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Snowpiercer

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Snowpiercer	comment	Snowpiercer is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi action film directed and co-written by Bong Joon-ho, co-produced by Park Chan-wook, and loosely based on the French comic Le Transperceneige. The film stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Go Ah-Sung, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Ed Harris, Octavia Spencer, Luke Pasqualino, and Jamie Bell among others. It is Bong's first film in the English language (which comprises almost 85% of the dialogue), and his first to be made with American actors.In 2014, an acceleration of global warming prompts a desperate attempt to counteract it, the method of choice being dispensing the chemical CW-7 into the skies to cool the atmosphere. Working all too well, the attempt sends global temperatures crashing, enveloping the planet in ice and killing nearly everyone on Earth. 17 years later, in 2031, the only pocket of surviving humans lives aboard the Snowpiercer, a massive train which circles around the globe, running on perpetual motion. Social class is determined by the ticket bought almost two decades ago, with the front of the train being for the rich and the back housing the poor. Rebellions have been attempted time and time and again in the past, but none have ever succeeded.Now, the starved and overcrowded tail of the train begins to talk of trying another rebellion, tired of living on nutrient gel and recycled water while the rich purportedly live in luxury and comfort. Ignoring commands to stay in their place, the poor take control of the end cars with their leader Curtis Everett (Evans), heading on to rescue former security specialist Namgoong Minsoo (Song) in order to take the train for themselves.Snowpiercer was scheduled to be released in Korea on August 1, 2013, but was released a day earlier thanks to the great amount of interest in the film. About $40 million was invested into the production of the film, making it the most expensive Korean film to date. An animated prequel narrated by Go Ah-sung, set during the CW-7's dispensing, was aired online before the movie's release.In 2017, TNT announced that they were working on a TV adaptation of the film, also called Snowpiercer, starring Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly, but it got stuck in Development Hell until it was announced that the series would premiere in May 2020.
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Snowpiercer / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Snowpiercer / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Characters are "spent" continuously throughout the film. By the end, the only named characters still alive are Yona and Timmy, and they could possibly be the last humans on Earth, since we don't know if anyone else survived the train crash.
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Snowpiercer / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Snowpiercer / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette, the authors of the original comics, appear briefly as two tail-enders. Rochette's hands are also shown drawing the group shot of Curtis's party.
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Snowpiercer / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Snowpiercer / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Curtis has one when Gilliam is executed, requiring Tanya to slap him out of it, and another, way worse one when he learns that his revolution was all for naught.
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Snowpiercer / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Snowpiercer / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: In this case, the movie poster. Ed Harris is prominently displayed on the poster and in the credits, and he's completely absent for 95% of the film. Also, they keep mentioning "Wilford" throughout, who the hell is that guy?
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Snowpiercer / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Snowpiercer / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Mason's speech about everything being in its place, pushing the shoe forward to illustrate, is Foreshadowing for the end of the film, but it also looks like she's mimicking an Ass Shove — what Wilford's rule is doing to the tail enders.
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Snowpiercer / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Snowpiercer / int_1843bf38	comment	Visionary Villain: Wilford is definitely one of these.
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Snowpiercer / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Snowpiercer / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: There seems to be only a single car dedicated to growing food, unless there were a lot more that were there but not shown. Even using high-efficiency methods, the space needed to grow crops should be vastly larger than that occupied by the people. The train is called a closed ecological system several times, but it technically isn't, because water is being taken in from the outside. At one point, the heroes are shown passing through a fridge car with big slabs of beef hanging from hooks. It's unclear exactly where these big slabs of meat came from, but it's more than improbable to just have a pasture inside a train. A sty is more likely, but the meat shown was certainly not pork. European cockroaches, the primary ingredient in the protein bars, have a scent gland that makes them taste like rotten skunk, which is why humans don't use them as a source of insect protein. It's possible that the protein bars actually do taste like that, which would add a whole new layer to the exploitation of the poor on the Snowpiercer, but it's never explicitly commented on if so.
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Snowpiercer / int_19028da	type	Eternal Engine
Snowpiercer / int_19028da	comment	Eternal Engine: Name-dropped by Wilford to describe the Snowpiercer. The claim has some merit from a contemporary engineering point, seeing how the train has run full-throttle for 18 years without ever stopping or breaking down, but it's ultimately subverted by the revelation that parts of its engine are starting to wear out and need to be maintained by children no older than 5 trapped in miniscule hollowed-out spaces inside the engine's machinery.
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Snowpiercer / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Snowpiercer / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The CW-7 chemical was supposed to cool down the planet. Boy, did it. The entire Earth is covered in several feet of snow, and it's so cold that nothing and nobody can survive outside the Snowpiercer. Gilliam and Wilford's staged rebellion ends up succeeding far more than they expected. Curtis and his crew were supposed to only make it about halfway down (which they planned to occur during the crossing of the tunnel), but Curtis manages to survive all the way to the Engine at the very front of the train. The biggest example: Wilford's childhood dream of "living on a train forever."
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Snowpiercer / int_1b010521	type	Diesel Punk
Snowpiercer / int_1b010521	comment	Diesel Punk: There are shades of this. Beyond the thematic elements (a conflict against the unbeatable, protagonists with low social status, etc.), the front end of the train is very 1920s-esque, in both the fashion of the inhabitants and the architectural style. The tail-enders fill in the grimy side of the genre.
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Snowpiercer / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
Snowpiercer / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Franco siblings are The Brutes, particularly Franco the Elder (being the main physical threat of the movie and Wilford's most physically imposing servant).
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Snowpiercer / int_1ce428b5	type	Cold Equation
Snowpiercer / int_1ce428b5	comment	Cold Equation: This comes up twice towards the end of the film. Curtis reveals that the starving people in the tail section resorted to cannibalism in their desperation before being provided with protein bars months later, and Wilford reveals that Curtis's uprising was a ploy by him and Gilliam to reduce the population of the train enough for the rest to survive with the limited resources available.
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Snowpiercer / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Snowpiercer / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Curtis killing Mason in retaliation for Gilliam's execution.
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Snowpiercer / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
Snowpiercer / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: The educational materials presented in the classroom about Wilford's life are this, very much so.
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Snowpiercer / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Snowpiercer / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Grey is figuratively Taking the Bullet when he gets his hand pierced by a knife that was meant for Curtis. He then proceeds to fight Franco the Elder, who stabs Grey with the knife lodged in Grey's palm..
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Snowpiercer / int_1eed8e76	type	The Juggernaut
Snowpiercer / int_1eed8e76	comment	The Juggernaut: The Snowpiercer itself. The train never stops no matter what, so even when massive hunks of ice are blocking the rails ahead, it simply barrels through them full throttle without suffering obvious damage.
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Snowpiercer / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
Snowpiercer / int_2044af1	comment	The Asian general has a moment when he realizes that Mason won't save his life by ordering the Faceless Goons to back off.
