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The 51st State

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The 51st State	comment	Known as Formula 51 in the United States, this is a 2001 British action-comedy film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Samuel L. Jackson.It's about a pharmacologist named Elmo McElroy (Jackson) attempting to peddle the formula for a new drug he's created called POS 51, which he claims is "fifty-one times more powerful than cocaine, fifty-one times more hallucinogenic than acid, fifty-one times more explosive than ecstasy."When the deal goes wrong and everyone involved ends up dead, he realises that his ex-boss, a drug kingpin known as "The Lizard" (Meat Loaf), whom he thought he'd already killed to prevent him seizing the drug for himself, is very much alive and would like revenge. Assisting the Lizard is Professional Killer Dakota (Emily Mortimer), the expat ex-girlfriend of his British contact, Felix DeSouza (Robert Carlyle). Assisting neither party and trying to help himself is the highly Corrupt Cop Virgil Kane (Sean Pertwee).Thus McElroy is forced to team up with his British contact and find a way to both survive and profit from the debacle.
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The 51st State / int_14d633ed	type	If I Wanted You Dead...
The 51st State / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...: DeSouza points this out to McElroy when he asks who hired Dawn to assassinate him:
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The 51st State / int_15929a2d	type	Man in a Kilt
The 51st State / int_15929a2d	comment	Man in a Kilt: McElroy is seen in one for most of the film. The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue revealing that nobody knows just why he was wearing it in the first place. The Stinger lets the secret out, though: it's the tartan of his ancestor's slavemaster. McElroy buys his title and land with a portion of the 20 million.
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The 51st State / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The 51st State / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The Lizard refers to Britain as the 51st state during his last scene. He detonates messily seconds later. Take that you pompous septic!
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The 51st State / int_21f19cfa	type	Fake American
The 51st State / int_21f19cfa	comment	Fake American: In-Universe, Dawn speaks with an American accent when she's actually from Liverpool.
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The 51st State / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The 51st State / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The chemical cocktail McElroy uses to blow up The Lizard at the start of the film. Since he takes the drink intended for Iki, it actually does kill him in the end.
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The 51st State / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
The 51st State / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: POS 51, a drug that is 51 times as potent as other drugs.
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The 51st State / int_30462ce8	type	Stock British Phrases
The 51st State / int_30462ce8	comment	Stock British Phrases: Elmo and Felix have a Seinfeldian Casual Danger Dialogue on this;
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The 51st State / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The 51st State / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Almost everybody in the cast is liberal with these, but special mention must go to Felix and the Skinheads.
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The 51st State / int_3c850ac7	type	Room Disservice
The 51st State / int_3c850ac7	comment	Room Disservice: "That fucking chestnut" - inverted. Room service bring up Durant's sausage n' mash while the drug deal is taking place, and his mooks pull and unsuspecting maid into the room and hold her at gun point, believing that they have been rumbled.
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The 51st State / int_3cc4cdb9	type	Check and Mate
The 51st State / int_3cc4cdb9	comment	Check and Mate: McElroy was expecting to have to kill someone at the soccer game, so he mixed the same little cocktail he used in the beginning to leave his employ with the Lizard — who shows up, drinks it, then shoots Iki repeatedly, screaming, "England ain't nothing but The 51st State!":
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The 51st State / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The 51st State / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: "Battle" is definitely overdoing it, but when the skinheads run at Elmo in the hotel lobby, he quickly finishes them with his golf club.
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The 51st State / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The 51st State / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Arthur is clearly Kane's. He gets revenge in the end.
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The 51st State / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The 51st State / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger lets the secret out, though: it's the tartan of his ancestor's slavemaster. McElroy buys his title and land with a portion of the 20 million.
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The 51st State / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The 51st State / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The Lizard's death is shown this way... Kind of. The viewer doesn't technically see him explode due to drinking a heat-sensitive explosive cocktail, but one does get to see the resulting Ludicrous Gibs cover the windows of the luxury box, then a walkthrough of the room, and Virgil Kane splattered with liquified Lizard.
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The 51st State / int_4ce20451	type	Rhetorical Request Blunder
The 51st State / int_4ce20451	comment	Rhetorical Request Blunder: An unfortunate miscommunication occurs when DeSouza asks one of his assistants to "take care" of a nervous chemist. The assistant then goes into henchman mode, kills the chemist and stuffs him into the car boot, instead of following the intended meaning which was "look after him"
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The 51st State / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
The 51st State / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Used casually (though infrequently) by Kane as is typical of the British attitude to the word.
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The 51st State / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The 51st State / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Dawn, predictably.
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The 51st State / int_61801647	type	Game of Chicken
The 51st State / int_61801647	comment	Game of Chicken: Kane has McElroy and Desouza trapped in an alleyway. They respond by driving straight at him. At first, he charges forward, yelling "Come on, then! Come on!", but McElroy makes it clear that he's not stopping. Kane loses his nerve, stops and gets shoved out of the way by Desouza's car and in front of an oncoming truck for his trouble.
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The 51st State / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
The 51st State / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Golf clubs being used to batter in the skinheads.
