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The First Purge

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The First Purge	comment	The First Purge is a 2018 American social science fiction action horror film directed by Gerald McMurray and written by James DeMonaco. It is a prequel to The Purge, and the fourth entry in The Purge Universe. It has an entirely different cast from the previous three films, which include Y'Lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Luna Lauren Valez and Marisa Tomei. It was released on July 4, 2018.To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA) test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the marginalized, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.Previews: Teaser, Trailer.
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The First Purge / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The First Purge / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Nya and Isaiah return to the church where the other pacifist experiment participants are hiding in...except that everyone in there has perished at the hands of the mercenaries the NFFA deployed, something that bears very stark similarities to the Charleston church shooting in 2015...
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The First Purge / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
The First Purge / int_15b09af9	comment	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam: Updale rejects the NFFA's involvement in the Purge. She gets executed before she can do anything to stop it.
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The First Purge / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The First Purge / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: A man stated the first murder of the purge: "We believe this is the first purge of the evening."
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The First Purge / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The First Purge / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Journalist and political commentator Van Jones As Himself interviewing Sabian and Dr. Updale.
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The First Purge / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
The First Purge / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: The architect of the purge, Dr. Updale, sees the Purge purely from its sociological aspect and reacts badly when the variables are deliberately changed. This gets her killed by the NFFA.
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The First Purge / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The First Purge / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The majority of the film is set in 2016, a year before the first annual Purge, yet a one-sheet of Halloween (2018) is displayed in Isaiah's room.
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The First Purge / int_287deed8	type	Retired Outlaw
The First Purge / int_287deed8	comment	Retired Outlaw: Nya looks and acts like a perky social activist, but she used to date the most powerful and feared gang leader of Staten Island. When all breaks loose, she does not hesitate to use her skills if the situation calls it.
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The First Purge / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
The First Purge / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Dmitri keeps emerging from (most) violent confrontations unscathed. He himself seems to be aware of this on some level, boasting that he "doesn't know how to die". Skeletor would have probably attracted a lot of bad attention well before the Purge night. Many neighborhood folks who are armed and familiar with him would probably shoot him on sight, especially if they saw he was armed.
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The First Purge / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The First Purge / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Skeletor is absolutely nuts, and would probably have killed someone even without the Purge, assuming he hasn't done so already.
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The First Purge / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
The First Purge / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: The NFFA send in death squads dressed as gang members to raise the kill count making the Purge look like a success, since the great majority of real citizens are not actually going out and killing each other.
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The First Purge / int_315a2d0f	type	AstroTurf
The First Purge / int_315a2d0f	comment	AstroTurf: Citizens do not naturally start purging to sufficient degrees, the government finds out, but since they need it to happen they recruit mercenaries to start killing people to make the experiment look like a success.
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The First Purge / int_353f2b06	type	"Die Hard" on an X
The First Purge / int_353f2b06	comment	"Die Hard" on an X: The film as a whole becomes Die Hard on Staten Island once the mercenaries arrive and start killing everyone, and the climax is Die Hard in an apartment project. Compound that with Dmitri wearing a tank top while taking the invaders on.
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The First Purge / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The First Purge / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Marisa Tomei plays a character named May.
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The First Purge / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The First Purge / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: No matter what happens, the film will end with the yearly Purge being instituted as American law, since it's a prequel to the other Purge films.
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The First Purge / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The First Purge / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: This movie does this for the franchise as a whole. What, you thought that if people were allowed to commit whatever crime they wanted, most would spend their time committing mass murder? Of course not. They would just commit crimes that are actually fun, like partying in places they aren't usually allowed to. The New Founding Father's are so disappointed that they have to take matters into their own hands.
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The First Purge / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The First Purge / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Main Characters survive the night, but hundreds of innocents were senselessly murdered and the Purge will inevitably continue for years to come.
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The First Purge / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The First Purge / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The mercenaries sent by the government attack a church and kill almost the entire congregation, including the children it seems.
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The First Purge / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
The First Purge / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: The two prostitutes servicing Dimitri are being paid by his rival to assassinate him.
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The First Purge / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The First Purge / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: Not in the film itself, but applies to the series. The Purge was created by a blonde-haired, white woman. It would eventually also be stopped by a blonde-haired, white woman.
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The First Purge / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The First Purge / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: After the pre-Purge scenes, the three Wise Men donâ€™t show up until the last hour of the Purge. At that point, they have rallied several younger neighborhood residents and are holed up in a house, armed, and exchanging fire with NFFA mercenaries dressed up like The Klan. One of the Three Wise Men has a fresh cast on his arm, suggesting they have been busy fighting killers throughout the night.
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The First Purge / int_6b261d5e	type	Artistic License – Statistics
The First Purge / int_6b261d5e	comment	Artistic License â€“ Statistics: The experiment is rather flawed in both its setup and how its conducted, considering the context of the topic at hand. Two issues with its setup: 1) The rules of the experiment are announced to everyone beforehand, and 2) Its voluntary participation with a relatively significant sum of money paid per participant. By doing it this way, participants would consist of a disproportionately high percentage of people who are financially desperate, lower social class, or simply unmotivated otherwise: "I get paid more than a month's wage for just 12 hours of staying in a place with no laws in effect? Why not?". In other words, a poor sampling for a sociological/psychological experiment representing an entire country's population. The conducting of the experiment is also problematic. Participants may be encouraged to break the law with the awareness that they are allowed to do so within a specific timeframe, but the presence of conspicuous monitoring devices can actually make participants subconsciously or even consciously alter their own behavior, also known as the Hawthorne Effect. Do researchers not realize that many participants can still be hesitant to "purge" just because of the conspicuous monitoring devices close to them? Heavily implied to be deliberate, The New Founding Fathers are attempting to rig the results and set up a killbox for "undesireables", the same way the purge is intended to operate in future films.