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Snowpiercer / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Snowpiercer / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The train is all that's left of humanity, crammed into 60 cars. The train's tail section was never intended to house passengers, so a lot of improvisation took place when literal freeloaders boarded the train. How bad is it? There aren't even windows in there, not to mention any other accommodations. The front cars are much better, but only at first glance. While they provide passengers with many luxuries, it's only to keep them constantly high and drunk, so they won't question authority or try anything stupid. What makes it actually worse than the tail section is that this was all fully calculated and anticipated by Wilford the moment he decided to build the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Snowpiercer / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The matchbook the little boy Chan snatches from Namgoong: One of the matches is used to light a torch when the train enters a tunnel and the good guys are left without light (the bad guys have night-vision goggles). In the film's final moments, Yona uses the last match to ignite the Kronole bomb that derails the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Snowpiercer / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Averted with the protein blocks' contents: they're actually made of ground-up cockroaches. Played very straight in Curtis's backstory about his first months on the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Snowpiercer / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The drug Kronole, which, we are repeatedly reminded, is "highly flammable." It's eventually used by Namgoong to blow open the door to the outside world. Gilliam, like many of the oldest passengers, is missing many limbs, seemingly as punishment for defying the front-enders. Likewise, Curtis has a large scar around his forearm. They're not just from punishment: some tail-enders cut their own limbs off to provide others with food during the early days. The fur coats Namgoong steals from the stoned front-end passengers aren't an arbitrary drug-fueled penchant. He's preparing to leave the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Snowpiercer / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: The only two survivors we see in the end, after the Snowpiercer's derailment, are Yona and Timmy. The rest of humanity's fate after the massive crash is left unclear.
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Snowpiercer / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Snowpiercer / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Not onscreen, but according to director Bong Joon-ho, Gilliam and Grey. HD stills show Gilliam's name tattooed over Grey's heart◊.
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Snowpiercer / int_25a6c734	type	Not in This for Your Revolution
Snowpiercer / int_25a6c734	comment	Not in This for Your Revolution: Namgoong couldn't care less about Curtis and the insurrection, but he goes along due to his own personal agenda. He just wants to get out of the train, rather than take it over, even if that means blowing it up and derailing it.
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Snowpiercer / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Snowpiercer / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: According to this video, there are similarites between this movie and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
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Snowpiercer / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Snowpiercer / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: The man handing out the eggs, played by TÃ³mas Lemarquis (who's even credited as Egg-head).
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Snowpiercer / int_282579b2	type	City in a Bottle
Snowpiercer / int_282579b2	comment	City in a Bottle: All that's left of humanity lives on a mile-long train that never stops.
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Snowpiercer / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Snowpiercer / int_2cd22076	comment	The first time Kronole appears, Curtis mentions that it's what the front-enders get high on. It turns out that they're all so high on it they're basically brainwashed zombies.
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Snowpiercer / int_2d5400a9	type	Evil Teacher
Snowpiercer / int_2d5400a9	comment	Evil Teacher: One of these is introduced as an instrument of the society's Propaganda Machine. She violently mows down several people a few minutes later.
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Snowpiercer / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Snowpiercer / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Cleverly done with the pacing and entire structure of the film to make the viewer think this is the case. After Wilford's security effortlessly guns down the rest of the entire tail section, Curtis and his group are cornered in the sauna by Franco the Elder. He effortlessly kills most of them, and for a very brief moment it appears this is how the film will end, as this happens around 92 minutes, the standard runtime of an action flick. Instead, Curtis, Yona, and Namgoong make it out alive, and this is the start of the final act.
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Snowpiercer / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
Snowpiercer / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: Invoked. During a count, Curtis runs up to a guard, puts the barrel of the gun to his own head, and pulls the trigger, only for the gun to click empty. This is to reveal to the other passengers in the back that the guns are just for show, and the guards can't stop them.
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Snowpiercer / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Snowpiercer / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The story picks up seventeen years after releasing the CW-7 chemical compound into the atmosphere turned Earth into an ice globe.
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Snowpiercer / int_35934e0e	type	Staged Populist Uprising
Snowpiercer / int_35934e0e	comment	Staged Populist Uprising: This was Wilford's plan all along. For all of the revolts.
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Snowpiercer / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
Snowpiercer / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: Wilford suggests this to Curtis to help him relax.
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Snowpiercer / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Snowpiercer / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: When the bomb is about to explode, Wilford sits drinking his wine, sees Namgoong and Curtis's prepared sacrifice, and simply says "Nice."
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Snowpiercer / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
Snowpiercer / int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: The tail-enders live in cramped squalor with no independent resources, relying on the front-enders to provide everything while they viciously harass them and appropriate whichever of the tail-enders they have use for.
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Snowpiercer / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Snowpiercer / int_3b79029a	comment	The front cars are much better, but only at first glance. While they provide passengers with many luxuries, it's only to keep them constantly high and drunk, so they won't question authority or try anything stupid. What makes it actually worse than the tail section is that this was all fully calculated and anticipated by Wilford the moment he decided to build the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
Snowpiercer / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: Subverted. No matter how good an engineer Wilford is, parts break down. Since finding replacements is virtually impossible due to the complete collapse of civilisation outside the train, it requires some creative substitutions.
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Snowpiercer / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Snowpiercer / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Played for Drama. Curtis's only words to his protÃ©gÃ© Edgar before charging into combat with the masked axe-wielders are:
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Snowpiercer / int_3fdac1c6	type	Literally Shattered Lives
Snowpiercer / int_3fdac1c6	comment	Literally Shattered Lives: Humans are frozen solid when exposed to the outside environment at a certain altitude, and the resulting ice statues can be smashed to pieces if a strong enough force is applied. In fact, this trope is used as a punishment by Wilford's soldiers against the lower-section passengers by forcing one of the offender's limbs outside the train, waiting until it freezes, then shattering it with sledgehammers.
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Snowpiercer / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Snowpiercer / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Wilford, who has been masterminding the entire train for eighteen years and can normally Break Them by Talking.
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Snowpiercer / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Snowpiercer / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: At the end of the film, the train has crashed, and Yona and Timmy—a seventeen-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy—may well be the only survivors, left alone with no supplies and no survival skills. On the plus side, the world is not as dead as we had been led to believe, leaving the possibility, however slim, that humanity and the world will survive.
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Snowpiercer / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Snowpiercer / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Curtis is asked by Wilford if he would switch places, Curtis's response is "Fuck you."
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Snowpiercer / int_41c08e5	type	Establishing Series Moment
Snowpiercer / int_41c08e5	comment	Establishing Series Moment: Film moment, anyway. The elderly tail section passenger being wrenched away from his wife (who is beaten for no reason) to play violin for the pleasure of the front section passengers introduces the audience to the iron fist of the caste system.
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Snowpiercer / int_41d9aaef	type	Brainwashed
Snowpiercer / int_41d9aaef	comment	Brainwashed: This seems to be the fate of anyone who was taken from the tail section to be employed in the front sections. Wilford nearly succeeds in winning Curtis over to his side and persuading him to keep the system intact. To a lesser extent, all the first-class passengers have been effectively brainwashed by luxury, propaganda, and a whole lot of drugs.
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Snowpiercer / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Snowpiercer / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: Whether or not anyone besides Yona and Timmy survives the train crash is up to interpretation, although it's possible that some of the people in the front of the train survive.
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Snowpiercer / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Snowpiercer / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Franco the Elder goes on a killing spree after his brother dies, but he's stone-faced throughout.
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Snowpiercer / int_4548e6d9	type	Innocent Bystander
Snowpiercer / int_4548e6d9	comment	Innocent Bystander: When Franco the Elder searches through the sauna, a woman lazily asks him in Czech to "close the door, asshole," before he nudges her aside with his knife, revealing Minsoo hiding behind her.
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Snowpiercer / int_45cec696	type	God Guise
Snowpiercer / int_45cec696	comment	God Guise: Played with. Wilford never refers to himself as a god, but the front section passengers treat him as if he's the divine savior of humanity. Although, technically, he is...
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Snowpiercer / int_470bff94	type	Eats Babies
Snowpiercer / int_470bff94	comment	Eats Babies: They taste best, doncha know.
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Snowpiercer / int_4966bf38	type	Perpetual Motion Machine
Snowpiercer / int_4966bf38	comment	Perpetual Motion Machine: The engine (and a pretty cool looking one, too). While it seems to fit the bill energy-wise, it still wears down and has irreplaceable parts break.
