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The American Astronaut
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The American Astronaut is a 2001 Space Western Science Fiction musical written by, directed by, and starring Cory McAbee.The story centers around space captain Samuel Curtis (McAbee), who finds himself in the middle of a Chain of Deals to give the Venusians a new king and earn a few bucks while being chased by the mentally-unbalanced Professor Hess who sabotages his plans.In this original take of Sci-Fi, space is mostly guided by roughnecks and all spaceships seems to be easy repaired with hammers, giving it a feeling of Used Future for truckers, which goes along pretty well with the awesome music, this can only be described as a Firefly musical with Flash Gordon serial props.Also by the same people (and in the same vein) is Stingray Sam. | |
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Alliterative Title: The American Astronaut | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: Rayguns, spaceships, portable cloning devices and yet we still use razor blades to shave. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: The reason the miners from the space barn can't return to Earth. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: The audience is left in the dark about Sam and the Professor’s shared past when the movie enters into a slideshow-like montage of Sam and the Boy just as Sam begins to explain. Nevertheless, they both seem to find the story hilarious. | |
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Planet of Hats | |
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Planet of Hats: Everyone on Jupiter is a miner, everyone on Venus is a Southern Belle and Ceres is just a small bar. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "It's my birthday." | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: It is not unusual for Professor Hess to fall into this every once in a while. | |
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Disintegrator Ray | |
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Disintegrator Ray: Wielded by Professor Hess; it turns people into a pile of ash. | |
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No Woman's Land | |
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No Woman's Land: The entire planet of Jupiter is an all-male mining Company Town whose sole entertainment is listening to The Boy Who Saw a Woman’s Breast describe ("briefly and arrogantly") his encounter with said body part. | |
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You All Meet in an Inn | |
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You All Meet in an Inn: Ceres' Crossroads, set on Ceres. | |
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AxeCrazy | |
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Axe-Crazy: Professor Hess goes from zero to mass murder with little (if any) provocation. | |
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One-Gender Race | |
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One-Gender Race: Venusians are all women, except for their king they need to mate with. Jupiter men are actually hired and brought from all over the space system. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: You don't dare to forget Professor Hess' birthday, you just don't... | |
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Genre Mashup | |
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Genre Mashup: "surely the best, worst, and only, black-and-white comedy-western-sci-fi rockabilly punk surrealistic musical." | |
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Used Future | |
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Used Future: This version of space consists mostly of grease monkeys, miners and hard-boiled thieves. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: A Space Cowboy Science Fiction Musical! | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Boy Who Saw a Woman’s Breast. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Curtis woos the Queen of Venus with "The Girl With The Vagina Made of Glass". Despite being played as if it's a Serenade Your Lover scene, the lyrics are incredibly raunchy. | |
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Indy Ploy | |
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Indy Ploy: Curtis seems fond of these ones. | |
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Mars Needs Women | |
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Mars Needs Women: Jupiter needs women and Venus needs men. | |
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We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future | |
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We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: Miners on Jupiter all look like they’ve been digging coal in West Virginia in the 1920s, for example. Even spaceship repair involves a lot more hammers than software. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: Hess. Curtis explains that Hess intends to kill him once he forgives him for whatever happened between them, but not before. The Boy is suitably confused as to why anger = safety and forgiveness = murder. Reinforced by Hess's final monologue, about how he hoped to see Bodysuit grow into a fine young man, so that Hess could finally kill him. "But sons usually disappoint their fathers..." | |
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Chain of Deals | |
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Chain of Deals: Sam must return the late king of Venus to his family on Earth. To do so, he must provide Venus with a new king, so he will give the owner of Jupiter a woman and he will give in return The Boy Who Actually Saw A Woman's Breast. The woman in turn is a clone of Eddy, the owner of the Ceres Crossroads who wanted a cat. | |
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