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The Wicker Man (1973)

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The Wicker Man (1973)	comment	The Wicker Man is a seminal 1973 British Folk Horror film, directed by Robin Hardy, with a screenplay by Anthony Shaffer (inspired by the 1967 novel Ritual by David Pinner, but not officially an adaptation).Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward), a devoutly Christian detective, travels to the remote Scottish island of Summerisle, home of a famous variety of apples, to investigate the disappearance of a young girl named Rowan Morrison. He is shocked to discover that the island has rejected Christianity in favor of old school Celtic paganism, complete with sexual rituals and a huge May Day festival, all proudly presided over by Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee). Howie concludes that Rowan may be the intended victim of a Human Sacrifice, and races to rescue her. It turns out that he is on the right track, but the truth that awaits him is far beyond anything he might have suspected.It is generally considered to be an influential Cult Classic within the horror film genre, specifically Folk Horror.It was remade in 2006. In 2011, Hardy released The Wicker Tree, a companion piece of sorts based on his novel Cowboys for Christ, with Lee making a cameo as a character who Hardy has said might be an unnamed Lord Summerisle, and Lee has said definitely isn't.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Robin Hardy plays the preacher in the scene in the church in the film's opening minutes. This is one of the major parts of the film cut from the theatrical release, but is available on the uncut (full 102-minute film) and middle (typically, 92 to 95 minutes) versions. Anthony Shaffer is one of the villagers who surround Howie on the clifftop at the beginning of the film's climax. The film's music composer, New Yorker Paul Giovanni, and musical director, Gary Carpenter, make several appearances throughout the film, playing instruments along with the other members of the band formed specifically for this movie, Magnet. Carpenter is the one playing the lyre during the climax, when Howie is stripped and anointed by Willow and the Librarian. Carpenter says during filming one day, Giovanni suggested the band try marijuana. The band were so high, they could not play their instruments.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: As Lord Summerisle, Christopher Lee uses his naturally deep voice to villainous effect, as always.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_174b85df	type	Virgin Sacrifice
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_174b85df	comment	Virgin Sacrifice: The movie is building towards one. The twist comes when the audience and Howie realize which virgin the town is going to sacrifice.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: How Lord Summerisle presents himself (though heâ€™s still only middle-aged). He is wealthy, cultured, and charismatic.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Many viewers have wondered if Willow was actually trying to save Howie's life by seducing him. The extended version reveals that it only mattered that Howie came to the island as a virgin. As this explanation is removed in the extended cut, it remains a mild SchrÃ¶dinger's Canon situation where it is a valid, if not intended, explanation for her behaviour.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Come, it is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man."
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Howie disguises himself as Punch for the May Day festival, blending in with the crowd of pagans.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_1aa52a9a	comment	God Before Dogma: When Howie and McTaggart see graffiti spelling out "Jesus Saves," McTaggart comments approvingly, but Howie tells him to have it removed.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_1bc282d1	comment	Everyone Is a Tomato: All the Summerisle residents, including Rowan, are in on the plot to sacrifice Howie.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Exemplified by Lord Summerisle; suave, eloquent and The Chessmaster behind luring an innocent policeman to his death.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Howie dies by being trapped in the wicker man and burned alive, screaming in agony all the while.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Since the rest of the score is acoustic folk, "Cave Chase", an electric rock and roll instrumental that plays as Howie is fleeing the villagers through a cave near the end of the film, stands out. According to score composer/arranger Paul Giovanni, this was meant as a pun on "rock music". In addition to being a type of tree, the name Rowan means "red-red haired one" in Gaelic. The character of Rowan does, indeed, have red hair. She also serves as a distraction from Sgt. Howie's true purpose on the island. So that makes her a red-haired Red Herring named "red-haired one".
