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To Live and Die in L.A.

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To Live and Die in L.A.	comment	To Live and Die in L.A. is a 1985 American action/crime thriller film, based on the novel of the same name by Gerald Petievich and directed by William Friedkin.The film stars William Petersen as Secret Service agent Richard Chance, a maverick type determined to take down Rick Masters (Willem Dafoe), the counterfeiter who shot Chance's partner. It also features an exceptionally '80s soundtrack by Wang Chung.Now has a character sheet in progress.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Former Secret Service agent and author Gerald Petievich, who wrote the book the film is based on, appears in a cameo as a fellow Secret Service agent.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Vukovich, after the robbery of the FBI agent goes bad.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Chance or Masters... who is worse?
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_18262b13	type	Break the Badass
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_18262b13	comment	Break the Badass: Vukovich. As the movie progresses, Chance's behavior takes an increasing toll on the poor guy, leading to several meltdowns and a Heroic BSoD.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: Masters' henchman, Jack and Chance himself at the film's near end.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Let's just say Friedkin's Los Angeles is not a sunny one despite the slick 80s visual aesthetic.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The film ends with Masters dead, but just seconds after he successfully managed to burn all evidence of his crimes, making Chance's psychotic crusade to bring him to justice completely worthless even if we didn't take into account the fact Masters killed Chance.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_2d364343	type	Frame-Up
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_2d364343	comment	Frameup: During Chance and Vukovich's attempt to rob the man revealed to be Special Agent Thomas Ling, he's killed by wild rifle fire by the tailing FBI agents, though when they send the APB out to authorities, they conveniently blame the "robbers" (Chance and Vukovich) for Ling's death rather than outright admit they shot their own agent by mistake. Also, Ruth sets up Chance to be taken down by the FBI. At the end, Vukovich mentions that she had to know Ling was an undercover agent, therefore, she was hoping at the very least that Chance would be arrested for mistakenly robbing Ling, though the outcome ended up far worse.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Chance has his moments. As does Ric Masters, such as when he bludgeons John Vukovich with a two by four and attempts to light him on fire during their final confrontation.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Narrowly averted. Masters not only has a hand in the death of his nemesis, Chance, but he also has time to destroy the evidence of his entire counterfeiting operation before Vukovich is able to track him down. He reveals that he knows Chance and Vukovich were involved in the death of the FBI agent, and even subdues Vukovich and is in the process of burning him along with the counterfeiting evidence. The only thing that prevents Masters from winning entirely is that Vukovich recovers and kills Masters first.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Serena, Bianca at the end, and quite possibly Masters himself.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_34f590c9	type	Off on a Technicality
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_34f590c9	comment	Off on a Technicality: Grimes mentions that he got someone off because he argued that a search warrant which imprecisely described the color of a house was invalid.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: This movie is somewhat harsh on swearing, with a huge amount of F-bombs years before Quentin Tarantino and his movie Reservoir Dogs.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Chance, in spades. He even wears cowboy boots a lot of the time. Although in Chance's case, a lot of his plans blow up in his face and he has to work overtime to correct them. He sort of wins out at the end, but gets a shotgun blast to the face for his troubles
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_42c186e	type	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_42c186e	comment	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: One of the scenes in the second half of the movie is this. One of the two fellow agents who were trying to rescue Ling, was shooting at Chance and Vukovich, the robbers, only for him to get startled when another vehicle crashes into theirs. The rifleman's weapon then discharges, killing the victim of the robbery himself. For that matter, Chance's entire sting operation to take Masters down falls into this. He's so desperate to get the money for Master's down payment demand that he follows the tip of his informant, (who clearly has issues with him) and accidentally robs an undercover fed. Worse is that he keeps going with the plan as-is despite Masters very clearly indicating that he knows they're not who they say they are (rich guys from Florida with no tan) and when Chance makes the down payment drop of the $50,000, Masters all but says he knows Chance's methods to secure it were illegal, and thus pretty much everything Chance will get on him will be inadmissible.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_44c279ae	type	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_44c279ae	comment	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: Vukovich.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Eric Masters is arrested at the end of the novel. In the film, he dies. Also, Chance doesn't die in a confrontation with Masters and Jack in the novel, instead he dies when he gets abusive towards "Ruth" and she shoots him to death.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: During one of Chance's "visits" with Ruth, his girlfriend/informant.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Chance dies during the sting, causing Vukovich to have a mental breakdown and kill Masters, but not before the latter destroyed all the evidence of his crimes by torching his downtown warehouse. Not only that, Vukovich essentially becomes the new Chance, and makes Ruth his bitch.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Jack, to Masters.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: In the alternate ending Chance and Vukovich are reassigned to Alaska. The sequence was shot to appease the studio but the film was always intended to end the way it did
