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Stand and Deliver
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Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film directed and co-written by Ramón Menéndez, starring Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Estelle Harris, Rosanna DeSoto, and Andy GarcÃa.The film is based on the true story of the late Jaime Escalante (Olmos), a Bolivian-American computer technician who became a math teacher at an Inner City School in East Los Angeles to save the students from gang violence, drugs, and the like.Hailed to this day as a classic, the film was added to the National Film Registry in 2011. Olmos received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Raquel Ortega. Her approach to things, instead of helping the students (or the faculty), is to just mount obstacles and forcing everyone to consider the situation impossible to fix and roll with it. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The mistake 0 to π over 2. During a practice of this question, which takes place before Escalante's heart attack, everyone got the same wrong answer, this would later come back to be the reason for the accusation of them cheating. Escalante argues that this doesn't automatically mean they cheated, just that they were taught the same way of working problems out. | |
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Inner City School | |
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Inner City School: And being in such bad situation its facing a posibility of losing its credentials. | |
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Save Our Students | |
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Save Our Students: One of the quintessential movies of the "genre". It's also notable for being a case of Unbuilt Trope, as it was one of the earlier films dedicated to the subject and subverting a lot of standard cliches. For one, Escalante is a hard-ass that simply pushes his students into extreme ends of hard work, rather than some trickster trying to win the crowd. | |
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Hollywood Heart Attack | |
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Hollywood Heart Attack: Escalante suffers a rather jarring one. | |
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Flipping the Bird | |
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Flipping the Bird: Chuco (a Maravilla gang member) does this to Escalante in an attempt to be clever. Escalante does him one better, showing him how to quickly multiply by nine on his fingers. | |
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Foreign Cuss Word: Many. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Escalante gradually gets more loving for his students, and Angel abandons his past of gang violence and becomes an excelling student. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold/Papa Wolf: Escalante by the end of the movie. At this point, he is now much more caring to his students and will defend them. | |
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Golden Ending | |
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Golden Ending: Despite Escalante's students being accused of cheating, they retake and re-pass the test. The film ends with stats shown about the rising number of students passing the AP calculus test. If that's not golden, what is? | |
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Smoking Is Cool | |
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Smoking Is Cool: Angel and Chuco smoke in the high-schooler "let's do the grown-up stuff" logic. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: At the start of the movie, Angel is a member of the Maravilla gang and smokes. At the end, Angel becomes a great student and is shown to have gotten one of the highest scores on the AP calculus test. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The DVD cover of the film might lead you to think that Angel Guzman, Lou Diamond Phillips's character, is the protagonist of the movie (he's the big center picture and sort of hard to miss), when he's only part of an ensemble of students taught by Escalante. | |
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In-Series Nickname | |
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In-Series Nickname: The students call Escalante "Kemo," short for "Kemosabe." | |
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A Dog Ate My Homework | |
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A Dog Ate My Homework: A goat is mentioned in a variation. | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones: Ramirez starts out calm when addressing Escalante's stern concerns, but once pestered by Escalante finally snaps and turns into a Large Ham. "No one has the right to accuse me of racism!" | |
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Stern Teacher | |
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Stern Teacher: Jaime combines his assertiveness and high expectations with a lot of humor, hoping to inspire his students while also cutting through their BS. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: Early in the film, during a teachers' conference, the beleaguered teachers respond to their students' poor performance by accepting defeat, claiming that they're doing all they can. Jaime immediately raises his hand and asserts that he could do more. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: After the crack Angel makes (see False Confession and Tension-Cutting Laughter below), Ramirez tries to keep a straight face, but even he smiles and lets out a chuckle. | |
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Bilingual Dialogue | |
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Bilingual Dialogue: Quarter of all dialogues are in Spanish, with no translation, subtitles or context. | |
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Stay in the Kitchen | |
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Stay in the Kitchen: When parental permission is required (either for the summer course or the advanced classes), Claudia faces this argument from her mother. However, she manages to convince her mother otherwise. | |
