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* NewYearHasCome: The New Year's party near the end of the movie.
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* NewYearsKiss: Ben has a crush on Stephanie for most of the movie, but she's dating Steve. At the end of the film, after Steve mysteriously disappears [[spoiler: (actually, Ben et al. killed him for unrelated reasons)]], Ben and Stephanie meet at a New Years party and share a kiss at midnight on New Years Eve. This would seemingly advance their relationship, but due to Ben's sadness and the circumstances surrounding Steve the relationship doesn't get developed much.
* NewYearsKiss: Ben has a crush on Stephanie for most of the movie, but she's dating Steve. At the end of the film, after Steve mysteriously disappears [[spoiler: (actually, Ben et al. killed him for unrelated reasons)]], Ben and Stephanie meet at a New Years party and share a kiss at midnight on New Years Eve. This would seemingly advance their relationship, but due to Ben's sadness and the circumstances surrounding Steve the relationship doesn't get developed much.
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The film's also notable for featuring the first appearance of Han Lue (played by Sung Kang), whom Justin Lin would later introduce to ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise in ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift Tokyo Drift]]''.
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The film's also notable for featuring the first appearance of Han Lue (played by Sung Kang), Creator/SungKang), whom Justin Lin would later introduce to ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise in ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift Tokyo Drift]]''.
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* TheBenchwarmer: Ben makes the basketball team, but never gets to play because he isn't very good. This becomes a plot point when Daric convinces the whole school that Ben's been benched due to racism. The publicity from this causes Ben to quit the basketball team, but draws him closer to Daric's influences.
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* SharedUniverse: With ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious''.
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The film's also notable for featuring the first appearance of Han Lue (played by Sung Kang), whom Justin Lin would later introduce to ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise in ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift Tokyo Drift]]''.
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* MinorLivingAlone: 17-year-old Daric lives alone, as his parents travel a lot or work somewhere else. Because of this, his house becomes a setting for many a WildTeenParty.
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* CharacterOverlap: The character of Han (played by Sung Kang) is the same Han who appears in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' films, asconfirmed in online interviews by both [[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104306 Justin Lin]]and [[http://www.craveonline.com/film/interviews/506363-exclusive-interview-sung-kang-on-fast-furious-6 Sung Kang]].
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''Better Luck Tomorrow'' is a 2002 crime-drama film directed by Justin Lin. Set in suburban [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} Orange County]], the film follows a group of high-achieving Asian American high schoolers who turn to a life of crime out of a dissatisfaction with their lives. This lifestyle sprials out of control, leading to eventual murder. The film was [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory loosely based]] on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stuart_Tay the murder of Stuart Tay]].
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''Better Luck Tomorrow'' is a 2002 crime-drama film directed by Justin Lin.Creator/JustinLin. Set in suburban [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} Orange County]], the film follows a group of high-achieving Asian American high schoolers who turn to a life of crime out of a dissatisfaction with their lives. This lifestyle sprials out of control, leading to eventual murder. The film was [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory loosely based]] on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stuart_Tay the murder of Stuart Tay]].
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* TheSociopath: Daric never shows any empathy for anyone, and show no remorse other than a desire to cover his own ass after they kill someone. [[spoiler: He also murders Steve in cold-blood, smothering the unconscious teen after learning he's alive after the gang thinks they've killed him accidentally.]] He seems to enjoy corrupting people, as when he introduces the Academic Decathalon team to drugs and alchol, and he's a hedonist himself who spends a lot of time drinking and partying. He is usually pretty unemotional, except when someone insults him, as at the party when he pulls a gun on a guy for disrespecting him. He's also good at manipulating people, as when he gets the whole school on Ben's side for being supposedly tokenized by the basketball coach.
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* TheSociopath: Daric never shows any empathy for anyone, and show no remorse other than a desire to cover his own ass after they kill someone. [[spoiler: He also murders Steve in cold-blood, smothering the unconscious teen after learning he's alive after the gang thinks they've killed him accidentally.]] He seems to enjoy corrupting people, as when he introduces the Academic Decathalon team to drugs and alchol, alcohol, and he's a hedonist himself who spends a lot of time drinking and partying. He is usually pretty unemotional, except when someone insults him, as at the party when he pulls a gun on a guy for disrespecting him. He's also good at manipulating people, as when he gets the whole school on Ben's side for being supposedly tokenized by the basketball coach.
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* GoodTimesMontage: Several scenes of Academic Decathalon meetings are montages of the teammates drinking beer, doing cocaine, making out with each other, etc.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Deconstructed. The protagonists are all academically excellent, upper middle class Asian-Americans, but they use their smarts and busy school schedule as a front for a life of crime and partying. This starts with paid exam cribbing in more alignment with the stereotype, but eventually leads to more classic gang-banger activities like dealing drugs and robbing houses.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Deconstructed. The protagonists are all academically excellent, upper middle class Asian-Americans, but they use their smarts and busy school schedule as a front for a life of crime and partying. They adopt this lifestyle in part as a rebellion against the high-pressure, rigid social role expected of them. This starts with paid exam cribbing in more alignment with the stereotype, but eventually leads to more classic gang-banger activities like dealing drugs and robbing houses.
