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The Longest Yard

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The Longest Yard	label	The Longest Yard
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The Longest Yard	comment	The Longest Yard is a 1974 movie starring Burt Reynolds, that was later remade in 2005 starring Adam Sandler. It combines the two things men care the most about: prisons and football.Former NFL quarterback Paul "Wrecking" Crewe, who had been kicked out of football for shaving points off a game, finds himself on the wrong side of the law and is sent to a state penitentiary (Citrus State Prison in the original film, Allenville in the remake). The prison is known for having a semi-pro football team made up entirely of prison guards, but their team has fallen on hard times. The warden wants Crewe to help turn things around, by assembling a team made up of fellow inmates to serve as a tune-up game for the guards.However, this game becomes Serious Business for the convicts, who are seeing this as an opportunity to get back at the guards for all the abuse they've been getting over the years. With a former Heisman trophy winner (played by Reynolds in the remake) as the team's coach and a connection for sports equipment from the outside (played by Chris Rock in the remake), the "Mean Machine", as they come to be called, end up making a game out of it.There is a British remake titled Mean Machine starring Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham and centers around football/soccer. It's notable in that it's one of Statham's few non-action roles and one where he plays an outright lunatic rather than his usual strong and silent characters.
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The Longest Yard / int_146f8df0	type	Situational Sexuality
The Longest Yard / int_146f8df0	comment	Situational Sexuality: Brucie in the remake, who actually has a wife on the outside, is at one point caught on camera getting intimate with one of the "girls." There's also this exchange in the remake when Caretaker first meets Paul:
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The Longest Yard / int_16ccd84b	type	The Old Convict
The Longest Yard / int_16ccd84b	comment	The Old Convict: Pop. Skitchy and Unger in the remake.
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The Longest Yard / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Longest Yard / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Nate Scarborough and Skitchy. Of the latter, Scarborough claims "He's been here so long, he knows where everything is." The reason he was in there for so long? He punched a guard who ended up becoming the warden. Twenty extra years for one punch, and to him, it was worth every goddamn minute.
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The Longest Yard / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Longest Yard / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Jim Rome and Chris Berman work the broadcast of the game. Also a couple of sportswriters, including Peter King
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The Longest Yard / int_1d7d1b93	type	Remake Cameo
The Longest Yard / int_1d7d1b93	comment	Remake Cameo: Burt Reynolds, who starred in the original, as Nate Scarborough in the remake— an unusually large part for this trope. He even wears #22, the same number jersey he wore in the original. Ed Lauter, who played the guard captain in the original, has a cameo as Warden Hazen's golfing buddy who's proud that his wife once had a fling with Crewe
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The Longest Yard / int_1fb4d915	type	The Stool Pigeon
The Longest Yard / int_1fb4d915	comment	The Stool Pigeon: Unger, who spies on the inmates and reports their strategies and training methods to the guards.
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The Longest Yard / int_25c60be7	type	Only in Florida
The Longest Yard / int_25c60be7	comment	Only in Florida: While the remake is set in Texas, the original is set in Florida.
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The Longest Yard / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Longest Yard / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Connie Shokner in the original. Even the guards are afraid of him.
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The Longest Yard / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Longest Yard / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: In the remake, Switowski lays out the Guard's running back, Dunham, with a clothesline tackle so epic it makes him shit himself.
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The Longest Yard / int_2c27353f	type	Was It Really Worth It?
The Longest Yard / int_2c27353f	comment	Was It Really Worth It?: Pop in the original, and Skitchy in the remake, ended up having 20 years added to his sentence for punching a guard who ended up becoming the warden. When asked this question, Pop/Skitchy's response is, "It was worth every goddamn minute."
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The Longest Yard / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Longest Yard / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Half the team but is Subverted in the remake by Swatowski (Bob Sapp) who's more of a Gentle Giant/Manchild.
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The Longest Yard / int_33aa30e3	type	The Man They Couldn't Hang
The Longest Yard / int_33aa30e3	comment	The Man They Couldn't Hang: According to Caretaker, three attempts at using the electric chair to execute inmate Turley (played by wrestler Dalip Singh Rana, AKA "The Great Khali") were all failures.
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The Longest Yard / int_36228b5a	type	Busman's Vocabulary
The Longest Yard / int_36228b5a	comment	Busman's Vocabulary: Cheeseburger Eddy in the remake. "Hey, man, you're acting like a real McAsshole!"
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The Longest Yard / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
The Longest Yard / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Turley in the remake.
