A Bronx Tale: Difference between revisions

* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Chazz Palminteri, (who plays Sonny) originally wrote this as a one man play, and still performs it at times.

* [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels]]: Justified in this case, as that's what the motorcycle toughs actually are.

* [[Arc Words]]: The saddest thing in the world is wasted talent.

* [[As Himself]]: The guy playing Eddie Mush, the unlucky jinx who always loses bets, was Eddie Montanaro the real-life version. True to form, on the first day he showed up on the set, it rained.

* [[Big No]]: Calegero when he sees {{spoiler|Sonny getting whacked.}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Calogero makes peace with his dad and finally starts using his head to think for himself, but his friends are all dead, Sonny has been shot and killed and his relationship with Jane is uncertain.}}

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Two stand out: Lorenzo's "The saddest thing in the world is wasted talent", and Sonny's "Nobody cares".

* [[Coming of Age Story]]: Although it is almost always mislabeled as a Gangster flick.

* [[Covers Always Lie]] & [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Both the VHS/DVD cover and the trailer overplay the Sonny/Lorenzo conflict, and make it seem like the entire film is a face to face confrontation between the two. They share two scenes, and one of those lasts about 30 seconds. Calogero also notes that his father and Sonny never spoke once during the [[Time Skip]].

** Lorenzo and Sonny, despite being on opposite ends of the social hierarchy, both want what is best for Calogero: a good education, and not to be corrupted by gangs. Leads to some inevitable [[Hypocritical Heartwarming]] on Sonny's part: "Don't do what I do."

* [[Nothing but Hits]]: Leading to several instances of [[Soundtrack Dissonance]].

** He never believed he had them. He was just angry at the moment.

* [[Oh Crap]]. Some bikers start messing up Sonny's bar. He asks them to leave. They refuse. This is what happens next.

* [[Title Drop]]: In the very last line of the movie.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|C's friends were so stupid with the Molotovs that they [[Asshole Victim|deserved to die]] for that alone, aside from all their other racist Jerk Assery}}.

** She also mentions something about "taking care of the baby," [[Fridge Horror|who also is never seen after the Time Skip]].

* [[White Gang Bangers]]