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Pleasantville

625 statements
121 feature instances
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Pleasantville	label	Pleasantville
Pleasantville	page	Pleasantville
Pleasantville	comment	A deliberately Troperrific 1998 comedy-drama film, written and directed by Gary Ross and starring Reese Witherspoon, Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J. T. Walsh, and Don Knotts.Jennifer (Witherspoon) and David (Maguire) are a pair of '90s teen siblings who, during an argument over who gets to use the big TV in the living room, wind up Trapped in TV Land due to a strange TV repairman (Knotts) and a stranger magical remote. Specifically, they wind up in Pleasantville, an old black-and-white show portraying the stereotypical 1950s American suburb (along the lines of Leave It to Beaver or Father Knows Best, but even more idealized). David is thrilled because it's his favorite show, taking place in a happy world where nothing bad ever happens (as a contrast to David and Jennifer's unstable home life). Jennifer, being more of a party girl, finds Pleasantville incredibly dull and wants to liven the place up. Still, they both want to get home, and David wants to do so without upsetting the community — but the repairman gets antsy and they're stuck.Their presence winds up throwing the heavily-idealized world into chaos. As things become less idealized and more like the real world, they begin to show up in color instead of black and white — people cease to be monochrome whenever they stop staying nice and snug within their boundaries and break out, displaying some inner truth about their character.For an oddly similar experience in book form, try The Giver. Also see Midnight in Paris for a similar story dealing with escapism, and WandaVision for a Psychological Surreal Superhero Horror-based take on the premise, which is set in not only the 50s, but in the following six decades as well (kinda).
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Pleasantville / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Pleasantville / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Not that the movie's subtle about its parallels with a cultural revolution. The signs discriminating against non-monochrome people even read "No Coloreds". The scene where Bud and Margaret are in Lovers' Lane. She tempts him into eating a red apple. Now what biblical story involves a woman handing a man a certain Forbidden Fruit? The still-grey people of Pleasantville burning books. The Chamber of Commerce's logo seems vaguely menacing (reminiscent of fascist symbols), especially coupled with the angry atmosphere when it meets later. It starts invoking the Red Scare (appropriately for a '50s based show) with their quite repressive Code of Conduct which bans all art or music they feel goes against Pleasantville's traditions, and also the Kangaroo Court-like trial later. They also mandate that history textbooks not teach any "changeist" view, which seems like an allegory of the anti-evolution efforts during the early 20th century.
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Pleasantville / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Pleasantville / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: David, due to Pleasantville being his favorite show.
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Pleasantville / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Pleasantville / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The movie starts out as a straight Trapped in TV Land comedy, but then becomes something more weighty when the changes in the town have more serious ramifications.
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Pleasantville / int_19eb550	type	Passion Is Evil
Pleasantville / int_19eb550	comment	Passion Is Evil: Subverted. The people of Pleasantville maintain the typical calm, stoic, 50s demeanor up until they don't. People gain color, a full life, by discovering their passions, their best selves. Or their worst selves.
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Pleasantville / int_1aed264f	type	Happy Rain
Pleasantville / int_1aed264f	comment	Happy Rain: David is joyous when it starts raining for the first time ever in Pleasantville. Other colored teens and Betty with Bill love it also.
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Pleasantville / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Pleasantville / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Some early film posters colored "tv" differently from the rest of the title. The opening montage announcing the upcoming Pleasantville marathon includes a bit about a trivia contest that includes a question about the secret ingredient in Betty's cherry pie.
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Pleasantville / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Pleasantville / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The movie opens setting up the world of the 90s this way, with David being told over and over and over by various teachers and lecturers that the future is going to be terrible and the kids will never have jobs and the environment will be totally destroyed before they're thirty.
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Pleasantville / int_23a79ebf	type	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Pleasantville / int_23a79ebf	comment	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: The enigmatic TV repairman played by Don Knotts doesn't appear in any of the trailers. The only hint of his existence comes from Knotts' name being listed during the credits box at the end of it.
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Pleasantville / int_2411d5fb	type	Parody Sue
Pleasantville / int_2411d5fb	comment	Parody Sue: The form of the perfect, sweet sister character named "Mary Sue" — although once Jennifer assumes her role, this quickly ends.
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Pleasantville / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Pleasantville / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: David becomes Bud, which he loves at first.