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Tension-Cutting Laughter | |
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Tension-Cutting Laughter: After the False Confession Angel makes about the test, the other students, who had been quiet and tense the entire time, all break out laughing. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Angel pretends to be less intelligent than he is so that his friends will still think he's cool. He refuses to be seen bringing books to class. | |
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RealLife | |
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In Real Life, Escalante suffered a gallbladder inflammation, not a heart attack. | |
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Five-Token Band | |
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Five-Token Band: Subverted; all of the students are Latino. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Escalante swears exactly once during the movie, to Ramirez (Andy Garcia), an Educational Testing Service investigator who thinks the students cheated. | |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife | |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Escalante has a weathered face, a pot belly and a terrible combover, but his wife is beautiful. This shows the power of Escalante's mind and personality, which transcend his humble appearance. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
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Badass Bookworm: Escalante's whole class, but especially Escalante himself. | |
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Dude, Not Funny! | |
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Dude, Not Funny!: An In-Universe example; Escalante makes fun of a female student who's suffering personal problems, and she calls him out on it. | |
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Cool Teacher | |
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Cool Teacher: Jaime Escalante is self-confident, witty, and assertive, even though he looks like a loser. He's also something of a Stern Teacher and has high expectations, though this is what his students need at the beginning of the year. | |
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Four-Girl Ensemble | |
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Four-Girl Ensemble: All four of the female students featured in the movie represent different aspects of this trope. Ana is a combination of the sweet one/smart girl due to her quiet nature and love for mathematics. Claudia is the sexy one because she "gets around" the most and is considered the school's residential beauty. Though, this trope is averted when viewers learn Claudia is more than just a face. Lupe is Team Mom because she takes care of her younger siblings while her parents are at work. Rafaela is considered the mannish one because she is shown to hang around Tito the majority of the movie and dress in masculine attire (i.e. over-sized boy shirts and pants). | |
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Dramatization | |
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Dramatization/Artistic License: In Real Life, Escalante didn't start teaching AP Calculus until his fourth year at the school (1978), and the events in the film (especially the accusations of cheating) are based on Escalante's fourth year teaching the course (1982). Further, only twelve of Escalante's fifteen students accused of cheating retook the exam. All of them did pass, though. In Real Life, Escalante suffered a gallbladder inflammation, not a heart attack. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: "It's not that they're stupid - they just don't know anything." | |
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False Confession | |
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False Confession: When one of the more vulnerable students begins to cry under interrogation by ETS investigators, Angel confesses to cheating. Specifically, he stole the test from the mailman and then strangled him. Angels tops this off by giving the location of the body: "He's decomposing in my locker." | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Principal Molina. He expects results and listens to suggestions and solutions to the problems his school and students are facing. | |
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Brass Balls | |
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Brass Balls: Angel flashing a tattoo on his knuckles that reads "FUCK YOU" to school district officials. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Jaime doesn't consider his students stupid, it's just that they don't know anything because they're poorly educated. And considering that Angel Guzman is able to match the academically gifted Ana and Javier in their AP exam scores, he has a point. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Escalante, after being hospitalized for a heart attack and denied to continue working, writes class notes on paper napkins and has a nurse smuggle them to his students so they can continue studying despite the incompetent substitute teacher. The students themselves go from barely understanding freshman-level algebra to passing an AP calculus exam twice, despite gang violence, institutional racism, self-doubt, poverty, and in some cases sexism. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Chuco is just a jerkass. | |
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Great Accomplishment, Weak Credibility | |
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Great Accomplishment, Weak Credibility: The ETS investigators don't believe that Escalante's students could have passed the AP calculus test without cheating since they all got the wrong answer on a certain practice question. | |
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Titled After the Song | |
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Titled After the Song: By pop-rock band Mr. Mister, which plays over the end credits. | |
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