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: After failing to start his plane or find Rowan during his thorough search of the village, Howie returns to the Green Man for a "big glass of whisky." He downs it in one gulp.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_2044af1	comment	Faceless Goons: Most of the islanders wear various animal masks during much of the May Day celebration, though they eventually take them off in the finale.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Many of the pub-goers who sing the Bawdy Song "The Landlord's Daughter" are at least middle aged, and many more are actually seniors.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: The Wicker Tree
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: The innkeeper Alder MacGregor, played by gay mime artist Lindsay Kemp. He is Willow's father.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The film begins, depending on which cut you watch, on the evening of April the 28th or the morning of April the 29th, and ends at sunset on May the 1st.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: A rare male example. Howie is a virgin who is saving himself for marriage. Willow attempts to seduce him, but he resists her with great effort.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Though thanks to Howie's final speech, perhaps only until the apple harvest fails again.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: Howie gives the innkeeper a Tap on the Head to steal his Punch costume.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: The film ends with Sgt. Neil Howie being burned alive inside a wicker man as a pagan sacrifice.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Lord Summerisle specifically picked Sgt. Howie as the person most valuable to sacrifice and most likely to follow along the necessary route to get him to the sacrificial altar. Things could have gone very differently had Howie behaved differently, but Summerisle was right about him, and his plan goes off without a hiccup. He listed the four aspects that made Howie the perfect sacrifice: A man who would come here of his own free will. A man who has come here with the power of a king by representing the law. A man who would come here as a virgin. A man who has come here as a fool.note He was costumed as Punch, one of the great fool-victims of history. Additionally he was fooled by the folk of Summerisle as to the very reason he came to the island, and who the actual victim of the sacrifice was going to be.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Rather hammily averted at first by Howie ("OH MY GOOOOOD!") but once the fire is actually lit, played straight, as Howie accepts his death and prays for his soul to go to Heaven.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Summerisle may count as this, as it is not as peaceful and joyous as it seems to be.A seemingly prosperous island where humans regularly disappear.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: It is really, really obvious that the villagers of Summerisle are concealing information. Maybe they are fundamentally honest people who are not used to this sort of thing. Or maybe it is all part of the plan, intended to make Howie suspicious and keep him investigating. Probably a mixture of both.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_3d1fbeb3	comment	Virgin Power: As a staunch Christian, Howie is a firm opponent of sex before marriage and displays strength of will by keeping to his beliefs. In spite of being diametrically opposed to Howie's belief, the pagan residents of Summerisle also think that his purity gives him certain spiritual qualities.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: During the scene where Howie is in a classroom. He is in full police uniform:
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Much of the eccentric behaviour of the islanders as directed by Lord Summerisle appears to be this, getting Howie to reveal his suitability as a sacrifice to the community - and presumably to the gods as well.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: They put the titular Wicker Man smack dab on the poster.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_45cec696	comment	God Guise: Lord Summerisle describes how his grandfather introduced new crops and farming methods, as well as his Pagan faith. When the crops were incredibly successful, he had no difficulty convincing the locals that there was a connection between their survival and appeasing their Celtic deities.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Howie. He is intolerant of the islanders' beliefs, but he makes an effort to be polite to them at first, only acting like an asshole after having to deal with them constantly obstructing his investigation and generally behaving like passive aggressive asses who press all of his Berserk Buttons at once. He never stops trying to do the right thing.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Lord Summerisle lives in one of these, which was actually Culzean Castle and Country Park in Maybole, South Ayrshire.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: There are plenty of gorgeous shots of the Scottish islands.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_4a8c4e5f	comment	Big "WHAT?!": Howie gives one in response to Lord Summerisle's blasphemy.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: The director's and theatrical cuts open with a title card reading, "The Producer [Peter Snell] would like to thank The Lord Summerisle and the people of his island off the west coast of Scotland for this privileged insight into their religious practices and for their generous co-operation [sic] in the making of this film."