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Pleasantville / int_25b05c04	type	Hitler Cam
Pleasantville / int_25b05c04	comment	Many scenes with Big Bob copy the famous agrandizing shots of the main character in Citizen Kane.
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Pleasantville / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Pleasantville / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: David and Jenniferâ€™s dad is mentioned but not seen.
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Pleasantville / int_295c0923	type	Weirdness Search and Rescue
Pleasantville / int_295c0923	comment	Weirdness Search and Rescue: The film had the TV Repairman, who instigated the Trapped in TV Land plot, and then ineffectually tried to stop the fallout from it.
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Pleasantville / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Pleasantville / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: The movie opens with a montage talking about the upcoming Pleasantville marathon that points out a lot of the 50s tropes (especially "safe sex". David is very genre savvy, and constantly points out tropes as they happen in-universe (but not for the movie as a whole). He even tries to warn his sister against defying tropes.
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Pleasantville / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Pleasantville / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: TVTime for TVLand.
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Pleasantville / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Pleasantville / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Despite Big Bob being the leader of the repressive backlash to the changes in Pleasantville he condemns the destruction of the malt shop and the book burning. That said he uses it as an excuse to codify bans on books, colors, and areas such as the public library.
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Pleasantville / int_366f3185	type	Book Burning
Pleasantville / int_366f3185	comment	Book Burning: Still-grey people burn books which appeared in the library because they saw it as sign of corruption and end of their happy, non-complicated existence.
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Pleasantville / int_38b33e8d	type	Love Epiphany
Pleasantville / int_38b33e8d	comment	Love Epiphany: David gets George to realize exactly why he misses Betty—and it's not for the cooking and cleaning she does.
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Pleasantville / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Pleasantville / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: The TV Repairman is played by Don Knotts, who played Barney Fife in The Andy Griffith Show, one of the more 50s-ish sitcoms out there in spite of the fact that it was made in The '60s.
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Pleasantville / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Pleasantville / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: The world of Pleasantville starts out with the dial pegged on Idealism, and steadily moves it over to Realism.
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Pleasantville / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Pleasantville / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: David starts out the film as an introverted loner who thinks of the show as escapism. Halfway through the film, he begins to display more assertive leader traits and earns his color by punching out a thug who was attacking his TV mom. He ends the film by returning to his life and comforting his mother over the difficulties of her life as a single mom with two kids and a deadbeat ex-husband. Likewise, Jennifer starts as a shallow, promiscuous fashionista whose original intent is to shake things up, but when given a fresh start, she realizes the value of education and earns her color by breaking a date to study.
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Pleasantville / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Pleasantville / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Pleasantville gradually reveals itself to be one. It looks bright and sunny (as bright as black and white can be) but everyone is either deeply repressed, very bigoted or in Bill's case, going through an existential crisis.
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Pleasantville / int_3d1fbeb3	type	Virgin Power
Pleasantville / int_3d1fbeb3	comment	The opening montage announcing the upcoming Pleasantville marathon includes a bit about a trivia contest that includes a question about the secret ingredient in Betty's cherry pie.
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Pleasantville / int_3db71fa8	type	Blithe Spirit
Pleasantville / int_3db71fa8	comment	Blithe Spirit: The entire point of the kids' visit, which winds up changing everything in the town.
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Pleasantville / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Pleasantville / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: The film doesn't provide us with a clear answer about how the situation will work out between Betty, Bill, and George.
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Pleasantville / int_491b0105	type	Sexy Sweater Girl
Pleasantville / int_491b0105	comment	Sexy Sweater Girl: Jennifer is taken aback when she puts on the typical sweater and bullet bra combo.
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Pleasantville / int_4ab35cdc	type	Dead TV Remote Gag
Pleasantville / int_4ab35cdc	comment	Dead TV Remote Gag: David and Jennifer break their remote and can't interact with the television (due to it being very new and lacking any buttons and knobs—lampshaded by Jennifer), leading the magic TV repairman to come to the door and give them a new remote that sends the siblings to Pleasantville, kick-starting the plot.
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Pleasantville / int_4f52ac6a	type	World Limited to the Plot
Pleasantville / int_4f52ac6a	comment	World Limited to the Plot: As David and Jennifer discover as they go through Pleasantville, the outside world barely exists, including a library of blank books, until their intervention changes it. The street design is even a Wrap Around (see below).
