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Raising Arizona
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The Coen Brothers' follow-up to Blood Simple, Raising Arizona (1987) begins with harmless criminal H.I. "Hi" McDunnough (Nicolas Cage) and police officer Edwina "Ed" (Holly Hunter) meeting and falling in love during a series of mug shots. They get married, settle down, and decide they want kids. There's one problem: Ed's infertile. They try adopting, but H.I.'s criminal past prevents this. Then, when all seems hopeless, an opportunity presents itself: Furniture magnate and local celebrity Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson)'s wife gives birth to quintuplets. An off-handed remark about "having more than they can handle" gives H.I. and Ed the idea to kidnap one of the babies, and raise it as their own. So, H.I. sneaks in, and takes Nathan Jr. (we think), and that's when all hell breaks loose. First, H.I's prison buddies Gale (John Goodman) and Evelle (William Forsythe) break out, and hole up at their place. Then a demonic bounty hunter (Randall "Tex" Cobb) seems to spring from H.I.'s nightmares to pursue him. And then he punches out his boss.Nathan, Jr. is about to become the most wanted baby in Arizona, for all the worst reasons—while H.I. and Ed, who have grown to genuinely love their stolen child, are forced to decide if love is reason enough to keep him. | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke: H.I.'s boss, Glen, is always telling Polack jokes that no one thinks are funny. He also bungles one and has to start over again (and still bungles it but never seems to realize it). H.I. notes that it finally gets him in trouble when he tries to crack a Polack joke to a Polish highway patrolman. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Gale and Evelle are essentially birthed from the ground, screaming like newborn children. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Leonard Smalls very likely qualifies. He shows almost no emotion or empathy, besides anger, takes pleasure out of killing people and animals, while also having some Blue-and-Orange Morality. The biggest example is when he threatens to sell Nathan Jr. to the black market if he's not paid enough by Nathan Arizona, despite that fact that Smalls was himself sold to the black market as an infant. In other words, he's been through the exact same experience and knows what it feels like, but just doesn't care. | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: A Muzak version of the main theme "Goofing-Off Suite" plays in a supermarket. Ed also sings "Down in Willow Garden" as a lullaby, which is the basis of the film's other recurring leitmotif. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: The film is zany and comedic but also deals with baby snatching, crime, and some rather stiff violence. | |
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Ambiguously Human | |
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Ambiguously Human: Leonard Smalls seems to have supernatural properties and is frequently associated with fire. He appears to HI in a dream, produces cigars and matches from thin air, materializes in an explosion, and seemingly bleeds gouts of flame. However, he also references being bought on the black market as a baby, and his goal is simply a chunk of money. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The biker gives this to H.I. at the end. | |
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Maintain the Lie | |
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Maintain the Lie: H.I. and Ed after they "adopt" Nathan Jr. | |
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Ice-Cream Koan | |
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Ice-Cream Koan: "Well, there's what's right, and there's what's right, and never the twain shall meet." | |
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Beard of Evil | |
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Beard of Evil: The nefarious Leonard Smalls sports a big, oil-soaked and wooly one. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: H.I., and everyone in the film, to some degree. An early example of the Coens' fondness for stylization, but Roger Ebert found it distracting enough to pan the movie over it. | |
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Missing Child | |
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Missing Child: For all of the comedy that ensues afterwards, Nathan Arizona's reaction at finding out that one of his children has been kidnapped is perfectly understandable. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Sometimes he gets the menstrual cramps real hard. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: Everything in the film's climax... including the biker. | |
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Apologetic Attacker | |
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Apologetic Attacker: HI apologizes twice while fighting Smalls. The first time seems to be out of pure terror and the second time is after pulling the pin out of Small's grenade, killing him. | |
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Distant Finale | |
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Distant Finale: H.I.'s final dream. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: The Biker's Establishing Character Moment — he shoots a lizard with a shotgun and tosses a grenade at a bunny rabbit. While speeding on his bike. | |
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Hammerspace | |
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Hammerspace: A subtle but cool version of this: As the biker walks through Unpainted Arizona, a cigar appears in one hand, out of nowhere, and a match in his other, which he strikes on a wall, to light the cigar. | |
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Tomboyish Name | |
