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The Dead Pool

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The Dead Pool	comment	Directed by Buddy Van Horn and released in 1988, The Dead Pool is the last film (preceded by Sudden Impact) in the Dirty Harry pentalogy, starring Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan for the last time.Det. Harry Callahan is tasked to solve a string murders related to a game based on a list of celebrities that are predicted to die next: The Dead Pool. The case makes him a small celebrity too, and he becomes a target as well. To make matters worse, Harry is also hounded by the mob.Liam Neeson and Jim Carrey, both on the cusp of becoming big stars, each appear in supporting roles.Has no relation whatsoever to Deadpool.
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The Dead Pool / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: Before we see Harry, we first see Rook in his apartment, watching the news and reading a Rolling Stone magazine while making the Dead Pool list, though his face is obscured during the scene.
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The Dead Pool / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Dead Pool / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Aware of the fate of Harry's previous partners, Quan wears a Bulletproof Vest. He survives with only a few broken ribs after the remote-car bomb goes off. The only other partner of Harry's to survive was Chico from the first movie, also thanks to his vest.
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The Dead Pool / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Dead Pool / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Guns N' Roses make uncredited cameo appearances at the funeral of Johnny Squares. They also appear during filming of a "nightmare scene" at the docks, where Slash fires a harpoon gun through a window and is berated by Swan.
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The Dead Pool / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Dead Pool / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The enormous Harpoon Gun from the film shoot.
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The Dead Pool / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Dead Pool / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Harry performs a gun twirl like the Man With No Name.
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The Dead Pool / int_3e5f74c	type	Take That, Critics!
The Dead Pool / int_3e5f74c	comment	Take That, Critics!: Molly Fisher, the film critic who becomes the second murder victim is based on Pauline Kael, in response to her accusing the first film of promoting fascism.
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The Dead Pool / int_50181ab6	type	Shared Fate Ultimatum
The Dead Pool / int_50181ab6	comment	Shared Fate Ultimatum: "Dirty" Harry Callahan has, through the course of the film, been the subject of two different assassination plots, one by a mob boss he busted, and another involving the titular list. Figuring to put a kibosh on at least one, Harry bribes a large convict to stand at the end of a corridor and look menacing. He then tells the mob boss a story about the convict being a renowned killer.
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The Dead Pool / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Dead Pool / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: After killing Rook by impaling him with a harpoon gun, Harry says to Capt. Donnelly, "He's hanging out back there."
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The Dead Pool / int_5f60aadd	type	Deadly Remote Control Toy
The Dead Pool / int_5f60aadd	comment	Deadly Remote Control Toy: Rook kills talk show host Nolan Kennard, another person on the dead pool list, using a radio-controlled car filled with C4 explosive under the victim's vehicle. Dirty Harry Callahan finds a toy car wheel at the crime scene, and later sees another toy car following him and Quan. Recognizing the threat, they flee through the city pursued by the toy car and Rook himself controlling it from his car.
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The Dead Pool / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Dead Pool / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Harlan Rook, whose surname is bird which is a part of the same family as crows and ravens.
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The Dead Pool / int_6220d661	type	Loony Fan
The Dead Pool / int_6220d661	comment	Loony Fan: Harlan Rook is an obsessed fan of Peter Swan. Out of touch from reality, he accuses Swan of stealing ideas from him and tries frame him with the Dead Pool murders.
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The Dead Pool / int_64dd304c	type	Pre-emptive Declaration
The Dead Pool / int_64dd304c	comment	Pre-emptive Declaration: The film has this during the Chinatown restaurant robbery scene:
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The Dead Pool / int_681c1b78	type	All Asians Know Martial Arts
The Dead Pool / int_681c1b78	comment	All Asians Know Martial Arts: Kwan takes down one of the gunmen in Chinatown with a flurry of punches, followed up with an impressive spinning heel kick.
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The Dead Pool / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Dead Pool / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Johnny Squares. Its a given when you're played by Jim Carrey.
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The Dead Pool / int_82912ce0	type	Self-Immolation
The Dead Pool / int_82912ce0	comment	Self-Immolation: Harry, with the help of Samantha, defuses a situation where a guy demands cameras to film him setting himself on fire.
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The Dead Pool / int_8344209e	type	BFG
The Dead Pool / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Harry's Magnum, obviously. Exaggerated after the Big Bad takes Harry's gun from him; Harry grabs a harpoon gun to finish him off.
