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The Indian in the Cupboard

191 statements
36 feature instances
11 referencing feature instances

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The Indian in the Cupboard	label	The Indian in the Cupboard
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The Indian in the Cupboard	comment	The Indian in the Cupboard is a 1995 film adaptation of the book series by the same name, directed by Frank Oz. The story follows the first book, documenting Omri's acquiring the cupboard and his initial encounters with the magic it contains.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_114bf8dd	type	Cute Giant
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_114bf8dd	comment	Cute Giants: Omri and Patrick, from Little Bear and Boone's perspective. Boone addresses them as "friendly giants" in parting.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Patrick says the word "Indian" in front of Boone. This causes Boone to become aware of Little Bear's presence, and they start attacking each other.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: One of the very first lines in Omri's story contains this.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_1b521523	type	Dream Deception
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_1b521523	comment	Dream Deception: Both times Omri transforms Tommy the British Army medic figurine into a living person with the cupboard, Omri tells him he's dreaming to avoid having to explain summoning him out of World War I into a two-inch-tall body.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Omri's brother's pet rat. Omri already has a clear dislike for it, but it becomes a serious threat later on.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: Happens to an old Indian chief that Omri brings to life solely for the purpose of taking his bow and arrows for Little Bear to use.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_28a3b1a8	type	Party in My Pocket
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_28a3b1a8	comment	Party in My Pocket: Omri brings Boone and Little Bear to school in a fanny pack.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: "Boo-hoo" Boone.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Bright Stars. In the book Omri brings a female Indian figurine to life to be a companion to Little Bear, but in the film Little Bear talks Omri out of it, explaining that she may already have a husband and child of her own.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_37daf5c5	type	Not a Game
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_37daf5c5	comment	Not a Game: In two incidents, one character combines this with What the Hell, Hero? toward another. Little Bear yells at Omri, after witnessing his carelessness that caused an old Indian chief to die. Omri, having learned his lesson, later gives Patrick a similar warning.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Boone, after he and Little Bear get to talking with each other.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious:
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_3fa56924	type	Rearing Horse
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_3fa56924	comment	Rearing Horse: Darling, Boone's horse, is positioned like this as a plastic figurine. When brought to life, she leaps out of the cupboard as soon as it's opened.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_475d592d	type	You Dirty Rat!
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_475d592d	comment	You Dirty Rat!: Gillon's rat, which Omri hates with a passion.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_48078a7	type	Cool Versus Awesome
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_48078a7	comment	Cool Versus Awesome: Why else would there be a brief scene of Darth Vader fighting a T.rex?
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_520c77b4	type	Ignored Confession
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_520c77b4	comment	Ignored Confession: Omri's chronicling of Little Bear in his writing class is dismissed as a product of a good imagination.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_6a36abe2	type	Hollywood Natives
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_6a36abe2	comment	Hollywood Natives: Mostly subverted by Little Bear. However, when Omri brings to life a figurine of a World War I medic named Tommy to tend to a wound of his, he greets Little Bear with, "How!", much to Little Bear's confusion.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: Averted: unlike in the original novel, Little Bear's English is almost perfect.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Patrick, just like in the books, is incredibly prone to this. Most notably when he starts bragging about the little men when he gets them at school.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_7f298d3d	type	Lame Comeback
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_7f298d3d	comment	Lame Comeback: Omri to a punk bully who harasses him in the street. Makes more sense in context because the bully's hair is a mohawk, and it was a Mohawk who had just died in front of him a scene ago.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Little Bear is calmer, more dignified, and less of a belligerent Jerk with a Heart of Gold than in the novel. The fact that his original broken English is replaced by more fluent English enhances this change.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: It's implied that Little Bear had a wife and a child who both died of smallpox in his own time. He only overtly mentions his wife, but he speaks of longing for "another little child."
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_9f91770b	type	Dangled by a Giant
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_9f91770b	comment	Dangled by a Giant: Omri picks up a toy cowboy by his fingers after he came to live with a magic cupboard.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_a1591cc3	type	Living Toys
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_a1591cc3	comment	Living Toys: The cupboard turns plastic toys into the things they stand in for, real flesh and blood and fabric. Little Bear, the old Mohawk, Boone, and Tommy seem to have been summoned out of their respective time periods, and they are shocked to find themselves in a differently-scaled world. However, Omri also briefly experiments with animating action figures of Darth Vader, RoboCop, a T-rex, and a Cardassian and Ferengi, for which no explanation is offered (on account of Omri going "Oh, Crap!" when they all stop attacking each other and turn to look at him, and slamming the cupboard door shut).
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Little Bear, after accidentally shooting Boone during the Western the boys were watching (which showed Native Americans getting shot at).
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Boone is described as having red hair in the book, and is played by dark-haired David Keith in the film.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: After the Indian chief dies, Little Bear prepares his body (well, his plastic figure anyway) in the tradition of his people and then helps Omri to give him a proper burial.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: After Little Bear successfully evades the escaped rat and retrieves the key from underneath the floorboards, he's barely got a few moments to catch his breath before the rat leaps out of the hole directly at him (and the viewer!). Luckily Patrick catches the rat in time.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_d581ba71	type	Comes Great Responsibility
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_d581ba71	comment	Comes Great Responsibility: Omri learns quickly and harshly that he's actually dealing with real people. It hits him hard when he accidentally scares the elderly Indian to death. It takes Patrick much longer to figure it out.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Tommy the war medic. Omri brings his figurine to life in order to treat Little Bear after the latter is injured, and he's later needed in order to save Boone's life.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Every time Omri brings Tommy to life in order to treat wounds, he assures him that he's just dreaming.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_ed07a226	type	No More for Me
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_ed07a226	comment	No More for Me: Boone's initial reaction to ending up in Omri's room is to assume he's delirious from too much alcohol and vows never to drink again. Then he sees Omri and Patrick and immediately changes his mind.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Aside from the Star Wars/RoboCop example above (it also has a Cardassian and a Ferengi from Star Trek). Aracula from Skeleton Warriors and Limburger from Biker Mice from Mars are prominently shown and used as replacements in the school's diorama. Amusingly, despite Omri's best attempts to hide it, no one seems to notice the switch. Also, a Jurassic Park Tyrannosaurus toy is brought to life and briefly fights Darth Vader. Omri also is shown to have a Servo figure from Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad in the background.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Omri's brother A.D. begs their dad for a skylight; when Omri goes to his room later in the film to confront him about the stolen cupboard, A.D. is lying on his bed admiring his brand-new skylight.
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The Indian in the Cupboard / int_ff6d8ad9	type	Adaptational Nationality
The Indian in the Cupboard / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: The setting is changed from London to New York City, making Omri and his family and friends American instead of British. Patrick is also of East Indian descent.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

TheIndianintheCupboard	sameAs	The Indian in the Cupboard
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