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Last Exit to Brooklyn

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Last Exit to Brooklyn	comment	The debut novel of Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn met with controversy for its content and language when first published in 1964. A stream-of-consciousness account of the lives of various drug addicts, homosexuals, prostitutes, and petty criminals in the industrial Brooklyn waterfront neighborhoods of Sunset Park and Red Hook, the novel spares no detail in its explicit descriptions of drug use, sexual activity, and extreme violence.The novel consists of six titled sections, all focusing on the lives of several interconnected characters. Another Day Another Dollar follows a gang of violent and depraved street thugs as they hunt for victims, cash, cheap thrills, booze, and sex; The Queen is Dead portrays the short, troubled life of a transgender drug addict desperate for the attention and affection of a street thug; And Baby Makes Three depicts the hasty marriage and baby christening of a young couple who conceive out of wedlock; Tralala is the story of a prostitute whose MO is to let her pimps beat and rob her clients; Strike—the longest section—is about the downfall of Harry Black, a low-ranking but corrupt and power-hungry union official who's also a closeted homosexual; and Landsend presents a day in the life of a housing project's residents.It was adapted into a 1989 film of the same name directed by Uli Edel, with Stephen Lang in the role of shop steward Harry Black and Jennifer Jason Leigh as the streetwalker Tralala.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: In spite of his tough talk and bluster, Harry stays on the sidelines when his fellow union members fight with the strike breakers.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Author Hubert Selby Jr. has a brief cameo in the film as a cab driver.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: As one would expect for a novel about the violent dregs of society, it doesn't take much to lead to severe beatings or even murder: A young soldier is nearly beaten to death by Vinnie's gang of thugs for no reason at all other than "intruding" on what they perceive as their home turf. Harry Black suffers a similar fate when the local toughs find out that he attempted to perform oral sex on an underage boy. In addition to being gang-raped, Tralala is mercilessly beaten and mutilated.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Harry is a low-ranking union official (shop steward), but struts around as though he has a great deal of power in the union. Nobody takes him very seriously, and even the other union officials barely tolerate him.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: "Georgette" dies of a drug overdose in the novel (in the film, he's hit by car as he runs into the street in a drug-induced panic). It's also possible that Harry doesn't survive his beating.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_39a41690	comment	Adaptational Sympathy: Several of the characters are somewhat more likable in the film adaptation: In the novel, Tralala is coarse, violent, and completely amoral. The film portrays her in this way initially, but later shows her vulnerable side, veering into Hooker with a Heart of Gold in Tralala's final scene with Spook. In the novel, Harry Black is physically and verbally abusive towards his wife. The film's Harry is never shown to be abusive, he simply tries to ignore her as he carries on his homosexual affairs in secret.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_3abe36c6	type	Effeminate Misogynistic Guy
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_3abe36c6	comment	Effeminate Misogynistic Guy: George aka "Georgette" is an effeminate drag queen who treats women with utter contempt, particularly those competing for the attention of the thugs he's infatuated with.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the film, Harry fights bravely during the strike even though he shows up late, as opposed to his book counterpart who stays on the sidelines.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: An extreme case of Arthur to George aka "Georgette". Arthur is disgusted by George's homosexuality and effeminacy, and routinely beats and torments his younger brother.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_64b303c0	type	Drunk with Power
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_64b303c0	comment	Drunk with Power: Harry thinks that being a union shop steward gives him the right to squander union funds on personal expenses or anything else he sees fit to do.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: In the novel, Tralala is brutally beaten and gang-raped. The last man to rape her finishes her off by inserting a broken glass bottle into her crotch and leaves her for dead. In the film, Tralala gets the gang rape and the beating, but not the glass bottle treatment, so none of her injuries are life-threatening.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Completely averted with Tralala in the novel, who is just as amoral and violent as her pimps. Played straight in the movie's final scenes, where she is shown to be a much more vulnerable and sympathetic character under the tough and sleazy facade. In her last scene, she comforts Spook, the boy infatuated with her, and thinks fondly of the love letter written by her last client before he went off to war.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_7a163538	type	Brooklyn Rage