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_4e0fae42	comment	Photo Identification Denial: The islanders flatly deny knowing Rowan from her picture, including her mother, May.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: It is revealed that Howie has spent the entire film being manipulated by the entire island, so that he can be sacrificed by being horribly burned alive. To make things worse, it is implied that his sacrifice may be all for nothing, and that if the next harvest is not successful, the islanders will eventually descend into anarchy in a futile attempt to restore their crops. The villagers seem happy in the belief that the human sacrifice will restore fertility to their island. Howie, however, suspects that the recent crop failures are due to climatic conditions. If Howie is right, the island is practically doomed, and the islanders are deluding themselves that their gods will save them.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: For Folk Horror on film in general. Despite being the Trope Codifier (especially for American audiences), it has a few twists that might be surprising to people familiar with how the genre has been passed down over the years. Summerisle is about as modern as any other rural Scottish village of the era would be. The people wear ordinary clothes for the early 70s and are very open about their paganism. There is no secret society dictating their actions, either. Itâ€™s just their way of life, however sinister it may be. The occasionally human-sacrificing religion practiced on Summerisle isnâ€™t a long-standing ancient practice at all. Lord Summerisleâ€™s grandfather started the cult more or less by accident only about 120 years ago. When Howie tries to track down any record of Rowanâ€™s death, he finds only death certificates for two of her ancestors, a Rebecca and Benjamin Morrison. As he points out, these are Hebrew names from the Bible, in contrast to the plant-themed names of the current residents, and the librarian shrugs and says they were very old when they passed. The viewer can piece together that they were born before the current religion took hold. In many later folk horror stories- see, for example, Midsommar- human sacrifice is a regular necessity for a pagan cultâ€™s activities, at every major celebration. In this film, the island just got really, really unlucky with their apple harvest, and decided to make Howie even unluckier over it- though Howieâ€™s dying curse predicts theyâ€™ll have to do the same thing next year, too. With Lord Summerisle.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Alder MacGregor the innkeeper. What a loathsome creature he is.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Inverted. The pious virgin is killed, and losing his virginity just might have made him an unacceptable sacrifice.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_5290f613	type	A FÃªte Worse than Death
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_5290f613	comment	A FÃªte Worse than Death: The climax occurs during the May Day celebrations. Howie is burned alive.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_52f2c74c	type	Mating Dance
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_52f2c74c	comment	Mating Dance: Willow's naked dance. The man she is dancing for is in the next room and can not see her, but that is hardly necessary to get his attention.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The Final Cut begins and ends with a religious ceremony (and Howie sings "The Lord's My Shepherd" at both of them).
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Lord Summerisle. It is never clear whether Summerisle actually believes in the religion of his island, or is just playing along to keep his subjects in line. If the former, he may genuinely believe the sacrifice is necessary for the harvest. And he tries to soothe his intended sacrifice: The people of Summerisle in general, in deliberate contrast to Howie's harshly authoritarian Good Is Not Nice.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: A former church and its churchyard (graveyard) have been taken over by the pagans. "Since it is no longer used for Christian worship, whether it is still a church is debatable."
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: The Wicker Tree provides some Offscreen Karma for Lord Summerisle and the community, with him being mentioned to have been burned in the Wicker Man and the blight to have carried on, exactly as Howie told them it would happen.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The power of belief, for both good and bad. The film pits a group of pious pagans against a pious Christian. There are no non-believers in the film.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_5f798c84	type	Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_5f798c84	comment	Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Sgt. Howie is engaged and waiting until marriage to have sex. Once he gets to Summerisle, sex is everywhere he looks.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Anthony Shaffer started out trying to adapt David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual but decided that it would not work as a film. He took the basic concept (a puritanical police officer investigates a crime in a isolated community with a thriving pagan religion) and a few specific points (most notably a woman who attempts to seduce the cop) and built a new story around them. There has been some sniping between Pinner, Shaffer and Hardy over exactly how much The Wicker Man borrowed from Ritual. This is a good summary of the relation between the two works.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: "The little old beetle goes 'round and 'round. Always the same way, y'see, until it ends up right up tight to the nail. Poor old thing!"