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Pleasantville / int_506143c1	type	Fisher Kingdom
Pleasantville / int_506143c1	comment	Fisher Kingdom: When David and Jennifer first enter the TV show, they're turned monochrome and adopt the clothing of the world around them, and take on the roles of pre-existing characters, complete with friends and histories. As far as everyone else is concerned, they've been there all along.
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Pleasantville / int_51041191	type	Umbrella of Togetherness
Pleasantville / int_51041191	comment	Umbrella of Togetherness: David gives Margaret a red umbrella which he found among theatre props â€” she doesn't know what it is at first, but she loves it. They later share a kiss, hiding under the umbrella.
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Pleasantville / int_529362a3	type	Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping
Pleasantville / int_529362a3	comment	Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: Bill wiping down the soda shop's countertop in his introductory scene. He'd been at it so long that he had worn down the vinyl into a circular smear (since his purpose was to be David's boss, he couldn't think to do anything else until he showed up).
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Pleasantville / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Pleasantville / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: There aren't any toilets. When inspected, the stalls turn out to be empty. Safe to assume No Periods, Period applies as well for the same reason.
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Pleasantville / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Pleasantville / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Newly technicolorized people are referred to as "colored", a slur used mainly against blacks or people of color. Ironically, said "colored" characters are still white.
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Pleasantville / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
Pleasantville / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Subverted with David and Jennifer. It seems like nerdy David is the responsible sibling to worldly, slutty Jennifer's foolish, but the fact is that they're both avoiding reality and its responsibilities, as he's ducking out of life by diving into Pleasantville while she hides in meaningless sex.
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Pleasantville / int_5a2d2d5c	type	Visit by Divorced Dad
Pleasantville / int_5a2d2d5c	comment	Visit by Divorced Dad: David's and Jennifer's mom opens the movie on the phone arguing with their father about when he gets the kids. It's his weekend to see them, but he's in jail and she won't bail him out.
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Pleasantville / int_5d09da4c	type	For Your Own Good
Pleasantville / int_5d09da4c	comment	For Your Own Good: Skip attempts this excuse when trying to burn Jennifer's copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover. She retaliates with a Groin Attack.
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Pleasantville / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Pleasantville / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: It can be assumed that Skip, Whitey and some of the more prejudiced youths of Pleasantville redeemed themselves after the whole town was colored. While this isnâ€™t seen, we do see this with the previously grey citizens who have been colored.
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Pleasantville / int_62d4ceb3	type	Mood Motif
Pleasantville / int_62d4ceb3	comment	Mood Motif: The day after David tricks the fire department into fighting a fire, all the teens in town are gathered in the diner to ask him how he knew how to fight the fire and he starts explaining life outside Pleasantville to them, opening up their world. The music playing is Dave Brubeck's Take Five, a song written in 5/4 time during the era of Big Band and Swing, when everything was written in 4/4 time so everyone could dance to it. Everyone predicted the song would bomb because no one would be able to dance in 5/4, but it was a hit and no one had any trouble dancing in 5/4. The scene and the music are about the teens breaking the mold and moving to a different beat than they had before.
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Pleasantville / int_6486e532	type	Intimate Artistry
Pleasantville / int_6486e532	comment	Intimate Artistry: When they begin to explore their feelings, Bill paints a brightly colored nude mural of Betty on the soda shop windows as an act of rebellion against the Culture Police and also as an expression of their newfound relationship.
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Pleasantville / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Pleasantville / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: George weeps as he admits his wife is as beautiful as the day he married her an that he truly loves her.
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Pleasantville / int_66925086	type	Monochrome to Color
Pleasantville / int_66925086	comment	Monochrome to Color: The film has the two main characters Jennifer and David Trapped in TV Land in the world of a black and white TV show called Pleasantville. As they interact more with that world and cause the people in it to act more individualistic like people in the real world it gains more and more people and objects with Splashes Of Color, until by the end of the movie the world of Pleasantville is fully color just like the real world.
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Pleasantville / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Pleasantville / int_697b5232	comment	The still-grey people of Pleasantville burning books.
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Pleasantville / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Pleasantville / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Set up as if it's going to be played straight, but takes a different path. The wife who finds another love interest is portrayed sympathetically... but so is her husband, who simply doesn't understand how she feels, and his defining moment is realizing how much he loves her. The movie ends with all three noting that they don't know how this will turn out.
