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Red State

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Red State	type	TVTItem
Red State	label	Red State
Red State	page	RedState
Red State	comment	Writer/director Kevin Smith's first foray into horror. After the disappointment of his last big studio film Cop Out, Smith decided to finally shoot the script he had written years ago during the shooting of Zack and Miri Make a Porno for the smallest budget he's had since Chasing Amy. Stars Michael Parks, John Goodman, Melissa Leo, and Stephen Root, and features a few more heavy weight issues than Smith's previous work.The film starts with three teens attempting to procure sex from a woman who lives in the outskirts of their Southern town. Things don't result in quite that much sex, however, as the boys end up being kidnapped by Five Points Trinity Church, the local extremely fundamentalist Christian church, situated in nearby Cooper's Dell. From there, it's all bloodshed, artillery and some transitions between the characters it focuses on.
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Red State / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Red State / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: All three of the initial protagonists, and Cooper's sympathetic daughter Cheyenne.
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Red State / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Red State / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Pretty hard to catch on the first viewing, but Smith is the voice of the off-camera prisoner who tells Cooper "Shut the fuck up!" as he rambles in his cell.
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Red State / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Red State / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The cult compound, violence, and the actions of the ATF are similar to David Koresh and the Branch Dividian Compound tragedy from the early 90's.
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Red State / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Red State / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: This is what gets the main trio into trouble in the first place.
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Red State / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Red State / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Cooper is sort of a mix of Fred Phelps and David Koresh; the climax explicitly recalls the Waco siege at the Branch Davidian compound.
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Red State / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Red State / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: The Five Points Trinity Church is killing gays and promiscuous teens out of religious mania. Then the ATF shows up, decides they are all terrorists, and decides to murder every single parishioner, including the children.
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Red State / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Red State / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: This movie has it in spades. It goes from a raunchy comedy, to a Hostel-style thriller, to a hostage/siege-type movie with a bit of action/shoot-em-up thrown in.
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Red State / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
Red State / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: The Five Points Trinity Church.
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Red State / int_1950b76f	type	A Good Way to Die
Red State / int_1950b76f	comment	A Good Way to Die: Cooper certainly believes dying fighting government enforcers (of a government willing to tolerate homosexuals) is one, and he has most of his family convinced of that too.
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Red State / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Red State / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: At the end of the movie, the two agents interviewing Keenan justify locking the surviving Coopers up forever this way. "Because fuck people like this." "They're animals."
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Red State / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Red State / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: A whole (inbred) family of them!
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Red State / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Red State / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Cheyenne for the church. Harry subverts this for the ATF.
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Red State / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Red State / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Travis is shot by the sheriff immediately after escaping the compound.
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Red State / int_2b75f9b3	type	Token Good Cop
Red State / int_2b75f9b3	comment	Token Good Cops: Deputy Pete and Agent Brooks are the only prominent members of the sheriff's department and ATF to never display any kind of Police Brutality while investigating or besieging the Five Points Trinity Church. Unfortunately, both are killed early on and things get worse and worse.
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Red State / int_2b9e3fb0	type	Give Me a Sign
Red State / int_2b9e3fb0	comment	Give Me a Sign: Played straight, then subverted and lampshaded.
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Red State / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Red State / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: A couple of the ATF agents mention that Neo-Nazis were disturbed by Cooperâ€™s vile hatred and that they want NOTHING to do with him.
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Red State / int_363eb594	type	Karmic Rape
Red State / int_363eb594	comment	Karmic Rape: Joked about at the end of the movie.
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Red State / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Red State / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Unlike other Kevin Smith films that usually had heart and was usually somewhere in the middle of the scale, Red State is incredibly bleak and uncompromising.
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Red State / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Red State / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Keenan and his subordinates talk about how last time the ATF had not as much luck during a similar incident and the FBI had to relieve them. They are, of course, talking about the Waco siege, even though it's not mentioned by name or situation.
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Red State / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Red State / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: While the police officers are just doing their job, even they decide to kill all members of the church when they assume that they might attack.
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Red State / int_40b1c664	type	The Patriarch
Red State / int_40b1c664	comment	The Patriarch: Cooper is a villainous example of this archetype.
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Red State / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Red State / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Sure, every member of the Five Points Trinity Church is arrested or killed, but the main trio are all dead as well as Cheyenne, the only redeemable Cooper family member.
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Red State / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Red State / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: In the last scene, Cooper is pacing around his cell singing and sermonizing to himself until another prisoner (played by Kevin Smith) tells him to "shut the fuck up".