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6593b4e8	type	Intimate Open Shirt
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6593b4e8	comment	Intimate Open Shirt: It is no coincidence that Howie's pajamas are like this during Willow's attempted seduction via song.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_65efc6dc	type	Appeal to Force
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_65efc6dc	comment	Appeal to Force: When Miss Rose protests that Howie needs Lord Summerisle's permission to see the school register, he simply pries open the desk she was holding closed with her fingers to retrieve it.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: The movie has Howie die with dignity. The novelization by the director and writer of the original film takes it even further by having him free a flock of birds from the Wicker Man's arm as it is burning, believing that as long as he saves some sort of life, his police mission will have not been completely in vain.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6afefa62	type	My Girl Is a Slut
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6afefa62	comment	My Girl Is a Slut: When Alder MacGregor introduces his daughter Willow, the bar patrons break into a Bawdy Song about her promiscuity, which delights her and does not faze her father.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6cc2137b	type	The Scream
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6cc2137b	comment	The Scream: Played straight with the line "In the name of God, THINK WHAT YOU'RE DOING!" Cut to the sunset, with "doing" echoing. And guess what? It is really creepy.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: When Howie tries to leave the island, his seaplane won't start, aborting his attempt to go back and get more officers. Even the radio doesn't work, so he can't summon help that way. It is heavily implied that the villagers sabotaged it.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6f0fd7b8	type	Everyone Loves Blondes
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6f0fd7b8	comment	Everyone Loves Blondes: Blonde hair certainly seems to be a requirement for a female leadership role on Summerisle. The island's best seductress is Willow, and she has golden blonde hair. In the extended cut, Lord Summerisle compares her to the Greek Love Goddess Aphrodite, who is commonly depicted with blonde hair. Ms. Rose and the Librarian are also beautiful blonde women.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6fc8bf2b	type	Corruption of a Minor
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_6fc8bf2b	comment	Corruption of a Minor: The deeply Christian Sgt Howie accuses the pagan schoolteacher Rose of "corruption of the young" when she teaches her early-pubescent class about the dominance of phallic symbolism in the Celtic religion.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Howie's Anglican Christian beliefs clash with the Blue-and-Orange Morality of the Celtic pagan islanders. Both sides are confused by each other. It all comes to a head at the end when the villagers have Howie sacrificed in a burning wicker man to save their crops.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor: Howie of course. He remains pure to the end, and has deduced the actual problems with the island's agriculture when everyone else seems blind to them. That does not prevent his death.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_79503ae9	type	Stout Strength
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_79503ae9	comment	Stout Strength: Oak is a very large fat man, but he is also the strongest man on the island, as introduced in an early scene where he carries a grown man on his shoulders.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7b50237d	type	Distinction Without a Difference
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: "Now you can wrap it up any way you like, but you are about to commit murder."
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7be20777	type	Folk Horror
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7be20777	comment	Folk Horror: Far from the Ur-Example, but arguably the Trope Codifier for the modern-day genre, with any horror story involving rural settings or non-mainstream religious rituals inevitably compared to it. The Folk Horror page image is even a scene from this film.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7c4ae6b0	type	Hot Librarian
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7c4ae6b0	comment	Hot Librarian: Played by Hammer Horror regular Ingrid Pitt.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything The ending makes us see the islanders and their actions throughout the film in a new light.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7da4e5a7	type	Horror Hippies
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7da4e5a7	comment	Horror Hippies: The residents of Summerisle are free-love pagans with an affinity for costumes, public sex, and nature. After an entire film of teasing them as child murderers, it turns out the child, Rowan Morrison, was safe. But it was all a ploy to ensnare Sgt. Howie, who they burn alive.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7dad519f	type	Sex Is Evil
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7dad519f	comment	Sex Is Evil: Played Straight, in that the strait-laced Christian Howie is shocked at the depraved sex and immorality surrounding him on the island, believing that they were evil heathensâ€”and he was proven right.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7de3aec2	type	What Does She See in Him?
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_7de3aec2	comment	What Does She See in Him?: Howie's fellow police officers wonder this about his fiancÃ©e.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_801415e6	type	Hand of Glory
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_801415e6	comment	Hand of Glory: A Hand of Glory is placed next to Howie's bedside whilst he sleeps in an effort to make him sleep through the May Day celebrations. Or at least that is what they want him to think.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_8061f788	type	Separated by the Wall
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_8061f788	comment	Separated by the Wall: Willow and Howie are separated by a wall as she sings her seductive song to him. She slaps on the wall throughout her song, and he is moved to press his body against it with desire. He ultimately restrained himself.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Howie asks McTaggart about crime on the mainland, he replies, "The usual - rape, sodomy and sacrilege."