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Snowpiercer / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Snowpiercer / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: While there's a lot of violence in the film, most of the most gruesome injuries and deaths are kept just off screen or not shown in detail, including the Axe Gang's rampage, when Andrew and Curtis get their arms removed, and the deaths of Gilliam, Edgar, and Mason.
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Snowpiercer / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Snowpiercer / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Wilford calls Curtis's revolution "a blockbuster production with a devilishly unpredictable plot". These same words could be used to describe the film itself.
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Snowpiercer / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
Snowpiercer / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along: Gilliam has been working with Wilford since the train first began to run 17 years ago.
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Snowpiercer / int_4b32995a	type	Friend-or-Idol Decision
Snowpiercer / int_4b32995a	comment	Friend-or-Idol Decision: In the battle between the rebels and the soldiers, Curtis is presented with a Sadistic Choice: either save his teenaged second-in-command Edgar (who utterly idolizes him) from the mook holding a knife to his throat, or get his hands on Mason, thereby stopping the fight and giving him leverage against Wilford. He chooses to capture Mason at the expense of Edgar.
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Snowpiercer / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Snowpiercer / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "There are actually many things on board which were rumored to be extinct..." [pulls out fully-loaded guns] "After a month, we ate the weak." "That wasn't what Gilliam and I had in our plan."
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Snowpiercer / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
Snowpiercer / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: Wilford intends to engineer one of these.
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Snowpiercer / int_4fc20818	type	Born After the End
Snowpiercer / int_4fc20818	comment	Born After the End: This film features an entire generation of children born aboard the train following the global freezing, known as "Train Babies." The oldest of them seen in the film, the seventeen-year-old Yona, is openly confused at the sight of dirt in the train's greenhouse and later reduced to giggling like a child at the sight of the aquarium car. Less-pleasantly, Train Babies of all classes are subject to exploitation by the authorities: upper-class kids are taught to worship Wilford like a god, while tail-end kids are routinely abducted by the guards for unknown purposes. At the end of the film, it's revealed that they're being used as replacements for parts of the engine that no longer function.
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Snowpiercer / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Snowpiercer / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The tail-enders are punished severely for any minor infraction against authority. One passenger, Andrew, gets his arm frozen to ice and then smashed off for throwing his shoe at (and hitting) a high-ranking member.
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Snowpiercer / int_5115e5f6	type	Fantastic Underclass
Snowpiercer / int_5115e5f6	comment	Fantastic Underclass: "Freeloaders" who stowed away to escape the End of the World as We Know It now form the lowest possible ranking. Segregated to the tail-end of the train, they live in cramped bunks, are surrounded by filth on a constant basis, are regularly abused by guards, and kept alive only by rations of protein bars grudgingly supplied by the crew — and before they deigned to provide food, cannibalism was very common among the tail-enders. They're mainly used to provide Wilford with child slaves that can replace failing engine parts — or a means of starting a rebellion if the train's population needs to be culled.
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Snowpiercer / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Snowpiercer / int_53f5119f	comment	Mason is The Dragon, being Wilford's Mouth of Sauron and Number Two.
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Snowpiercer / int_54433ca1	type	The Idealist
Snowpiercer / int_54433ca1	comment	The Idealist: Minsoo, surprisingly, as all along, he was planning on escaping from the train altogether rather than perpetuating the endless cycle of oppression.
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Snowpiercer / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Snowpiercer / int_54bb502b	comment	The train's tail section was never intended to house passengers, so a lot of improvisation took place when literal freeloaders boarded the train. How bad is it? There aren't even windows in there, not to mention any other accommodations.
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Snowpiercer / int_5591983d	type	Secret Compartment
Snowpiercer / int_5591983d	comment	Secret Compartment: Every car on the train has a sigil on one wall, and almost no one thinks much of it. In fact, behind these sigils are telephones that let Director Wilford communicate covertly with his minions. This is how he can orchestrate and later quell a Staged Populist Uprising.
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Snowpiercer / int_5692bfd9	type	Human Notepad
Snowpiercer / int_5692bfd9	comment	Grey. While it's never specifically explained what keeps him from communicating beyond being a Human Notepad, he doesn't seem to be The Speechless, because he does have a couple moments where he cries out in pain, meaning he's theoretically able to speak. Perhaps he's missing his tongue, for similar reasons to why the other passengers are missing limbs...
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Snowpiercer / int_5d716d61	type	Ground by Gears
Snowpiercer / int_5d716d61	comment	Ground by Gears: This happens to a front-end passenger when he gets pushed over a railing during a fight scene and is then eaten by the train engine's gears, false angel wings jerking spasmodically, thanks to No OSHA Compliance.
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Snowpiercer / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
Snowpiercer / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: Things that have run out are labeled as "extinct". This makes the Wham Line usage of it more dramatic, especially Wilford's casual mention of how parts of the engine are running out and cannot be replaced to justify the horrors he brings to children that are taken to the engine.
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Snowpiercer / int_6221949c	type	Doomed Predecessor
Snowpiercer / int_6221949c	comment	Doomed Predecessor: Curtis and his rebels are told about a group of seven people who previously rebelled against Wilford and tried to stop the train. When that failed, they leaped overboard, convinced that they didn't need the train to survive. Their frozen corpses are pointed out to front-end children whenever the train passes by where they died.
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Snowpiercer / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Snowpiercer / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The propaganda film shown in the classroom contains many of these, including a map of the entire railway. One of the books in Wilford's collection is Alex Haley's Roots.
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Snowpiercer / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Snowpiercer / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: Wilford describes Curtis as "the first person to walk the whole of the train", but this excludes the children in the engine. Claude, the woman in yellow, might also qualify, having gone all the way to the back to get them in the first place.
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Snowpiercer / int_63b34edb	type	Thriller on the Express
Snowpiercer / int_63b34edb	comment	Thriller on the Express: Nearly the entire film takes place in the titular train, resulting in tense situations as Curtis and company move through train car after train car.
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Snowpiercer / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Snowpiercer / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Franco the Elder and his brother Franco the Younger. Wilford mentions that he misses Gilliam and that it was a shame that he had to be killed.
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Snowpiercer / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Snowpiercer / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Most of the major characters die while trying to save one of the others, or the revolution as a whole. In the end, Curtis and Namgoong realize that the door isn't going to seal, and wrap their bodies around Yona and Timmy to shield them from the explosion.
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Snowpiercer / int_67c109a8	type	Shark Tunnel
Snowpiercer / int_67c109a8	comment	Shark Tunnel: The aquaculture car is built like one of these, although without actual sharks among its fish.
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Snowpiercer / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Snowpiercer / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Tilda Swinton, as Mason, is positively masticating every minute of her screen time. Alison Pill as the Teacher is also extremely hammy, although it's justified given that she's teaching schoolchildren.
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Snowpiercer / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Snowpiercer / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Several. The protein blocks that the tail section passengers are fed are made of cockroaches. Gilliam was actually cooperating with Wilford all along, and made sure that a rebellion would take place every once in a while so that the population within the train wouldn't get out of control. Curtis's revolution was actually a calculated population cull that would have freed up space in the tail section and allowed better distribution of food. Wilford wasn't happy that Gilliam couldn't keep Curtis under control. The two kids who were taken in the beginning of the film were taken to be used as living parts of the engine. The engine is eternal,note yes, the engine is forever, yes! Rumble-rumble, rattle rattle, who is the reason whyyyy? but some of its parts aren't. What Minsoo saw outside from the greenhouse and didn't tell Curtis when he tells him that the ice and snow are starting to melt is revealed at the very end: the polar bear is the proof that it is possible for life to survive outside the train, and by extension must have been doing so for 18 years.