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Red State / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
Red State / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: The members of the Five Points Trinity church use this method (primarily via internet personals) to draw in "perverts" for them to purge.
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Red State / int_4f672bfe	type	Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age
Red State / int_4f672bfe	comment	Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age: While everyone else in the Five Points Trinity Church uses some kind of modern assault rifle or submachine gun, Cooper (who's clearly older than almost every other member) sticks with a nice lever action hunting rifle.
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Red State / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Red State / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The Five Points Trinity Church is this to an extent. After some people set off an IED in their yard, they build a wall around their church (AKA "The Great Wall of Bullshit"), set up security cameras on their property as well as a electric locking gate (although, it is waist high) and stock up on high-powered guns which they have modified to be automatic. Also, they don't allow anybody but family members in their church.
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Red State / int_5262c2bd	type	Bullet Holes and Revelations
Red State / int_5262c2bd	comment	Bullet Holes and Revelations: Happens between Sarah and her daughter Cheyenne. Sarah loses.
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Red State / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Red State / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: A rather interesting example. Sarah walks in just as Jared grabs Cheyenne, which makes it appear that he's trying to wrestle the gun away from her. In reality, he's just trying to taunt her into killing him because he just doesn't care anymore.
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Red State / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Red State / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Abin Cooper is a kindly patriarch and preacher when he's not murdering sodomites and other sinners. His grandfatherly personality makes him all the more sinister.
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Red State / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Red State / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Although Keenan's superiors wish to avert this, Cheyenne's actions (combined with a lot of dumb luck) manage to play it straight. As long as you don't count the main trio and Cheyenne dying...
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Red State / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Red State / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The Five Points Trinity Church, of course.
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Red State / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Red State / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: Keenan and his men are just trying to do their job to take out what is, for all intents and purposes, a terrorist cell and save the hostages. Unfortunately, they have no way of knowing exactly who's a hostage, which means all three of them are gunned down regardless. Even the three boys, while not outwardly cruel, are clearly sleazy.
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Red State / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Red State / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The local sheriff's office is incompetent. The ATF is corrupt.
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Red State / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Red State / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Aside from their homicidal religious extremism, the Coopers are just one big, happy Southern family, and Cheyenne risks her life trying to get the little ones to safety.
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Red State / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Red State / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: When the deputy hears the shots fired from inside the church, he makes no effort to take cover while calling in backup, despite having plenty of time to do so.
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Red State / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Red State / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Well, they do round up anyone and everyone they even assume are homosexual and brutally murder them, but Cooper occasionally prefaces his opinions on women and homosexuals with "I know it's not politically correct to say, but..."
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Red State / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Red State / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: The Five Points Trinity Church seems pretty damned determined to pull this off once their cover as a "peaceful, but angry and Protestant church" is blown and most of them are pretty successful.
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Red State / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Red State / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: The ATF decides to cover up the Sheriff's accidental shooting by killing everyone in the house.
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Red State / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Red State / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: Exactly 13 minutes, 12 seconds before the horror starts. Most of it is getting to the incident, and establishing the sheriff and Cooper.
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Red State / int_8551ca25	type	Prank Date
Red State / int_8551ca25	comment	Prank Date: The "malicious trap" variety, which sets up the events of the movie.
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Red State / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Red State / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: We never do find out if the young children make it out of the attic alive or are shot up by the ATF.
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Red State / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Red State / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Caleb never speaks. He's portrayed ironically by Ralph Garmin, a radio DJ.
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Red State / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Red State / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Cooper, who also has a Beard of Evil, plays this trope to the hilt.
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Red State / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Red State / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The class discussion is pretty much all foreshadowing, especially the ending snippet... As well as when the main trio is talking about how one of the women on the website they're looking at is located in Cooper's Dell. Guess where the Five Points Trinity Church is located?
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Red State / int_9fc04a54	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
Red State / int_9fc04a54	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: After being captured by the FPT Church, the boys scream that they're not gay, assuming that that's the only reason the Church wants to kill them, in the hopes that they'll be let go.
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Red State / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
Red State / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Billy Ray is a head taller than his friends and is the dimmest of the three.
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Red State / int_a593db6a	type	Sentenced Without Trial
Red State / int_a593db6a	comment	Sentenced Without Trial: Using the Patriot Act, the ATF imprison the surviving Cooper's for life without a trial.
