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Oscar (1991)
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Oscar is a 1991 comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Chazz Palminteri, Ornella Muti, Tim Curry, Kurtwood Smith, Harry Shearer, Don Ameche and Kirk Douglas.An adaptation of Oscar, a screwball farce by Claude Magnier. The original is about an industrialist trying to get back the money one of his employees stole and the resulting complications. This adaptation moves the action to 1930s America and makes the industrialist a mobster trying to go straight, adding an extra complication to the plot.Not to be confused with the 1967 film Oscar (an earlier adaptation of the same play) or the 1966 film The Oscar (an unrelated work about the contest for an Academy Award). | |
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Canon Foreigner | |
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Canon Foreigner: The rival mobster, the cops, and Snaps' father don't really have an equivalent in the original play. | |
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Crucified Hero Shot | |
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Crucified Hero Shot: Snaps stands in front of the fireplace with his arms stretched out in a pose unintentionally reminiscent of the crucifixion of Christ after Sofia demands that Snaps finds a husband for Lisa and her unborn child; Snaps was just tired and needed to rest for a bit. | |
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Oblivious to His Own Description | |
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Oblivious to His Own Description: See the page quote. | |
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Stock Clock Hand Hang | |
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Stock Clock Hand Hang: The movie poster has Snaps hang from the hands of a large clock, referring to the day's mounting insanity. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Nora's frequently handled bag of lingerie proves beneficial just when Lt. Toomey is about to nail Snaps, and Toomey is humiliated when he's left "holding the bag". | |
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Mistaken Identity | |
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Mistaken Identity: Snaps thinks Anthony wants to marry Lisa at first, while Lisa thinks Oscar came back to marry her when he tells her. | |
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Adaptational Job Change | |
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Adaptational Job Change: Snaps is a mobster instead of a businessman. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Vendetti's informant "Five-Spot" Charlie, who stutters like Porky Pig, and has a lisp similar to Gopher from the animated version of Winnie the Pooh, or Floyd the Barber from The Andy Griffith Show. | |
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Adaptational Late Appearance | |
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Adaptational Late Appearance: In the original, Oscar appeared around midway through the film. Now he appears only in the last scene. | |
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The Golden Rule | |
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The Golden Rule: Parodied in Vendetti's office: | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Spoofed when Snaps states of all the lowlifes he met in his life, the bankers are the really scary people. | |
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Hammerspace | |
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Hammerspace: Connie's coat, which hides a ton of weapons. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: The presumably-Irish maid drops her accent as soon as she's out of the Provolone household, but turns it back on when she returns for her bag. | |
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Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry | |
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Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Anthony converts his petty cash to jewels, which he keeps in one of the bags that keep switching. Later, it was deciding to give up the jewels, rather than lose Theresa, that proved he really loved her. | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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After receiving the last slap from his father, Angelo looks right into the – apparently missing – fourth wall. | |
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Sherlock Scan | |
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Sherlock Scan: Dr. Poole does a version of this with Anthony by guessing where he's from based off how he speaks. Before he says a word. This was not the first time they had met though. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: According to Five Spot, his job is an "Honorable Profession� Yeah, right! Listening to other people’s private conversation is definitely honorable. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: Aldo, as noticed by Dr. Poole's observation of Aldo: | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Sometimes Angelo seriously has this feeling. After finding out that Connie fails to guard the bag with the jewels, he lampshades It. | |
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man | |
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Connie’s Sensitive Guy to Snaps and Aldo’s Manly Man. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: Sofia wears a couple, including a fox wrap dyed scarlet, and the maid wears a fur coat after she leaves to get married. | |
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Big "WHAT?!" | |
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Big "WHAT?!": Snaps utters one of these after Lisa tells him she's pregnant. | |
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Sarcasm-Blind | |
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Sarcasm-Blind: In the scene, where Angelo is looking for Anthony and asks his servants, Aldo tells him that Oscar fell in love with a girl but he couldn’t marry with her because his father is jerk. Snaps then asks "Oh, is that so?�, he fails to recognize he was only sarcastic and keeps explaining. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: Subverted with Lt. Toomey, who fails to find the money after he's left "holding the bag" of lingerie, but then has a "run-in" with Vendetti's gang, whom he promptly arrests afterwards. | |
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Knight Templar Parent | |
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Knight Templar Parent: Snaps, who already has a marriage set up for Lisa whether she likes it or not, and resorts to deception, blackmail, threats, and bribery to get her a husband when he thinks that she's pregnant. | |
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Extended Disarming | |
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Extended Disarming: The pile of weapons removed from Connie's person is so large and varied (including a meathook, a morning star, and a ticking bundle of dynamite) that it drives Snaps to say, "It's like disarming Germany..." | |