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Pleasantville / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Pleasantville / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Jennifer was originally a very selfish snob, and her decision to shake up the world is for less-than-noble reasons. However, even David comes to realize that his sister has a point. Jennifer again when she tries to claim the good TV for her date. She is trying to watch a live concert with someone she wants to impress, for which a larger screen and stereo sound would be preferable (though not at all essential.) David is alone, watching reruns of a black and white show that he has already seen each episode of likely a dozen times. Not that good means it is unimportant.
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Pleasantville / int_6ba2b94f	type	Trapped in TV Land
Pleasantville / int_6ba2b94f	comment	Trapped in TV Land: How the film starts. It's not necessarily how it ends, though.
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Pleasantville / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Pleasantville / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Betty's cooking is famed even in-universe where all of the housewives are implied to be this. That breakfast in particular could have fed 20 people.
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Pleasantville / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Pleasantville / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: What's the name of the sweet, perfect girl in Pleasantville? Mary Sue. One of the bad guys in the show is nicknamed "Whitey" to emphasize the race allegory of the film, for those few that were still unaware of it despite the "No Coloreds" sign.
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Pleasantville / int_6c51e9e1	type	Fisher King
Pleasantville / int_6c51e9e1	comment	Fisher King/Keystone Army: The entire town goes technicolor and connects to the rest of the Earth after both George and The Mayor are changed in quick succession. Either character(or both) might be considered the Fisher King as the former was the last of the in-show "Protagonist Family" to change and sets off an entire crowd when he does change while the latter is the highest authority in the town and is the only character to actually be shown changing on-screen.
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Pleasantville / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
Pleasantville / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: Of 50's sitcoms and nostalgia for the era. Main character David thinks that the titular town, which shares its name with the television program in the film, is this: everything seems happy and idyllic, the town is permanently in the "nice" part of The '50s (no greasers/rock 'n roll/war, etc.), and all problems are resolved in thirty short minutes. But when David and his sister Jennifer are sucked into the show, he discovers just how miserable it is: none of the books have any print in them, everybody's happy because they're mandated to be, nobody has any sex whatsoever (to the point where Jennifer teaching her sitcom "mother" to masturbate and experience orgasm for the first time causes a nearby tree to burst into flame), and the town's Main Street ends in a circle—there's no getting out of it whatsoever. By the end, David and Jennifer have transformed the town into a place that's not nearly as perfect, but much more human and genuine.
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Pleasantville / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Pleasantville / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: Taken up to eleven. Betty is moderately vocal when working herself up to it, but we don't know what she sounded like when she actually climaxed, because a tree outside exploded into flames. This is even more impressive than it sounds, since previously nothing would burn in Pleasantville. An adult woman having an orgasm changed the nature of the world. It took whole crowds of teenagers humping away for weeks to achieve similar results with the rain.
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Pleasantville / int_75e2bf23	type	Chiaroscuro
Pleasantville / int_75e2bf23	comment	Chiaroscuro: The film uses its black and white setting to good effect when George comes home and discovers, to his horror, that his wife doesn't have dinner ready and waiting for him. He wanders the house, confused and increasingly upset with his face in shadow, repeatedly asking "Where's my dinner?".
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Pleasantville / int_7833ecb3	type	Cat Up a Tree
Pleasantville / int_7833ecb3	comment	Cat Up a Tree: The only thing the firemen do at first is rescuing cats from trees. There are no fires or other emergencies in the idyllic world of Pleasantville.
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Pleasantville / int_79190971	type	Karmic Trickster
Pleasantville / int_79190971	comment	Karmic Trickster: The TV repairman. He pretends he's rewarding David for his knowledge of Pleasantville trivia, but really he's putting David and Jennifer through the wringer for some Character Development.
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Pleasantville / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Pleasantville / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: What mainly goes down at Lovers' Lane, and seen (or rather, heard) firsthand between Jennifer and Skip at that location.
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Pleasantville / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
Pleasantville / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Eventually, all of the racists are revealed to have the same passions inside them that reveal their true colors, just like everyone else.
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Pleasantville / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Pleasantville / int_808cbaeb	comment	When George returns home to an (unknown to him at the time) empty house, devoid of his wife, his kids and his dinner, he announces "Honey, I'm home!". The heavens immediately respond with a loud crash.
