A Bronx Tale: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: C's friend Mario, who is even called Crazy Mario in the neighborhood.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Sonny. Badass enough to be a Mafia boss, bookworm enough to read Machiavelli in jail.

* [[Bad Guy Bar]]

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Sonny's gang versus the bikers.

* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!]]: C thinks so from what he sees, despite Sonny's attempts to convince him otherwise.

'''Lorenzo:''' You don't understand: it's not what you say, it's what he sees, the clothes, the cars, the money, it's everything. }}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The young Calogero shows signs of this. The teenage C, not so much.

'''Lorenzo:''' What am I gonna do with this kid? }}

* [[Do Not Call Me Paul]]: Calogero gets the nickname "C" from Sonny and ends up being called that by everyone, except his father, who will not do it.

** 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.

'''Calogero:''' [narrating] ''I will never forget the look on their faces. All eight of them. Their faces dropped. All their courage and strength was drained right from their bodies. They had reputation for breaking up bars, but they knew that instant, they'd made a fatal mistake. This time they walked into the wrong bar.'' [Sonny's crew comes out of the back of the bar and beats the crap out of the bikers] }}

* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Count the number of times you hear C explain, "They called him [X] because..."

* [[Salt and Pepper]]

* [[Secret Test of Character]]: Both Mario and Sonny propose ways to test a girl's character and see if she is ''the'' right girl. Sonny's is ''slightly'' more reasonable and rather less... psychotic.

** {{spoiler|Jane passes the test.}}

* [[The Sixties]]: Exemplified by hippie bikers and soul music (in 1968). And the racial unrest...

** Others, not so much. The heavy bass and percussion of "Come Together" complement the [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] in Sonny's bar very well.

* [[Take a Third Option|Take A Fourth Option]]:

'''Sonny:''' Me? I read. }}

* [[Talking to the Dead]]: Calogero, Carmine, and Lorenzo all take turns doing this with {{spoiler|Sonny's body}} at the wake.