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Tomboyish Name: Ed, short for Edwina. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Leonard Smalls is played by Randall 'Tex' Cobb and wears grenades on his vest. Cobb also played a grenade-wearing character in the movie Uncommon Valor. | |
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Vocal Dissonance | |
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Vocal Dissonance: Probably an unintentional example, but Leonard Smalls' single scene of dialogue highlights the fact that Tex Cobb, however burly and terrifying he might look, has a rather high and extremely nasal voice, in part due to the damage his face accumulated during his boxing career. He also never raises his voice, always speaking in a calm, reasonable manner even when describing the brutal lengths to which he'll go to get his man. Somehow, it actually makes him more intimidating. | |
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You Shall Not Pass! | |
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You Shall Not Pass!: H.I. attempts this, leading to a beatdown. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Glen, HI's supervisor, suggests a wife-swapping engagement with HI, then ultimately tries to blackmail him for Nathan Jr. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: H.I. does not fare well against Leonard Smalls. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: After everything is said and done, HI and Ed return Nathan Jr.. Nathan Sr., after learning why they kidnapped him in the first place, decides not to turn them in and gives them advice for their relationship. HI then has a dream where he and Ed are an elderly couple being visited by their children and grandchildren. Nathan Jr. is also a football star, and while he doesn't remember HI or Ed, at least he's happy. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Nathan Arizona, Sr. turns out to be a decent guy in the end. Gale and Evelle are opportunistic crooks, but they both fall in love with Nathan Jr. and beg to accompany Hi and Ed when they think the baby is in trouble. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Or at least take him and sell him off on the black market. Either way, Leonard Smalls will get money out of finding Nathan Jr. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Lots of gorgeous vistas of the Sonoran Desert. Hi and Ed spend many evenings watching the sundown on lawn chairs. Ed remarks, "That was beautiful!" | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Glen thinks he's pretty clever in figuring out who HI's baby is and blackmailing him over it. | |
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Tears of Joy | |
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Tears of Joy: Ed, after H.I. gets Nathan Jr. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Kicking off the epic Chase Scene, the cops are quick to open fire on H.I., even though all he did was steal Huggies (he left the cash on the counter). | |
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Donut Mess with a Cop: "You want to find an outlaw, you hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin' Donuts, call a cop." | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: Gale and Evelle escape from prison by tunneling out, emerging outside the walls during a rainstorm and covered with mud. At the end of the film, H.I. dreams that they return on their own, now smeared with dye from the bank robbery and using the same tunnel they dug to escape. | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Ed, played by 5'2" Holly Hunter, is an officer of the law, twice decorated. Her face off against the biker should give some idea of how she achieved that. Also, when she socks H.I. for robbing the convenience store, he looks like he's been punched by someone bigger than him. | |
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Baby Be Mine | |
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Baby Be Mine: Ed is infertile, but she wants to have a baby, so Ed and H.I. decide to steal one of the Arizona babies. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: HI and Smalls have the same tattoo. What this means is never explained. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: Parenting. | |
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One Phone Call | |
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One Phone Call: An offscreen voice reminds Ed to give H.I. one. | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack: Ode to Joy is both yodeled and played on a banjo, and mashed up with Pete Seeger's "Goofing-Off Suite". | |
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Trashy Trailer Home | |
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Trashy Trailer Home: Hi, a hard-luck ex-con, lives in a dilapidated trailer in the middle of nowhere that is symbolic of his generally poor lot in life. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The newspaper H.I. swipes in the prologue features a hilarious little bit of meta-humor in the text beneath the headline: | |
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Implacable Man | |
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Implacable Man: Leonard Smalls is portrayed as such, a seemingly undefeatable foe who draws closer and closer to the main couple. | |
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Knight of Cerebus | |
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Knight of Cerebus: The film is mostly a comedy, but anytime Leonard Smalls appears, things get deadly serious. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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Babies Ever After: In H.I.'s final dream, he and Ed finally have kids (and grandkids) of their own. | |
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Scarily Competent Tracker | |
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Scarily Competent Tracker: Smalls, who boasts that some say he's "part hound dog." We see him tracking Gale and Evelle to Hi's trailer through the scent of their pomade. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "More than we can handle". Nathan Arizona's facetious quote to the newspapers about his quintuplets, which Ed uses as justification that they should take one of their babies. | |