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Snowpiercer / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Snowpiercer / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Curtis's rampant guilt stems from having been unable to cut off his arm and give it to the hungry. In the film's final moments, he makes that sacrifice to free Timmy.
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Snowpiercer / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Snowpiercer / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name Yona is the Hebrew word for "dove", the animal sent forth from Noah's Ark to reveal that the apocalyptic Flood is subsiding. One of the officers working for Mason is known as "Fuyu", which is Japanese for "winter", reflecting the perpetual winter and cold outside the train. The name of the train. It can easily bust through solid ice with barely even a dent.
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Snowpiercer / int_6c0e5342	type	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine
Snowpiercer / int_6c0e5342	comment	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Wilford invites Curtis to have steak with him (while having him held at gunpoint by his assistant Claude to ensure he doesn't do anything stupid) and proceeds to explain to him how his rebellion was staged from the beginning out of necessity.
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Snowpiercer / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Snowpiercer / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Wilford's argument that the status quo of the train is the only thing that allows humanity to function holds some weight when you consider how fragile the train's ecosystem is and how much strain the demands of the tail-end would place on it. It also makes most Green Aesops kind of horrifying, since they often boil down to, "A place is more important than the happiness, well-being, or lives of the people who live there."
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Snowpiercer / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
Snowpiercer / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: The confrontation with the masked warriors, from the fish sequence to their sudden New Year's celebration.
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Snowpiercer / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Snowpiercer / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Curtis is the latest one, as it appears that there have been several revolts, engineered by Gilliam and Wilford. That is, until things get out of hand. Minsoo makes a great subversion of this trope. He's apparently dragged into the revolt and only helps them for payment in Kronole cubes...only to reveal in the end he used the ongoing revolution just so he could get to the doors, use the Kronole to blast them open, and get out of the train, making Curtis a pawn in two separate schemes simultaneously.
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Snowpiercer / int_737d7dbc	type	Senseless Violins
Snowpiercer / int_737d7dbc	comment	Senseless Violins: In this case, it's not a violin case, but a trolley full of boiled eggs (and firearms). Coincidentally, a violinist appears in the same scene, and the shooting begins after one of his strings snaps.
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Snowpiercer / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Snowpiercer / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Everyone has their preordained position," accompanied by a strange hand motion eventually revealed to be a mimicry of the motion made and repeated by the child sealed in the engine.
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Snowpiercer / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
Snowpiercer / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: Wilford's offer to Curtis at the end of the film is to succeed him. At first, Curtis seems to accept .. until he sees Tanya's son Timmy being used as a living part of the engine, at which point he beats the crap out of Wilford.
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Snowpiercer / int_78f6faf4	type	Resistance as Planned
Snowpiercer / int_78f6faf4	comment	Gilliam was actually cooperating with Wilford all along, and made sure that a rebellion would take place every once in a while so that the population within the train wouldn't get out of control. Curtis's revolution was actually a calculated population cull that would have freed up space in the tail section and allowed better distribution of food. Wilford wasn't happy that Gilliam couldn't keep Curtis under control.
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Snowpiercer / int_7db56b0b	type	Junkie Prophet
Snowpiercer / int_7db56b0b	comment	Yonaâ€™s apparent clairvoyance is never explained, though there is some suggestion that it is related to her or her fatherâ€™s addiction to Kronole.
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Snowpiercer / int_7f1be21	type	Functional Addict
Snowpiercer / int_7f1be21	comment	Functional Addict: Namgoong's addiction to Kronole doesn't hamper his skills. It's later revealed that he hasn't been stocking up on it to get high; he needs it to make a bomb.
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Snowpiercer / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Snowpiercer / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The bomb used by Namgoong to open the exit door kills nearly everyone inside the engine, then the deflagration triggers an avalanche which sweeps the rest of the train off the track.
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Snowpiercer / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Snowpiercer / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Curtis refusing to sit down during the head count at the beginning of the movie introduces us to his rebellious but practical attitude.note He's not rebelling yet; he's counting. Edgar's refusal to sit down later in the scene establishes his more chaotic rebellious side, as well as his tendency to mimic Curtis.
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Snowpiercer / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Snowpiercer / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Mason. She's brash and arrogant, and makes a show of all her interactions with the tail section inhabitants.
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Snowpiercer / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Snowpiercer / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: Wilford is aware of the suffering in the end section of the train, but he believes it is the only way for his society to function as a whole.
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Snowpiercer / int_8578d41f	type	Glacial Apocalypse
Snowpiercer / int_8578d41f	comment	Glacial Apocalypse: In an attempt to reverse a warming climate, the governments of the world released the cooling agent CW-7 into the skies to lower global temperatures. This worked all too well, and sent global temperatures crashing, enveloping the planet in ice and killing nearly everyone on Earth. By the time of the movie, the cold is so intense that survival outside the titular armored train is literally impossible, forcing all of humanity within to accept the despotic rule of the train's engineers.
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Snowpiercer / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Snowpiercer / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Gilliam becomes this to Curtis when the latter learns the truth about his years-long cooperation with Wilford.
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Snowpiercer / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
Snowpiercer / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: Everyone on the train is a bit...unhinged after spending 17 years trapped in a metal box rocketing through the icy remains of Earth. Even the first-class passengers, who live in total luxury, seem to act perpetually insane (partially thanks to the Fantastic Drug Kronole).
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Snowpiercer / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Snowpiercer / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Yona's abilities of clairvoyance, which let her sense the presence of people beyond closed doors, culminating in her finding Timmy below the engine room.
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Snowpiercer / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Snowpiercer / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Let's just say that neither the train's autocratic overlords or the violently rioting underclass are particularly nice people. It's justified, given what a Crapsack World they live in.
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Snowpiercer / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Snowpiercer / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Subverted. Tilda Swinton's Yorkshire accent is perfect, but when she starts speaking it comes out of absolutely nowhere, and the overall effect is jarring as hell.
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Snowpiercer / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
Snowpiercer / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: Namgoong Minsoo speaks exclusively in Korean throughout the movie. Other characters communicate with him using a translation device, with his daughter Yona occasionally providing assistance.
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Snowpiercer / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Snowpiercer / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Curtis and Gilliam decide that only a few should keep pressing forward toward the engine: Curtis, The Leader with a Dark and Troubled Past; Namgoong and his daughter Yona; Tanya; Andrew; and Grey.
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Snowpiercer / int_8e7467e	type	The Psycho Rangers
Snowpiercer / int_8e7467e	comment	The Psycho Rangers: The main staff of the Snowpiercer fit this trope VERY well. Wilford is the Big Bad, being the tyrannical founder and leader of the aforementioned train. Mason is The Dragon, being Wilford's Mouth of Sauron and Number Two. Gilliam can be considered The Evil Genius, being Wilford's main liaison in the tail section (and the one who helped instigate the failed revolutions to keep the tail population in check). The Franco siblings are The Brutes, particularly Franco the Elder (being the main physical threat of the movie and Wilford's most physically imposing servant). Claude, the woman in yellow, is Wilford's personal bodyguard and the most feminine member of Wilford's main staff. Egghead is a Sixth Ranger, as he is simply an lower-status assassin working for Wilford to keep the population in check.
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Snowpiercer / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Snowpiercer / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Grey. While it's never specifically explained what keeps him from communicating beyond being a Human Notepad, he doesn't seem to be The Speechless, because he does have a couple moments where he cries out in pain, meaning he's theoretically able to speak. Perhaps he's missing his tongue, for similar reasons to why the other passengers are missing limbs... Franco the Younger is never heard speaking (although we see him screaming something inaudible at Curtis when he holds Edgar hostage), and Franco the Elder's only line (delivered in his native tongue) is: "No more bullets?"