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Howie, whose honor and morals make him a perfect sacrifice.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: Quite a few of the songs are combinations of this and the Villain Song, and all of them are about sex in some way or another. Interestingly, Howie's only song is definitely not an example, because it is a musical version of the 23rd Psalm, and starts with "The Lord is my shepherd \ I shall not want".
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: The villagers believe that human sacrifice is necessary to restore their crops. They do not seem very broken up about it, and spend the film gleefully mocking and manipulating Howie.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_8414865	type	Aroused by Their Voice
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_8414865	comment	Aroused by Their Voice: Howie can only hear Willow's song, not see her, but he is still tempted. Magic may be involved.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_8591611a	type	Shameful Strip
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_8591611a	comment	Shameful Strip: Before he is executed, Howie gets stripped out of his clothes and put in a white tunic.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser: Lord Summerisle dresses as a woman for the May Day parade. It is part of a pagan ritual where the high priest has to dress as the goddess of the orchards.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_9059bd5d	type	Peek-a-Boo Corpse
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_9059bd5d	comment	Peek-a-Boo Corpse: When Sgt. Howie is searching the town, a young girl flops out of a cupboard and face-plants on the ground... but the girl is only playing a prank on him. Later, he opens a coffin and discovers the corpse of an old woman who is missing a hand, which provides the origin for the Hand of Glory seen later.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Lampshaded by Lord Summersisle, as he tells the pious Howie that he should feel proud of being a Christ-like sacrifice.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_93c7525e	type	Cue Card
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_93c7525e	comment	Cue Card: In the climax, Edward Woodward used one for his lines. Looking at this photo, it seems Christopher Lee used it, as well. Woodward and the prop department opted to use the card, because the burning of the wicker man had to be shot when the weather was good, and he had yet to really learn Howie's lines for the scene. According to director Robin Hardy, the climax was shot on a day late in the year when the weather was getting progressively worse day by day.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Lord Summerisle again. He sees himself as an enlightened ruler, but is fully prepared to offer a human sacrifice to the gods. He also manipulates Howie for much of the film, and (depending on whether or not he genuinely believes in paganism) he's manipulating the islanders too.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: Lord Summerisle and Miss Rose, both in evening dress and him at the Grand Piano, duet the absolutely filthy song "The Tinker of Rye" about a tinker fixing a woman's kettle.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_96a33f11	comment	It's possible her voice was only dubbed in certain versions of the film, or that the dubbing was done without Boyd-Perkins and Hardy's involvement. But nobody knows for certain.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: When Howie joins the May Day procession dressed as Punch, Lord Summerisle, seemingly thinking that itâ€™s MacGregor in the costume (although it later transpires that he knows it's Howie) gives him instructions as to what he has to do. He then starts waving the bladder-on-a-stick around, and when the men catch up with the women, he hits several of them on the bottom with it.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Lord Summerisle is the head of the pagan village that commits Human Sacrifice to maintain their crops, and is behind the disappearance of Rowan Morrison that Sergeant Neil Howie is investigating, intending to lure him in to become the sacrifice.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_970ca74e	type	Big "OMG!"
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_970ca74e	comment	Big "OMG!": Sgt. Howie lets out a few of these in the final scene, as well as a well-delivered Big "NO!". Given Howie's strict Christianity (as well as the dire situation he is in), it seems likely that he is deliberately invoking God, rather than simply using the Big Man's name as an expletive.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_9723a8b8	type	Floral Theme Naming
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_9723a8b8	comment	Floral Theme Naming: Many of the townsfolk are named for trees or plants. May Morrison gets a doubly symbolic name, with May not only being a plant (another name for hawthorn), but also a month of fertility. And when an islander dies, they plant the tree the deceased was named after on the grave, to symbolize that death is part of the cycle of life.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_9d0cfdb9	type	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_9d0cfdb9	comment	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: One of the main themes, if not the main theme is the conflict between the stuck-up, virginal, devoutly religious Sergeant Howie and the sexually liberal, promiscuous pagan islanders. The filmmakers have stated that Howie's decision of whether or not to have sex dictates what happens to him in the end.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "THEY. WILL. NOT. FAIL."