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Reckless Gun Usage | |
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Reckless Gun Usage: During the chase sequence, the police and at least two store clerks start blasting away at H.I., no matter how many random civilians might be in range. | |
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Pineapple Surprise | |
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Pineapple Surprise: How Hi defeats Leonard Smalls. | |
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You Can See That, Right? | |
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You Can See That, Right?: When Leonard Smalls appears in an explosion on the horizon, H.I. remarks to Ed, "You can see him, too?" | |
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Stocking Mask | |
| Raising Arizona / int_8199787d | comment |
Stocking Mask: H.I. wears this while robbing a grocery store and during the Police Chase in the aftermath where he encounters a Captain Obvious driver who points out that he's wearing this. | |
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Embarrassing First Name | |
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Embarrassing First Name: H.I. reluctantly signs his "Dear John" Letter Herbert. | |
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Artistic License – Law | |
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Artistic License – Law: "It ain't armed robbery if the gun ain't loaded," HI says to Ed. Using an empty/fake weapon could theoretically be a mitigating factor when it comes to sentencing, but hell yes it is still considered armed robbery. As a former cop, Ed should know better. | |
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Badass Biker | |
| Raising Arizona / int_86af7ab0 | comment |
Badass Biker: Leonard Smalls, to a supernatural degree. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: H.I. believes this is what the Biker is. The fact that he roars and bleeds fire when shot seems to hint that Hi may be right. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
| Raising Arizona / int_8b606a51 | comment |
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The famous chase scene, where HI gets shot at by the cops, the convenience store clerk, and a grocery store manager wielding a shotgun. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Subverted. We initially think Nathan Arizona is this, and his early dialogue suggests a potential Big Bad. When HI and Ed return his son he realises they took him. He refuses to call the cops, genuinely thanks them, and offers them uplifting advice on starting a family of their own. So, earlier in and throughout the movie, Nathan Sr. can qualify as a Hero Antagonist, while Leonard Smalls is the true Big Bad. | |
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Pin-Pulling Teeth | |
| Raising Arizona / int_8ef99dbb | comment |
Pin-Pulling Teeth: Leonard Smalls pulls the pins on grenades this way when he's on his motorcycle. | |
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Shotguns Are Just Better | |
| Raising Arizona / int_96ecc67e | comment |
Shotguns Are Just Better: Leonard Smalls carries a pair of sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns in crossed holsters on his back. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Leonard Smalls, the biker searching for Nathan Junior to either ransom him or sell him on the black market. | |
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Word Salad Title | |
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Word Salad Title: It's not clear until you see the film that "Arizona" is a surname, so "Raising Arizona" means raising a child with the name of Arizona. | |
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Hand Cannon | |
| Raising Arizona / int_9cde2df1 | comment |
Hand Cannon: The clerk at the store pulls a huge, nickel-plated revolver. | |
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Leitmotif | |
| Raising Arizona / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: "Down In The Willow Garden" is constantly played as H.I. and Ed's theme. Ed sings it to Nathan Jr. at one point. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
| Raising Arizona / int_9fe35833 | comment |
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Inverted. Leonard Smalls' tattoo reads "Mama Didn't Love Me," and he describes being sold on the black market as a child. It's part of the general theme of parenting. | |
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Nerves of Steel | |
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Nerves of Steel: Nathan Arizona Sr. doesn't once flinch during his meeting with the terrifying Smalls. | |
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Stupid Crooks | |
| Raising Arizona / int_a1d48853 | comment |
Stupid Crooks: H.I. is a terrible crook, getting caught every time he tries to stick up a quickie mart. Evelle and Gale are just as bad, thoroughly bungling their bank robbery and constantly "leaving a man behind." | |
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Gender-Blender Name | |
| Raising Arizona / int_a536f3a3 | comment |
Gender-Blender Name: Gale and Evelle, the two male cons, though "Gail" is the feminine spelling of the former. Ed, short for Edwina. H.I. even claims they named the male baby Ed: | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
| Raising Arizona / int_a796d2a6 | comment |
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The cops and the grocery store owner sure blow the hell out of a lot of inventory. | |
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Code Name | |
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Code Name: Subverted by the Stupid Crooks Gale and Evelle. | |
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Soft-Spoken Sadist | |
| Raising Arizona / int_a8660c25 | comment |
