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Viva Knievel!

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Viva Knievel!	label	Viva Knievel!
Viva Knievel!	page	VivaKnievel
Viva Knievel!	comment	Viva Knievel! is a 1977 action film starring Evel Knievel as a strangely dressed man who jumps his motorcycle over things.As the greatest bike jumper in the world, Knievel is offered a huge sum to exhibit his skill in Mexico. But the engagement is actually a trap laid by a drug lord (Leslie Nielsen), who intends to kill Knievel as part of an elaborate scheme to smuggle cocaine into the United States. Along the way, Evel must recover from a traumatic crash, reunite an alcoholic mechanic (Gene Kelly) with his estranged son, and win the affection of a standoffish reporter (Lauren Hutton).
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Viva Knievel! / int_13ba53d3	type	The Corruptible
Viva Knievel! / int_13ba53d3	comment	The Corruptible: Jesse (played by Marjoe Gortner).
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Viva Knievel! / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Viva Knievel! / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Clumsily.
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Viva Knievel! / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Viva Knievel! / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Millard decides he wants Jesse, a loyal minion who is hooked and completely dependent on Millard for drugs and financial support, dead, for no clear reason. This comes after numerous scenes of Millard gloating he has Jesse wrapped around his finger.
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Viva Knievel! / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
Viva Knievel! / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: Evel is the #1 ranked jumper. Will was the #1 jumper at one point in Texas. Who knew there was a daredevil jumping league?
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Viva Knievel! / int_23c132d9	type	Beneath Suspicion
Viva Knievel! / int_23c132d9	comment	Beneath Suspicion: The operative logic in Millard's plan seems to be that a regular, ordinary coffin might be stopped and searched for drugs at the border, but not the coffin of the late Evel Knievel, the beloved and nationally mourned stunt cyclist, even if his body's being transported in a giant trailer; technically, Knievel would be Above Suspicion.
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Viva Knievel! / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Viva Knievel! / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Will blames his son for his wife's death in childbirth, and treats him accordingly.
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Viva Knievel! / int_30eb40ec	type	Stern Nun
Viva Knievel! / int_30eb40ec	comment	Stern Nun: Sister Charity. She melts when given chocolate because she's also a Sweet Tooth.
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Viva Knievel! / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Viva Knievel! / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Millard knows that Evel will react magnanimously to Jesse's approach.
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Viva Knievel! / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Viva Knievel! / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: The end of the final chase.
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Viva Knievel! / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Viva Knievel! / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: A gruesome example — the grainy footage of Jesse crashing while wearing Evel's uniform, with his body realistically contorting and jerking around, was taken from Knievel's own near-fatal crash at Wembley Stadium on May 26, 1975.note This accident is semi-fictionalized in the movie — Evel managing to stand despite severe pain and telling the audience he's retired did actually happen in real life, and Frank Gifford was present for it.
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Viva Knievel! / int_497fde0	type	Magnificent Moustaches of Mexico
Viva Knievel! / int_497fde0	comment	Magnificent Moustaches of Mexico: Sported by many of the Mexican characters.
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Viva Knievel! / int_4aed206f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
Viva Knievel! / int_4aed206f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Jesse just happened to be listening at the door when the bad guys announced their intention to eliminate him.
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Viva Knievel! / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Viva Knievel! / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: After his gruesome crash, Even declares he'll never jump again. He's still in the hospital when he decides he's going to jump again. Evel explains he always says he's retiring after a bad crash, but gets over it afterward. This is basically Truth in Television for Evel, who during his career had broken almost every single bone in his body at one point or another, declared he was done, then continued anyway.
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Viva Knievel! / int_5740acf7	type	Chickification
Viva Knievel! / int_5740acf7	comment	Chickification: Kate starts out as a sassy, outspoken professional, but by the end of the film she has degraded into a damsel in distress.
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Viva Knievel! / int_5c3206a	type	Ransacked Room
Viva Knievel! / int_5c3206a	comment	Ransacked Room: Evel takes a break from chasing the villain and drives his motorcycle through a Mexican saloon, leaving the place a shambles.
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Viva Knievel! / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Viva Knievel! / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: Evel's explanation for his sobriquet. "I was such a good little boy, they nicknamed me Evil."note Kevin: (as reporter) Evel! Are you worried that quip made no sense?
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Viva Knievel! / int_6ce41758	type	Mistaken for Junkie
Viva Knievel! / int_6ce41758	comment	Mistaken for Junkie: Will Atkins is falsely imprisoned in a sanatarium, supposedly because of a drug overdose, but in reality to keep him from revealing Mallard's scheme to Knievel.
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Viva Knievel! / int_6d6dfca1	type	Wearing a Flag on Your Head
Viva Knievel! / int_6d6dfca1	comment	Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Evel's wardrobe and accoutrements are all decorated in an American flag motif.
