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Once Were Warriors

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Once Were Warriors	comment	Based on the novel by Alan Duff, Once Were Warriors is a 1994 film set in New Zealand and dealing with the trials of a dysfunctional working-class Māori family. It was famous on its release as a result of its hard-hitting depiction of low-life, abuse and poverty among poor urban Māori (something of a hot-button issue in New Zealand).Due to its success it became something of an icon for the New Zealand film industry of the 90s, creating a number of persistent NZ cultural memes and adding to the cult status of Temuera Morrison.
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Once Were Warriors / int_167b037a	type	Workout Fanservice
Once Were Warriors / int_167b037a	comment	Workout Fanservice: It's short, but in the start of the film Nig and his buddies are shown working out in an improvised gym.
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Once Were Warriors / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Once Were Warriors / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Beth to Jake at the end: Our people once were warriors. And not like you, Jake.
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Once Were Warriors / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
Once Were Warriors / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: Beth sports them at the end during the funeral to show that she has finally become tough and independent.
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Once Were Warriors / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Once Were Warriors / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: A lot of Jake's character development is cut due to the Perspective Shift to Beth. In the novel, he seems to be genuinely regretful by his violent behavior by the end and willingly leaves his family. In the film, he's as belligerent as ever and has to be arrested to finally get him away from his family.
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Once Were Warriors / int_23a1e2a9	type	Adaptation Deviation
Once Were Warriors / int_23a1e2a9	comment	Adaptation Deviation: The novel focuses almost entirely on Jake, the film is as much a story about Beth and her children, and notably changes the ending to give her a more active role.
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Once Were Warriors / int_2497e5b8	type	Atomic F-Bomb
Once Were Warriors / int_2497e5b8	comment	Atomic F-Bomb: Jake to Beth, when she stops having sex with him early on.
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Once Were Warriors / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Once Were Warriors / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Jake is such a Lightning Bruiser with his fists that practically all of his fights turn into one. His beating of Beth is also this extreme, and he beats Uncle Bully to near death when he finds out he raped Grace.
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Once Were Warriors / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Once Were Warriors / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Jake beats on a guy who he claims has done "all weights, no speedball".
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Once Were Warriors / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
Once Were Warriors / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Jake, who criticises Grace for always writing stories. Towards the end of the film he even rips her diary in half.
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Once Were Warriors / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Once Were Warriors / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Jake is a completely selfish uncaring violent bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he is badly shaken by Grace's suicide, and beats Uncle Bully to a bloody pulp in a blind rage when he finds out he raped her.
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Once Were Warriors / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Once Were Warriors / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out : Beth's second son, Abe. In the book, she has six children: Nig, Abe, Boog, Grace, Polly, and Huata.
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Once Were Warriors / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Once Were Warriors / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: When Jake gets angry, he's either dropping these or giving someone a No Holds Barred Beat Down, or doing both at the same time.
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Once Were Warriors / int_39d7954e	type	The Caretaker
Once Were Warriors / int_39d7954e	comment	The Caretaker: Grace consoling her younger siblings as they cry listening to Jake beating up Beth.
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Once Were Warriors / int_3bbecc8b	type	Hell-Bent for Leather
Once Were Warriors / int_3bbecc8b	comment	Hell-Bent for Leather: The Toa Aotearoa members, as befits what is effectively a biker gang.
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Once Were Warriors / int_3d7ff013	type	How Dare You Die on Me!
Once Were Warriors / int_3d7ff013	comment	How Dare You Die on Me!: Beth does this over Grace’s body.
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Once Were Warriors / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Once Were Warriors / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: A small change, but in the novel Beth's alcoholism is much more pronounced. In the scene were Jake abandons his family in a pub after promising "just one drink," in the novel Beth eventually joins him and only has second thoughts when she realizes several hours have passed and it's too late to visit Boogie. Beth is generally a far more irresponsible and unstable character at the beginning, making her and Jake roughly equals whose paths diverge in opposite directions. In the film, despite her flaws she clearly has a moral high ground on him from the beginning, while Jake only gets worse and worse.
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Once Were Warriors / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Once Were Warriors / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: The whole area where Hekes and other Māori live is a ruined industrial wasteland. The film intentionally begins with a shot of the lush, green trees surrounding a calm, beautiful lake, then zooms out to show it’s nothing more than a billboard. This is Truth in Television, as the majority of Māori families live in far more impoverished conditions than white families in New Zealand.
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Once Were Warriors / int_465780af	type	Facial Markings
Once Were Warriors / int_465780af	comment	Facial Markings: Nig gets half of his face patched with dark green markings after getting fully initiated into the Toa Aotearoa gang.
