Raising Arizona: Difference between revisions

 

 

'''H.I.''': Well... it ain't "Ozzie and Harriet." }}

 

* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: Rural Arizona is depicted as such.

* [[Code Name]]:

'''Evelle''': Y'all hear that? We're using code names! }}

* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]

* [[Kick the Dog]]: The Biker's [[Establishing Character Moment]] -- [[Enemy to All Living Things|he shoots a lizard with a shotgun, and tosses a grenade at a bunny rabbit.]] While speeding on his bike.

* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Parodied. H.I. is going back and forth speechifying, putting another small handgun in his pants every time he reappears on screen. Finally, he appears with a shotgun:

* [[Magical Realism]]: Definitely. The plot is centered around a fairly mundane love story/kidnapping scheme, but it also involves a bounty hunter who may or may not be a demon from Hell. And then there's Hi's tendency to have prophetic and/or clairvoyant dreams, which he doesn't seem to consider unusual.

* [[Maintain the Lie]]: H.I. and Ed {{spoiler|after they "adopt" Nathan Jr.}}

* [[Mama Bear]]: Ed is ready to throw down with Leonard Smalls over Nathan, despite being unarmed.

* [[My Biological Clock Is Ticking]]:

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: The biker gives this to H.I. at the end.

* [[Not So Different]]: {{spoiler|H.I. and the Biker have the same Mr. Horsepower tattoo, fueling the possibility that he really is Hi's personal demon}}.

** The tracking shot, supposedly the POV of Leonard Smalls' motorcycle speeding right up into the Arizona family window, is an homage to [[Sam Raimi]]'s ''[[Evil Dead]]'' films. The Coen brothers were early collaborators with Raimi.

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: H.I., and everyone in the film, to some degree. An early example of the Coens' fondness for stylization, but [[Roger Ebert]] found it distracting enough to pan the movie over it.

'''Gale:''' We felt we'd reached the limits of what the institution had to offer us. }}

* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Pretty much everything in the film's climax...{{spoiler|including the biker}}.

* [[Too Many Babies]]: the Arizona quints.

* [[Word Salad Title]]: Discussed in-universe.

'''Nathan''': Yeah. Would ''you'' shop at a store called "Unpainted Huffhines"? }}

* [[You Can See That, Right?]]