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Viva Knievel! / int_6db06839	type	The Stoner
Viva Knievel! / int_6db06839	comment	The Stoner: Jesse, who's hooked on Millard's coke.
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Viva Knievel! / int_714019ac	type	Coffin Contraband
Viva Knievel! / int_714019ac	comment	Coffin Contraband: Millard's plan is to kill Knievel in Mexico and smuggle cocaine in the van carrying Knievel's body back into the United States.
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Viva Knievel! / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Viva Knievel! / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Granted, Millard had no idea Jesse was eavesdropping, but there was no reason at all for Millard to decide Jesse was a loose end to be killed. In fact, Jesse was an addict getting free drugs from Millard to be his puppet.
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Viva Knievel! / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Viva Knievel! / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: In the first scene, Evel is delivering toys to orphans. However, he also slaps them awake, and scolds them harshly for hugging them too hard.
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Viva Knievel! / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Viva Knievel! / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: Kate is supposed to be one, thanks to Evel's Protagonist-Centered Morality, but she comes off as well-rounded and intelligent. Then she spends too much time with Evel - see Chickification above.
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Viva Knievel! / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Viva Knievel! / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Kate delivers one to Evel and Will.
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Viva Knievel! / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Viva Knievel! / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Will Atkins, formerly a champion motorcycle jumper, now Evel's mechanic.
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Viva Knievel! / int_7f1be21	type	Functional Addict
Viva Knievel! / int_7f1be21	comment	Functional Addict: Will Atkins, who manages to fix Evel's motorcycle and also get blackout drunk.
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Viva Knievel! / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Viva Knievel! / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Evel's crooked promoter Ben (Red Buttons) disappears without explanation after the first act, and his subplot is never resolved. It is mentioned Knievel never breaks a promise, and the promoter has been signed to two more jumps - but Knievel only performs one stunt under Ben's contract before doing a jump with Millard has his promoter. If Knievel is a man of his word like everyone claims, it's doubly odd Ben would vanish. (In a Deleted Scene, Ben was revealed to be responsible for Evel's crash, which is why he's not at the hospital or trip to Mexico. His carelessness was Foreshadowed in the first scene.) invoked
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Viva Knievel! / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Viva Knievel! / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: Evel, of course.
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Viva Knievel! / int_917f5066	type	Stunt Double
Viva Knievel! / int_917f5066	comment	Stunt Double: In-universe, Jesse serves as Evel's stunt double during the fateful jump.
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Viva Knievel! / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Viva Knievel! / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Evel is killed, Jesse is next - too bad Jesse overhears the betrayal.
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Viva Knievel! / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
Viva Knievel! / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: And despite Will treating Tommy like absolute shit after more-or-less abandoning him, Tommy still idolizes him.
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Viva Knievel! / int_9a8e9926	type	Alternate DVD Commentary
Viva Knievel! / int_9a8e9926	comment	Alternate DVD Commentary: In 2013, RiffTrax gave it the comic treatment.
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Viva Knievel! / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Viva Knievel! / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen
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Viva Knievel! / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Viva Knievel! / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Both Evel Knievel and Frank Gifford appear as fictionalized versions of themselves.
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Viva Knievel! / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Viva Knievel! / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: Jesse drugs Will's booze in order to gain access to Evel's van.
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Viva Knievel! / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Viva Knievel! / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: For a stunt biker, Evel is pretty easy to knock unconscious.
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Viva Knievel! / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Viva Knievel! / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Even after learning of Mallard's scheme, Evel takes no action to prevent or expose it. He continues to play into the drug lord's hands, and only escapes death when Jesse happens to knock him out and take his place before the rigged jump. Then Jessie runs with the trope by going through with the jump, rather than alert the authorities. (Of course, Jesse is high on cocaine at the time, so he wasn't thinking clearly.)
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Viva Knievel! / int_bb0197af	type	Cool Bike
Viva Knievel! / int_bb0197af	comment	Cool Bike: Naturally, there are several in the film. A perfect duplicate of Evel's famed Stratocycle is even used as a bribe.note Kids in The '70s were indeed awed by the Stratocycle.
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Viva Knievel! / int_bbeea2fe	type	Percussive Prevention
Viva Knievel! / int_bbeea2fe	comment	Percussive Prevention: Jessie knocking Evel out to keep him from attempting a sabotaged stunt.
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Viva Knievel! / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Viva Knievel! / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Marjoe Gortner gets the treatment in both the opening and end credits.
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Viva Knievel! / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
Viva Knievel! / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: The fate of Will's wife, and the apparent cause of his alcoholism and antipathy towards his son.