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The Dead Pool / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Dead Pool / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast:
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The Dead Pool / int_88e7f8b8	type	Batman Cold Open
The Dead Pool / int_88e7f8b8	comment	Batman Cold Open: The film opens with mob hitmen out to kill Harry.
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The Dead Pool / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Dead Pool / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Harlan Rook, The Dead Pool Killer.
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The Dead Pool / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Dead Pool / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: One of the collected headlines in Samantha's notebook about Harry reads "Scorpio Killer Captured".
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The Dead Pool / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Dead Pool / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: While investigating the death of a drug-abusing rocker, Harry's partner Al Quan states his personal belief that celebrities always die in threes.
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The Dead Pool / int_ae136edf	type	Plagiarism in Fiction
The Dead Pool / int_ae136edf	comment	Plagiarism in Fiction: Subverted. Harlan Rook rages that Peter Swan stole the ideas of his films from Rook, and so his killing spree is justified revenge, but it's quickly revealed that Rook is just plain delusionally nuts.
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The Dead Pool / int_b246d59	type	Fame Through Infamy
The Dead Pool / int_b246d59	comment	Fame Through Infamy: One of the random threats that Harry has to deal with is a man who calls saying he wants to confess the Dead Pool murders and he's going to set himself on fire... and when he's getting interviewed by Samantha, the man admits that he just made that call to have reporters come to the scene because he wanted to commit suicide by setting himself on fire and become remembered for it. Samantha manages to discourage him by turning off the camera and saying that nobody will air his death.
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The Dead Pool / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
The Dead Pool / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Averted at the end of the film when the Big Bad takes Harry's revolver. Harry knows how many rounds are left and when the villain has fired off the last round, Harry says, "You're out of bullets. And you know what that means. You're shit out of luck" before impaling him through a wall with a harpoon gun.
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The Dead Pool / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Dead Pool / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: A female journalist blackmails Harry into going to dinner with her. Imagine what would happen if a male journalist did that to a female cop.
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The Dead Pool / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Dead Pool / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out The chase scene with the explosive RC car, is a shout out to The Chase Scene in Bullitt. The "calling for an ambulance in advance" stunt is from The New Centurions.
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The Dead Pool / int_ccbd82d3	type	Gotta Kill Them All
The Dead Pool / int_ccbd82d3	comment	Gotta Kill Them All: An unusual example. Peter Swan is revealed to have a "dead pool" (list of celebrities that he bets will die soon) going on with other members of his film crew, and Harlan Rook is going around murdering the people on the list hoping that once the police find out about the dead pool they will suspect Swan. Of course, there is the huge Spanner in the Works that is Harry Callahan being on that listâ€¦
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The Dead Pool / int_cd1b0fcc	type	Prima Donna Director
The Dead Pool / int_cd1b0fcc	comment	Prima Donna Director: The egotistical horror film director Peter Swan.
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The Dead Pool / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Dead Pool / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: For most of the film it looks like egotistical horror director Peter Swan is the Dead Pool killer, but at the end the real killer turns out to be Harlan Rook, a crazed fan of Swan's. Before the talk show host is murdered via car bomb, a man recently fired by Swan is seen at a hardware store wearing a Hotel Satan jacket, watching him on some in store TVs and buying some stuff that could be used to make a bomb.
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The Dead Pool / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: Harry was renamed Harry Callaghan for the Italian release because the local distributor thought it sounded better.
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The Dead Pool / int_e3ab8602	type	Exorcist Head
The Dead Pool / int_e3ab8602	comment	Exorcist Head: Appears in the film that Peter Swan is directing. When the effect causing it malfunctions, Johnny Squares, fed up, accuses Swan for ripping off The Exorcist.
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The Dead Pool / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
The Dead Pool / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: While spotting Quan weightlifting, Harry becomes distracted by a woman working out, hilarity ensues as Quan get stuck under the barbell.
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The Dead Pool / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Rook speaks with a British accent. He more likely counts as an in universe Fake Brit, as he's taken on Peter Swan's persona due to his psychological condition.
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The Dead Pool / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke The female reporter notes how Harry is having his 15 minutes. Then has to explain to Harry how Andy Warhol said everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, a well-known comment Harry is clearly old enough to have heard before.
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The Dead Pool / int_fbec00a4	comment	Good Luck Charm: Quan's tattoos, which his grandfather insisted he get after hearing he was Harry's partner. Harry tells him a bulletproof vest would be more practical. Fortunately Quan's grandfather also told him, "When your partner gives you advice, take it."
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