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Pleasantville / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Pleasantville / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Two bickering siblings go into a 50's sitcom, where it's slowly revealed that all the characters are either repressed one way or another, or deeply bigoted.
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Pleasantville / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Pleasantville / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: When George returns home to an (unknown to him at the time) empty house, devoid of his wife, his kids and his dinner, he announces "Honey, I'm home!". The heavens immediately respond with a loud crash. This also happens during the scene when the TV Repairman interacts with the teens near the beginning of the movie. The teens appear aware of the odd thunder, looking up in mild confusion when it strikes.
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Pleasantville / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Pleasantville / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: What happened to the old Bud and Mary Sue? You'd think that even the old Bud would come back once David leaves. It can be safe to assume, sadly, that theyâ€™re gone forever. How about Big Bob the mayor, last seen running out a side door to the courtroom?
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Pleasantville / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Pleasantville / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: A variation. Pleasantville residents become colorized the moment they show who they really are or act on what they truly feel. In other words, they're showing their "true colors".
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Pleasantville / int_8d53c6d2	type	When Dimensions Collide
Pleasantville / int_8d53c6d2	comment	When Dimensions Collide: What the protagonists' presence does to Pleasantville. Everything is excessively pleasant (as well as lacking color, there is no rain, crime, homelessness, fire, sex or toilets). Throughout the film their actions impact the world around them and colors and concepts from the real world (like fire, sex, color and rain) start to appear as a result.
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Pleasantville / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Pleasantville / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The movie makes an Adam and Eve allusion twice. The first time when Jennifer sleeps with Skip, setting into motion Pleasantville becoming more "realistic." The second time is less subtle, with David receiving an apple from Margaret, which is right before Margaret and a dozen or so other people change into color.
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Pleasantville / int_935212c	type	Feminine Women Can Cook
Pleasantville / int_935212c	comment	Feminine Women Can Cook: Betty Parker takes care of her family and it's demonstrated by making extremely lavish breakfasts and dinners. At the end of the movie, she makes David promise he will eat wholesome. Margaret, a gorgeous cheerleader baked cookies for her Love Interest. Originally, it was Whitey, but she's charmed with David. She gives him cookies and it kicks off their romance.
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Pleasantville / int_95dd3f2a	type	Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!
Pleasantville / int_95dd3f2a	comment	Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: Invoked by David. He deliberately goads the increasingly irritated and upset Big Bob into breaking his "pleasant" facade in order to cause him to gain color. It works.
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Pleasantville / int_9981590a	type	Anti-Escapism Aesop
Pleasantville / int_9981590a	comment	Anti-Escapism Aesop: The film ends with the town being in color and learning to work with their problems.
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Pleasantville / int_99f4ad25	type	Media Transmigration
Pleasantville / int_99f4ad25	comment	Media Transmigration: 90's teenagers David and Jennifer end up trapped as characters Bud and Mary Sue in David's favorite show, a Leave It to Beaver-esque sitcom. Their presence winds up throwing the heavily-idealized world into chaos.
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Pleasantville / int_9a99d3df	type	Stealth Mentor
Pleasantville / int_9a99d3df	comment	Stealth Mentor: Throughout the movie, the Repairman seems to want to keep Pleasantville the same and makes it clear he wants to stop the spread of color. However, after color has fully spread, the Repairman drives away with a smile; he set things up to help the kids grow.
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Pleasantville / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Pleasantville / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: This was expected of every wife in the show. Betty's failure to have dinner ready for her husband one night sets off one of the major changes.
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Pleasantville / int_9e07f1f8	type	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be
Pleasantville / int_9e07f1f8	comment	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be: Parodied and ultimately subverted; the world of the show is initially the rosy idea of The '50s that everyone loves to reminisce about, but once the "color infection" starts to spread, the uglier side of the decade (such as "racial" and gender discrimination) is gradually reflected.
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Pleasantville / int_a066d9f3	type	Tempting Apple
Pleasantville / int_a066d9f3	comment	Tempting Apple: David is offered an apple by his girlfriend in a film all about a fictional town's loss of innocence.
