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White Dog

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White Dog	label	White Dog
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White Dog	comment	White Dog is a 1982 drama/horror film directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Kristy McNichol and Paul Winfield. Julie Sawyer (McNichol), a young actress, takes in an all-white German Shepherd that she accidentally hit with her car, only to discover that he is a "white dog" — a dog trained to viciously attack black people. Rather than euthanize him, Julie enlists the black animal trainer Keys (Winfield) to try to undo the dog's training.Not to be confused with White God, another film centering on a dog.
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White Dog / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The dog and how characters interact with it serve as an open-faced allegory on white supremacy. The dog acts as a loving source of protection for Julie, but the moment it lays eyes on a Black person, it goes ballistic and tries to kill them, paralleling white supremacists' veneer of friendliness and civility that masks their viciousness towards non-white people. Julie sees the dog's violence as a shocking surprise, while Keys and other Black characters see it and other white dogs as an uncomfortable fact of life, as they live their entire lives constantly surrounded by direct and indirect acts of racism and racial violence towards them. The ending where the dog's training is accidentally reversed to make it kill white people instead thus acts as a Hard Truth Aesop that racism is learned, but hatred is incurable.
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White Dog / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
White Dog / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: After speculation throughout the film as to the dog's owner and the things they did to make the dog behave as it does, the owner, a man named Wilber Hull, finally appears outside Julie's house to claim the dog. Accompanied by his grandchildren, Hull initially comes across as a kindly grandfather, before he reveals himself as the hateful, racist monster that he is, causing Julie to denounce him in front of the children, who until then had only known the dog as a loving pet. Veteran actor Parley Baer, who played Hull, remarked that "Often racism, like true evil, presents itself with a smile and a handshake".
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White Dog / int_31f7c194	type	Super Window Jump
White Dog / int_31f7c194	comment	Super Window Jump: The dog jumps from a second-story window, complete with Soft Glass, in order to tackle Julie's attacker.
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White Dog / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
White Dog / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Much as the dog is vicious and deadly toward black people, it is only so because it was trained, conditioned and brutalized to be that way by its owner, who finally appears near the end to claim it. After initially acting as a kindly grandfather - while accompanied by his two granddaughters, no less - he quickly drops the mask and shows his true colors as a hateful bigot.
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White Dog / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
White Dog / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the original book, the Black trainer intentionally conditions the dog to attack white people as a form of revenge. In the film, Keys is much more benevolent in his motivations, genuinely trying to pacify the dog through extensive training so that he can discourage the creation of any more white dogs. The dog becoming murderously anti-white is instead an accident that horrifies Keys rather than the result of deliberate conditioning.
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White Dog / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
White Dog / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: As the dog kills his first victim, the camera pans across the walls of the church while the man screams.
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White Dog / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
White Dog / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Keys' training, for all the hope he placed in it, didn't get rid of the dog's murderous impulses, he just changed them so the dog targets white people instead. The film ends with Keys angrily stumbling away from the dog he had to put down instantly once he killed his first white man, and Julie standing there in shock.
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White Dog / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
White Dog / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: Julie plays a small role in a movie that involves sitting in a gondola while footage of the canals of Venice plays on a screen behind her.
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White Dog / int_58cb5c33	type	Escaped Animal Rampage
White Dog / int_58cb5c33	comment	Escaped Animal Rampage: The dog manages to chew through his wire cage and runs off into the city. By the time Keys finds him, he's chased a black man into a church and killed him.
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White Dog / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
White Dog / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: When Keys shoots the dog with a tranquilizer dart, he collapses immediately.
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White Dog / int_80c45784	type	Beware of Vicious Dog
White Dog / int_80c45784	comment	Beware of Vicious Dog: The dog was trained to kill black people. Keys' attempts to retrain him only result in him turning against white people instead.
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White Dog / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
White Dog / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: The film sends the message that racism is a learned system of belief and behavior, but the hatred that it instills can never be undone; trying to undo it will, at best simply change who gets targeted, as exemplified by the dog turning on Keys' white employer at the end of the film, which forces Keys to shoot it dead.
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White Dog / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
White Dog / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The dog is calm, friendly, and well-behaved, until he sees a black person.
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White Dog / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
White Dog / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After a very long Training Montage, Keys apparently was able to get the dog to adapt and doesn't attack black people. But then a white man enters the training area and the dog tears him apart. Turns out that now the dog attacks white people instead. Keys has to shoot the poor beast.
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White Dog / int_f7a458c3	type	Dartboard of Hate
White Dog / int_f7a458c3	comment	Dartboard of Hate: Keys' coworker Carruthers plays darts with a cutout of R2D2 because he fears the special effects industry will put him out of work.
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White Dog / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
White Dog / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: Shortly after Julie takes in the dog, a man breaks into her house and attempts to rape her. The dog fights him off.
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White Dog / int_fb4c41b4	type	"Friends" Rent Control
White Dog / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: Despite being a struggling actress who mostly gets bit parts, Julie lives in a large house in the hills with a beautiful view.
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