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_57cd63e6	type	Art-Style Dissonance
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_57cd63e6	comment	Art-Style Dissonance: With the violent amorality on screen, you'd expect this film to employ a Real Is Brown aesthetic. Instead, it goes for a glossy look reminiscent of Miami Vice. The contrast is rather jarring.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_5e126c79	type	The Joy of X
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_5e126c79	comment	The Joy of X: Popularized the "To Live and Die in [X]" title in media.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When Chance delivers the down payment money, Masters checks one of the bills for authenticity, then purrs "You're beautiful." Later, when Chance and Vukovich meet with Masters to pick up the actual funny money, Chance repeats both the bill-check and Masters' line - before initiating the arrest.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Richard Chance, Rick Masters.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_6d28a6fd	type	Hollywood Police Driving Academy
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_6d28a6fd	comment	Hollywood Police Driving Academy: Avoided: Chance pulls off the LA equivalent of flying the Millennium Falcon into an asteroid field with flying colors.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_6dd49338	type	Invisible President
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_6dd49338	comment	Invisible President: Chance and Jimmy are part of the Secret Service detail protecting Ronald Reagan, who is heard delivering a speech.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: The car chase ends with a radio report stating that there's a "minor tie-up" on the freeway.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_71bc0919	type	Burn Baby Burn
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_71bc0919	comment	Burn Baby Burn: One of Masters' first scenes has him burning one of his paintings.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Played with. In the novel, Vukovich is arrested for the shady dealings he participated in with Chance, with the understanding that he'll plead out and get a moderately light sentence, as much of it was instigated by Chance himself.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_76a08cd6	type	Friend or Foe?
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_76a08cd6	comment	Friend or Foe?: Thomas Ling, the undercover FBI man is actually shot by his fellow agents. They've parked their vehicle on an overpass and are shooting at the robbers with an Armalite rifle when another vehicle crashes into theirs. A startled agent clutches at the rifleman's shoulder and the weapon discharges, with the bullet killing Ling himself.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Played with. When Chance is chasing Carl Cody at the airport, William Friedkin and William Petersen were both in agreement that Chance should run on top of the rail of the horizontal escalator rather than push through people as Cody does as he flees, but the head of the airport was present when they were filming and didn't want to risk it, so they declined to allow it. Petersen suggested they film a "rehearsal" take, and did the run as they wanted. The airport management wasn't pleased, but they successfully got the shot.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_79aa292e	type	Car Chase Shoot-Out
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_79aa292e	comment	Car Chase Shoot-Out: When an informant tells the Cowboy Cop about a courier arriving in town with money for a drug buy, he and his partner decide to rob the courier, only to find themselves shot at (the courier is accidentally killed by a stray bullet) and chased by an ever-increasing number of well-armed men with vehicles and radio communication.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_7bd8307f	type	The Infiltration
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_7bd8307f	comment	The Infiltration: Chance tries to do an undercover sting on Masters.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Pretty much every one of Chance's actions during the investigation results in this, especially when he accidentally gets an undercover FBI agent killed while sticking him up to get the money for his sting operation.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Chance manages to re-capture Cody. We never learn what he did with him, as the film cuts to the pre-planned stakeout to get Masters.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Have fun figuring out who's gray.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_88e7f8b8	type	Batman Cold Open
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_88e7f8b8	comment	Batman Cold Open: The film opens with Jimmy Hart and Richard Chance working the Presidential Protection detail at the Beverly Hilton hotel where Reagan is giving a speech. When leaving the presidential suite to begin his part of the shift rotation, he notices a hotel porter with a room service tray crossing the end of the hall before the sound of him entering the stairwell is heard. On a whim, Chance goes to the entrance of the stairwell where he sees the tray sitting on the ground. Upon removing the lid on the plate and seeing it empty, he calls in the suspicious character and head heads after him, with Jimmy overhearing him on his earpiece. Chance heads for the roof where he finds an unconscious or dead L.A.P.D. officer before seeing the porter attaching a rappel line to some pipe jutting out of the roof and wearing a suicide vest with intention of assassinating President Reagan. Chance confronts the man who then puts his hands on the detonator cord and begins stating his willingness to die and cursing Israel and the U.S. Chance attempts to talk the terrorist down to no avail but while the terrorist rants he notices that Jimmy has somehow managed to get just below the terrorist on the edge of the roof. Jimmy pulls the man off the roof just as he pulls the cord and he explodes after falling a short distance off the roof. Shortly after, Chance and Jimmy sit on the roof tired and weary before Chance states, "Let's get out of here Jimmy. Go play some cards, get drunk." Clutching his shoulder and heavily panting, the elder Secret Service agent tiredly remarks, "I'm gettin' too old for this shit."