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Once Were Warriors / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
Once Were Warriors / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: In the novel, Jake leaves the family after Grace's death and lives in a park, where he befriends a homeless man while Beth tries to start a new life without him. In the film, Beth finds out that Bully raped Grace and tells Jake. He subsequently beats and castrates the perpetrator and is arrested, while his family moves on without him.
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Once Were Warriors / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Once Were Warriors / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: In the novel, Mavis weighs "plus-twenty stone," nearly three hundred pounds. She's played by a slinky-looking Mere Boynton in the film.
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Once Were Warriors / int_5832e916	type	Die, Chair, Die!
Once Were Warriors / int_5832e916	comment	Die, Chair, Die!: While Grace's funeral is going on, Jake is sitting in the pub. A song he'd been singing along to with his family earlier in the film comes on and Jake becomes so enraged that he grabs a bar stool and puts it through the jukebox.
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Once Were Warriors / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Once Were Warriors / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Jake abuses Beth (and, presumably, the children) regularly. Also inverts the trope Beauty Is Never Tarnished, as poor Beth's face looks like it's been rearranged after one of Jake's benders.
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Once Were Warriors / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
Once Were Warriors / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Grace and Boogie. Grace is the older of the pair, is responsible and stays out of trouble. Younger brother Boogie smokes, runs with gangs, and is apparently no stranger to the police.
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Once Were Warriors / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Once Were Warriors / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The police let Jake get away with his violence in the bar for an awful lot of time before he’s finally arrested.
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Once Were Warriors / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Once Were Warriors / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Jake is a very violent and abusive alcoholic man who beats everyone (including Beth, his wife) at the slightest provocation.
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Once Were Warriors / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Once Were Warriors / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Poor Grace ends up hanging herself on a clothing line tied to a tree after her rape at the hands of Uncle Bully.
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Once Were Warriors / int_6db06839	type	The Stoner
Once Were Warriors / int_6db06839	comment	The Stoner: Toot is a rather typical one. It says a lot that he is one of the better characters in the film.
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Once Were Warriors / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Once Were Warriors / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Did anyone really expect a character called Uncle Bully to be good?
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Once Were Warriors / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Once Were Warriors / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Child rape certainly is, as Grace is driven to suicide because of it and the perpetrator is called out on it and beaten to a bloody pulp. However, Beth’s rape at the hands of Jake is not treated as anything different from the regular abuse she endures at the hands of Jake and when she forgives him for it, the film no longer comes back to it again.
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Once Were Warriors / int_8afadb7e	type	Department of Child Disservices
Once Were Warriors / int_8afadb7e	comment	Department of Child Disservices: The hapless social worker who visits the Hekes. Subverted in that Boogie actually does get better after being taken away.
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Once Were Warriors / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
Once Were Warriors / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Mavis has some pretty big, puffy curls.
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Once Were Warriors / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Once Were Warriors / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: Boogie slowly learns that the Māori are a proud warrior people during his time in state care, and Beth even tells Jake the same, and that his own brand of violence is nothing like it.
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Once Were Warriors / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Once Were Warriors / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: In the movie version, Uncle Bully gets beaten to a bloody pulp and castrated by Jake when the latter finds out he was the one who raped his daughter Grace, which later caused her to commit suicide. He deserved every bit of it.
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Once Were Warriors / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
Once Were Warriors / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Dooley out of Jake's friends seem to be the nicest member. He tries to get everybody to get along though he also doesn't do jack about Jake's abuse of his family. He's the one who immediately cuts down Grace upon discovering her body, pleads with Beth and Jake to be amicable when she confronts him about Bully, and tries to stop Jake from killing Bully, even if he calls Bully a dumb bastard in distress.
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Once Were Warriors / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Once Were Warriors / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Jake Heke. The F-word is said 93 times throughout the film, nearly always by him.
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Once Were Warriors / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Once Were Warriors / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Jake finally undergoes one when Grace hangs herself, unable to hit Beth when directly confronted by her and reduced to smashing furniture and pointlessly attempting to chop down the tree she hung herself from.
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Once Were Warriors / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Once Were Warriors / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: After Grace's suicide, a visibly shaken Jake wonders if he had been too tough on her.
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Once Were Warriors / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Once Were Warriors / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Uncle Bully remains polite and soft-spoken even as he rapes Grace.
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Once Were Warriors / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Once Were Warriors / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At one point, the family stops by the road and Beth points out a cemetery where her ancestors are buried...
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Once Were Warriors / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Once Were Warriors / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: A third party variation when Dooley stops Jake from beating Grace, referring to her as "just a kid."
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Once Were Warriors / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Once Were Warriors / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Nearly every scene of beating is preceded and almost immediately followed by bikes, sunglasses and other superficially cool things.