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Off the Table | |
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Off the Table: When the bankers showed they didn't trust Angelo, he ended up not doing business with them. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: Snaps and her daughter share one, after the former taunts the latter to hit her. | |
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Perfectly Arranged Marriage | |
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Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Lisa and Dr. Poole get shoved together rather abruptly as a matter of convenience but turn out to have a lot in common and get along nicely. | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Snaps has a lot of things that anger him. One of the examples is that you shouldn’t even try waking him up before nine am. | |
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Don't Call Me "Sir" | |
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Don't Call Me "Sir": Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone, honoring his father's wish to turn from a life of being a prohibition gangster, is flanked all day by his men who constantly call him 'boss' to his growing annoyance. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Angelo "Snaps" Provolone, because he snaps his fingers, and he has frequent anger snaps. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: Snaps Provolone, especially since provolone is a well-known Italian cheese; this movie can be considered one of Sylvester Stallone's "cheesier" performances. | |
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I Gave My Word | |
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I Gave My Word: Snaps is insistent on fulfilling his father's dying wish in the face of the day's mounting insanity, only giving up after the bankers try and fail to rip him off. | |
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Grammar Nazi | |
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Grammar Nazi: A Justified example is Dr. Thornton Poole, the speech therapist whom Snaps hires to improve his grammatical habits: Happens again when Dr. Poole meets Aldo: | |
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Luke, You Are My Father | |
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Luke, You Are My Father / Luke, I Am Your Father: Theresa said she was Angelo's daughter to make Anthony think she came from a well-to-do family. She later confesses this lie to Angelo himself. Neither she nor Angelo knew that Theresa really is Snaps' daughter from when he and her mother Roxanne worked for the same mob boss. | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Snaps browbeats Anthony into marrying Lisa by convincing him that his tailors, the Finuccis are really hired killers. When they later brag about their success (a photo of a murdered gangster wearing one of their suits) and offer to make him a suit, Anthony thinks they're the ones who killed him and are threatening to do the same to him. | |
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Screwball Comedy | |
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Screwball Comedy: The romance aspect of it is constantly battered around as at one point as everyone seems to reveal or find new love interests. | |
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Small Role, Big Impact | |
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Small Role, Big Impact: Oscar, who Lisa falsely claims to be pregnant by (kicking off the plot) is only onscreen for less than a minute at the end. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Lisa is getting married in an Arranged Marriage when the film starts, only to have it fall through when the husband falls for their maid. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Lt. Toomey is looking at the documents: | |
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Mistaken for Pregnant | |
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Mistaken for Pregnant: Lisa tricks Snaps into thinking she's pregnant so he'll let her marry whom she thinks is her ex, Oscar. | |
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The Great Depression | |
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The Great Depression: It's set in 1931, with an emphasis on both the collapse of the banks and the predominance of gangsters. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Connie's loads of weapons that he has in his clothes. Among many other things, his arsenal includes revolvers, knives, brass knuckles, a knife with a brass-knuckled handle, poison, a meathook, a flail, and a ticking bundle of dynamite. | |
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Not Named in Opening Credits | |
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Not Named in Opening Credits: Snaps' father, Eduardo Provolone on his death bed, played by Kirk Douglas. | |
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The New Rock & Roll | |
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The New Rock & Roll: An anachronistic 1930's variant (since rock and roll wasn't around in the '30s) when Snaps enters Lisa's room: | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone: Lieutenant Toomey is humiliated for his attempts to arrest Snaps in front of reporters during his mysterious meeting with men who turn out to be prominent bankers. But he does get to be the hero by arresting several prominent gangsters who tried to kill Snap in front of those same reporters. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: When Snaps mentions that he knows about Lisa's "lover" she says she thought he left her for good. Since Anthony never mentioned anything about leaving, (and even if he did, he wouldn’t have been there in the beginning of the movie) this foreshadows, not only that Lisa’s lover is someone else, (namely Oscar) but also that he isn’t in the country anymore. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: "Largo al factotum della citta" from The Barber of Seville, with vocal performances at the beginning and end, and instrumental excerpt reprises throughout the film. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Overly Long Gag: The Extended Disarming example above. | |
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Secondary Character Title | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_a2e887be | comment |
Secondary Character Title: Snaps Provolone is the main character. Oscar is a much less prominent character who, although his reported actions do significantly affect the plot, only appears in person in one scene. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Downplayed. The cheerful theme song turn into creepy when the camera zooms to Toomey’s hideout. | |
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Gender-Blender Name | |
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Gender-Blender Name: Connie, Snaps's right-hand man. | |
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Video Credits | |
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Video Credits | |