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Pleasantville / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Pleasantville / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The set in the courtroom scene, and the segregation of the "colored" characters is very similar to To Kill a Mockingbird. David's reaction the first time it rains in Pleasantville is almost identical to a shot in The Shawshank Redemption. However, this is unintentional according to invokedWord of God, who said that he didn't realize he did "the Shawshank shot" until a friend pointed it out when it was released. Many scenes with Big Bob copy the famous agrandizing shots of the main character in Citizen Kane. Jennifer falls in love with the book Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was a highly controversial novel about a young wife engaging in an affair, with her husband's permission (as he'd been rendered paralytic and impotent during WWI). Jennifer is likewise a sexual woman who becomes incredibly controversial in the 1950s setting of Pleasantville. The book was involved in legal drama as it was repeatedly banned and went through court cases, just like Jennifer.
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Pleasantville / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
Pleasantville / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Betty and George; despite all the chaos happening, they both love "Bud" and "Mary Sue."
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Pleasantville / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Pleasantville / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: A week in Pleasantville is an hour in the real world presumably, because many TV sitcom episodes are 30 minutes to an hour in length and are usually broadcast a week apart. The Pleasantville episodes, however, are shown here in a marathon.
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Pleasantville / int_a777acd4	type	Dreamville
Pleasantville / int_a777acd4	comment	Dreamville: Pleasantville, a schmaltzy 1950's style paradise existing only within a television show. Given that it's entirely fictional in nature and based entirely on the tropes of a light-hearted comedy show, disease, aging, bad weather and hardship are unknown... but there's no world outside of town, fires are impossible to start, the books are all blank, and sex is unknown.
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Pleasantville / int_abdc0b3f	type	Held Gaze
Pleasantville / int_abdc0b3f	comment	Held Gaze: Betty and Bill when the latter comes to the Parkers' house. David awkwardly has to break it up.
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Pleasantville / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Pleasantville / int_ac1e30d8	comment	The Chamber of Commerce's logo seems vaguely menacing (reminiscent of fascist symbols), especially coupled with the angry atmosphere when it meets later. It starts invoking the Red Scare (appropriately for a '50s based show) with their quite repressive Code of Conduct which bans all art or music they feel goes against Pleasantville's traditions, and also the Kangaroo Court-like trial later. They also mandate that history textbooks not teach any "changeist" view, which seems like an allegory of the anti-evolution efforts during the early 20th century.
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Pleasantville / int_ace12f52	type	Standard '50s Father
Pleasantville / int_ace12f52	comment	Standard '50s Father: George Parker, Bud and Mary Sue's father, fits this trope to a T at first. Deconstructed as the town changes color when George is left uncertain of his role in the changing world, even asking his son Bud for advice.
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Pleasantville / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Pleasantville / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Bill's painting ability. He and David paint a huge mural to provoke still-grey people into action. The process sparks the color in all of them.
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Pleasantville / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Pleasantville / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Jennifer decides to stay as she reasons with how badly she was failing back in reality, there is no way she could get into a good college.
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Pleasantville / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Pleasantville / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: When people of all age ranges step outside their formula lifestyle, symbolized by the transition to color. The whole film is an allegory for Character Development and almost chronicles the rise of the teenager, The '50s coming of age as a decade if you will.
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Pleasantville / int_b2ad812d	type	So What Do We Do Now?
Pleasantville / int_b2ad812d	comment	So What Do We Do Now?: The end of the movie:
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Pleasantville / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Pleasantville / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: All of the marriages in Pleasantville, at least until the protagonists start shaking things up and double mattresses appear at the furniture store.
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Pleasantville / int_b5b47d4c	type	The '50s
Pleasantville / int_b5b47d4c	comment	The '50s: Exaggerated if not parodied with the Pleasantville sitcom.
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Pleasantville / int_b5b48c50	type	The '90s
Pleasantville / int_b5b48c50	comment	The '90s: Where the real world is set, being enough of a Crapsack World for David to resort to watching a '50s sitcom for escapism. The film was a response to the Moral Guardians of that decade who condemned changes in family structure, and promoted Leave It to Beaver-style â€œfamily valuesâ€�.
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Pleasantville / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Pleasantville / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Part of Betty's awakening is cheating on her husband with the guy who owns the malt shop. (One of the odder moments in the film, as Betty has a pregnant "moment" with Bill when they first meet that comes out of nowhere.)
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Pleasantville / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
Pleasantville / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: The film ends with Betty and Bill sitting on a bench, completely uncertain of what the future holds for them for the first time in their lives.
