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Safety Last!

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Safety Last!	comment	Safety Last! (1923) is a seven-reel silent comedy film from Hal Roach Studios, starring Harold Lloyd.Harold Lloyd plays, uh, Harold Lloyd, who is a clerk in a department store. He's been telling his girlfriend back home (Mildred Davis) that he's a big success and sending her presents he can't really afford, which causes a problem when she comes to the city to visit him. Harold temporarily saves face by pretending to be the manager of the store, but a more permanent solution presents itself when the actual manager says he'll offer $1000note about $15,700 in 2021 to anyone who can come up with a good Publicity Stunt to attract attention to the store.Harold concocts a scheme in which his good friend Bill (Bill Strother), a high-rise worker and "human fly" daredevil, will climb up the side of the store building for half of the winnings. However, when Bill finds himself having to flee from an angry policeman, poor Harold is left to perform the dangerous stunt himself.The shot of Lloyd hanging from the clock is the Signature Scene of his career, and graces the cover of The Criterion Collection's Blu-ray/DVD set for the film. Its the Trope Maker of Stock Clock Hand Hang and most of subsequent examples are direct homages.Now in the Public Domain in the US as of 2019.
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Safety Last! / int_12dc4d97	type	Greedy Jew
Safety Last! / int_12dc4d97	comment	Greedy Jew: Harold buys a chain for his girlfriend from a shifty jeweler with a hooked nose called Silverstein, who constantly wrings his hands in avarice (the accompanying musician(s) shift into Klezmer-type music here, just so we get the point). Harold, embarrassed, starts imitating the man's hand-wringing.
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Safety Last! / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Safety Last! / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Harold gives the viewer an exasperated look while dealing with a fussy customer.
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Safety Last! / int_1e7acb43	type	Kneel, Push, Trip
Safety Last! / int_1e7acb43	comment	Kneel, Push, Trip: After Harold runs into a cop who happens to come from his hometown, he boasts to Bill about his "pull" with the police and sets up behind the cop while he's on the phone, expecting him to laugh it off. Unfortunately, a second cop has taken his place at the phone by the time Harold talks Bill into going for it and he's angry enough to pursue our heroes for the rest of the film.
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Safety Last! / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
Safety Last! / int_21dd66de	comment	Stock Clock Hand Hang: Lloyd's character clutches the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic.
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Safety Last! / int_257ff2e7	type	Maintain the Lie
Safety Last! / int_257ff2e7	comment	Maintain the Lie: Harold goes to increasingly desperate measures after his girlfriend, who believes he's a successful manager at the department store, comes to pay him a visit.
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Safety Last! / int_327a197a	type	Publicity Stunt
Safety Last! / int_327a197a	comment	Publicity Stunt: The climactic building climb is an attempt by Lloyd's character to drum up publicity for the store he works on.
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Safety Last! / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Safety Last! / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: After an attacking dog nearly causes Harold to fall off the building, the owner comes over and expresses concern... that Harold almost caused the dog to fall.
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Safety Last! / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Safety Last! / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: The title is, of course, a humorous reversal of the common idiom, "safety first."
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Safety Last! / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Safety Last! / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: The old lady who gives Harold some sage advice as he's climbing the building.
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Safety Last! / int_4f995f60	type	Train-Station Goodbye
Safety Last! / int_4f995f60	comment	Train-Station Goodbye: The hero and his love interest have one before he leaves for the city.
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Safety Last! / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Safety Last! / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: When we get the last glimpse of Harold's buddy evading the cop on the rooftops, he's so far away, that when he calls out to Harold, the title card that speaks for him is printed in very tiny, barely readable letters.
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Safety Last! / int_50f17484	type	Fake-Out Opening
Safety Last! / int_50f17484	comment	Fake-Out Opening / Reveal Shot: The opening scene makes it look like an execution is about to unfold. We see Harold behind bars, the gallows waiting in the back, his sobbing relatives and a minister coming to shake his hand. Cut to a shot from a wider angle which reveals the setting to be a train station and the occasion a Train-Station Goodbye.