Soft-Spoken Sadist: Leonard Smalls is very quiet and very evil, though he does let out some animalistic roars in the climax. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
| Raising Arizona / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: "Down In The Willow Garden" is about someone who is to be hanged for poisoning his fiance for her money. | |
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Harmful to Minors | |
| Raising Arizona / int_abc60c5d | comment |
Harmful to Minors: Leonard Smalls threatens to sell Nathan Jr. on the black market if he doesn't get his ransom. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: The biker's expression when he realizes H.I. is holding the pin from one of his grenades. Gale and Evelle have this reaction after finding out they left Junior behind following their botched bank robbery attempt. And the driver of the pickup whose vehicle H.I. sort-of carjacks during the chase scene. And then H.I., when the driver makes it known that he was never told when to stop. | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come | |
| Raising Arizona / int_af7d483f | comment |
Dreaming of Things to Come: H.I. has nightmares about the Biker, and the epilogue of the film is more pleasant dream. Ed reveals she dreamt of Leonard Smalls, too. | |
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Catchphrase | |
| Raising Arizona / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: "Okay then," the catchphrase of Arizona yokels. HI's boss Glenn always says, "Say, that reminds me..." Ed's "Turn to the right!" Ed's off-screen co-worker: "Don't forget the _______, Ed!" Nathan Arizona's marketing catchphrase is "... or my name ain't Nathan Arizona!" | |
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A Simple Plan | |
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A Simple Plan: Stealing one of the Arizona quints, since the parents "have more than they can handle." | |
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Bottomless Magazines | |
| Raising Arizona / int_b2cdd776 | comment |
Bottomless Magazines: The policeman chasing H.I. after the latter's attempted store-robbery. Conversely, in the same sequence, a store clerk is shown re-loading his double-barrel shotgun... Before firing four more times without stopping to reload again. | |
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Epic Fail | |
| Raising Arizona / int_b4eff8a8 | comment |
Epic Fail: Glen’s repeatedly botching the punchline to his Polack joke—and thinking it’s hilarious each time despite its making no sense. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
| Raising Arizona / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Ed repeatedly admonishes Hi not to swear in front of the baby, but upon noticing that he's holding up a convenience store repeatedly exclaims, "That son of a bitch!" | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Raising Arizona / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: There is little that fazes H.I.—except another man expressing sexual interest in his wife (even if it's in the context of wife-swapping). | |
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Too Many Babies | |
| Raising Arizona / int_bfe595e2 | comment |
Too Many Babies: The Arizona quints. Nathan stating this (and H.I. and Ed taking it literally) leads to the whole plot. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Nathan Arizona keeps assuring people that what he said is true "or my name ain't Nathan Arizona!" Well, turns out, it's not his real name. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Raising Arizona / int_c75df49a | comment |
"P.O.E." and "O.P.E." scrawled on a bathroom door is a Shout-Out to Dr. Strangelove. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
| Raising Arizona / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: The Biker's tattoo reads "Momma didn't love me." He also carries a pair of bronzed baby shoes hanging off his belt, which are seen falling to the earth after he explodes. In his conversation with Arizona, he admits that he was sold on the black market as a baby, but doesn't seem to care much. He is apparently the embodiment of what happens to a child when parenting goes bad. | |
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Einstein Hair | |
| Raising Arizona / int_cb360726 | comment |
Einstein Hair: H.I., although it's obvious he's no scientist. | |
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion | |
| Raising Arizona / int_ccb97ff2 | comment |
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: The Arizona Quints: Harry, Barry, Larry, Garry, and Nathan Junior. | |
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Monochrome Casting | |
| Raising Arizona / int_ce0b2b21 | comment |
Monochrome Casting: The film is a parody of Southwest redneck culture. Therefore, there are only two nonwhite bit characters, and both of them are in prison. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
| Raising Arizona / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: The Coen brothers made this movie with the intention of making a film that was the complete opposite of their previous film, the dark thriller Blood Simple. The film has a more light-hearted sense of humor and is generally more optimistic than a lot of their other films. | |
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Big "SHUT UP!" | |
| Raising Arizona / int_d1e7f24a | comment |
Big "SHUT UP!" / Distracting Disambiguation: During the bank robbery. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Raising Arizona / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: Telling Polack jokes to a cop named "Kowalski"? Bad idea. Leonard Smalls is blown up by his own grenades. | |
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Embarrassing Last Name | |
| Raising Arizona / int_d63fc7ae | comment |
Embarrassing Last Name: Nathan Arizona is apparently embarrassed by his last name— he was born "Nathan Huffheinz", and claims that he changed his name because, "Would you buy furniture from a store called 'Unpainted Huffheinz?'" | |