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Snowpiercer / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Snowpiercer / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Other than one bratty schoolgirl, every child in the film falls into this trope. This is particularly disturbing when applied to the schoolchildren, who are so innocent that they're easily brainwashed into believing Wilford and the Engine are practically gods.
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Snowpiercer / int_91b8be8a	type	Death by Disfigurement
Snowpiercer / int_91b8be8a	comment	Death by Disfigurement: Curtis sacrifices his arm to get Timmy out of the engine. He dies less than a minute after doing so.
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Snowpiercer / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Snowpiercer / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Planetary/Species Extinction — humanity's attempt to reverse global warming backfired and caused global temperatures to plummet to the point where practically nothing can survive. Ultimately subverted, when we see that some life still exists outside the train in the form of a single polar bear.
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Snowpiercer / int_921bd3b7	type	TheEvilGenius
Snowpiercer / int_921bd3b7	comment	Gilliam can be considered The Evil Genius, being Wilford's main liaison in the tail section (and the one who helped instigate the failed revolutions to keep the tail population in check).
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Snowpiercer / int_961518ca	type	Mid-Battle Tea Break
Snowpiercer / int_961518ca	comment	Mid-Battle Tea Break: The battle between the tail-enders and the hooded mooks is interrupted by the announcement of the crossing of the Yekaterina Bridge, which prompts a countdown complete with "Happy New Year" wishes. Then, while the Snowpiercer lives up to its name and breaks through several snowdrifts on the track, everybody, friends and foes side by side, get down and brace for impact (Curtis even gets a wry grin from the mook next to him). When the crossing is over, the fight resumes as if nothing had happened.
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Snowpiercer / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Snowpiercer / int_967edd3a	comment	Minsoo observing a single snowflake slowly floating in the air while it melts away into nothing. It's not just an Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene. It indicates that the ice age is declining, with the cooling effect of CW-7 beginning to wear off. Most of his observations and things he looks at throughout the movie function as this. He even (almost) mentions the polar bear, but stops, realizing Curtis would just take it for junkie rambling. This is foreshadowed even earlier by the massive ice floes that have grown over the Snowpiercer's rails. The train travels this route once a year, and ice wouldn't grow that thick in that time unless temperatures have risen significantly, to the point that the snow is starting to thaw.
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Snowpiercer / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Snowpiercer / int_970c790a	comment	Wilford is the Big Bad, being the tyrannical founder and leader of the aforementioned train.
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Snowpiercer / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Snowpiercer / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Watch the movie again with the knowledge that Curtis killed Edgar's mom. It really puts their interactions in a new light. Or with the knowledge that Gilliam worked with Wilford to create revolts from time to time.
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Snowpiercer / int_98160158	type	I Hate Past Me
Snowpiercer / int_98160158	comment	I Hate Past Me: Curtis confesses to Minsoo how exactly he survived the first chaotic weeks of the tail section.
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Snowpiercer / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
Snowpiercer / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: During the Yekaterina Bridge tunnel fight, Curtis has to choose whether to save Edgar or capture Mason. He goes for Mason and makes her end the fighting, thus saving the lives of many, but Edgar dies as a result.
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Snowpiercer / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Snowpiercer / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Claude, the woman in yellow, sizes up the children with a tape measure before deciding which one to take forward. She was seeing who would fit in the engine compartment. One bit of dialogue at the very beginning foreshadows Gilliam's true role on the train: Curtis says he tries not to remember too far into the past and asks Edgar about how much he remembers. Edgar replies that he remembers his mother, but just barely. What Curtis doesn't want to remember is that he killed Edgar's mom while trying to eat both of them. The first time Kronole appears, Curtis mentions that it's what the front-enders get high on. It turns out that they're all so high on it they're basically brainwashed zombies. Paul in the kitchen mentions that he has to manually operate certain machine parts that have died. The children taken to the front end have been used to replace broken engine parts. Just before the axe gang sets upon the tail-sectioners in the darkened train car, Mason announces that "Precisely 74% of you will die." They have a precise number because the revolt was deliberately incited as an excuse to kill exactly that many people. While explaining how the aquarium works, Mason provides a bit of dialogue which is later echoed in the scene in Wilford's compartment when speaking about the whole train: Just to hammer home the implications of the above, there's a woman holding a child visible in the doorway to the greenhouse-car when she says that. Add a new "unit" like that woman did, and another "unit" has to die. Minsoo observing a single snowflake slowly floating in the air while it melts away into nothing. It's not just an Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene. It indicates that the ice age is declining, with the cooling effect of CW-7 beginning to wear off. Most of his observations and things he looks at throughout the movie function as this. He even (almost) mentions the polar bear, but stops, realizing Curtis would just take it for junkie rambling. This is foreshadowed even earlier by the massive ice floes that have grown over the Snowpiercer's rails. The train travels this route once a year, and ice wouldn't grow that thick in that time unless temperatures have risen significantly, to the point that the snow is starting to thaw. Gilliam knows that Wilford's private chamber is across a narrow bridge and through a door with a W on it. Something he realy shouldn't be so well-informed about, considering no tail-ender has ever made it remotely close to the front.
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Snowpiercer / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Snowpiercer / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Averted with Curtis and co., but played straight with the front-section passengers. None of them seem to register pain, nor are they particularly afraid of getting hurt. The first hint we see of this is with Claude, who reacts to being struck in the head by examining the spilt blood on her finger and then licking it up. Then we see others like Franco the Elder and Wilford barely even acknowledge the savage beatings they suffer. It isn't until we get to the party car that we find out that most people in the front-section are constantly high on Kronole, so they aren't Made of Iron so much as they are numbed to pain.
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Snowpiercer / int_9d4b58ba	type	I Let Gwen Stacy Die
Snowpiercer / int_9d4b58ba	comment	I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Curtis abandons Edgar to capture Mason, leaving him to be killed by Franco the Younger.
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Snowpiercer / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
Snowpiercer / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mooks: The initial soldiers the tail-enders face pose little to no threat (their guns having no bullets), and the ones who fight with batons are easily overpowered. The only major difficulty is a Giant Mook with a blunt object that Grey deals with. Then they get to the car with the axe-wielding masked soldiers—men who are better trained, better armored, with deadlier weapons, and the knowledge of the exact route the train takes and what landscape it'll be passing through at any given moment at their disposal. That's when the rebels start taking heavy casualties, and Curtis' group is whittled down from an army of tail-enders to just a few main protagonists.
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Snowpiercer / int_9ee7ff42	type	No Conservation of Energy
Snowpiercer / int_9ee7ff42	comment	No Conservation of Energy: The film's two pieces of Applied Phlebotinum break the first law of thermodynamics in opposite manners: The Snowpiercer's engine produces endless energy for the train from nowhere. Meanwhile, the CW-7 seems to make most of the heat on the Earth's surface just disappear—the sun still shines on the planet unobstructed, but everything is still frozen. The latter can be argued as simply being a result of the albedo effect, since the entire planet is covered by snow, thus explaining why Minsoo believes it is possible to live outside. If the rebellion had just waited a year or two...
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Snowpiercer / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Snowpiercer / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The axe gang have a sinister, clanging, off-kilter theme. The music, the fact that their masks don't have eyeholes, and what they do to a fish are meant to underscore that these guys aren't just dangerous; they're insane.
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Snowpiercer / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
Snowpiercer / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Oh God, no. A very extreme case of Black-and-Gray Morality.
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Snowpiercer / int_a38373c	type	The Pratfall
Snowpiercer / int_a38373c	comment	A minor one with Curtis slipping on the fish in the middle of his dramatic slow-motion charge during the battle with the ax-wielding mooks.