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Viva Knievel! / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Viva Knievel! / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Kate lays into Evel and Will over their treatment of Tommy. It's last time she shows any backbone, and the only time Evel gets criticized.
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Viva Knievel! / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Viva Knievel! / int_dbb414ed	comment	Jesse spikes Will's booze to knock him out so he can take photos of the interior of Evel's bike trailer — all to ensure the total accuracy of the perfect duplicate with hollow walls that Millard's building, at a personal cost of 3,000,000 dollars (in 1977 money, no less). Their hookup in Mexico even asks later why they couldn't just use Knievel's real trailer instead, but Millard dismissively replies that it can't be done.
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Viva Knievel! / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Viva Knievel! / int_dc579c91	comment	Knowing Will is on to them, they drug him and abandon him in a psych ward (at a hospital run by English-speaking Americans who accept only American patients, despite being in Mexico), which would mean giving the corrupt administrator a bribe or cut of the action.
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Viva Knievel! / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Viva Knievel! / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Evel is vocally opposed to drug use, even preceding his bike jump with an anti-drug homily. Later he angrily refuses to believe that his alcoholic friend might be on "dope". (However, he seems content to live and let live with Will being an alcoholic in the first place, as long as he maintains well enough to do his job.) invoked
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Viva Knievel! / int_e3db4c07	type	Good Flaws, Bad Flaws
Viva Knievel! / int_e3db4c07	comment	Good Flaws, Bad Flaws
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Viva Knievel! / int_edcca847	type	Borscht Belt
Viva Knievel! / int_edcca847	comment	Borscht Belt: Ben, the corrupt promoter played by Red Buttons.
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Viva Knievel! / int_f0f03464	type	TheSeventies
Viva Knievel! / int_f0f03464	comment	The '70s: Feathered hair, cocaine, and Marjoe Gortner! This is the only decade in which the star of Singin' in the Rain would co-star with a stuntman and be billed under him.
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Viva Knievel! / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Viva Knievel! / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Apparently, Evel doesn't hold grudges - it's even a plot point. Tell that to the biographer Evel attacked with an aluminum baseball bat.
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Viva Knievel! / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Viva Knievel! / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Those Evel Knievel dolls and toy Stratocasters? Every boy in The '70s had one.
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Viva Knievel! / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: The aforementioned plan, maybe one of the most ridiculous and overblown in movie history. Even though success will mean successfully transporting 3000 keys of coke (a $50 million score, according to Jesse), it doesn't begin to justify why Millard would go to such insane lengths, or pin his entire scheme on the precise and predictable death of a man who jumps over fire and lions for a living. He recruits Jesse, a drug-addicted younger cyclist who used to be Evel's touring partner but drifted away to pursue his solo career, to ingratiate himself back into the inner circle. Jesse spikes Will's booze to knock him out so he can take photos of the interior of Evel's bike trailer — all to ensure the total accuracy of the perfect duplicate with hollow walls that Millard's building, at a personal cost of 3,000,000 dollars (in 1977 money, no less). Their hookup in Mexico even asks later why they couldn't just use Knievel's real trailer instead, but Millard dismissively replies that it can't be done. Millard, who already has a reputation as a top-notch sports promoter, writes out another half million's worth of post-dated checks for Evel to perform stunts in Mexico, hoping the money up front will entice him after a series of bad experiences with his current promoter Ben. Having given his word to do two more jumps, Evel refuses, and only seems to have a change of heart after a near-fatal accident, with no mention of Ben from then on.note In a plot point cut from the Rifftrax version, Ben was actually responsible for Evel's crash, as his cheapness and greed led to the ramp being too short for the jump, explaining why he's no longer an issue. Knowing Will is on to them, they drug him and abandon him in a psych ward (at a hospital run by English-speaking Americans who accept only American patients, despite being in Mexico), which would mean giving the corrupt administrator a bribe or cut of the action. Millard has a rigged duplicate of Evel's jumping cycle built, complete with a remote-control mechanism that bursts the front tire after launch, to ensure he'll either veer off course or die on impact. he gives a replica Stratocycle (mentioned as being worth 20 bikes) to Jesse as a bribe, for no clear reason other than to further entice him into going along with the scheme. They'll dispose of Jesse as a loose end, which they unwisely and loudly discuss in their private box as Jesse wanders in.note This private box also adjoins separate boxes on either side (with open doorways), and has an open balcony, meaning that anyone in the nearby crowd who spoke English could've potentially heard them. With Evel either killed or critically injured, Barton will pose as one of the EMTs, load him into the ambulance, and drive off, presumably just to make sure he dies. Evel's body finally gets shipped back to the States, for some reason inside the duplicate tour trailer lined with cocaine, which will be stripped on its arrival in an undisclosed fashion.
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