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Living MacGuffin | |
| Raising Arizona / int_d64c3cd4 | comment |
Living MacGuffin: The second half of the film involves a number of parties all jockeying to take possession of Nathan Jr., who gets repeatedly handed off from one to the other. Being a baby, Nathan Jr. has no agency in this. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
| Raising Arizona / int_db2f3581 | comment |
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Although calling HI truly "bad" is a bit of a stretch. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
| Raising Arizona / int_dbfd6b8 | comment |
Lyrical Dissonance: One of the main themes of the film is based on the tune of "Down in the Willow Garden" aka "Rose Connelly," a song about a man awaiting execution for murdering a young woman. The lyrics are heard only in one scene, where Ed sings it as a lullaby. | |
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Two Decades Behind | |
| Raising Arizona / int_dc26326 | comment |
Two Decades Behind: The film establishes that it's taking place in modern times (The 80s) with Hi mentioning President Reagan. But all the fashions, cars, hairstyles, etc. range from the Great Depression to the 70s. | |
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Tattooed Crook | |
| Raising Arizona / int_dde43ab | comment |
Tattooed Crook: H.I. and Leonard Smalls both sport tattoos, including the same Mr. Horsepower tattoo. | |
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Adoption Is Not an Option | |
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Adoption Is Not an Option: HI's extremely lengthy criminal past prohibits the couple from adopting even though they argue that Ed's model police record should "even things out." | |
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Within Arm's Reach | |
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Within Arm's Reach: While Smalls is beating up Hi and throwing him around Hi accidentally grabs the pin from one of the grenades that Smalls keeps on his vest. Smalls has just enough time to realize what happened before the grenade blows up. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Ed is ready to throw down with Leonard Smalls over Nathan, despite being unarmed. | |
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CloudCuckooLand | |
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Cloud Cuckoo Land: Rural Arizona is depicted as such. | |
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Disaster Dominoes | |
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Disaster Dominoes: H.I. holding up a convenience store quickly snowballs into a chaotic romp all over the suburbs, with a pack of angry dogs in pursuit and indiscriminate gunfire. | |
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Family Theme Naming | |
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Family Theme Naming: Hi, Ed, and Jr. all go by two-letter monikers. Evelle even points out that "Junior" can be spelled "Jr". | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Hi's boss Glen. He's a boorish, dimwitted racist who laughs at his own jokes, talks with his mouth full, and has a creepy fixation on Ed. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Hi hesitates before signing his "Dear John" Letter with his Embarrassing First Name, "Herbert." | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Nathan Arizona's Catchphrase guarantee is "if you won't find a cheaper price anywhere else, Or My Name Isn't... Nathan Arizona!" Turns out that "Nathan Arizona" isn't his original name. It's Nathan Huffheinz. | |
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Super Fly Reflexes | |
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Super Fly Reflexes: Leonard Smalls offers to use his tracking skills to locate the kidnapped baby Nathan Jr. In a display of his supernatural prowess, he complains to Nathan Sr about the flies in the latter's office, which Nathan denies. Then Smalls lunges forward and grabs one in front of Nathan. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: H.I. works for Hudsucker Industries. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: "I want a baby, H.I.! They got more than they can handle." Later averted, when the couple learn Nathan and his wife had the same problem and just took fertility pills — and if H.I.'s dream is accurate, they solved their problem. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: When H.I. is running from the cops, Ed's police training kicks in, and she immediately turns into Bullitt. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: HI repeatedly identifies the kidnapped baby as, "Nathan Jr... I think." Later, Nathan Arizona says the same thing. Hi and Ed still calling their kidnapped baby Nathan, Jr. When asked by others what the baby's name is, they each give the other partner's name, adding a "Junior" to the end of it. And then after Gale and Evelle take the baby away, they start calling him Gale Jr. Everyone in Arizona says "Okay, then." Glen's obsession with Polack jokes. HI's co-worker always telling the same story about finding a human head on the highway. Whenever Nathan Jr changes hands, the Dr Spock baby guide goes with him. It gets increasingly battered and damaged as the film goes on. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: "Son, you've got a panty on your head!" | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil is Petty: Leonard Smalls is introduced using a shotgun and hand grenades to slaughter small animals he passes on the side of the road. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: Played with. Leonard Smalls casually tells Nathan Arizona that he was sold to the black market as a baby, but he doesn't seem to have a problem with it, since he subtly brags about his price, and is more than willing to sentence Nathan Jr. to the same fate. | |
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