A Bronx Tale: Difference between revisions

* [[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]].

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

{{quote| '''Sonny:''' First of all, I respect you, Lorenzo, you're a stand-up guy and we're from the same neighbourhood, but don't ever talk to me like that again. I tell your kid to go to school, to go to college...<br />

'''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. }}

* [[First Kiss]]: C apparently does one with Jane. She just smiles, and tells him that was not a real kiss, then [[Forceful Kiss|plants a real one on him]].

* [[Gang of Hats]]: Mario and the other neighborhood delinquents are a literal example.

* [[Holding Hands]]: C tries to go for this awfully quickly...

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Lorenzo refuses any money from Sonny, even low-risk "nobody gets hurt" jobs that Sonny offers him out of gratitude for Calogero keeping quiet, and does not even want Calogero hanging out with Sonny.

** {{spoiler|[[Catch and Return]]}}

* [[Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters]]: If you watch closely (or enough times) you can see that while Sonny is a legit case, there is something of a deconstruction going on with the rest of Sonny's crew. Most of them are either losers or violent guys being held on a leash by Sonny.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: The movie manages to plausibly package together gangsters, [[Soul Brotha|soul brothas]], and (in one scene) Hell's Angels.

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Several, with Sonny's crew beating the crap out of the disrespectful bikers and C's friends beating up the black kids being the most notable.

{{quote| '''Sonny:''' [walks over to the door, locks it, locking the bikers inside] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Now youse can't leave]].<br />

'''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 Sane Man|Only Sane Boy]]: Calogero is by far the most level-headed person in his peer group, most obviously shown in the scene where one of his friends lights a cigarette in a car full of Molotov cocktails. And Calogero still isn't sane enough to get out of that car until [[Big Damn Heroes|Sonny accosts them and forces the issue.]]

* [[Opposed Mentors]]: A kid called Calogero growing up under the conflicting influences of his hard-working, honest, but poor father, and the charismatic, rich and powerful, [[Affably Evil]] local mafia don Sonny.

'''Calogero:''' What did you do?<br />

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

* [[Time Skip]]

* [[Timeshifted Actor]]: Actually, some critics mentioned preferring Francis Capra as "Young Calogero" to [[Dull Surprise|Lillo Brancato as the teenage Calogero/C]].

* [[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}}.

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: What was that fight about? Even Sonny and Carmine confirm that it was not over the parking space, but neither says what the real cause was.

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

* [[White Gang-Bangers]]