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Red State / int_a90f0639	type	Entitled Bastard
Red State / int_a90f0639	comment	Entitled Bastard: When Cheyenne begs Jared to help her get the children out, he refuses and points out the hypocrisy of demanding mercy from him when she and her family were happy enough to kill and torture innocent people due to their religious beliefs.
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Red State / int_ace24b2c	type	Halfway Plot Switch
Red State / int_ace24b2c	comment	Halfway Plot Switch: Goes with the Genre Shift, obviously. The first half of the movie is about Travis, Jared and Billy Ray trying to flee from the Coopers' compound. Then Travis gets shot by the Sheriff. The second half of the movie is about Agent Keenan's team and the Coopers firing at each other, with Jared and Cheyenne caught in the middle.
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Red State / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Red State / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Kevin Pollak's ATF Agent Brooks.
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Red State / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Red State / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Cooper spells right out that he believes that the Biblical prohibition "thou shalt not kill" applies only to other members of the faith. However, no one outside his extended family is "faithful" enough for his standards.
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Red State / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Red State / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Towards the Westboro Baptist Church. The plot is more or less "What if the WBC actually hurt people and weren't just annoying?"
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Red State / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Red State / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Cooper manages to pull this on Agent Brooks. Doubles as an Eye Scream too!
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Red State / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Red State / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: When Travis makes his daring escape, he manages to make it out and you really think he's going to get away...only for him to get shot by the sheriff who has joined the ATF who have surrounded the church.
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Red State / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Red State / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Agent Kennan describes subduing Cooper with a headbutt, which we tragically do not get to see.
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Red State / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Red State / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Agent Keenan, to D.C. Though it's clear from his voice that he does not want to be rewarded for what he's done.
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Red State / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Red State / int_da53340	comment	Religious Horror: The Five Points Trinity Church members are partly inspired by Fred Phelps and his flock, though they go him one better and lure "sinners" over the Internet and kill them.
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Red State / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Red State / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Agent Hammond uses this throughout the movie, after the order is given, to guilt Keenan into going against it.
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Red State / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Red State / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: We barely find out anything about Billy Ray, Travis, and Jarod except that they would have sex even with unknown women. The real protagonist turns out to be Joseph Keenan or Abin Cooper.
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Red State / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Red State / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: At the end of the film, Keenan's superiors point out that they don't have to kill Cooper to keep him quiet. Instead they'll lock him away in a federal prison forever under the pretext of terrorism.
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Red State / int_e5467735	comment	Expy Coexistence: Initially, it seems like the Five Points Church is an Expy for the Westboro Baptist Church, but close to the end of the movie, the actual WBC is mentioned as a way of emphasizing exactly how dangerous Five Points is.
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Red State / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Red State / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Keenan (John Goodman) has some shrapnel skull fragments tear into his thigh, but it doesn't give him more than the faintest limp.
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Red State / int_e81f5639	type	Moe Greene Special
Red State / int_e81f5639	comment	Moe Greene Special: Happens to Agent Brooks.
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Red State / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Red State / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: An interesting case. While it's certainly a straight example, Word of God is that Kevin Smith considers Red State's religious and sexual politics to have been a misstep, as they caused viewers to put too much focus on the those aspects rather than taking the film on its own merits. His next attempt at horror, Tusk, has no political influences at all.
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Red State / int_e905c892	type	The Heretic
Red State / int_e905c892	comment	The Heretic: How other Christians in the movie view the hate-spewing Coopers.
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Red State / int_ec2d62b9	type	Cult Colony
Red State / int_ec2d62b9	comment	Cult Colony: The Coopers' farmstead turned into this, and their aggressive bigotry drove all their neighbors out of the valley.
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Red State / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Red State / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: The congregation of the Five Points Trinity Church, played for horror.
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Red State / int_f98356f	type	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic
Red State / int_f98356f	comment	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: The Coopers, overlapping with Church Militant, above. So far to the right, in fact, that even the neo-Nazis think they're "nucking futs."
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Red State / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
Red State / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Pastor Abin Cooper, also a Sinister Minister who executes 'sinners' and 'sodomites', is a trained domestic terrorist. He joins the rest of his church during their shoot-out with the ATF, firing a lever action rifle at the agents to hold off the prolonged siege.
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Red State / int_fed441ad	type	All Gays are Promiscuous
Red State / int_fed441ad	comment	All Gays are Promiscuous: The Five Points Trinity Church seems to hold this belief with the way Cooper preaches about them.
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