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Pleasantville / int_bb6c96a7	type	Culture Police
Pleasantville / int_bb6c96a7	comment	Culture Police: Utilized as the presence of two kids from the real world starts making a small town from a sitcom set in an idealized version of The '50s more and more real. One particularly non-subtle scene visually features an angry mob breaking into a store and tearing paintings apart — then moving on to burn books. The town establishes a Code of Conduct prohibiting all recorded music except "Pat Boone, Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, Jack Jones, the marches of John Philip Sousa or 'The Star Spangled Banner'."
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Pleasantville / int_bbb3a5a0	type	Splash of Color
Pleasantville / int_bbb3a5a0	comment	Splash of Color: The town is in black-and-white until our heroes begin encouraging the natives to think for themselves. Ironically, David and Jennifer are not the first to change; they too must grow as people — Jennifer complains she is one of the last to change despite having more sex than anybody else in town, but this teaches her it's not all about sex.
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Pleasantville / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Pleasantville / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The repairman drops one after Bud and Jennifer start changing things too much for his liking.
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Pleasantville / int_be8f3491	type	The Theme Park Version
Pleasantville / int_be8f3491	comment	The Theme Park Version: Although Pleasantville might appear to be taken straight from a 1950s sitcom, sitcoms of that era were not actually that simple for the most part; references to pop culture, the outside world and sexuality occurred on even the strictest shows. This particular usage is more thematically deliberate, though: The film is more about how people think of and remember those shows than how they actually were.
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Pleasantville / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Pleasantville / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Jennifer goes on a date with the town jock, who she quickly manipulates into having sex with her. This is Played for Laughs, though at the time, the boy had no idea what sex was (or for that matter, STD's or even pregnancy), was visibly freaked out, and even mistook his erection for an "illness." Had the sexes been reversed, the boy would have been villified.
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Pleasantville / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Pleasantville / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Despite being the ones to instigate the chaos in Pleasantville, David and Jennifer are among the last open minded teens to change to color, because it's not about being Darker and Edgier or Hotter and Sexier, it's about growth, and they had a ways to go.
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Pleasantville / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Pleasantville / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Deliberately invoked by the atmosphere of the town to the degree where everyone initially appears this way. The facade slips for people who participate in the repressive backlash to the changing culture of the town but for many including George, Betty and Mr. Johnson the trope genuinely applies.
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Pleasantville / int_ccfc0535	type	Letting Her Hair Down
Pleasantville / int_ccfc0535	comment	Letting Her Hair Down: Inverted by Mary Sue/Jennifer. She originally wears her hair loose but as she discovers the joy of reading and becomes studious, she wears her hair up or tied in a high ponytail.
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Pleasantville / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Pleasantville / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Being reflective of actual sitcoms of the 1950s, there is not a single racial or ethnic minority resident in Pleasantville.
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Pleasantville / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Pleasantville / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: David's view is initially to follow the plots of the show by heart, but he eventually comes to embrace this trope.
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Pleasantville / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Pleasantville / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: Lampshaded when Jennifer points out how absurd the concept of being in a TV show from the 1950s is:
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Pleasantville / int_d5d265ec	type	Housewife
Pleasantville / int_d5d265ec	comment	Housewife: Betty is supposed to be the epitome of this trope in-universe, but once she learns about sex from Jennifer, it begins a transformation of her character.
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Pleasantville / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
Pleasantville / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: When the Mayor's town hall addresses cut to his fellow members of the Chamber of Commerce, it switches from Hitler Cam to an ominous angled shot.
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Pleasantville / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
Pleasantville / int_d93c5989	comment	Stepford Suburbia: Pleasantville is not as happy as it seems. People of Pleasantville gradually realize they have passions and desires that might not correspond to their scripted role.
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Pleasantville / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
Pleasantville / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: In-Universe example. Bill is treated this way for the Pleasantville show given that he's advertised alongside the Parker family members in the TV advertisement.
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Pleasantville / int_daa27c0e	type	Taken from a Dream
Pleasantville / int_daa27c0e	comment	Taken from a Dream: In the finale, while Jennifer chooses to remain in Pleasantville's TV Land, David decides to return to the real world. Ever the loving mother, Betty gives him a bag of pastries for the journey... and when David finds himself back in the real world, he finds that the bag returned to reality along with him.
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Pleasantville / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
Pleasantville / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: George has one at the bowling alley after he came to the house while Betty decides to leave George, it's raining in Pleasantville for the first time, and there's no dinner.