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Snowpiercer / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Snowpiercer / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The film takes a turn to the light-hearted once the main characters begin to explore the front sections, and turns back to serious when the bald man and the pregnant teacher start shooting people. A minor one with Curtis slipping on the fish in the middle of his dramatic slow-motion charge during the battle with the ax-wielding mooks.
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Snowpiercer / int_a632f7fa	type	Cool Train
Snowpiercer / int_a632f7fa	comment	Cool Train: The eponymous mile-long train definitely qualifies, if only for the feat of running for 18 years literally nonstop through a frozen wasteland, swallowing the snow on the track and processing it into fresh water for its passengers as it goes, without anything worse than a few breakdowns in the engine equipment during this whole time. Among its sixty cars are◊ (all in the front section) a greenhouse car, an aquarium car (complete with a sushi bar), a zoo car (not shown in the film), an abattoir car, a classroom car, a lounge/beauty salon car, a swimming pool car, a sauna car, a disco club car, and a Kronole den car, all drawn by a perpetual motion engine (or so we think). Say what you want about the amorality of Wilford's utopia, you can't deny that he was one hell of an engineer. Given the global temperatures, it truly is a Cool Train (or, perhaps, from a more cynical point of view, a Cool, but Inefficient Train).
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Snowpiercer / int_a7129d3b	type	First World Problems
Snowpiercer / int_a7129d3b	comment	First World Problems: After the squalor, hunger, and violence of the tail-section ghettos, Wilford's complaint that his engine cabin is "noisy, and lonely" (spoken while wearing clean silk pajamas and sitting down to a steak dinner) comes off as an ignorant slap in the face to Curtis and any tail-ender. Made doubly egregious by how he says it minutes after we hear Curtis relive the actual cannibalism and infanticide of the first month in the rearmost cars, before they'd started manufacturing the protein blocks.
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Snowpiercer / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Snowpiercer / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Everyone assumes Minsoo is acting weird due to a Kronole-induced high or outright brain damage caused by the stuff. In the end he recalls all the events of the film in a Flashback, explaining to Curtis what actually happened and what he was doing.
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Snowpiercer / int_aa2cd0c9	type	Motifs
Snowpiercer / int_aa2cd0c9	comment	Motifs: Food and eating comes up an awful lot — there's a reason the axe-wielding frontender Mooks have only their mouths visible.
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Snowpiercer / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Snowpiercer / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Yona and Timmy, ostensibly.
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Snowpiercer / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Snowpiercer / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: Wilford Industries—the one corporation that rules over the film's post-apocalyptic icy wasteland. Downplayed significantly. Before the world collapsed, Wilford Industries was just an average railway company, and apparently not that successful. The trope is only in effect after humanity is reduced to only the passengers of Wilford's train.
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Snowpiercer / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
Snowpiercer / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Namgoong tells Yona about how the Inuit leader of the Revolt of the Seven taught him all about different types of snow. It turns out that he's deduced the snow outside is slowly melting, possibly allowing for life outside the train. This is why the long shot of him watching the snowflake that's drifted in through a bullet hole in the window isn't just filler.
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Snowpiercer / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Snowpiercer / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Asian general has a moment when he realizes that Mason won't save his life by ordering the Faceless Goons to back off. Curtis's realization that Wilford's forces do have ammo to spare. Yona when she demonstrates her psychic powers to Curtis and realizes that the next car over is full of axe-wielding soldiers. The instant she feels them, she freaks out and screams at Minsoo not to open the gate. Then, Minsoo gets one, as she yells at him right at the exact moment he manages to do just that. Curtis when he finds out that the lights are going out and the Axe Gang are putting on night-vision goggles because there's a tunnel approaching.
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Snowpiercer / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Snowpiercer / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Sure, Curtis managed to derail the Snowpiercer and end the cycle of tyranny...he just had to die and kill pretty much everyone else on the train to do it. Not exactly a sunshine-and-rainbows movie.
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Snowpiercer / int_adc73af3	type	Rich Language, Poor Language
Snowpiercer / int_adc73af3	comment	Rich Language, Poor Language: Minister Mason's heavy Yorkshire accent betrays her origins as a tail-dweller who managed to get promoted up-train. Nearly everyone else up-train seems to have American or RP accents.
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Snowpiercer / int_ae3a3b36	type	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death
Snowpiercer / int_ae3a3b36	comment	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: After Curtis's Friend-or-Idol Decision, which leaves Edgar with Franco the Younger's knife at his throat, Edgar manages to break away and begins to run toward Curtis as though he's going to make it—but then Franco stabs him In the Back and he falls with a stricken look on his face.
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Snowpiercer / int_af5f2180	type	Avenging the Villain
Snowpiercer / int_af5f2180	comment	Avenging the Villain: Franco the Elder goes berserk in taking down the insurrectionists, even killing fellow front section soldiers, in an effort to avenge his little brother, Franco the Younger, who is Impaled with Extreme Prejudice.
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Snowpiercer / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Snowpiercer / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase:
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Snowpiercer / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
Snowpiercer / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: Curtis has one of these moments when he sees that they put European cockroaches into the protein bars. He withholds that information from everyone else.
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Snowpiercer / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Snowpiercer / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Minsoo throws a raver off the catwalk, where he is eaten up by the irresponsibly uncovered cog machinery (which, oddly enough, has no ill effects on the train's operation.)
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Snowpiercer / int_b4ed2f29	type	The Man Behind the Curtain
Snowpiercer / int_b4ed2f29	comment	The Man Behind the Curtain: Averted. Wilford is as brilliant and charismatic as described.
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Snowpiercer / int_b5b4b24e	type	The Ark
Snowpiercer / int_b5b4b24e	comment	The Ark: The Snowpiercer itself, referred to in the opening narration as "the rattling ark," which carries the last surviving humans in endless circuits around the frozen earth.
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Snowpiercer / int_b78b8584	type	Hope Sprouts Eternal
Snowpiercer / int_b78b8584	comment	Hope Sprouts Eternal: A variation. At the end, as the camera pans over a desolate icy wasteland, a polar bear is seen in the distance, implying that life still exists outside of the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Snowpiercer / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Minsoo drops one in the trailer. Yona also gets one when she describes the oncoming tunnel.
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Snowpiercer / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Snowpiercer / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Both Curtis and Franco the Elder when shooting at each other through window glass from hundreds of feet apart on opposite ends of a moving train as it rounds a half-circle-shaped section of track. Franco has a rifle and a red dot, but even with that the shots he makes are improbable at that range. Meanwhile, Curtis is using an SMG, without even unfolding its stock.
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Snowpiercer / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
Snowpiercer / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: Wilford devastates Curtis by revealing that he and Gilliam had been working together for years, and comes very close to convincing Curtis to become his protÃ©gÃ© and successor. Only Yonaâ€™s revelation that Timmy is trapped under the floor operating the train prevents it from working. Gilliam actually warns Curtis not to let Wilford talk, going so far as telling him he should immediately cut out Wilfordâ€™s tongue when he gets to the engine room. Itâ€™s not clear if this is because Gilliam knows the power of Wilfordâ€™s persuasion, or because he doesnâ€™t want Wilford to reveal their long-running partnership.
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Snowpiercer / int_bf487e2b	type	Translator Microbes
Snowpiercer / int_bf487e2b	comment	Translator Microbes: Namgoong uses a translating device to communicate with the tail-enders, though for the audience the movie simply provides subtitles and cuts out most of the translations.
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Snowpiercer / int_c1e703ff	type	Hallway Fight
Snowpiercer / int_c1e703ff	comment	Hallway Fight: By nature of the setting (the entire film takes place on a train), all fight scenes are this.
