...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

The Resurrection of Broncho Billy

78 statements
14 feature instances
2 referencing feature instances

The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	type	TVTItem
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	label	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	page	TheResurrectionOfBronchoBilly
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	comment	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy is a 1970 short film (23 minutes) directed by James Rokos.Billy is a good-natured young man who looks to be fresh out of high school. He is living a rather melancholy existence, renting an attic room in some old lady's house, working a dead-end job as a hardware store. Billy avoids this sad reality by retreating into a fantasy world based on The Wild West, or, more accurately, the Wild West as Hollywood depicted it in The Western. Billy dresses himself up as a cowboy, chews toothpicks to look tough, and continually imagines himself to be a hero in an old western. Nothing of urban life in 1970 punctures his fantasy world: cars stuck in traffic become a lowing herd of cattle, an unpleasant encounter with his boss becomes a showdown with a villain, and a random encounter with a businessman on the street becomes a gun duel at high noon. Eventually it becomes unclear whether his fantasies are allowing him to escape from the world or preventing him from engaging with it.The Resurrection of Broncho Billy was a student film made by Rokos and four of his friends at USC film school. One of those students was none other than John Carpenter, who got credit for the story (along with all the other four students), got credit as an editor, and also composed and performed the music. It was Carpenter's first film credit.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	fetched	2023-05-09T12:44:03Z
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	parsed	2023-05-09T12:44:03Z
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_505f6a99	type	Showdown at High Noon
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_505f6a99	comment	Showdown at High Noon: Billy imagines himself to be in one, but since he doesn't have a gun and his opponent is a businessman in a suit, all he does is bump the guy's shoulder as they pass in the crosswalk, much to the businessman's bewilderment.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_505f6a99	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_505f6a99	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_505f6a99
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_529362a3	type	Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_529362a3	comment	Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: Naturally, the bartender at the dive bar Billy enters is cleaning a glass.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_529362a3	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_529362a3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_529362a3
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_613ecc2d	type	Riding into the Sunset
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_613ecc2d	comment	Riding into the Sunset: Billy, riding off into the sunset on his horse with his woman. Of course, he's imagining it, and it's really rather melancholy as Billy remains lost in his fantasy world and unable to make connections with real people. But it looks cool.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_613ecc2d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_613ecc2d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_613ecc2d
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_629de9ad	type	'70s Hair
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_629de9ad	comment	'70s Hair: The woman Billy meets in the park has a big poofy '70s hairdo.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_629de9ad	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_629de9ad	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_629de9ad
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_66925086	type	Monochrome to Color
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_66925086	comment	Monochrome to Color: The whole movie's in sepia tones until the Imagine Spot at the end where Billy, on horseback, sweeps up his woman and gallops away. That part's in color.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_66925086	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_66925086	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_66925086
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_8a6423b6	type	Cosplay
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_8a6423b6	comment	Cosplay: Basically what Billy does all day, going out and about dressed in cowboy gear and imaging himself to be a hero in the Wild West.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_8a6423b6	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_8a6423b6	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_8a6423b6
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_991d9e86	type	Cowboy
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_991d9e86	comment	Cowboy: One of the highlights of Billy's day is listening to the droning old stories of some old coot who apparently was a literal cattle-driving cowboy back in the day, although his day was after the classic "Wild West" era (the old man says he was born in 1892).
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_991d9e86	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_991d9e86	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_991d9e86
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: After his talk with the girl in the park ends in failure when the girl gets bored and leaves, Billy has one of these. The film suddenly switches to color, and Billy, riding his horse, sweeps the girl (who's now in an old-timey pioneer dress) up onto the horse with him, and they ride off into the sunset together. The End.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_a7382a73	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_a7382a73	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_a7382a73
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: Billy drops into a John Wayne accent in a pathetic attempt to amuse the pretty artist in the park.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_be6f7ae7	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_be6f7ae7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_be6f7ae7
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: Pretty dark comedy, but there's an element to this in Billy's continuing efforts to pretend that he's in a Western, and how the real world just won't collaborate. He imagines some dive bar as a Wild West saloon and says "Gimme some rye," but the bartender won't give him a drink because he doesn't have an ID. His fantasy of a gun duel draws nothing but bewilderment from the businessman who's his imaginary rival. And the girl in the park rapidly grows very bored with Billy's nattering about costuming in old Westerns.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_c5ef2d50	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_c5ef2d50	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_c5ef2d50
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Filled with shout-outs to Hollywood Westerns, from the posters that decorate Johnny's tiny little room to his endless blathering about how John Wayne or Gary Cooper carried themselves in westerns. Even the name of the movie is a shout-out to "Broncho Billy" Anderson, star of pioneering 1903 Western The Great Train Robbery.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_c75df49a
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: Shot in a sepia-tone that recalls old photographs of the Wild West.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_d028ca10	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_d028ca10	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_d028ca10
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_e201cc	type	The Bore
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_e201cc	comment	The Bore: Billy's chance to make a connection with the attractive woman who sketched him in the park comes to a sudden end when Billy launches into an exceedingly boring lecture about costuming in old Westerns, causing the woman to abruptly get up and leave.
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_e201cc	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_e201cc	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_e201cc
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_name	type	ItemName
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_name	comment
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_name
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy / int_name	itemName	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	Cosplay / int_8eeef2c
	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy	hasFeature	Monochrome to Color / int_8eeef2c

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.