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The Longest Yard / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Longest Yard / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: In the remake, Crewe challenges inmate Deacon Moss (former NFL receiver Michael Irvin) to a basketball game. If Crewe wins, Deacon joins the football team. If Deacon wins, Crewe walks away and doesn't bother him or his friends about playing in the big game. During the game, Moss commits numerous fouls that would get you thrown out of the game at any level of organized basketball, but Crewe never calls for the violation on any of Deacon's cheap shots. Cheeseburger Eddy even steps on the court to swat away an easy layup by Crewe, despite the fact that he's not even in the game. Crewe still refuses to acknowledge the outright cheating on Moss' part. Finally, on the "Next point wins" possession with the ball in Moss' hands, Crewe strips him 100% cleanly and Deacon calls a foul. Crewe relinquishes the ball despite the horribly fallacious call, and Moss ends the game with an emphatic slam dunk— Crewe doesn't bother to even play defense at that point, knowing that winning is all but impossible. In this case, it works. Since Crewe took the beating and just kept coming (all while refusing to argue or complain about the unfairness), Earl Meggett joined Crewe's team, wanting to see what he could do in a contact sport. Crewe's loss went even further in working out for him later in the film. After the guards find out that Meggett has joined the team, they attempt to provoke him into a physical altercation, using racial slurs and verbal taunting as he cleans the library. Deacon Moss and Cheeseburger Eddy witness the entire incident, and this convinces them (as well as the other inmates in "The Jungle," as Deacon called it) to join the team (see Hoist by His Own Petard above).
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The Longest Yard / int_485011b	type	MadLibsCatchPhrase
The Longest Yard / int_485011b	comment	Mad Libs Catch Phrase: The main character is referred to by the nicknames "Paul 'Wrecking' Crewe" and "Paul 'Motley' Crewe" by Warden Hazen and Chris Berman respectively.
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The Longest Yard / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Longest Yard / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: In the remake, at least. When Caretaker sets off the radio bomb meant for Crewe, the scene cuts to outside the cell, where we see the explosion.
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The Longest Yard / int_4a84ef8d	type	Big Game
The Longest Yard / int_4a84ef8d	comment	Big Game
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The Longest Yard / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
The Longest Yard / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Brucie's wildly varying explanations for the video catching him in the act with one of the girls.
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The Longest Yard / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Longest Yard / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Captain Knauer to the Warden.
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The Longest Yard / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
The Longest Yard / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: At the start of the remake, when the news showed Crewe getting arrested for causing a wreck with his girlfriend Lena's car, her guy friend says "I think I'm in love".
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The Longest Yard / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Longest Yard / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Has hints of this. The DVD features state that most of the actors were this way as well.
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The Longest Yard / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Longest Yard / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Crewe himself, formerly playing this game only so the warden won't pin more hard time on him, eventually develops a relationship with the team that becomes so strong that, in the end, he refuses to abandon them, even after they intentionally let the guards kick his ass (see Redemption Equals Affliction below). In the remake Englehart, one of the guards, gradually has one after the cons secretly switch his steroids with estrogen tablets. While he still plays for the guards' team, he bears no ill will towards the inmates and even joins the "girls" in cheering at one point. At the end of the game, Captain Knauer acknowledges Paul Crewe's intestinal fortitude for not throwing the game (and winning, on top of that) in the face of extreme adversity. He and Crewe shake hands as Knauer agrees to make sure Caretaker's murder is not pinned on Crewe.
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The Longest Yard / int_64325825	type	Who Needs Overtime?
The Longest Yard / int_64325825	comment	Who Needs Overtime?: At the end of the game, the Convicts chose to go for two points and the win instead of just kicking the extra point to send the game into overtime. As they put it, "We're convicts. We always go for it all."
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The Longest Yard / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
The Longest Yard / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: Battle in the remake. Battle jokes he could probably kill a guy by hitting him over the head with that "hammer," and his specially ordered jockstrap is the subject of a memorable visual gag.
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The Longest Yard / int_71a223fc	type	Up to Eleven
The Longest Yard / int_71a223fc	comment	Up to Eleven: Swatowski, a very large, very strong inmate who's more Gentle Giant than Scary Black Man (see Scary Black Man above), participates in a strength drill in which the inmates run full force into a heavy bag, attempting to move it as much as possible. Most of the inmates can move it somewhat, but none of them stand out. Swatowski lines up, charges at the bag, rips it off the chain, then carries it for about three or four more steps as the entire structure collapses behind him.
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The Longest Yard / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
The Longest Yard / int_722b3319	comment	Brucie in the remake, who actually has a wife on the outside, is at one point caught on camera getting intimate with one of the "girls."