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The movie is set at May Day. Although, according to the calendar in the chemist's, it is a Tuesday. Just not a normal Tuesday.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Final Speech: Sgt. Howie gives an absolutely badass one, predicting divine punishment for the villagers, singing a bit of the 23rd Psalm, and finally reciting the last words of Walter Raleigh.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a110e36d	type	Campbell Country
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a110e36d	comment	Campbell Country: The film has an interesting way of giving its setting physical isolation - it is set on the (fictional) remote Scottish island of Summerisle.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Lord Summerisle is a rare villainous example. Summerisle is a private island and effectively everyone has to obey him. But he treats them in a rather friendly way.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a3c6c2b7	type	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a3c6c2b7	comment	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Sgt. Howie is being dragged to be burnt alive as a human sacrifice, but defiantly affirms his faith in the face of the murderous villagers. Lord Summerisle immediately turns this around and reminds him it's that very piety that makes him such an ideal candidate for sacrifice - and that the only reward for his faithfulness is to die a martyr's death. Howie, shaken to the core, opts to pray aloud: "Dear God, I humbly entreat thee for the soul of this thy servant, Neil Howie, who will today depart from this world. Do not deliver me into the enemy's hands or put me out of mind forever. Let me not undergo the real pains of hell, dear God, because I die unshriven. And establish me in that bliss which knows no ending, O Christ, Our Lord..."
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: An incredibly famous one; see also It Was His Sled. A film where the main character is burned alive as a human sacrifice.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Howie, as a conservative Christian and bachelor who does not believe in sex outside marriage. He is sorely tempted during the film however.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Daisy, one of the little girls at the village school, tortures a beetle for fun. Rowan, the young innocent girl whom Howie is trying to rescue, was in on it all along, and helps seal his fate to be sacrificed. She also offers him an escape route which is actually a trap. Played with, however, in that Rowan really is an innocent just going along with how she was raised, and she has no real understanding of why itâ€™s wrong. When she asks Lord Summerisle if she played her part properly, he gives her a warm hug and tells her she did it beautifully, causing her to beam with childish pride.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Summerislanders all successfully sacrifice Howie and state confidently that there will be "no trace" of him for any future investigations. Whether the island's crops actually succeed next year is another matter.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: Oak, who manages to carry Howie and just about every other man on the island with extreme ease, but still answers to Lord Summerisle.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The film relies heavily on this, first for humor, as Howie's staunch Christianity means that he is horrified and baffled by the devoted Paganism of the village inhabitants and what this leads them to do. The pagans are equally horrified and baffled by his religious beliefs and behaviors â€” and then for horror, when their beliefs incite the villagers to capture him and burn him to death in a wicker man as a Human Sacrifice so that their crops will grow.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_aac4eeae	type	Same Language Dub
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_aac4eeae	comment	Same Language Dub: Britt Ekland had her entire performance re-dubbed by an actress with a Scottish accent. Possibly. To clarify, most sources state that Ekland's dialogue was dubbed by Annie Ross, and her singing was dubbed by Rachel Verney. However, this is complicated by the fact that "Verney" appears to have no other music or film credits outside of The Wicker Man, suggesting it might have been a pseudonym. Comments from Ekland and director Robin Hardy seem to suggest that Ross did, in fact, do both dialogue and singing. To add even further to confusion, yet more sources claim that Verney recorded a singing track but that it ultimately wasn't used in lieu of Ross', despite her being credited on the soundtrack. And to top it off, there's a very good chance that Ekland's voice might not have even been dubbed at all. Editor Eric Boyd-Perkins insists that neither he nor his soundman dubbed anything more than a song, assertions supported by Robin Hardy. It's possible her voice was only dubbed in certain versions of the film, or that the dubbing was done without Boyd-Perkins and Hardy's involvement. But nobody knows for certain.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Much of the soundtrack is composed entirely of cheerful folk numbers, and the finalÃ© is set to the rousing Summer Is Icumen In.