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Chance happens to be this as a result of his extreme actions in the name of justice and/or revenge.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of the Cowboy Cop trope. Chance's rule-breaking has serious, negative consequences: His withholding of information from his superiors makes them unwilling to help him, the convict he manages to bully the DA into releasing beats him up and escapes, his plan to get the buy money for the sting goes horribly wrong, and while the sting does go down, he gets himself killed in the process. Furthermore, although the movie ends with Vukovich becoming the new maverick cop, in the process he abandons all sense of morality, becoming little better than Chance himself.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: Quite literally Chance's superior, Bateman, who is able to cite regulations chapter and verse, and actually has "the book" to hand. Also, John Vukovich is this in the beginning of the film, and very slowly gets corrupted and bent by Chance to do Chance's bidding. Even then, as the film progresses, the further against the book Chance goes, the harder it is for him to bend Vukovich to his will, and even when Vukovich caves, it's clear it's ripping him apart.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_901046d2	comment	The Informant: Bianca, Ruth.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Chance. He dives headfirst into any kind of dangerous situation, both on and off the job. According to his first partner, he should learn to take it easy every now and then, otherwise he won't live to see retirement. And... he doesn't in the end.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: By the mid-point Chance has been established as one, engineering a robbery to get the money Masters asked, but even before that, he casually mistreats his girlfriend/informant Ruth, and he says he'd immediately get her back in jail should she ever stop being his CI.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: For better or worse, at the end, it is revealed that the events of the film have turned the meek and straight-laced Vukovich into a Cowboy Cop like Chance was.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Masters' first scene shows him burning what appears to be a stylised self-portrait. He accidentally sets himself on fire before Vukovich empties his gun into him.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_9e74f33	comment	Flock of Wolves: An informant tells the Cowboy Cop about a courier arriving in town with money for a drug buy. As his superiors won't approve the sting money he needs to entice the Big Bad, he and his partner decide to rob the courier, only to find themselves shot at (the courier is accidentally killed by a stray bullet) and chased by an ever-increasing number of well-armed men with vehicles and radio communication. The two cops barely escape, only to be briefed next day about an FBI sting operation that went wrong and resulted in the death of an undercover agent.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_a11f8240	type	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_a11f8240	comment	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: The federal agents are a much greater danger to the public, themselves, and each other than the criminals they pursue. And the competition is fierce between the Secret Service and the FBI in terms of which agency is more incompetent.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Vukovich never faces any prosecution for his role in the death of Thomas Ling. While he had a very limited role in it, (and while he and Chance were unaware Ling was undercover FBI) he still went along with the robbery at Chance's goading.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Played with. Ruth is so desperate to get away from Chance that she sends him off after undercover FBI agent Thomas Ling in an attempt to get him busted by the FBI in the robbery attempt. At the end, after Vukovich has been "reborn" into a new incarnation of Chance, he makes it clear that he knows Ruth set Chance up and that now she's going to be his informant. Everything Ruth has done to escape from being under Chance's thumb becomes moot, she's going nowhere, and her situation is exactly the same, just with Vukovich instead of Chance.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Masters reveals during the final confrontation with Vukovich that he knew he was being set up and that he knew (through Grimes) how Chance and Vukovich illegally obtained the additional money beyond the secret service stipend to meet Master's down payment amount, thus he was merely playing along in the entire operation, just for the fun of it, and likely because he knew anything they got on him would be inadmissible.