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The Longest Yard / int_740139a8	type	Redemption Equals Affliction
The Longest Yard / int_740139a8	comment	Redemption Equals Affliction: After Crewe sincerely has a change of heart about throwing the game at the end of the film, but the rest of his team isn't too thrilled to have him back on the field. On 2nd down and long, his offensive line decides to send him a message and refuses to block for him, and does the same on 3rd down, resulting in Crewe taking two (painful) sacks in a row. He realizes that not only will they never win like this, but he has to prove to the team that he honestly is on their side. On 4th and 22, Crewe utilizes a QB draw and manages to beat the entire guards' team single-handedly to pick up a first down (without his helmet, no less). He takes a hard hit after gaining around 25 yards, when he could have easily let the team punt the ball away, and his redemption is earned.
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The Longest Yard / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Longest Yard / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: The guards like to beat up on the inmates.
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The Longest Yard / int_7738b710	type	Crisis Makes Perfect
The Longest Yard / int_7738b710	comment	Crisis Makes Perfect: In the beginning of the film, Brucie attempts to make a field goal during practice, claiming that he was an all-state kicker. He fails miserably, and the ball gets no height, skidding across the dirt. At the end of the game, when the Mean Machine need the ball back, his inability to kick properly makes him a great onside kicker.
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The Longest Yard / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
The Longest Yard / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Torres, one of the inmates in the remake, loves watching The View. Not that he's a fan of the show itself necessarily— he just thinks Joy Behar is absolutely hilarious.
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The Longest Yard / int_7f760614	type	The Silent Bob
The Longest Yard / int_7f760614	comment	The Silent Bob: Joining Chris Berman in covering the game is inmate Babyface Bob, who doesn't talk very much during the broadcast. When he does talk, it's because he's getting into the game.
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The Longest Yard / int_8d917edd	type	"X" Makes Anything Cool
The Longest Yard / int_8d917edd	comment	"X" Makes Anything Cool: Remake's Battle is number 10 for Mean Machine. His number is represented as the Roman numeral X.
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The Longest Yard / int_90c018ac	type	JustifiedTrope
The Longest Yard / int_90c018ac	comment	Oh yeah. Justified in this case, as most of the inmates are playing just to get back at the guards. They end up wasting their first offensive series by hurting their least favorite guards instead of running the plays as called.
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The Longest Yard / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
The Longest Yard / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: The Mean Machine ends up with a 14 point deficit before a minute passes in the game because they're more focused on injuring the guards they hate than playing the game. Once Crewe chews them out for it, the cons settle down and start playing seriously.
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The Longest Yard / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Longest Yard / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Deacon's warning that "You know MVP (Crewe) sold his own teammates out... what do you think he's gonna do to you fools?"
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The Longest Yard / int_a18fda9c	type	DumbMuscle
The Longest Yard / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Sonny Tanner in the original, and Swatowski in the remake
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The Longest Yard / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Longest Yard / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Crewe plays this trope straight twice in a short period of time. During the climax of the film, at halftime of the big game, Crewe is ordered to throw the game and let the guards win, or be framed for Caretaker's murder, and he reluctantly agrees to the former. He eventually feigns an injury and simply refuses to play. Seeing a chance to return the favor for the punishment they've been taking throughout the game, the guards essentially bully the cons' team, who can't even get a successful play off. They lay several painful hits on a number of the inmates, severely injuring at least three of them. At that point, Crewe appears to have the "What have I done?" moment, and gears up to get back in the game and bring his team back. He also explains in the huddle, during a timeout, that he felt the same type of emotional turmoil after throwing the game in the NFL some years ago. Crewe, in fact, feels so guilty that he makes borderline suicidal sacrifices for his team after his return to the game (see Redemption Equals Affliction below).
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The Longest Yard / int_a3556278	type	Jail Bake
The Longest Yard / int_a3556278	comment	Jail Bake: In the remake Caretaker receives Meggett's spikes (and implicitly all of the other items he procures for other inmates) in this manner.
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The Longest Yard / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
The Longest Yard / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: Fly Away by Nelly at the end credits.
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The Longest Yard / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Longest Yard / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Unger in the original. In the remake, not only does he get charged for the murder of Caretaker, but it is implied that all of the players (especially Switowski) will deliver a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to him once they learn where he's being hidden.
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The Longest Yard / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Longest Yard / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: When the guards learn that the best offensive player on Crewe's team is Megget, they try to provoke him into attacking them by using racial slurs and thus be unable to play. When Megget doesn't budge, the other black inmates, who are speedy and athletic, especially Deacon Moss, join the team.
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The Longest Yard / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Longest Yard / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Papajohn, when Turley agrees to play if it means roughing him up.