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* ChekhovsGun: Virgil gets a gun early on in the movie. Later, he develops a propensity to pull it out on people, [[spoiler: and eventually uses it to attempt suicide]].
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* LooseLips: Virgil is very chatty and has trouble keeping secrets. After he takes over the gang's crime ring, the administration busts their test cheating ring after he went around the school bragging about it.
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* PantsPositiveSafety: After pulling a gun on a prostitute, Virgil comes running out of the room with his gun shoved in his briefs, wearing nothing else.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Deconstructed. The protagonists are all academically excellent, upper middle class Asian-Americans, but they use their smarts and busy school schedule as a front for a life of crime and partying. This starts with paid exam cribbing in more alignment with the stereotype, but eventually leads to more classic gang-banger activities like dealing drugs and robbing houses.
* BadassBiker: Steve tries to act like one, as he goes around on a motorcycle with CoolShades and a trench coat. He's neglectful to his girlfriend, and takes a general cool and detached attitude to most things.
* BadassLongCoat: Steve tends to wear a long trenchcoat to fit his cool biker persona. Virgil makes fun of him for this, saying he's trying to be Creator/ChowYunFat in a [[HeroicBloodshed Hong Kong action movie]].
* BadassBiker: Steve tries to act like one, as he goes around on a motorcycle with CoolShades and a trench coat. He's neglectful to his girlfriend, and takes a general cool and detached attitude to most things.
* BadassLongCoat: Steve tends to wear a long trenchcoat to fit his cool biker persona. Virgil makes fun of him for this, saying he's trying to be Creator/ChowYunFat in a [[HeroicBloodshed Hong Kong action movie]].
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* DitzyGenius: Virgil is a top student in school, but he's an awkward horndog who can't keep a secret and has a tendency to get slightly AxCrazy when violence is on the table. This tends to be a problem for the gang's plans.
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* AcademicAthlete: Ben is a straight-A student who also loves basketball. He makes the team, but is mostly a benchwarmer.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of quite a few stereotypes about Asian-Americans, particularly AsianAndNerdy.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of quite GunStruggle: When the gang double-crosses Steve just before the robbery, there's a few stereotypes about Asian-Americans.struggle for a gun and it goes off. [[spoiler: The usual outcome of this is subverted- no one was injured by the shot, but Ben comes in and attacks Steve with a baseball bat, ending the standoff.]]
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* InsideJob: Steve's plan to get the gang to rob his parents own house in order to give them a "wake-up call".
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* OneLastJob: Ben and Deric have given up their life of crime when Steve persuades them to do the robbery.
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* TheSociopath: Daric never shows any empathy for anyone, and show no remorse other than a desire to cover his own ass after they kill someone. [[spoiler: He also murders Steve in cold-blood, smothering the unconscious teen after learning he's alive after the gang thinks they've killed him accidentally.]] He seems to enjoy corrupting people, as when he introduces the Academic Decathalon team to drugs and alchol, and he's a hedonist himself who spends a lot of time drinking and partying. He is usually pretty unemotional, except when someone insults him, as at the party when he pulls a gun on a guy for disrespecting him. He's also good at manipulating people, as when he gets the whole school on Ben's side for being supposedly tokenized by the basketball coach.
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''Better Luck Tomorrow'' is a 2002 crime-drama film directed by Justin Lin. The movie is about Asian American overachievers who become bored with their lives and enter a world of petty crime and material excess. ''Better Luck Tomorrow'' introduced Karin Anna Cheung to film audiences and features a cast including Parry Shen, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Roger Fan, and Creator/JohnCho.
The film was based loosely on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stuart_Tay the murder of Stuart Tay]], a teenager from Tustin, California, by four Sunny Hills High School honor students on December 31, 1992, in nearby Fullerton.
The film was based loosely on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stuart_Tay the murder of Stuart Tay]], a teenager from Tustin, California, by four Sunny Hills High School honor students on December 31, 1992, in nearby Fullerton.
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''Better Luck Tomorrow'' is a 2002 crime-drama film directed by Justin Lin. The movie is about Set in suburban [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} Orange County]], the film follows a group of high-achieving Asian American overachievers high schoolers who become bored turn to a life of crime out of a dissatisfaction with their lives and enter a world lives. This lifestyle sprials out of petty crime and material excess. ''Better Luck Tomorrow'' introduced Karin Anna Cheung control, leading to film audiences and features a cast including Parry Shen, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Roger Fan, and Creator/JohnCho.
eventual murder. The film was based [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory loosely based]] on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stuart_Tay the murder of Stuart Tay]], Tay]].
