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The Violent Years

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The Violent Years	comment	The Violent Years is a 1956 film bringing us the story of one young Paula Parkins. She has it all on the surface... money, things, a lovely house, beauty and youth. However, the movie posits, she lacks the most important thing: true parental attention.This lack of attention means that Paula must naturally turn to crime to get satisfaction with life. She forms a girl gang with three friends and they end up knocking over gas stations. Eventually they're forced to switch targets, and ultimately Paula seeks greater fare. And boy, does she (and her friends) get it.Ed Wood didn't direct this film, but he did write it, and had enough ownership in the film that he proudly had the porn producer's office festooned with a poster of it in The Sinister Urge. The film ran for a long time, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, but Wood only saw $500 from it.For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, please go to the episode recap page.The Judge's "The Reason You Suck" Speech also provides the intro samples for the Ministry song "So What".
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The Violent Years / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Violent Years / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: One of the girls makes a comment mocking the policemen shooting at them, only to be shot dead immediately afterwards.
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The Violent Years / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Violent Years / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: The movie would have the audience believe that it's the parents at fault for not paying enough attention to Paula but, at the same time, also clearly shows that she never makes any attempt on her part to disclose to her parents what she really wants from them.
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The Violent Years / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Violent Years / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Despite claiming to be getting paid by a "foreign power" to wreck a school room, Sheila immediately calls the police when Paula reveals she killed a policeman.
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The Violent Years / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
The Violent Years / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: So the grandparents of an orphaned child have to specifically petition the courts for custody, and the same judge that just presided over a murder trial can turn them down because he thinks they're neglectful note They had utterly failed to notice that their daughter had been the ringleader of a gang with multiple armed robberies, a rape, and a cop killing to its name until she was arrested and sentenced to life in prison and a state orphanage is a better place for the baby than with an affluent family? In Real Life - even then - the judge would be overturned on appeal at warp speed, likely followed by a rebuke from the state judicial review board. The judge then advises that families turn to the church, neglecting the idea that there are religions other than Christianity, much less the separation of church and state. He is also neglecting the fact that some religious people aren't very good parents either. The judge also states that the man is an old friend, a.k.a. a clear conflict of interest that would never be allowed. The father isn't even considered for custody. He was a rape victim sure, but nobody even asks him.note Though he may not have wanted custody, considering.
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The Violent Years / int_3cc07613	type	Badbutt
The Violent Years / int_3cc07613	comment	Badbutt: The girls come off as this during their final crime rampage. See Poke the Poodle, below.
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The Violent Years / int_491b0105	type	Sexy Sweater Girl
The Violent Years / int_491b0105	comment	Sexy Sweater Girl: The whole of Paula's gang qualifies (Paula in particular as she's played by October 1955 Playboy Playmate Jean Moorhead), but Sheila's actress is no slouch in this department either.
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The Violent Years / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
The Violent Years / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Done by the very smarmy judge at the end.
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The Violent Years / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Violent Years / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Paula gets impregnated by her rape victim, everyone in Paula's gang dies, and Paula herself gets sentenced to life in prison and dies after giving birth to her baby. Furthermore, her parents are denied custody of the child. Basically, it's a Glurge fest in which nobody wins. Nobody.
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The Violent Years / int_51923571	type	Spinning Paper
The Violent Years / int_51923571	comment	Spinning Paper: Announces the aforementioned rape.
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The Violent Years / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Violent Years / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The police are laughably ineffective at catching the gang. Until the end at least.
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The Violent Years / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Violent Years / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Angora sweater? You bet. Crossdressing? Yep, though in this case it's actually female crossdressing.
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The Violent Years / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Violent Years / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "So what?" is used repeatedly by the girls to underscore their uncaring, nihilistic attitude.
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The Violent Years / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
The Violent Years / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Exemplified by the ridiculously pious judge.
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The Violent Years / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Violent Years / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Pretty much all the judge's lines consist of him philosophizing to Paula's parents (and any parents in the audience by proxy) about how their supposed neglect led to everything that happened in the movie.