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The First Purge / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The First Purge / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Nowhere in the film does the person on the poster actually appear.
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The First Purge / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The First Purge / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: Sabian tries to sell the NFFA's plan to use the Purge to reduce the poverty levels by killing the poor as this. Naturally Dr. Updale doesn't buy it.
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The First Purge / int_87572663	type	Wrong Side of the Tracks
The First Purge / int_87572663	comment	Wrong Side of the Tracks: Park Hill. It's reason why the Purge was experimented there in the first place.
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The First Purge / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
The First Purge / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: Just as the militia is about to wipe out Dmitri and all the other remaining survivors in the apartment building, Skeletor arrives out of nowhere and starts slaughtering them with a machete. (He only manages to take out two or three before he's killed, but it buys Dmitri enough time to retaliate.)
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The First Purge / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The First Purge / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The NFFA have Dr. Updale killed when she tries to stop the experiment.
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The First Purge / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The First Purge / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The NFFA, in this case represented by Chief of Staff Arlo Sabian, start the Purge and thus the films' conflict.
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The First Purge / int_99dd103c	type	Safe Zone Hope Spot
The First Purge / int_99dd103c	comment	Safe Zone Hope Spot: Nya spends several scenes trying to take Isaiah to a church to ride out the night. By the time she gets him back there, mercenaries are killing everyone in sight.
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The First Purge / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The First Purge / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Said verbatim by Dr. May Updale when she realizes that what she intended as a truly positive experiment has been used by the government for sinister means.
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The First Purge / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
The First Purge / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Dimitri and Nya, although the latter still voices her disapproval at his way of life, which was the reason of their breakup.
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The First Purge / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The First Purge / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Sabian receives absolutely no repercussion for having approved sending out the mercenaries to Staten Island. President Bracken, too, escapes scot-free to hold the Purge for years to come, now directing it to cover the entire United States. As The Purge: Election Year shows us, the Purge would be held uninterrupted for 26 years, long after his term (or terms) in office had been expended.
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The First Purge / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The First Purge / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Much like The Purge: Election Year did, The First Purge takes shots at Donald Trump. The first poster, featuring a red hat with the film's title on it, can clearly be seen as one against Trump's red hats that said 'Make America Great Again'. The very first trailer - edited to very closely resemble a standard political PSA - aired during Trump's first official State of the Union Address. Nya calls a Purger who groped her a "pussy-grabbing motherfucker."
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The First Purge / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The First Purge / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: All the named characters. The smarter gangs would either evacuate or lockdown their neighborhoods, with plans to overtake the remaining rival gang members after the Purge. For every group, as soon as someone got sniped, the people around them would realize its too dangerous to move around, so they would hold up and wait out the clock. The white supremacists would probably attempt to go door-to-door in the neighborhoods, and get wiped out as soon as residents start sniping at them. A lot of groups would get locked in a time consuming stalemate with pretty much any other armed group, and just waste the money they spent buying their ammunition. Society as a whole. Showing someone killed with a knife on tv is not a way to inspire widespread acceptance of the idea of the Purge.
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The First Purge / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The First Purge / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Skeletor frequently sports one.
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The First Purge / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The First Purge / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Dimitri is a gang leader and drug lord, but despite being a thug in general, he won't hesitate to stand up to some murderers in his streets.
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The First Purge / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
The First Purge / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Skeletor never tries to hide the fact that he is an unstable, fucked up psychopath and states out loud his intention to kill everyone. And to his credit, he has the Purge's first kills to back it up. However, he promptly gets his ass kicked by an inexperienced young man, fails to catch him, and eventually gets mowed down by the armed mercenaries.
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The First Purge / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The First Purge / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The maniacal junkie is named Skeletor. The poster for Halloween (2018) can briefly be seen on Isaiah's bedroom wall. The two prostitutes servicing Dimitri are named Anna and Elsa.
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The First Purge / int_cdfcb368	type	Internal Death Squad
The First Purge / int_cdfcb368	comment	Internal Death Squad: Being given carte blanche to do whatever they want for 12 hours causes many of Staten Island's citizens to get high or have orgies, not slaughter people willy-nilly, except in the cases of a few like Skeletor. This prompted the NFFA to send out death squads.
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The First Purge / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The First Purge / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Justified since Park Hill is an overwhelmingly black neighborhood. Luisa and Selina (Latino) as well as Sabian and Dr. Updale (white) are pretty much the only non-black characters in the movie, if you exclude extras. As a result, the film is the first in the series not to have a single white character on the heroes' side.
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The First Purge / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The First Purge / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: A shotgun-wielding store owner is initially prepared to defend his store during Purge night, but steps aside without fighting after being confronted by a mob of armed looters.
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The First Purge / int_e60bda	type	The Klan
The First Purge / int_e60bda	comment	The Klan: KKK purgers appear as minor antagonists in the film. They are later killed by Dmitri.
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The First Purge / int_eb2195d9	type	Rousseau Was Right
The First Purge / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: Vaguely. The frustrated New Founding Fathers resort to deploying mercenaries and drones when it becomes apparent that, with the exception of Skeletor and a few incidentals like the two Mad Bomber women, most people, even when given the opportunity to do whatever they want without consequence, won't immediately resort to the expected bloodshed and chaos, just things like vandalism or theft (the man shown trying to break open an ATM for example, and those looting stores) or hedonistic partying.
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The First Purge / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The First Purge / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Dmitri storms the apartment complex on his own to take out the mercenaries sent to kill everyone.
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The First Purge / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
The First Purge / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Nya to Isaiah, after their parents' deaths.
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