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The Accused

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The Accused	comment	A 1988 drama film written by Tom Topor and directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillis, and based on the real-life gang rape of Cheryl Araujo that occurred at Big Dan's Bar in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on March 6, 1983, The Accused was one of the first Hollywood films to deal with rape in a direct manner.Foster won the Best Actress Academy Award for her role.
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The Accused / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Accused / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: It was the first Hollywood film to properly deal with rape as the main theme. After being gang-raped at a bar and having other patrons not only fail to help but cheer her rapists on, Sarah is left traumatized and demands justice. Her lawyer Kathryn fights to get convictions for her.
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The Accused / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Accused / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The script was loosely based on the gang rape of Cheryl Ann Araujo, which occurred in 1983.
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The Accused / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
The Accused / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Two of the rapists remain at the bar to be identified by Sarah—long enough for her to have been medically examined and to converse with Kathryn Murphy over what happened.
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The Accused / int_2784846f	type	Good Victims, Bad Victims
The Accused / int_2784846f	comment	Good Victims, Bad Victims: Explored. Sarah is not seen as a good victim due to her flirty nature and pot smoking. Kathryn also warns her that she's likely to be asked if she's ever left the house without underwear, if she was ever turned on when a man hit her and "how many abortions you've had".
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The Accused / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Accused / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: The emergency service operator seemed more concerned with getting the spectator's name than listening to him explain what the problem was. While attempting to get a caller's name is a reasonable action, if it becomes clear they aren't going to divulge it, it seems as if an emergency operator should move on and focus on the reason behind the call, especially when the call is recorded and made on a traceable phone.
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The Accused / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
The Accused / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: When Sarah's third attacker refuses to rape Sarah, his buddies threaten to tell everyone he is a homosexual unless he does. He reluctantly joins in the gang rape.
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The Accused / int_40e993f4	type	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization
The Accused / int_40e993f4	comment	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: The argument made by the man with the scorpion tattoo who cheered on the rape. Of course, the fact that Sarah didn't enjoy it is just one of the issues at hand here....
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The Accused / int_4e91b042	type	Making Love in All the Wrong Places
The Accused / int_4e91b042	comment	Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Non lovemaking example. Sarah is forced down against a pinball machine during the gang rape.
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The Accused / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
The Accused / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: Sarah repeatedly converses with Kathryn over what the latter's astrology symbol is. It's indicated she's trying to reach out to someone after the incident.
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The Accused / int_53bb70b2	type	Flashback
The Accused / int_53bb70b2	comment	Flash Back: The rape scene is shown this way, visualizing what the college boy witness tells the court at the second trial.
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The Accused / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
The Accused / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: At the end of the film, especially after one of the rape cheerers earlier did some Evil Gloating towards Sarah for getting away with it, the rapists and their cheering accomplices are finally charged and Sarah finally gets justice.
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The Accused / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Accused / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: When the third attacker hesitates, his buddies hurl homophobic insults, saying he is "a fag" unless he rapes Sarah.
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The Accused / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
The Accused / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Sarah cuts off her hair shortly after the rape in an Important Haircut, but the hair serves to help differentiate the two timelines.
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The Accused / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
The Accused / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Sarah after running into one of the guys who cheered the rapists on; he verbally abuses her ("Wanna play pinball?") just to gloat how he wasn't punished for inciting her rape. She reacts by driving her car into his truck several times.
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The Accused / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
The Accused / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Turns out Sarah's boyfriend and her fight with him led to that fateful tragedy at the bar.
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The Accused / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Accused / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: It was one of the first major Hollywood films to treat rape as the awful and disgusting crime it is; both the rapists and the onlookers who failed to intervene and/or cheered the rapists on are portrayed as equally unsympathetic and culpable, while Sarah is portrayed as flawed yet completely sympathetic when it comes to the rape.
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The Accused / int_9d5dad72	type	Blaming the Victim
The Accused / int_9d5dad72	comment	Blaming the Victim: A major source of drama is that many people believe Sarah deserved to be gang-raped in a crowded bar, both because of her past involving drugs and because shortly prior to the rape, she was wearing revealing clothes, had been drinking and danced provocatively with one of her rapists (she also had a boyfriend at the time). Sarah's lawyer Kathryn is initially reluctant to pursue stronger convictions against the rapists or let Sarah testify, partly because her past and behavior may cause the jury to blame her or otherwise see her as unsympathetic. Kathryn later regrets this and the narrative itself takes the view that Sarah was blameless for the horrific violence inflicted on her.
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The Accused / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
The Accused / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: One of the guys who cheered for Sarah's rape ran into her and started doing this after recognizing her at her expense.
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The Accused / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Accused / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Sarah screams this all throughout her gang rape.
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The Accused / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Accused / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Jodie Foster wears a low-cut top and does a sexy dance... then gets brutally gang-raped.
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The Accused / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
The Accused / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Sarah is blamed for her rape due to her clothing and flirty behavior.
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The Accused / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Accused / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Arajuo and her attackers were all Portuguese-American in Real Life, not so in the film.
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The Accused / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Accused / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When a waitress in the bar sees Sarah's gang rape (and one of the men cheering sees the waitress and boasts "you're next!"), she promptly puts down a tray of glasses, grabs her coat and exits the bar.
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The Accused / int_e55c5f35	type	Happily Ever Before
The Accused / int_e55c5f35	comment	Happily Ever Before: While the rapists are convicted and unlikely to get paroled, in real life the bystanders were acquitted. And Cheryl Araujo was forced out of town due to victim blaming, having to move to Miami to find anonymity. She died only three years later at the age of 25, in a car accident where she was supposedly drunk - and had been suffering from alcoholism due to the trauma of the incident.
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The Accused / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Accused / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Sarah's boyfriend, especially because of his utter lack of empathy for her trauma, including asking her when she'll "get over this" after she dismisses his advances, saying that "this is getting boring". Also, one of their spats is what led Sarah to attend at the bar where she would be eventually raped. Exaggerated with the guy with the scorpion tattoo who cheered the rapists on, then gloated after running into and recognizing Sarah on how he got away with this.
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The Accused / int_ff5b39d0	type	Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!
The Accused / int_ff5b39d0	comment	Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: A dark example. The third attacker only joins in the gang rape when his buddies threaten to tell everyone he is a homosexual if he doesn't. He proves otherwise by raping Sarah immediately afterwards.
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The Accused / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
The Accused / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Subverted. Sarah's dog Sadi gets into a barking fit the moment Kathryn walks into the door—even though she's the DA assigned to the case, and one of the heroines.
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