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Chance's efforts to entrap Masters to arrest him are so heavily against the rules by the end that it's possible it would be inadmissible in court anyway. Then Chance and Jack kill each other during the money exchange, and in a final confrontation, Masters reveals to Vukovich that he knew about his and Chance's involvement in the death of Agent Ling through his attorney, Bob Grimes, and makes it clear that he knew all along that Chance was attempting to set him up and merely played along, likely because he figured, (along with the audience) that all of Chance's rule-breaking to get to him would indeed make everything inadmissible in court. The only thing that slightly goes Chance's way is that Vukovich kills Masters as Masters is attempting to kill him, and Chance kills Jack before he dies, thus getting some retribution over their involvement with killing Jimmy Hart, but Chance doesn't live to enjoy it. Ruth sets up Chance to rob undercover Agent Thomas Ling to get Chance at least arrested, or worse. While she escapes being under Chance's thumb due to his death, Vukovich has figured out she set Chance up by sending him after Ling, has become the new Chance, and all her efforts were in vain, as she's now Vukovich's informant and in the exact same situation she was in with Chance.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Bob Grimes (Dean Stockwell) doesn't particularly care that Masters is a criminal and argues that he's just doing the job someone else would; when he helps the cops later on, he's solely looking out for his own neck and his own wallet. Until it's revealed that he was trying to manipulate Vukovich on Masters' behalf the whole time.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: In the novel, Jimmy Hart is one of the leading characters, and survives to the end of the novel, whereas in the film, he's shot to death by Masters early in the film's first act, likely to garner some sympathy for why Chance, who is obviously very close to Hart, goes so far and breaks so many rules to try to take down Masters.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_becf7306	type	Dead Sidekick
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_becf7306	comment	Dead Sidekick: Jimmy Hart (Michael Green), embodies this trope; because he's getting too old for this, he decides to retire to spend more time fishing; two days before retirement, he bites the bullet.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: Ronald Reagan, Wang Chung, fantastic big hair, and truly retro credits fonts.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Every other death in the movie is given this treatment; you'd be surprised at the amount of times someone is shot in the face in particular. The first is a shotgun to the head, and it's not a Pretty Little Headshot.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Jimmy Hart himself ends up getting killed by Jack and Masters, while investigating their warehouse.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: Chance is a violent cop who's brash with authority figures, doesn't like it when the rules get in the way of his plans, takes evidence without following protocol and, oh yes, uses blackmail and armed robbery to further his investigation. All in the name of justice, mind you.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A guy standing on the railing of a bridge, psyching himself up to jump and nothing happens until he does a bungee jump.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: The entire film is constructed on the idea that Chance and Masters are going to have a major confrontation and that Chance is going to win out, despite his against the law machinations. Then, Chance and Jack kill each other during the money exchange a good 10 minutes before the end, and it's left to Vukovich to ultimately finish what Chance started. He's successful, but it's at the expense of his morals, and he essentially becomes Chance himself, to the point of dressing in a similar way and even claiming Chance's informant Ruth for himself, likely expecting the same casual sex benefits that Chance enjoyed with her.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_e1d1a06	type	Colliding Criminal Conspiracies
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_e1d1a06	comment	Colliding Criminal Conspiracies: Inverted when Chance and Vukovich's robbery for buy money ends up wrecking an unrelated FBI sting operation.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Done multiple times, by multiple characters to multiple characters.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Chance is a dick. Also, Judge Cirillo and Thomas Bateman. Pretty much any named character who isn't Jimmy Hart, Ruth, or John Vukovich. At least until the end of the film where he becomes essentially the reincarnation of Chance. Driven home when upon telling Ruth, "You're workin' for me now" at the end, she has flashbacks to her trysts with Chance. Driven (in this case literally) even further where after that scene, there's a short sequence that shows Chance arriving at Ruth's house and parking his truck, as though Chance really hasn't died, before the freeze frame and cut to credits.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_efbb5f9c	type	Down L.A. Drain
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_efbb5f9c	comment	Down L.A. Drain: The car chase includes a section where Chance and Vukovich are pursued through the L.A. storm drains.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_f12c6fb1	type	Surprisingly Sudden Death
To Live and Die in L.A. / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: Near the end, Chance is shot dead in a fight with the Big Bad's henchman, Jack. His death is very abrupt and undramatic, with no last-minute speech, and it's given no special attention.
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To Live and Die in L.A. / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
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