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Snowpiercer / int_c222dde4	type	TakingAThirdOption
Snowpiercer / int_c222dde4	comment	Taking a Third Option: Minsoo's ultimate plan. Rather than continue the struggle between the front and the tail, he wants to get off the train altogether.
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Snowpiercer / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Snowpiercer / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: A villainous example. When the tail-enders are asked for a violinist, an elderly couple steps forward. The guard only needs one of them, but they insist on going together. So, he beats the wife and breaks her hand, making it impossible for her to qualify.
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Snowpiercer / int_c25bfd17	type	Hook Hand
Snowpiercer / int_c25bfd17	comment	Hook Hand: Gilliam has one made from an umbrella's handle.
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Snowpiercer / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Snowpiercer / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: Namgoong kills Franco the Elder this way.
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Snowpiercer / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Snowpiercer / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: When Namgoong lights a cigarette after being released, he sarcastically asks Curtis if he wants one, but then says he won't waste it on a prick like him. When Curtis has a Heroic BSoD near the end, Namgoong gives him a cigarette to calm him down. It's probably the very last cigarette in existence, and Curtis doesn't even actually smoke — it burns down on its own after a single drag because he's so busy pouring his heart out. Granted, what he has to tell is truly horrific and understandably distracting.
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Snowpiercer / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Snowpiercer / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: The cast roll here ends "with John Hurt and Ed Harris".
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Snowpiercer / int_c4ee877a	type	Assimilation Academy
Snowpiercer / int_c4ee877a	comment	Assimilation Academy: The school section brainwashes the young children of the first-class passengers to worship Wilford and never question the order of things.
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Snowpiercer / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Snowpiercer / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Wilford says "You did a man's work" to Curtis, which references the well-known Blade Runner line "You've done a man's job". Gilliam shares a name with Terry Gilliam, whose dark, surreal, and absurdist films were very likely an influence on this movie, especially the Orwellian satire Brazil and French-cinema-inspired sci-fi thriller 12 Monkeys. CW-7 is possibly a shout out to Ice-Nine, which has basically the same effect on Earth's biosphere. The fish-cutting scene is a reference to this scene◊ from The Godfather. The fight against Franco the Elder in the sauna car features a double homage to The Shining: when Franco is being choked by Minsoo after Curtis stabs him, we get a close-up shot on his face sporting a demented grin similar to Jack Nicholson's in his iconic "Here's Johnny" scene, while Midnight, the Stars and You plays faintly in the background.
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Snowpiercer / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Snowpiercer / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Curtis suffers a momentary Heroic BSoD when Gilliam is executed. Tanya slaps him to wake him up.
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Snowpiercer / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Snowpiercer / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Several tail-enders suffer this fate at the hands of the spear-wielding thugs. During the traversal of the tunnel after the Yekaterina bridge, two of them are skewered on the same spear.
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Snowpiercer / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Snowpiercer / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: One of the rebellion's more prominent members is a large, imposing fighter in old military gear. Despite being one of the 'point men' along with Curtis and Edgar, he remains nameless.
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Snowpiercer / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Snowpiercer / int_cb70651c	comment	Yona when she demonstrates her psychic powers to Curtis and realizes that the next car over is full of axe-wielding soldiers. The instant she feels them, she freaks out and screams at Minsoo not to open the gate. Then, Minsoo gets one, as she yells at him right at the exact moment he manages to do just that.
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Snowpiercer / int_cd86f11f	type	Kill the Parent, Raise the Child
Snowpiercer / int_cd86f11f	comment	Kill the Parent, Raise the Child: Curtis raised Edgar. Later, Curtis reveals that, during a famine in the Tail, he had murdered Edgar's mother to eat her and planned to eat her baby until Gilliam offered his arm.
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Snowpiercer / int_ce767e6f	type	Co-Dragons
Snowpiercer / int_ce767e6f	comment	Co-Dragons: Franco the Elder and Franco the Younger are Wilford's chief enforcers.
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Snowpiercer / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Snowpiercer / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: The most respected people in the tail section are missing limbs. In an example of an obviously well-rehearsed punishment, Andrew's arm is frozen and then smashed off after he throws a shoe at Wilford's assistant, Claude. The maimed elders come forward to take charge of Andrew after his punishment. The elders are not necessarily victims of brutal front-end justice—many of them cut off their own arms and legs to feed the starving people during the early desperate days of the train. Curtis himself loses an arm by jamming it into the engine machinery to save Timmy.
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Snowpiercer / int_d2a9f080	type	Opening Scroll
Snowpiercer / int_d2a9f080	comment	Opening Scroll: One that details the release of CW-7 and its consequences.
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Snowpiercer / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Snowpiercer / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: When the rebellion's doorstop pipe contraption is about to be exposed, Edgar incites a riot to distract the guards.
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Snowpiercer / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Snowpiercer / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The Wilford documentary shown in the school car mentions that the Snowpiercer travels on a round trip more than 400,000 kilometers long, once a year. Not only is this distance alone somewhat absurdnote that's more than ten times Earth's circumference at the equator, it would also mean the train travels at a leisurely 45 KPH, which is slower than inner-city car traffic and a lot slower than the train is shown travelling in the film. The length of the trip is justified at least, as we see a map of the train's path, which shows that the train takes a convoluted route throughout most of the continents, rather than simply a great circle that coincides with the equator.
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Snowpiercer / int_d6618014	type	Last Request
Snowpiercer / int_d6618014	comment	Last Request: Tanya, asking that Curtis find her Timmy. He succeeds.
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Snowpiercer / int_d8f3dc8	type	Eternal Recurrence
Snowpiercer / int_d8f3dc8	comment	Eternal Recurrence: Gilliam and Wilford planned a tail-section rebellion every once in a while in an effort to keep the train's population under control.
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Snowpiercer / int_d8fdf777	type	Terminally Dependent Society
Snowpiercer / int_d8fdf777	comment	Terminally Dependent Society: A train full of people is all that's left of humanity, and they all depend on the train never stopping in its tracks.
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Snowpiercer / int_da3e71e3	type	Inertial Impalement
Snowpiercer / int_da3e71e3	comment	Inertial Impalement: Franco the Younger is dramatically pierced by a spear that Yona plants in his way when he attempts to make a break for Curtis after the guards surrender.
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Snowpiercer / int_dabc7a46	type	Sixth Ranger
Snowpiercer / int_dabc7a46	comment	Egghead is a Sixth Ranger, as he is simply an lower-status assassin working for Wilford to keep the population in check.
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Snowpiercer / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Snowpiercer / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Early on, Andrew gets his arm frozen and shattered as a punishment. When the elders of the tail section come to collect him, many of them have missing limbs, and most viewers will probably assume they were also punished for insubordination. The truth is much worse. They cut off their limbs to feed the other passengers.
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Snowpiercer / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Snowpiercer / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The revolution gets to the car with the axe wielders right in time for the new year, marked by a bridge and a tunnel.note A fuckin' long one. However, this is justified later when it's revealed that the entire revolution was a plot between Wilford and Gilliam to reduce the train's population. It was contrived, but in-universe.
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Snowpiercer / int_dcbddebe	type	Pregnant Badass
Snowpiercer / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: The teacher is full-term at the time she's introduced, and uses a submachine gun to mow down several of the tail-enders in the school car.