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_ad1db87c	comment	This is one of the few films where the main character can shout "Oh Jesus Christ!" and have it come across as a true, in-character Oh, Crap! moment.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Arguably the diegetic explanation for Daisy's beetle abuse, but symbolically the beetle functions as a stand-in for Howie. The closer he gets to the answer of where Rowan is (i.e. the more he goes around the nail), the more entangled he becomes, and the more difficult it is for him to escape.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Lord Summerisle quite often.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Stated by Howie, who tells the islanders that the reason their crops are failing is because the island's climate and soil are simply not suitable for agriculture. Therefore, sacrificing him will not solve their problems. They sacrifice him anyway, though.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: The islanders certainly are not afraid to show their pagan beliefs... but they keep quiet on the whole Human Sacrifice bit.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: When Howie knocks out MacGregor to steal his Punch costume, even though Howie clearly hits him on the hump on the back of the costume.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_b2e94341	type	Based on a Great Big Lie
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_b2e94341	comment	Based on a Great Big Lie: The opening credits thank Lord Summerisle and the people of his island for their cooperation in depicting their religion. There was no such lord, no such island, and no Scottish community practicing any such religion in the twentieth century.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_b5d8da73	type	Freaky Funeral Forms
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_b5d8da73	comment	Freaky Funeral Forms: Possibly. While out walking on his first night on Summerisle in the extended version, Howie is shocked to see multiple couples having sex in public. But he's particularly disturbed to see a naked woman sobbing and straddling a grave - the implication being that the deceased was her lover, and if he was alive, they'd be one of the couples having sex. If this is an accepted form of grieving on Summerisle instead of Excessive Mourning on the woman's part, that would be this trope.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_b84491a3	type	Wrong Insult Offence
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_b84491a3	comment	Wrong Insult Offence:
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_ba6db525	type	Fake Mystery
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_ba6db525	comment	Fake Mystery: Howie is called out to Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. The island's inhabitants are part of a pagan cult, and during his investigation notices various strange behaviours and rituals. He begins to suspect the worst, and in the final act, disguises himself in order to arrest Lord Summerisle, who is aware of Howie's attempt, and even laughs at the man's disguise. The young girl who was missing appears. It's revealed she was never missing, and was all a ploy to get the detective to the island. Howie is captured and placed in the titular Wicker Man, then burned to death.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_bda3d97b	type	It's a Long Story
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_bda3d97b	comment	It's a Long Story: "Do sit down, Sgt. Howie. Shocks are much better absorbed with the knees bent."
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_bda474d2	type	Last Note Nightmare
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_bda474d2	comment	Last Note Nightmare: The soundtrack is a great find as it includes all the Celtic folk songs featured in the movie, including the classic round "Sumer Is Icumen In," which is sung by the townsfolk at the film's climax. It takes a turn for the horror however when that track on the album ends with Howie screaming, "Oh, God! Oh, Jesus Christ!" in absolute terror as he sees the wicker man.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_bdb5c651	type	Real Men Love Jesus
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_bdb5c651	comment	Real Men Love Jesus: Howie's Christianity is a major source of friction between himself and the villagers, and it comes to a head in the climax of the film.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_bf1255fa	comment	The customers at the Green Man pub engage in a lusty rendition of "The Landlord's Daughter", to the annoyance of the straight-laced protagonist and the amusement of Willow, the Really Gets Around daughter of the pub's landlord. As Christopher Lee said in the DVD Commentary, it is a good song when you have got a pint in your hand.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_c011cd29	type	Path of Inspiration
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_c011cd29	comment	Path of Inspiration: Lampshaded. Lord Summerisle openly admits that his ancestor was a "Victorian freethinker" and propagated Celtic paganism among the villagers only to ensure social stability.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_c2cedbfc	type	Big "NO!"