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_7a163538	comment	Brooklyn Rage: Vinnie and his gang in the story Another Day, Another Dollar are a particularly sociopathic example.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_8159411a	type	Extreme Omnisexual
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_8159411a	comment	Extreme Omnisexual: Vinnie and his friends think of themselves as heterosexual and would mercilessly beat anyone who suggests otherwise, but they're not above trysts with the local drag queens when that's the only "trade" available on the street.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_8188ed4	type	SexEqualsDeath
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_8188ed4	comment	Sex Equals Death: Tralala is gang raped, badly beaten, and mutilated with a broken glass bottle before being left for dead in the vacant lot where it all happened.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unclear in either the novel or the film whether Harry survived the beating.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_8d217819	type	BigRottenApple
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_8d217819	comment	Big Rotten Apple: The book highlights the seediest side of 1950s Brooklyn, a world of crime and utter moral depravity.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Neither Harry nor Tralala have any redeeming personal qualities, so it's difficult to have much pity for them when they meet their bloody ends.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: Harry is physically repulsed by his wife's body and is both sexually and emotionally disgusted by women generally. Harry also takes his frustration at being trapped in a sham heterosexual life out on his wife by beating her and fantasizing about mutilating and killing her.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Harry Black, a deeply closeted gay man, beats his wife and fantasizes about mutilating and killing her in order to be able to sexually perform with her. Additionally, when he no longer has the funds to get trysts with the gold-digging local drag queens, he attempts to fellate an underage boy.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Other than some of the people in And Baby Makes Three chapter, being responsible, committed family men isn't a high priority for most of the main characters. One of the main characters in the final chapter "Land's End" has his children living in squalor and hunger in a tenement building while he buys fancy accessories for his car. Harry Black doesn't give a damn about his son any more than he cares for his wife, and sees him (and his wife) as an unwanted, irritating burden.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_ad34c38a	type	Predatory Prostitute
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_ad34c38a	comment	Predatory Prostitute: Tralala, who robs her Johns with help from Vinnie's gang, often leaving them beaten unconscious in back alleys.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Surprisingly so for a movie that many saw as relentlessly bleak, the film still manages to end on a more hopeful note than the novel in several ways. The novel ends with the chapter Land's End, portraying the hopeless, wasted lives of tenement building residents. The movie ends with a happy scene in the family life of Joe and the union members going back to work. It's strongly implied that Tralala was killed after her gang rape. In the film, she not only survives, but it's implied that there's some hope for her redemption: she comforts Spook, the infatuated young boy who came to her rescue. In contrast, Harry and George/Georgette come to equally unfortunate ends in the film as in the novel.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_d94ff9b3	type	Wall of Text
Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_d94ff9b3	comment	Wall of Text: Hubert Selby writes in a stream-of-consciousness style without much punctuation or paragraph breaking.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: Harry is a blowhard who acts tough and macho (including frequent boasts of non-existent sexual conquests with women) in order to hide his homosexuality. He's also married to a woman whom he loathes and finds physically repulsive.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Harry Black and his wife are an especially bleak example. Because of Incompatible Orientation, Harry resents being stuck in a sham heterosexual relationship, and takes his frustration out on his wife. He alternates between doing his best to ignore her and beating her. On the rare occasions when Harry reluctantly has sex with his wife, he can only perform by fantasizing about mutilating and killing her.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: None of the main characters in Last Exit to Brooklyn is likable - the characters are all either brutal thugs or slaves to their drug addiction and/or sex drives.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Most of the principal characters. Harry Black beats his wife, neglects his son, and steals money from the union he represents as shop steward. Vinnie and his gang are thugs whose main pastime is beating up anyone who trespasses on "their" turf. Tralala is a hooker who robs her Johns with help from her pimps, often leaving them knocked unconscious or badly beaten in back alleys.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: George/Georgette often uses obscure vocabulary to show that he's more cultured than the other drag queens and hustlers in his circle.
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