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The 51st State / int_6fbe3154	type	Shot in the Ass
The 51st State / int_6fbe3154	comment	Shot in the Ass: Dawn does this to his ex-boyfriend DeSouza as he crawls out of the hotel room. He's still pissed off about it later, but mentions to McElroy that she meant it to be an Amusing Injury:
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The 51st State / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
The 51st State / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Kane threatens Felix with this; "You fuck me and I'm gonna have you on your hands and your knees with your arse in the air, exposing your rusty sheriff's badge, for the next twenty years!".
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The 51st State / int_767c2c3a	type	Clandestine Chemist
The 51st State / int_767c2c3a	comment	Clandestine Chemist: Elmo has a chemistry degree, but no chance of legal employment in the field because of a criminal record from being pulled over with marijuana while still in his graduation gown.
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The 51st State / int_7aeb0635	type	Arms Dealer
The 51st State / int_7aeb0635	comment	Arms Dealer: It's one of Iki's many ventures.
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The 51st State / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The 51st State / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The Lizard is a huge one, and sticks out because nobody else (save of course Samuel L. Jackson) comes close. Iki perhaps excepted, but it seems more normal with him.
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The 51st State / int_82ab88c5	type	Percussive Pickpocket
The 51st State / int_82ab88c5	comment	Percussive Pickpocket: Felix does this to Iki's lawyer and takes his car key while still in the police station.
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The 51st State / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
The 51st State / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: The Lizard
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The 51st State / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
The 51st State / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: The replacement chemist Durant uses, his muteness being due to a bullet in the neck - the same place another one strikes later, killing him.
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The 51st State / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The 51st State / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Dawn appears to be one of these to Felix, which is slightly strange considering there's no noir elements to speak of present.
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The 51st State / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
The 51st State / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: The film's British sequences are all in Liverpool.
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The 51st State / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
The 51st State / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: Dawn attempts to see under Elmo's kilt on the plane as his legs splay when he sleeps. A stewardess then comes by and lays a blanket over him and gives Dawn a very reproachful look.
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The 51st State / int_b14836af	type	JustAFleshWound
The 51st State / int_b14836af	comment	Just a Flesh Wound: McElroy dismisses DeSouza being Shot in the Ass as such. DeSouza is not amused.
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The 51st State / int_b2407a69	type	Talk to the Fist
The 51st State / int_b2407a69	comment	Talk to the Fist:
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The 51st State / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The 51st State / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: A very very brief one, showing that Dawn and Felix settled down together - but only after the game. What happens to McElroy is shown in The Stinger.
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The 51st State / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
The 51st State / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: Known as Formula 51 in the United States. Why isn't exactly clear, but the pejorative connotations of the original title presumably had something to do with it.
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The 51st State / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The 51st State / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: When the corrupt cop Kane is trying to track Elmo from the airport, he tells his subordinate to look for "a large black man wearing a dress" as reported by his American contact. Unfortunately for the subordinate, in front of Elroy arrive several Middle Eastern men in thawbs (a flowing robe that resembles a dress), several Polynesians in lava-lava (a long cloth worn like a wraparound skirt similar to a sarong), and several Africans wearing dashiki (a long shirt reaching mid thigh or knee). Kane tells the subordinate to follow them all, who then follows them in front of Elmo.
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The 51st State / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The 51st State / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: McElroy offers the skinheads a red pill or blue pill in a combined shout out to the film, Casting Gag relating to the original idea of Laurence Fishburne for his role, and take that to fans who keep mistaking Jackson for Fishburne. Iki also references Goldfinger when explaining that the twenty pieces of paper he has in his hands (bonds) constitute £20 million, since he doesn't want to heft gold bars around. BTW, you don't want the red pill.
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The 51st State / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
The 51st State / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License – Chemistry: The utterly impossible titular Formula 51; It's likely that McElroy is just making a sales pitch, but to be able to take a bunch of over-the-counter ingredients and make, well...
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The 51st State / int_cd70c3dc	type	CorruptCop
The 51st State / int_cd70c3dc	comment	Corrupt Cop: Kane
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The 51st State / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
The 51st State / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: McElroy's take on a British takeaway:
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The 51st State / int_cec8b87a	type	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
The 51st State / int_cec8b87a	comment	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: "Stay down, bitch!" from McElroy to one of the skinheads.
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The 51st State / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
The 51st State / int_d02a0c91	comment	There Are No Coincidences: Felix insists that Shit Happens... In other words, your car breaking down just in time to strand you in the middle of nowhere as a snowstorm starts is a coincidence. A twenty-million-dollar drug deal being busted up by a professional assassin just before you close escrow? That's somebody with more cash than he knows what to do with wanting to make your life hell.
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The 51st State / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
The 51st State / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Iki is a very, very strange man
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The 51st State / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
The 51st State / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: The Lizard.
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The 51st State / int_ea44cd34	type	Britain Is Only London
The 51st State / int_ea44cd34	comment	Britain Is Only London: A notable aversion, as the film's British parts (ie, almost everything) are set entirely in Liverpool, with London not even getting a mention (aside from Arthur calling Kane a "cockney twat")
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The 51st State / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
The 51st State / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: "Take a puff on this!"
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The 51st State / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The 51st State / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: After McElroy downs a skinhead with a single punch, DeSouza takes the opportunity to kick said skinhead in the balls, instantly regretting it due to his own injury (a bullet in his buttock).
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The 51st State / int_f69f7730	type	Goldfish Poop Gang
The 51st State / int_f69f7730	comment	Gold Fish Poop Gang: The skinheads
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