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_c2cedbfc	comment	Sgt. Howie lets out a few of these in the final scene, as well as a well-delivered Big "NO!". Given Howie's strict Christianity (as well as the dire situation he is in), it seems likely that he is deliberately invoking God, rather than simply using the Big Man's name as an expletive.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": This, along with a Big "OMG!", is Sgt. Howie's first reaction to seeing the titular edifice. The camera-work, buildup, and above all, Edward Woodward's believable delivery of the line removed any potential narm.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: The original theatrical version, which is the most well-known cut, is 87 minutes in length. A 99-minute cut was sent to Roger Corman, who suggested that 13 minutes be cut in order to sell well in the United States. A few years later, Robin Hardy, now living in the US, decided to seek out a copy of the film. He obtained a duplicate of Corman's copy, and cut out the mainland scenes, while restoring some of the longer cut scenes. This version timed out to 95 minutes, and was released in the US in the fall of 1977. It was later released on Blu-Ray and DVD in October 2013 as The Final Cut. In 1988, the 99-minute version ended up being released on VHS in America, distributed by Media Home Entertainment, and later Magnum Entertainment. Hilariously, the front of the Magnum release has pictures of the film's two stars, Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee, that were obviously taken in the 1980s; in fact, the picture of Woodward is a publicity still from The Equalizernote Heck, the front of the box says, "Starring Edward Woodward (The Equalizer)". In 2001, an NTSC one-inch videotape copy transferred from Corman's copy was released on VHS and DVD in America and Britain by Anchor Bay, thanks to a campaign from StudioCanal, the film's worldwide owners, to try and find the full cut. Christopher Lee went to his grave believing that there exists an even-longer cut of the film, longer than the one Corman was sent. Oddly enough, there are rumors that a 17-minute version for triple and quadruple bills exists, in which Sergeant Howie is led straight to the Wicker Man; however, nothing really substantial has emerged about this one.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: In 1978, a book based on the film written by Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffernote Well, primarily by Hardy; some of Shaffer's dialogue from the film was used word-for-word, so, he got credit. was published in the United States, right when the film was picking up steam in America. The readers get more detail of Howie and Mary's relationship, as well as the former's interest in bird-watching. In later editions, Scottish author Allan Brown, who has written many published works about the film, including a popular behind-the-scenes book, wrote a foreword, where he argued that Howie's arguments with Summerisle have more impact on paper than they did in the film, since casting Christopher Lee made viewers automatically assume he was the villain, as he had played so many in his career already.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: More than a little similar to Eye of the Devil, a 1966 horror film starring David Niven about a Town with a Dark Secret, featuring a Cult that holds A FÃªte Worse than Death, concluding with a Human Sacrifice to propitiate the gods in order for the failing crops to become productive again. Possibly averted, as The Wicker Man was based on a novel called Ritual—but Ritual was published the year after Eye of the Devil was released. Regardless of the inspiration, The Wicker Man is by far the better-remembered film.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_e41a9801	comment	All Women Are Lustful: All of the women on the island are deeply involved in sexual rituals, which Howie finds extremely disturbing.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Most of the isle's residents uphold a convincing masquerade, as their task requires them to raise Howie's suspicions as to Rowan's intended fate, but the MacGregors lay it on pretty thick when it's their task to spur the sergeant to action on May Day. Rowan herself is disconcertingly merry for a purported Human Sacrifice; although Howie is too harried to register such oddities until too late.
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The Wicker Man (1973) / int_ff24ad1d	comment	Bawdy Song: The customers at the Green Man pub engage in a lusty rendition of "The Landlord's Daughter", to the annoyance of the straight-laced protagonist and the amusement of Willow, the Really Gets Around daughter of the pub's landlord. As Christopher Lee said in the DVD Commentary, it is a good song when you have got a pint in your hand. "Gently Johnny" may just be the sweetest, gentlest, most romantic bawdy song you have ever heard. It is also based on a very old song, but is much more explicit than the version commonly sung. And then there's Christopher Lee and Diane Cilento dueting The Tinker of Rye, an absolutely filthy song about a tinker fixing a woman's kettle. The fact that they are both in full evening dress, and Lee is playing the melody for the song on a grand piano just add to the hilarity.
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The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Sex as Rite-of-Passage / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Sex Is Evil / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Spoiler Title / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Straw Hypocrite / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Survival Mantra / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Targeted Human Sacrifice / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	The Radio Dies First / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	The Remake / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	The Scream / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Town with a Dark Secret / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Tragic Hero / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Tragic Mistake / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Unexpected Virgin / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Virgin Sacrifice / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Where Do You Think You Are? / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Wrong Insult Offence / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	You're Insane! / int_13bb4300
The Wicker Man (1973)	hasFeature	Separated by the Wall / int_13bb4300

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