee. | |
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Kicking Ass in All Her Finery | |
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Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: In the final battle, the Hjiras' wear long, flowy lehengas as they beat down the security detail. | |
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Shoe Slap | |
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Shoe Slap: During their second fight, Kid strikes Rana in the face with a high-heeled shoe and beats him to near-death with it. This is a grave insult in Desi cultures. | |
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Curb-Stomp Cushion | |
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The Kid's assassination attempt against Rana goes sideways, leading to him getting his ass kicked by the police captain though not without getting a few good hits in. The Kid then returns the favour to Rana at the end of the film, spending most of the fight handing him his ass. Same goes when he confronts Baba Shakti a few moments later. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Alphonso has named his wagon after Nicki Minaj — for its bumper and headlights. When the Kid is purchasing a firearm, the dealer mentions the John Wick films and produces a pistol that the titular assassin uses. Later on, the Kid's suit during the climax of the film (the black-on-black seen in the poster) is also a reference to the film series, and much of the film is a dreamy, neon-haze underworld like later John Wick entries. All of Kid's opponents at the fight club are named for The Jungle Book characters; this is likely as much of a Take That! as it is a Shout-Out, as they're named by a racist white Afrikaner for characters written by an author who is frequently interpreted as imperialist. Once Kid gets serious and returns to the fight club, his first fight is a one-kick Curb-Stomp Battle in the vein of Ong-Bak. | |
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Moody Trailer Cover Song | |
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Moody Trailer Cover Song: The second trailer uses the already moody "In The Air Tonight". | |
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Myth Prologue | |
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The Hanuman iconography is heavily enmeshed from the get-go, opening with Kid's mother reading him the story of Hanuman and calling him her little Hanuman, Hanuman-associated stories being brought up from time to time, Kid's mask being that of a monkey (Hanuman was a monkey), and Kid even re-enacts the iconography of Hanuman opening his chest to reveal Lord Rama and Sita inside, albeit so that he relieves his memories of his village being destroyed and Rana killing his mother to renew his devotion to bringing down Rana. All of this ties into the association that Hanuman is a warrior of the people; like him, Kid represents the downtrodden masses and fights in their favor. | |
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Tourism-Derailing Event | |
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Tourism-Derailing Event: Kid's initial assassination attempt on Rana, according to the news, has put the whole city on high alert because it happened a few days away from the Hindu holiday Diwali. | |
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Amazon Brigade | |
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Amazon Brigade: The Kid spends the middle chunk of the film being nursed back to health by a group of hijra women, who eventually assist him in his final assault against Rana and his goons. | |
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The Cavalry | |
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The Cavalry: During the final climactic fight, when Kid is surrounded and heavily outnumbered, the Hijra women from the temple show up to handle the crowds, giving him the opportunity he needs to pursue Rana and Baba Shakti. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: In the climax, several Hijra show up to soften up the club Baba's currently giving a speech in, and later arrive to save Kid from a massive force of goons who have him surrounded. | |
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Punch Parry | |
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Punch Parry: During Kid's and Rana's final fight, they clash with a jab, notably the former tanks it, while the latter is grimacing in pain afterward. | |
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Amoral Afrikaner | |
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Tiger — an Amoral Afrikaner — gets some Cheap Heat in the underground fight club by casually bringing up possible Muslims or Christians in the majority-Hindu crowd, causing much boos. | |
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Assassin Outclassin' | |
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Needing to flee from Rana's goons after his failure to kill him, Kid tries to jump out the window on a high floor of the restaurant to escape. Understandably, a window above a dangerous height is made of strong glass, and without throwing something else at it first to crack and weaken the glass, Kid just bounces off it without leaving a scratch. | |
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Interrupted Intimacy | |
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Interrupted Intimacy: One of the fights takes place in a brothel, and at one point Kid and the pimp crash through one of the bedroom walls, startling the client and working girl on the other side. | |
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Borrowed Biometric Bypass | |
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Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Kid cuts off Queenie's thumb with the edge of a serving tray, and uses her thumbprint to access a staff-only elevator at the Kings' club. | |
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Foreign Fanservice | |
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Foreign Fanservice: The expensive prostitutes servicing the King's Club VIPs are beautiful women from all around the world, and the primarily Indian clientele can pick and choose depending on their "tastes". Alphonso makes this point before gesturing at a former Miss Lithuania on a rich man's arm. | |
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Everyone Is Armed | |
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Everyone Is Armed: Inverted, for guns are very rare in the fight scenes. The only times they appear are when Kid's failure to shoot Rana leads to armed cops busting down the King's Club, when the sniper puts a bullet in Kid's abdomen, and when Queenie pins down Kid behind a table with handgun fire. The cops try to Car Fu Kid instead of shooting his tuk tuk, the owner of the brothel Kid crashes into uses an axe instead of a gun, and (despite the city being on high alert after Kid's failed assassination attempt) many of the goons in the final battle don't carry a gun — those that do wind up getting blown to bits by fireworks that Kid had stashed away. | |
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Mushroom Samba | |
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Mushroom Samba: At one point, Kid ingests a toxic hallucinogen which forces him to relive his memories of his mother's death and his village being destroyed. | |
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Amputative Sentencing | |
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Amputative Sentencing: Alphonso apparently had his leg chopped off as punishment for trying to back out of a drug deal in the past. The camera pointedly shows that neither of his legs are prosthetics, so we can only assume that "leg" is an euphemism for something else getting chopped off. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: Queenie is shown to treat the prostitutes in her employ as commodities at best and is heavily implied to outright murder them at worst, allows clients to harass them, and is abusive towards them if they do the slightest thing to disappoint her. Sita pays her back for this abuse by bludgeoning Queenie to death to save Kid. Hijra are one of the many targets of Rana and Baba's crimes; it's all but outright stated that the reason they seek out and save Kid's life, then train him in his mission is a mission of vengeance for them as it is as much for him. | |
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