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Once Were Warriors / int_a7ba94de	type	Inferiority Superiority Complex
Once Were Warriors / int_a7ba94de	comment	Inferiority Superiority Complex: This is the true source of Jake's violence, selfishness and cruelty. He never measured up to the standards of Beth's family when they first married and he even comments on how he'd like to see them try to disrespect him now. He picks fights at his local bar to let everyone know he's the top dog and he physically or verbally abuses Beth every time she tries to stand up to him or treat him like he's not the king of his castle. The only way he knows how to respond to the triggering of his feelings of inadequacy is to lash out with extreme violence.
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Once Were Warriors / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Once Were Warriors / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: “What have you done to my baby” is played by Jake and his friends when outside Grace goes to kill herself. Pretty much every time someone is beaten a cool guitar riff is played.
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Once Were Warriors / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Once Were Warriors / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Not in time but in location - the film is set in Auckland, while the novel's set in the (fictional) town of Two Rivers, based on the author's hometown of Rotorua ("Two Rivers" is a literal English translation of "Rotorua").
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Once Were Warriors / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Once Were Warriors / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Jake, obviously, but Beth also realizes she is emotionally abusive towards Grace and physically abusive to Nig. She even tells Grace that a woman's lot in life is to be saddled with an abusive husband.
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Once Were Warriors / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
Once Were Warriors / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: Jake seems to believe in it and acts on it after one drunk party. Disturbingly, Beth believes in it, too, as she takes advice from her friend “Just keep your mouth shut and your legs open.”
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Once Were Warriors / int_b3ee69	type	Kiss-Kiss-Slap
Once Were Warriors / int_b3ee69	comment	Kiss-Kiss-Slap: Grace does not react well to getting a surprise kiss from Toot. It's most likely touch aversion from getting raped the night before. This leads to some guilt on Toot's part at her funeral, as it was the last time he saw her alive. He did genuinely love her, he just had no idea what Grace was going through and would only find out after the funeral.
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Once Were Warriors / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Once Were Warriors / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The Toa gang, and by extension in Nig himself. In the novel, they're a major component of his arc in seeking a surrogate family. In the film, they fade into the background after his initiation, and his own appearances and role in the story are slimmed down considerably.
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Once Were Warriors / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Once Were Warriors / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: "Just stay out of my fucking way!"
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Once Were Warriors / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Once Were Warriors / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The moment after Beth is savagely beaten and raped by Jake has them seemingly re-unite and go to a family picnic to see Boogie, before Jake's drunkenness takes over again.
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Once Were Warriors / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Once Were Warriors / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The long, protracted kissing between Jake and Beth early on, which seems to be intentionally filmed in the most unappealing way possible.
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Once Were Warriors / int_ca69cb4d	type	Adaptational Karma
Once Were Warriors / int_ca69cb4d	comment	Adaptational Karma: In the novel, Uncle Bully doesn't get any comeuppance. Grace was either unconscious during her rape, or so traumatized that she suppressed the memory. Either way, she doesn't remember who attacked her but suspects it might've been her father, who's too drunk to remember if he did or not. In the film, Grace was fully conscious and writes about the rape in her diary, Beth finds out and tells Jake, and Jake subsequently beats and castrates Bully.
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Once Were Warriors / int_d500b978	type	Adaptational Wimp
Once Were Warriors / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: In the novel, Beth is more actively opposed to Jake from the beginning, and actively takes step to improve her and her family's life without his help. Notably, in the novel she's the one who pays for the visit to Boogie by quitting drinking and saving up what would've been her drinking money, while in the film Jake pays for the trip with his gambling earnings.
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Once Were Warriors / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Beth. Especially after Grace's death.
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Once Were Warriors / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Nig ultimately manages to do this after he’s been fully initiated into the Toa Aotearoa gang. When Jake attempts to hit Beth for the last time, he catches his arm and stands up to him.
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Once Were Warriors / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: The movie version has Beth make this kind of statement about Grace when she confronts Jake and Uncle Bully: "Well it's violence that killed my Grace! She didn't have an ounce of violence in her, Jake. But we made damn sure it was all around her!"
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Once Were Warriors / int_f0926237	comment	Alleged Car: Beth and her remaining family drive away from Jake in one at the end. It takes about ten seconds before it even starts up.
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Once Were Warriors / int_f5afa308	comment	Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Mavis. Beth too, until she slaps Nig for pointing out she's a drunken mess which triggers her to change for the better.
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Once Were Warriors / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: When Uncle Bully comes in to rape Grace, there’s an overturned teddy bear lying near the door.
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Once Were Warriors / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Uncle Bully is usually polite and rather nice, especially when compared to Jake. He never shouts and is nice to Grace before raping her.
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Once Were Warriors / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: One of the most dramatic aversions in cinema. After Jake brutally beats and rapes Beth, she looks it.
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