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Snowpiercer / int_dce448d	type	Reduced to Ratburgers
Snowpiercer / int_dce448d	comment	Reduced to Ratburgers: The protein bars are made of ground-up cockroaches. It's implied this isn't exactly done out of desperation, but as a way to further incite rage from the tail-end. The roaches need to be grown after all, which would be less efficient than just feeding the passengers scraps of leftover produce, and the revolt was supposed to go far enough to see the processing machine.. On the other hand, it might have been a stop-gap measure that quickly turned into a permanent solution to feed the tail-end of the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_dd48b81d	type	Totalitarian Utilitarian
Snowpiercer / int_dd48b81d	comment	Totalitarian Utilitarian: Wilford runs his train on the idea of an eternal order where people in the lowest ranks have to suffer for the society as a whole to function.
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Snowpiercer / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Snowpiercer / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: The axe-men are confident (or brainwashed) enough that they can chant "Happy New Year" right before the big battle, eye to eye with their enemies. This is later hinted to have been an intimidation tactic.
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Snowpiercer / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Snowpiercer / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Gilliam and Wilford planned for the revolt to end when the train went into the tunnel. They didn't count on the matchbook providing a light source so the tail-enders could fight back. Despite all that the heroes went through to make it to him, Wilford's plan would have worked perfectly, if not for Namgoong's Kronole bomb derailing it both figuratively and literally.
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Snowpiercer / int_e03070b7	type	Dystopia Justifies the Means
Snowpiercer / int_e03070b7	comment	Dystopia Justifies the Means: The conditions for the tail-enders aren't just a consequence of the front-end hoarding resources, they are deliberately crappy. Wilford wants the tail to rebel periodically, both to justify killing enough of them to maintain a stable population and so the rest of the train will live under what he views as a necessary degree of fear and anxiety.
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Snowpiercer / int_e0904aa4	type	No Party Like a Donner Party
Snowpiercer / int_e0904aa4	comment	"After a month, we ate the weak."
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Snowpiercer / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Snowpiercer / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Tanya insists on joining the rebellion's push to the engine because she wants to take her son Timmy back from the front-enders.
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Snowpiercer / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Snowpiercer / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: Due to the outside world being completely frozen over, the entire premise is that everyone is confined within the eponymous train. This is actually what Namgoong wants to break free from.
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Snowpiercer / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
Snowpiercer / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: In the lull before the climax, before Curtis enters the engine room, Minsoo gives him what is likely the last cigarette on Earth. Curtis smokes it as he tells his heart-wrenching backstory and breaks down sobbingnote he actually only takes a single drag; the rest burns down on its own while he's talking, making it particularly poignant.
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Snowpiercer / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Snowpiercer / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Franco the Elder is a real die-hard baddie.
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Snowpiercer / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
Snowpiercer / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: When the train slams into several ice jams, the cars hop the tracks, making everyone in the car fly around. Being a series of linked compartments, you would assume every part of the train experiences this—yet the aquarium car, the hair salon car, and the disco car seem none the worse for wear.
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Snowpiercer / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Snowpiercer / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Wilford paints Gilliam as this, as the inside man who incites periodic violent revolts in order to cull the train's population. Curtis finds it hard to believe, but evidence begins to pile up that Wilford may be telling the truth. In fact, Gilliam's conversation with Mason could've been an attempt to warn Wilford that Curtis's revolt may not have the desired effect.
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Snowpiercer / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Snowpiercer / int_e794cb54	comment	The two kids who were taken in the beginning of the film were taken to be used as living parts of the engine. The engine is eternal,note yes, the engine is forever, yes! Rumble-rumble, rattle rattle, who is the reason whyyyy? but some of its parts aren't.
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Snowpiercer / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
Snowpiercer / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: Wilford Industries doesn't seem to discriminate when it comes to gender or sexual orientation. Even Wilford himself is bisexual, as according to an interview with Bong Joon-ho, he slept with Mason, the pregnant teacher, Claude, and Egghead.
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Snowpiercer / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Snowpiercer / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Curtis deduces that bullets are extinct by taking Mason's command that a guard "Put that useless gun down!" literally. As her specific wording implies, however, those guns are useless, but there are other guns that aren't.
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Snowpiercer / int_eb4ee9eb	type	Guns Are Worthless
Snowpiercer / int_eb4ee9eb	comment	Guns Are Worthless: Curtis deduces that the guards' guns are worthless because all the bullets were used up in the last uprising. Subverted dramatically when it turns out there's more ammo left than anyone thought, and those bullets are instrumental in slaughtering the remains of the tail-ender rebellion.
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Snowpiercer / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Snowpiercer / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: The hero's fellowship is killed off one by one.
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Snowpiercer / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: Groups at different levels of society are separated by train cars, with the decadent elites very close to the front and a downtrodden underclass at the very back. Classes were initially determined by ticket.
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Snowpiercer / int_ee8807f9	comment	There seems to be only a single car dedicated to growing food, unless there were a lot more that were there but not shown. Even using high-efficiency methods, the space needed to grow crops should be vastly larger than that occupied by the people.
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Snowpiercer / int_f16f631d	type	Crowd Song
Snowpiercer / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: The Wilford song is such a tonic. The whole classroom sings it together, and Mason joins in.
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Snowpiercer / int_f55d739f	type	The Baroness
Snowpiercer / int_f55d739f	comment	The Baroness: Mason is fervently devoted to the totalitarian ideals of Wilford and enforces them with an iron fist, although she is decidedly of the un-sexy variety.
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Snowpiercer / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
Snowpiercer / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: A previous revolt against Wilford, the McGregor Riots from four years ago, is alluded to a few times. What happened to McGregor is unmentioned but likely horrific, as the front section passengers shot so many advancing rebels that the tail-end guards can only carry empty guns for intimidation. This convinces Curtis that bullets have gone completely "extinct", but in reality the front-end was just conserving them to lull the rebellion into a false sense of security.
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Snowpiercer / int_f7dc8339	type	City People Eat Sushi
Snowpiercer / int_f7dc8339	comment	City People Eat Sushi: Well, it's the wealthy, more urban-like parts of the train rather than an actual city, but the spirit is there — a sushi bar is one of the luxuries present that the poorer people in the tail end don't even know exists, much less access.
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Snowpiercer / int_f8aa2404	type	Grand Inquisitor Scene
Snowpiercer / int_f8aa2404	comment	Grand Inquisitor Scene: The climax has Rebel Leader Curtis meet Mr. Wilford, the Sole Surviving Scientist perpetuator of the Fantastic Caste System onboard the train with the last remaining humans. Wilford calmly cooks dinner and greatly shakes Curtis by talking about the need to preserve resources and cull the lower-class population (which caused him to let the rebellion get off the ground when he could have easily stopped it) from his perspective while claiming that Curtis's beloved mentor secretly shared many of Wilford's beliefs and ideals and to make Curtis the next leader of the train. Curtis's resolve gradually weakens throughout the talk, but he ultimately chooses to give Wilford a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown rather than submit to his vision.
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Snowpiercer / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Snowpiercer / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: The children in the classroom lend an aspect of creepy, over-the-top black comedy to the film. They disappear completely when the shooting starts.
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Snowpiercer / int_fa2f60f1	type	Vehicle Title
Snowpiercer / int_fa2f60f1	comment	Vehicle Title: "Snowpiercer" is the name of the train that sustains humanity.
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Snowpiercer / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Snowpiercer / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: The protagonists, who have had enough of being the victims of the structural injustice established by the Visionary Villain.
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Snowpiercer / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Snowpiercer / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Before the insurrection, Edgar frequently mentions steak and questions Curtis about what it tastes like. When Curtis finally reaches Wilford, the latter is cooking himself a steak for dinner.
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Snowpiercer / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
Snowpiercer / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: Wilford, and he almost had Curtis with his smooth talk.
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Snowpiercer / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Snowpiercer / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Wilford's idea of this is to engineer the killing of eighteen less people in the tail section than what he thinks is the optimal amount, one for every year the train has been running.
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