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Seven Chances
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Seven Chances is a 1925 film starring and directed by Buster Keaton.The plot revolves around a young man, James, who on the day of his 27th birthday, finds out that his dead grandfather has left him $7,000,000 (in 1925 dollars, so, a hell of a lot of cash), but he has to get married by 7:00 pm of that day. James goes to propose to his girlfriend, Mary Jones, and she initially accepts, but after he starts babbling about the money and how he has to marry someone today she gets offended and rejects him.James then embarks on a desperate hunt for any eligible woman willing to marry him that day. Eventually he places an ad in the afternoon newspaper, seeking a bride. This backfires when a horde of women, all in wedding veils, descend upon Buster wanting to get married. Hilarity Ensues.A pre-stardom Jean Arthur has a small part as Miss Smith, Buster's receptionist/telephone operator.Seven Chances was remade in 1999 as The Bachelor, starring Chris O'Donnell. | |
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On One Condition | |
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On One Condition: James must get married by the end of his 27th birthday. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The seven society girls that Buster suggests as possible marriage candidates are his "seven chances" to get the money. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: In desperation after Jimmie can't find anyone to marry him, his partner puts an ad in the afternoon newspaper. It attracts hundreds of women, leading to a complete fiasco. | |
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Watch Out for That Tree! | |
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Watch Out for That Tree!: Buster's car bumps into a tree while he was driving the street and facing a girl in the next car. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: Aside from the opening, which inverts this by covering an entire year in an extremely short period, the rest of the film covers only a single day. | |
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The Runt at the End | |
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The Runt at the End: A long and elaborate action sequence involves Buster running down a hillside while dodging an avalanche of enormous boulders. After all the boulders have finally rolled past him downhill, Buster stops to catch his breath—and one last cantaloupe-sized rock knocks him off his feet. | |
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Hair-Trigger Avalanche | |
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Hair-Trigger Avalanche: While running downhill, Buster kicks a pebble. Which dislodges some stones. Which knocks off some boulders, until Buster has dozens of rolling rocks on his tail. | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Unfortunately the circumstances didn't allow for any dating to take place. | |
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Race Against the Clock | |
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Race Against the Clock / Race for Your Love: James in the second half of the movie to make it in time for his wedding. | |
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No Guy Wants to Be Chased | |
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No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Especially not by every woman in town! | |
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Third-Act Misunderstanding | |
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Third-Act Misunderstanding: A variant where the misunderstanding happens in the first act. | |
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Indy Escape | |
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Indy Escape: Might very well be the Ur-Example. | |
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Cannot Spit It Out | |
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Cannot Spit It Out: James is too shy to admit his love to his girl. | |
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Butter Face | |
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Butter Face: A rather disturbingly racist use of this gag. Buster sees a quite shapely woman walking away from him down the street. He dashes after her, only to suddenly veer away after seeing that she's black. Depressingly justified in that interracial marriage was illegal in pretty much all of the United States at the time. | |
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Divorce in Reno | |
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Divorce in Reno: James runs a newspaper ad for a wife and is ready at the altar with tickets to both Niagara Falls, and Reno. | |
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Impeded Messenger | |
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Impeded Messenger: Played with, twice. First the lawyer who can't seem to get through to James. Also, the black servant who is supposed to submit the love letter to James but gets delayed on his way. | |
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Surprise Car Crash | |
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Surprise Car Crash | |
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Arc Number | |
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Arc Number: Seven. James is inheriting $7M, he's got to get married by 7 o'clock, it's his 27th birthday, and he knows seven single women (the "seven chances") who are possible candidates. | |
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Not with Them for the Money | |
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Not with Them for the Money: Mary is the only bachelorette who genuinely loves James and isn't interested in the inheritance. | |
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Escalating Chase | |
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Escalating Chase/Everyone Chasing You: Buster is chased by hundreds of women. Along with some rolling boulders. | |
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Partially-Concealed-Label Gag | |
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Partially-Concealed-Label Gag: In one scene, Buster sees a human-size poster of an attractive actress in front of a theatre and decides to bribe the bouncer to get into her changing room. Then a stagehand comes and removed a crate in front of the poster and reveals that the actress was actually an actor dressed as a lady. Cue Buster coming out of the changing room all bruised up. In another scene, Buster tries to escape a horde of angry women by rushing into a Turkish Bath. What he didn't know was that he actually crashed the Lady's day at the bath. Turns out the sign at the entrance was covered up by a pedestrian. | |
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Splash of Color | |
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Splash of Color: The opening scene is shot in early Technicolor. It looks pretty washed out and orange-y, possibly due to deterioration of the film negative. | |
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Unexpected Inheritance | |
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Unexpected Inheritance: Seven million dollars, but only if he gets married that very day. | |
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"Which Restroom?" Dilemma | |
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"Which Restroom?" Dilemma: Buster accidentally crashes the "Ladies day" at the Turkish bath because the sign was covered at the entrance. | |
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Clock Discrepancy | |
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Clock Discrepancy: James's clock runs fast, which he realizes Just in Time to go through with his wedding. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
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That Came Out Wrong: The girl sulks over James' clumsy line "My grandfather left me a lot of money provided I marry some girl today". | |
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Right on the Tick | |
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Right on the Tick: Buster is desperately racing to get married by 7 pm. When he gets there, his friend's watch says 7:03 and they are all disappointed, until they realize that his watch is fast and the church steeple says 6:58. Buster gets married and gets his $7,000,000. | |
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Fruit Cart | |
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Fruit Cart: While frantically running away from the enraged flock of brides, Buster runs right into, of all things, an apiary. Boxes of bees are knocked every which way. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: The hero receives the letter from his grandfather exactly the day the ultimatum runs out. | |
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Blackface | |
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Blackface: The black farm hand being played by a white actor. | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: All the "seven chances" girls reject James, but for a moment it seems that he has solved his problem when he finds a stylishly dressed young woman at the club who agrees to marry him. They are leaving the club when an older woman stops them and takes off the younger woman's coat—revealing her to be wearing a schoolgirl's dress. Then the older woman hands the younger woman a doll, while the younger woman, now revealed to be a child, pouts. James beats a hasty retreat while the "seven chances" women laugh at him. | |
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Match Cut | |
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Match Cut: A rare example of the "match dissolve". James gets in his car to drive to his girlfriend's house. Instead of showing him driving, he gets in the car, and there's a dissolve to James in the exact same position in front of his girlfriend's house. When he leaves, there's an identical, reversed dissolve to show him in the same position back at the country club. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: James had to go through a lot of hardship to get his girl (and the inheritance). | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Gold Digger: A few hundred of them. | |
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Styrofoam Rocks | |
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Styrofoam Rocks: The "boulders" rolling downhill aren't tremendously realistic. Justified in the sense that the whole sequence is Played for Laughs anyway. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: The first three scenes portray changing seasons with Mary's dog getting progressively larger. The payoff doesn't happen until nearly an hour later. | |
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Butter Face / int_f550676c | |
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Clock Discrepancy / int_f550676c | |
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Everyone Chasing You / int_f550676c | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage / int_f550676c | |
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Fruit Cart / int_f550676c | |
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Match Cut / int_f550676c | |
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Partially-Concealed-Label Gag / int_f550676c | |
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Styrofoam Rocks / int_f550676c | |
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The Runt at the End / int_f550676c | |
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Unexpected Inheritance / int_f550676c | |
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"Which Restroom?" Dilemma / int_f550676c |
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