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The Longest Yard / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Longest Yard / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Crewe invokes this trope at halftime, when the warden threatens to frame Crewe for conspiracy to murder Caretaker. His ultimatum— receive an additional 25 years on his sentence, or throw the game. Crewe reluctantly chooses the latter. To start the 3rd quarter, he throws several bad passes, and one inexplicably poor toss to his running back. His teammates realize what's happening and verbally berate him on the bench as the guards begin to dominate the game.
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The Longest Yard / int_ba112560	type	Throwing the Fight
The Longest Yard / int_ba112560	comment	Throwing the Fight: In Crewe's backstory, he was banned from football for point shaving, which he did to cover gambling debts. The warden tries to get him to throw the big game by hanging Caretaker's murder over him. Crewe decides not to go through with it after a talk with Skitchy — see Was It Really Worth It? below.
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The Longest Yard / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Based on his reactions to Crewe's and Cherryhead's interruptions, you do NOT want to get between "Five Star Torres" and his Joy Behar.
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The Longest Yard / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: The remake has Brucie, an angry little man who can't play very well. His lack of playing talent, however, helps the Mean Machine get the ball back after one of his lousy kicks was tipped by a guard and became a live ball. The Cons recovered and that set up the final drive of the game.
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The Longest Yard / int_c9954979	comment	Crippling the Competition: the warden orders Crewe give the guards a 21-point advantage or he will frame him for involvement in a murder. Crewe agrees provided the warden will have the guards not injure the prisoners. The warden agrees, then double crosses Crewe by later telling the head of the guards once they have a 21-point advantage to "inflict as much physical punishment on the prisoners as humanly possible."
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The Longest Yard / int_d397657d	comment	Crewe's loss went even further in working out for him later in the film. After the guards find out that Meggett has joined the team, they attempt to provoke him into a physical altercation, using racial slurs and verbal taunting as he cleans the library. Deacon Moss and Cheeseburger Eddy witness the entire incident, and this convinces them (as well as the other inmates in "The Jungle," as Deacon called it) to join the team (see Hoist by His Own Petard above).
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The Longest Yard / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Cheeseburger Eddy and Caretaker. Cheeseburger Eddy's Mean Machine uniform literally has "Cheeseburger Eddy" on the back, but Caretaker's mugshot reads "Farrell, AKA Caretaker." Nate Scarborough's jersey also reads "Coach" on the back.
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The Longest Yard / int_e35b1a96	comment	Everything Is Big in Texas: The remake is set in Texas, because, as the warden puts it, Texans take two things very seriously: prison and football.
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The Longest Yard / int_e462893a	comment	Artistic License – Sports: The play at the end of the first half which starts with several seconds left on the clock. The announcers and players treat it as though the touchdown must be scored before the clock goes to triple zeroes. In real life, all that is required is for the play to begin before 0:00
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The Longest Yard / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: A few of the inmates in the remake are amalgamations of inmates from the original. Swatowski, for instance, is a combination of Sonny and Samson
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The Longest Yard / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Unger, an inmate, serves as this, leaking information about Crewe's training and recruiting to the guards, and eventually planting a small-time bomb (intended for Crewe) that ends up killing Caretaker. Although it appears the the inmates are all well aware that he's doing this (except for the bomb part). Crewe even requests that the warden keep Unger off the cons' practice field. It doesn't go well.
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The Longest Yard / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil/Dark Is Not Evil: Both tropes are played straight during the big game at the climax of the film. To the viewer, it's obvious that Crewe and his team are the good guys, and the guards are pretty much 100% evil pieces of shit. Dark Is Not Evil (or Light Is Not Good) is played straight in this instance, as the convicts' uniforms are black, while the guards wear white. However, in-universe, when both teams take the field, the crowd watching the game gives the guards' team a standing ovation and boos the convicts. Thus, from their perspective, Dark Is Evil (or Light Is Good) is being played straight.
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The Longest Yard / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerk Ass: Lena, Paul's Control Freak girlfriend in the remake.
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The Longest Yard / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: When they march onto the football field for the game, all the convicts (bar Paul and Nate) stop the march to chat up the cheerleaders for the guards team (before being warded off at gunpoint by other guards providing security for the event). Justified as they have been in jail for God knows how long and haven't seen a woman (as in an actual woman rather than crossdressing effeminate men) in ages (apart from maybe the warden's elderly secretary), let alone a group of attractive, scantily-clad women like the cheerleaders.
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The Longest Yard / int_f935efbf	comment	Unnecessary Roughness: Oh yeah. Justified in this case, as most of the inmates are playing just to get back at the guards. They end up wasting their first offensive series by hurting their least favorite guards instead of running the plays as called. The guards' team gets rough, too, due to being ordered by the warden to beat the inmates into submission after they've acquired a 3 TD lead.
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