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Pleasantville / int_e0900417	type	Malt Shop
Pleasantville / int_e0900417	comment	Malt Shop: Being a stereotypical 50's sitcom town, one is featured as a prime hangout for the town's teens.
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Pleasantville / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
Pleasantville / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: The rival basketball team. After all, their sole purpose for existing is to lose to the Pleasantville team.
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Pleasantville / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
Pleasantville / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Attacked by a mob, newly colored Margaret runs crying into frame with her blouse ripped at the shoulder.
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Pleasantville / int_e9fb38	type	The Talk
Pleasantville / int_e9fb38	comment	The Talk: Zig-Zagged, in that it's a teenage daughter giving it to her mother, and then when the mother is sure the father won't be interested, the daughter points out that the man is actually dispensable.
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Pleasantville / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Pleasantville / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: When still-grey people begin a large fire to throw books into, Skip is seen trying to wrestle Jennifer's copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover—a book she actually liked—away from her, and this is how she disarms him and reclaims the book.
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Pleasantville / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
Pleasantville / int_ec02c97e	comment	David is very genre savvy, and constantly points out tropes as they happen in-universe (but not for the movie as a whole). He even tries to warn his sister against defying tropes.
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Pleasantville / int_edad64f9	type	Garden of Eden
Pleasantville / int_edad64f9	comment	Garden of Eden: The film utilizes Adam-and-Eve/Eden symbolism a couple times. The titular location is an innocent 1950s town that loses its innocence; in one scene, Margaret tempts Bud into eating a red apple, alluding to the myth.
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Pleasantville / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Pleasantville / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. In the TV series, both the mother and one of Mary Sue's friends are named "Betty".
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Pleasantville / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Pleasantville / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: The film helped popularize subverted takes on '50s nostalgia that portrayed the decade as a Crapsaccharine World of Stepford Suburbia, red-baiting, and mainstream bigotry, yet David and Jennifer aren't necessarily portrayed as more enlightened than the sitcom characters around them, and the growth winds up flowing both ways as they themselves are changed by the world around them just as they change it in turn.
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Pleasantville / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Pleasantville / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: A bit downplayed since it's in black and white, but the breakfast that Betty makes and serves to "Mary Sue" is nothing short of spectacular.
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Pleasantville / int_f32528de	type	Cut-and-Paste Suburb
Pleasantville / int_f32528de	comment	Cut-and-Paste Suburb: The entire town of Pleasantville, with a generic city hall, one instance each of a soda shop, a hat store, a general store, a clothing store, a fire station, a high school, a library, and a designated Lovers Lane.
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Pleasantville / int_f51e530a	type	Romantic Rain
Pleasantville / int_f51e530a	comment	Romantic Rain: It starts raining on David and Margaret's date.
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Pleasantville / int_f663a7eb	type	Domestic Appliance Disaster
Pleasantville / int_f663a7eb	comment	Domestic Appliance Disaster: The all-male bowling club has a member named Roy who was asked, as a proof of the new anarchy, to show the back of his shirt hidden under his jacket. It has an iron-shaped mark burned into it. How did it happen? Apparently, Roy's wife was distracted because she was "thinking".
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Pleasantville / int_f7991a5c	type	Wrap Around
Pleasantville / int_f7991a5c	comment	Wrap Around: Early in the film, the town's topology is such that someone going off one side of the town would end up on the other side.
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Pleasantville / int_fa4bf618	type	Blank Book
Pleasantville / int_fa4bf618	comment	Blank Book: The entire library in Pleasantville is completely blank — nobody ever read on the show, after all. Once David and Jennifer recall the plots to the teenagers and further changes begin occurring in the town, the books start to get filled.
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Pleasantville / int_fd6335eb	type	Descriptiveville
Pleasantville / int_fd6335eb	comment	Descriptiveville: The town is an actual 1950s sitcom town. It is, indeed, quite pleasant.
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Pleasantville / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Pleasantville / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: David helping put out a fire is a hilarious example. First of all the movie establishes that all the firemen in town ever do is getting cats down from trees. Later, a tree bursts into flame. David catches wind of it and runs to the nearest fire station. Of course, there's never been an actual fire in Pleasantville until now: One of them is then surprised to see water come from one of the hoses when David hitches it up, saying he always wondered what they were for.
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