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The Night of the Iguana

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The Night of the Iguana	comment	The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 film directed by John Huston, adapted from a 1961 play by Tennessee Williams (which was in turn adapted from a 1948 short story).T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Burton) is a former Episcopal minister who was defrocked due to an inappropriate relationship with a too-young Sunday school teacher. Two years later he's working as a tour guide for Blake's Tours, a low-end Texas company, and as the main story opens he is ferrying around a group of teachers from a Baptist women's college on a bus trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Shannon is plagued by the attentions of teenaged temptress Charlotte (Sue Lyon), to the ire of Judith Fellowes (Grayson Hall), Charlotte's middle-aged chaperone and one of the teachers.After Charlotte sneaks into Shannon's room and Judith finds them there together, she vows to get him fired. Desperate, Shannon drives the bus to a seaside hotel run by his old friend Fred, a place where there is no phone, so Judith can't place a call to Texas. He is unpleasantly surprised to discover that 1.) Fred died a month ago and his widow Maxine (Ava Gardner) is running the hotel, and 2.) the hotel actually has a phone now.Meanwhile, Maxine's hotel receives two more guests: Hannah Jelks (Deborah Kerr), a sketch artist, and her ancient grandfather Nonno (Cyril Delevanti), a poet. They are broke, and Hannah is hoping to cadge a free room out of Maxine. Shannon is attracted to Hannah, much to Maxine's irritation.Judith Fellowes eventually manages to place her angry call to Texas and, sure enough, Shannon is fired. Shannon, who has already pronounced himself "at the end of my rope", says he will commit suicide.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_1825867d	type	Tastes Like Chicken
The Night of the Iguana / int_1825867d	comment	Tastes Like Chicken: The old ladies on the tour bus are appalled to see local peasants selling iguanas as food. Shannon proclaims that they taste like chicken.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Night of the Iguana / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The stage version begins with Shannon already at Maxine's hotel in Mexico, and Judith already suspects him of having slept with Charlotte; the prologue of his last sermon as an Episcopal minister and the chaos of the tour before the group arrive in Puerto Vallarta were added for the film.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
The Night of the Iguana / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Nonno does, sitting on the hotel's veranda, immediately after finishing his long poem.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Night of the Iguana / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The play includes a group of German tourists who sing Nazi marching songs and provide comic relief; they are not present in the film.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Night of the Iguana / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Shannon loses his job with Blake's tours and has no hope of returning to his vocation as a minister, while Hannah leaves for good after Nonno's death - presumably destined to live the rest of her life as an Old Maid - when it becomes clear that a relationship with Shannon would not be possible. However, Shannon is no longer suicidal, and will probably start a new life together with Maxine, while Nonno was able to complete his last poem just before his death.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Night of the Iguana / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Reverend Shannon is a cynical, often rude, womanizing alcoholic. Despite all this, one aspect of his personality shows that he takes Christian teaching seriously: his compassion for other people and his complete lack of any vindictiveness or ill-will, even towards those who have wronged him. For example, when Maxine tries to humiliate Judith by talking about her closet lesbianism, Shannon stops her, because he doesn't want to see Judith emotionally destroyed. This despite the fact that Judith hated Shannon and arranged to have him fired from Blake Tours.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_65b696be	type	Fille Fatale
The Night of the Iguana / int_65b696be	comment	Fille Fatale: Charlotte, who is underage and who is crawling all over Shannon, much to Judith's fury. Judith promises to have a warrant issued for Shannon's arrest.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
The Night of the Iguana / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: Chang the Chinese cook in Maxine's hotel, who says stuff like "Me no cook" when he's too high on marijuana to function.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
The Night of the Iguana / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Shannon dashes off into the sea in what Maxine correctly perceives as a half-hearted suicide attempt. Her cabana boys pull him out of the water and tie him up in a hammock for his own good.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_7332c94f	type	Suicide by Sea
The Night of the Iguana / int_7332c94f	comment	Suicide by Sea: Discussed Trope. Shannon mentions the possibility of taking "the long swim, to China," and later is about to do it when he's grabbed and tied up by Maxine's cabana boys.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Night of the Iguana / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Shannon has a serious drinking problem. In the first scene in Mexico he's shown hiding a flask in a hole in the wall, while showing the tour group an old church.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Night of the Iguana / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Shannon's two love interests, Maxine and Hannah. Maxine is brassy and earthy and talks unashamedly about how she screws the cabana boys when she gets horny, and she has dark hair. Hannah is prim and proper (even if she is broke), and extremely British, and apparently is still a virgin, and she has light hair. (It's a black and white movie, but Deborah Kerr was a redhead.)
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The Night of the Iguana / int_bcac7f63	type	Distant Prologue
The Night of the Iguana / int_bcac7f63	comment	Distant Prologue: The opening scene has Shannon, in a pulpit, having a nervous breakdown in front of his congregation, with him screaming at them before they all walk out. The film then skips forward two years to Shannon in Mexico.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
The Night of the Iguana / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: In the opening scene, Shannon is already struggling to get through his sermon, as he knows his congregation have learned of his inappropriate relationship with a young Sunday school teacher (it doesn't help that the subject of his sermon is Proverbs 25:28, "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls"). But when they begin whispering amongst themselves, he hurls the text of his sermon aside and begins ranting at them for using their faith to condemn him.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_d4bb4e51	type	Walking Shirtless Scene
The Night of the Iguana / int_d4bb4e51	comment	Walking Shirtless Scene: Maxine's "beach boys", two cabana boys that are always shirtless and, bizarrely, are always shaking maracas. Maxine is unashamed to say that she goes to them to satisfy her "biological urges".
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The Night of the Iguana / int_d67e900a	type	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
The Night of the Iguana / int_d67e900a	comment	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Shannon himself says "There's nothing lower than Blake's Tours," and he refuses to admit that he was defrocked. That doesn't mean he isn't desperate to hold on to his crappy job.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Night of the Iguana / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The tethered iguanas.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Night of the Iguana / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Maxine's diagnosis of what's really going on with Judith and Judith's incandescent rage at the sight of Charlotte together with Shannon. She makes a very pointed remark about how "if it wasn't for the dikes, the plains of Texas would flood", then says that the real reason Judith's so angry is that "that little quail of yours has a natural preference for men instead of—". At that point Shannon interrupts and tells her to stop.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Night of the Iguana / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Shannon will not admit that he was defrocked, instead insisting that he was "locked out" of the church.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
The Night of the Iguana / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: From an iguana scampering about the undergrowth, to Shannon thrashing about in a hammock, where he's been tied up by the cabana boys after his half-hearted suicide attempt.
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The Night of the Iguana / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
The Night of the Iguana / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: Hannah is not only unmarried but apparently still a virgin, in her mid-40s. She tells Shannon that the closest she ever came to sex was when a pervy guy asked for her underwear, and she gave it to him.
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