Men with Brooms (film): Difference between revisions

* [[Brick Joke]]: {{spoiler|The Loan shark}}

* [[Calvin Ball]]: While Curling is a very real sport, the version shown in the movie evidently includes rules for such unlikely situations as {{spoiler|the ashes of a dead man}} landing on the button.

* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Lennox, who even bothered to [[Lampshade]] it.

{{quote| '''Lennox''':''Hey man, even if I wanted to, I've got principles. She has to be conscious, to begin with...''}}

* [[The Dutiful Son|The Dutiful Daughter]]: Amy helped her father recover the Magellan Stones while her sister Julie went to school and eventually became an astronaut.

* [[Eagle Land]]: Alexander ''[[Red Baron|The Juggernaut]]'' Yount, whose team wears shiny jumpsuits, enters the stadium to rock music and pyrotechnics, and has ''cheerleaders''. Though he's ''very'' competitive and takes himself ''way'' too seriously, he's actually not a particularly negative portrayal of Americans.

* [[Expy]]: The American Space Agency, filling in for NASA.

* [[Fake American]]: Greg Bryk as Alexander ''The Juggernaut'' Yount is from Winnipeg.

* [[First Girl Wins]]: Averted in both cases where it comes up, though in neither case did it seem like the First Girl was particularly trying <ref> Cutter's ex-fiancee pretty clearly hates him for leaving her, and is too busy preparing [[It Makes Sense in Context|to leave Earth]], and Bucyk's wife was cheating on him with his assistant through the whole movie anyways. She does seem impressed that he finally grew a spine, though by that point he's already walking out the door.</ref>

** [[The Hero]]: Chris Cutter

** [[The Lancer]]: James Lennox

* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: a variation: Both sisters are The Smart Sister; one happens to be the Prodigal Daughter (went to college, joined [[Expy|The American Space Agency]], became an astronaut) while the other is [[The Dutiful Son|The Dutiful Daughter]], who stayed home with the family and cared for their father. Also, [[Triang Relations|both are romantic interests]] for Chris Cutter.

* [[Graceful Loser]]: {{spoiler|The Juggernaut}}, even [[Lampshaded]] in passing as part of a [[Brick Joke]] moments later.

** George Buza, playing the loan shark, has made a career of such roles in Canadian film and television.

* [[Hooker With a Heart of Gold]]: Joanne, the "[[Insistent Terminology|Rent-A-Girlfriend]]", though Lennox never seems to actually do the things that one traditionally does with a prostitute, though she could just be the type of escort where sex isn't part of the deal.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Amy

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Linda Bucyk, who spends much of the movie cheating on her husband. Though it is strongly indicated at the end of the film that he's leaving her, it has less to do with the affair and more to do with her general abusiveness (and his own developing relationship with [[The Ditz|Joanne]])

* [[MacGuffin]]: The Magellan Stones, having been dumped into the lake by Chris Cutter before he skipped town in the [[Backstory]], are several types:

** Mineral [[MacGuffin]]: Well, they ''are'' basically polished stones with handles attached

* [[Membership Token]]: The matching beaver tattoos on all four guys {{spoiler|and Amy}}.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: The first team they play against, made up of octogenarians.

** Neil in general seems obsessed with death, possibly a mix of his line of work (mortician) and his less-than-warm marriage.

* [[Off the Wagon]]: [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Amy]] {{spoiler|After seeing [[The Hero|the object of her affections]] and her sister hook up}}.

* [[Visual Pun]]: [[Invoked]] by Lennox while hanging out with the rest of the team, by means of sharing his theory of why Chris Cutter left town without explanation. He poured some liquor from his flask onto a curling stone, set the stone sliding across the ice, and lit the liquor on fire, all to indicate that Chris had "burned" a stone in the previous Golden Broom (touching it after releasing it, considered cheating in the sport of Curling)

* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: [[Played for Laughs]], Amy pukes down Chris's back. The look on his face is ''hilarious''.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The herd (flock? pack?) of Beavers that block the road after the guys listen to their coach's recorded message in the car.

* [[What You Are in The Dark]]: Years before, Chris Cutter accidentally "burned" a stone, touching it with his foot after releasing it, during a qualifying match to get his team into the finals for the Golden Broom. Instead of reporting it to the ref like he should have, he kept quiet. Unwilling to admit to what he had done (disgracing the team) or playing through the finals that he didn't deserve to be in, he dumped the stones in the lake and skipped town, incidentally leaving his fiancée, Julie, as well as his team, nobody knowing just what had possessed him to do that.