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Safety Last! / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Safety Last! / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The angry cop doesn't hesitate to help Bill on pulling a rope to rescue Harold after the clock breaks, but once he's, well, kind of safe, they resume their chase as though nothing has happened.
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Safety Last! / int_71abd546	type	Excited Show Title!
Safety Last! / int_71abd546	comment	Excited Show Title!
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Safety Last! / int_85abf836	type	Squirrels in My Pants
Safety Last! / int_85abf836	comment	Squirrels in My Pants: A mouse goes up Harold's pants as he's climbing the building, causing him to dance on the ledge and nearly fall. The crowd below applauds, thinking he's showing off.
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Safety Last! / int_86c2ee3c	type	Dodgy Toupee
Safety Last! / int_86c2ee3c	comment	Dodgy Toupee: A basically random gag in which Lloyd's toupee flips up in one scene.
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Safety Last! / int_87d8ecf5	type	Literal Cliffhanger
Safety Last! / int_87d8ecf5	comment	Literal Cliffhanger: Takes up most of the third act. Dangling from the clock and other portions of the department store building wasn't quite as dangerous as it looked; clever camera work disguised the fact that there was a rooftop underneath Lloyd.
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Safety Last! / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Safety Last! / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: "The idea of working in your shirt sleeves! Think of the shock to your customers — women of culture and refinement." In fact, the entire reason that Harold was working in his shirt sleeves was that his very unladylike customers tore off his jacket while mobbing him.
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Safety Last! / int_b06186c2	type	RoofHopping
Safety Last! / int_b06186c2	comment	Roof Hopping: The last glimpse of Harold's buddy, who was supposed to make the climb, shows him running across the rooftops, promising to come back when he ditches the cop.
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Safety Last! / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Safety Last! / int_bc00493f	comment	After he does this for the fourth or fifth time, a frustrated Harold shouts back at him, "Go to hell, Bill!" (While you obviously can't hear this, and there was no way they were putting it on a title card, you can just as obviously read it on his lips.)
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Safety Last! / int_bd88e905	type	Concussions Get You High
Safety Last! / int_bd88e905	comment	Concussions Get You High: Just as Harold reaches the top of the building, a spinning anemometer on its roof bonks him in the head, leading to him performing a dazed dance on the ledge.
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Safety Last! / int_cc5c18b6	type	Iris Out
Safety Last! / int_cc5c18b6	comment	Iris Out: And Iris In.
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Safety Last! / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
Safety Last! / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: The crowd gathered to watch Harold climb the building believes the increasingly dangerous obstacles he deals with are deliberate theatrics.
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Safety Last! / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Safety Last! / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: The policeman really, really, REALLY wants to get the guy who tripped him. Even abandoning his post and duty to watch the crowd to chase him through and up the building.
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Safety Last! / int_ed98f038	type	Wall Crawl
Safety Last! / int_ed98f038	comment	Wall Crawl: Harold uses gaps in the bricks to scale the building, in perhaps the earliest use of this trope in film, or at least the most famous early use.
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Safety Last! / int_ee4535b9	type	"Kick Me" Prank
Safety Last! / int_ee4535b9	comment	"Kick Me" Prank: Harold does this to the cop by way of writing "kick me" backwards on a wall in chalk and then managing to press the cop against the wall so that the message rubs onto the back of his uniform. A comical drunk then happily complies.
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Safety Last! / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Safety Last! / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: In spades.
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Safety Last! / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Safety Last! / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Bill telling Harold he'll have to climb yet another floor, but "I'll be right back as soon as I ditch the cop!" After he does this for the fourth or fifth time, a frustrated Harold shouts back at him, "Go to hell, Bill!" (While you obviously can't hear this, and there was no way they were putting it on a title card, you can just as obviously read it on his lips.)
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Safety Last! / int_fec2b522	type	Happy Ending
Safety Last! / int_fec2b522	comment	Happy Ending: As was typical for Lloyd.
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