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Love at First Sight | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_a8dcb1d7 | comment |
Love at First Sight: The Arranged Marriage Angelo makes for Lisa falls through because the guy fell in love with the family's maid. | |
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The Stakeout | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_ab292220 | comment |
The Stakeout: The cops spend most of the movie staking out Snaps' house, hoping for evidence of wrongdoing. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: The fact Aldo doesn't make noise when he walks. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Almost everybody snarks, but mostly Snaps and Aldo. Even Dr. Poole has this moment when the bag is full of lingerie instead of the $50,000: | |
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A Simple Plan | |
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A Simple Plan: There are several (Snaps plan to go straight, Anthony's plan to marry Theresa, Lisa's to fake she's pregnant etc.), which makes this a simple plan pileup. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: Dr. Poole's elocution lesson with Snaps: | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_b58c51d8 | comment |
My Beloved Smother: Thornton identifies with Lisa wanting to get out of the house, since his mother "can be so possessive". | |
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Whole Costume Reference | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_b906ac5d | comment |
Whole Costume Reference: Lisa's Fairytale Wedding Dress is a copy of the dress from It Happened One Night. | |
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Mixed Metaphor | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_bb35f8b6 | comment |
Mixed Metaphor: When the cops are staked out on a surveillance of Snaps' mansion: | |
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Really Gets Around | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_bf1255fa | comment |
Really Gets Around: Lisa, according to the conversation between Snaps and Sofia: | |
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Fake Pregnancy | |
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Fake Pregnancy: Lisa lies to her father about being pregnant so he will allow her to marry her boyfriend. | |
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| Oscar (1991) / int_c303c2f4 | type |
Farce | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_c303c2f4 | comment |
Farce: The film is closer to 1930s farces than modern comedies. Justified since the movie is set in 1931. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: To Clue: "Damn, a double negative!" When Snaps's accountant shows up at the door: A reference to Godfather's Pizza when Vendetti heads for Snaps's mansion and tells his secretary, "Order out for pizza". | |
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Piecemeal Funds Transfer | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_c90bcc4d | comment |
Piecemeal Funds Transfer: Anthony, who took over Snaps' bookkeeping, used the protection profits to upgrade the bootlegging, and save 10 cents on each bottle of beer, only to lower the costs by 5 cents instead of 10, and accumulated a sizable nest egg of $50,000 a nickel at a time. | |
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Satchel Switcheroo | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_c9eb478e | comment |
Satchel Switcheroo: Anthony's satchel bag with $50,000 in jewelry, another satchel bag containing $50,000 in cash, and Nora's bag containing her lingerie. | |
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Spoiled Brat | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_cfc52d52 | comment |
Spoiled Brat: Lisa has been very indulged by her parents in the past and is prone to shouting in frustration about how they drive her crazy now. | |
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| Oscar (1991) / int_d0b60f23 | type |
GoshDangItToHeck | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_d0b60f23 | comment |
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Snaps, as Father Clemente enters the room: | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_d2e4289b | comment |
Calling Me a Logarithm: | |
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Last Request | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_d6618014 | comment |
Last Request: Snaps promises his dying father that he'll give up his life of crime at the beginning of the film, thus setting things in motion. | |
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Morally Bankrupt Banker | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_dbab18ef | comment |
Morally Bankrupt Banker: The bankers are a snotty lot who only care about the million stricken by poverty in regards to how it will affect their business and are happy at the idea of taking Snaps money to be a partner but then denying him much influence. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_dfe57573 | comment |
Historical In-Joke: Mob boss Angelo Provolone asks his accountant Little Anthony why he doesn't remember something, to which Anthony replies, "You were in Chicago. It was St. Valentines Day?" | |
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All Women Are Lustful | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_e41a9801 | comment |
All Women Are Lustful: Vendetti’s manicurist. | |
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He Who Must Not Be Seen | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_e52a0cac | comment |
He Who Must Not Be Seen: Oscar, up until the end, subverted when he tries to stop Lisa's marriage and is turned out on his ear. | |
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Accidental Truth | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_e784bb8c | comment |
Accidental Truth: Theresa introducing herself to Anthony as Snaps daughter. Turns out her mother was an old girlfriend of his and he is her dad. | |
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Aside Glance | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_e8e3807 | comment |
Aside Glance: After receiving the last slap from his father, Angelo looks right into the – apparently missing – fourth wall. He does so again after Connie suggests that the missing $50,000 turned into the underwear in the black bag as a miracle "like the loaves and the fishes." | |
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Last-Second Word Swap | |
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Last-Second Word Swap: | |
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Running Gag | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Snaps reminding his Mooks Connie and Aldo to stop calling him boss, followed by them accidentally saying "Yes, boss." | |
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Adaptational Nationality | |
| Oscar (1991) / int_ff6d8ad9 | comment |
Adaptational Nationality: The setting is moved from 1960s France to 1930s New York, and the cast of characters are therefore changed from French to American. | |
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