Million Dollar Baby: Difference between revisions

* [[Academy Award]]: Four, in fact. Clint Eastwood's second Best Director, Hilary Swank's second Best Actress, Morgan Freeman for Best Supporting Actor and Best Picture of 2004.

* [[Arc Words]]: "Mo chuisle". Maggie doesn't find out what they mean until the end of the movie.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Morgan Freeman's character, particularly when he [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|single-handedly KOs]] an upstart [[Jerkass]] boxer.

* [[Braids of Action]]: Maggie and most of the other female boxers.

* {{spoiler|[[Career-Ending Injury]]}}: To Maggie.

* [[Cast the Expert]]: Maggie's opponent in her final match was played by Lucia Rijker, a champion female boxer in [[Real Life]].

** {{spoiler|And Maggie becomes a quadraplegic.}}

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:

** When she starts winning big purses, Maggie buys her mother a house. ''A house.'' She berates Maggie for not giving her cash instead. If she's a homeowner, you see, she won't qualify for welfare anymore and she doesn't want to work. {{spoiler|Toward the end, we find out she never signed the ownership transfer paperwork even though she's living in the house, and it's a major plot point that Maggie still owns the house.}}

** One last case: {{spoiler|When Maggie is paralyzed, her family visits her in the nursing home, ''after'' spending a week at Disneyworld and Universal Studios, and tries to get Maggie to sign over all her money to them. This apparently crosses a line, as Maggie tells them that not only are they not getting one dime, if they or their lawyer ever speak to her again she'll sell the house out from under them.}}

* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Billie the Blue Bear}}.

** Not neccessarily. It isn't shown (probably because Clint Eastwood felt that it would distract the audience from {{spoiler|the fact that Maggie has been paralyzed}}), but the referee was getting annoyed with {{spoiler|her constant breaking of the rules, and even threatened to disqualify her once. Bille was probably disqualified immediately once the doctors realized the injuries she had inflicted on Maggie after ''intentionally punching her while the stool was in the way''.}}

* [[Tongue Trauma]]: {{spoiler|After she's paralyzed, Maggie tries to commit suicide by biting through her tongue.}}

* [[Training Montage]]: Maggie gets one, though minus the cheesy music.

* [[Word Salad Title]]: Million what-what? It makes more sense when you see the film, but you still wonder surely there must have been a better name for it.

* [[Worst Aid]]: Frankie realizes how subpar the quality of care is at the hospital Maggie goes to after {{spoiler|losing the title match and breaking her spine}} and arranges to have her moved to a better one.