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The Violent Years / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Violent Years / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The movie opens with the judge speaking to Paula's parents about how their neglect led to the current situation.
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The Violent Years / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
The Violent Years / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdressers: Paula and her gang dress as boys during their crimes. They also call themselves by the male equivalent of their names over the phone (as code). Paula is Paul, Phyllis is Phil, etc. Amusingly they don't make any other attempt to hide their gender, so it's not any kind of disguise. They still wear makeup, jewelry, obviously female hairstyles... In an earlier version of the script, the characters were boys. Yes, even Ed Wood had ideas he didn't use.
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The Violent Years / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Violent Years / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: We primarily follow Paula and her gang throughout the movie as they commit vandalism, robbery and even darker crimes.
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The Violent Years / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
The Violent Years / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: The family court judge, who also functions as a bookend for the movie.
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The Violent Years / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
The Violent Years / int_991af300	comment	Poke the Poodle: The gang's (for want of a better word) "rampage" through their school consists mostly of... tipping chairs over and erasing chalkboards. Oh, and killing a cop. Made worse by the fact that killing the cop was almost entirely unintentional (or at least they didn't plan on doing it).
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The Violent Years / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
The Violent Years / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: Sheila's dialogue implies that the Soviet Union is paying her, and the girls by extension, to smash up a classroom. It's a seriously stupid example.
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The Violent Years / int_a9ba5cdc	type	Deliver Us from Evil
The Violent Years / int_a9ba5cdc	comment	Deliver Us from Evil: Paula ends up getting pregnant by the man she forcibly had sexual intercourse with during one of her robberies. Although she is mentioned as feeling uncomfortable and having some cramps, she doesn't learn she's actually carrying a baby until she's in prison, making this a Late Pregnancy Realization as well.
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The Violent Years / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
The Violent Years / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: The judge's opening monologue morphs into this at the movie's end.
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The Violent Years / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Actually averted with Jean Moorhead. There's very little ogling at the Playboy Playmate - unusually for the time, a model's acting skills are at the forefront, not her looks and bod.
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The Violent Years / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Subverted: one of the girls knocks out the gas station attendant at the beginning with a single whack to the head by Pistol-Whipping. This puts the attendant into a coma from which he may never recover.
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The Violent Years / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Violent Years / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: After Paula's gang violently storms the classroom while armed, they are shocked, shocked that "[the cops] are shooting back!"
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The Violent Years / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Violent Years / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: When in a shootout, always take a moment to gloat. When you are being confronted by a girl gang, the leader of said group having informed you she's killed a cop, by all means pick up the phone and threaten to call the police.
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The Violent Years / int_ba75d291	comment	Step Three: Profit: Sheila's proposal for the gang to trash the schoolroom, as mentioned in the Dirty Communists entry above, is basically this. Both the audience and the girls are only given incredibly vague reasons as to who would want this to happen and why, for that matter.
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The Violent Years / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Paula is impregnated by her rape victim. Foresight isn't really her thing.
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The Violent Years / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Paula Parkins.
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The Violent Years / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: The gas station hold up.
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The Violent Years / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: A noteworthy aversion: Paula's gang terrorizes a local lovers' lane and rapes a young man (off-camera) after tying up his girlfriend. The film establishes that this is a very bad thing the girls have done and is played completely for drama.
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The Violent Years / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: A "foreign power" wants the girls to crash a school room. Not the entire school, just the room. The movie treats this as the real Moral Event Horizon.
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The Violent Years / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Paula isn't feeling well prior to the birth of her rape victim's kid (there are a couple of hints that it's a difficult pregnancy), and dies during the birth.
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The Violent Years / int_e96b33b9	comment	Loose Lips: Paula gets her father to talk about the gang case, which lets her know about the cop's plans to have cops plant men in gas stations waiting for robberies.
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The Violent Years / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: The girlfriend of the gang's rape victim is left tied up and gagged in the car while they do the deed.
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