Ben (Parry Shen) is ateenager from Tustin, California, by four Sunny Hills High School honor students straight-A student who just wants to make the basketball team, get with his cheerleader crush Stephanie (Karin Anna Cheung), and get into an Ivy League school. After the BigManOnCampus Daric messes up things for him on December 31, 1992, in nearby Fullerton.
the basketball team, Ben ends up agreeing to help with a test cribbing scam. Ben's goofy [[ChildhoodFriends childhood best friend]] Virgil (Jason Tobin) and Virgil's stoic cousin Han (Sung Kang) get involved, and their gang soon expands to all sorts of criminal activities. Meanwhile, Ben competes with Stephanie's boyfriend Steve (Creator/JohnCho), a private school kid with a strange outlook on life, for her affections. But as their crimes become bigger and their lifestyle more hedonistic, things take a violent turn...
Ben (Parry Shen) is a
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* AdultsAreUseless: We don't see any of the protagonists parents.{who are completely oblivious to what there sons are actually doing.}
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ben and his friends look like the image of the perfect student, but in there spare time they do petty crime.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ben and his friends look like the image of the perfect student, but in there spare time they do petty crime.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ben and his friends look like the image of the perfect student, but inthere their spare time they do petty crime. crime.
* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler: Virgil]] shoots himself in the head, but ends up in a coma instead of dying.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ben and his friends look like the image of the perfect student, but in
* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler: Virgil]] shoots himself in the head, but ends up in a coma instead of dying.
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* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Ben likes Stephanie, but she's dating Steve. After they kill Steve for unrelated reasons, but before Stephanie finds out about his death, Stephanie expresses an interest in Ben and they kiss.]]
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* HowWeGotHere: The movie starts with Ben and Virgil relaxing at a backyard when they here a buried cellphone ringing. when they dig a hole to find it they find a corpse. The movie then cuts back 5 months earlier.
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HighSchoolHustler: Deric is a darker spin on this. He's constantly scheming and coming up with new scams, and by the middle of the movie basically rules the school due to his mastery over the school's petty crimes. He's also able to easily manipulate student opinion, like when he gets the whole school angry about the supposed tokenism involved in Ben's position on the basketball team.
* HowWeGotHere: The movie starts with Ben and Virgil relaxing at a backyard when theyhere hear a buried cellphone ringing. when When they dig a hole to find it they find a corpse. The movie then cuts back 5 months earlier.
* InsideJob: Steve's plan to get the gang to rob his parents own house in order to give them a "wake-up call".
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MoodWhiplash: After the gang kills [[spoiler: Steve]], the scene cuts back and forth rapidly between a tense and anguished scene of them burying the body and scenes of a carefree, happy party (though all the protagonists look sad when they get a closeup).
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Virgil]] loses it immediately after they kill [[spoiler: Steve]], and later on shoots himself out of remorse.
* NewYearHasCome: The New Year's party near the end of the movie.
* NoAntagonist: All of the conflict in the movie is caused by theprotagonist's actions. protagonists' actions.
* OneLastJob: Ben and Deric have given up their life of crime when Steve persuades them to do the robbery.
* RecklessGunUsage: Once Virgil gets a gun, he takes to whipping it out at unfortunate times, such as in Vegas when he pulls it on the prostitute and all his friends.
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: On their trip to Vegas, Deric procures a prostitute for Ben so he can lose his virginity. They then take turns doing the same.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Virgil]] loses it immediately after they kill [[spoiler: Steve]], and later on shoots himself out of remorse.
* NewYearHasCome: The New Year's party near the end of the movie.
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* OneLastJob: Ben and Deric have given up their life of crime when Steve persuades them to do the robbery.
* RecklessGunUsage: Once Virgil gets a gun, he takes to whipping it out at unfortunate times, such as in Vegas when he pulls it on the prostitute and all his friends.
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: On their trip to Vegas, Deric procures a prostitute for Ben so he can lose his virginity. They then take turns doing the same.
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* CharacterOverlap: The character of Han (played by Sung Kang) is the same Han who appears in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' films, as confirmed in online interviews by both [[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104306 Justin Lin]] and [[http://www.craveonline.com/film/interviews/506363-exclusive-interview-sung-kang-on-fast-furious-6 Sung Kang]].
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* CharacterOverlap: The character of Han (played by Sung Kang) is the same Han who appears in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' films, as confirmed asconfirmed in online interviews by both both [[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104306 Justin Lin]] and Lin]]and [[http://www.craveonline.com/film/interviews/506363-exclusive-interview-sung-kang-on-fast-furious-6 Sung Kang]].Kang]].
* CoolCar: Han drives a red 1965 Ford Mustang Coupe. Steve is seen driving a 4-door BMW in a few scenes and Stephanie by the very end of the movie is scene driving an Audi TT Roadster
* ExtracurricularEnthusiast: Ben and his friends are this at first so they can go into an ivy league school, but they soon discover that they can use that as an alibi to be able to be out late to do mischief.
* CoolCar: Han drives a red 1965 Ford Mustang Coupe. Steve is seen driving a 4-door BMW in a few scenes and Stephanie by the very end of the movie is scene driving an Audi TT Roadster
* ExtracurricularEnthusiast: Ben and his friends are this at first so they can go into an ivy league school, but they soon discover that they can use that as an alibi to be able to be out late to do mischief.
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''Better Luck Tomorrow'' is a 2002 crime-drama film directed by Justin Lin. The movie is about Asian American overachievers who become bored with their lives and enter a world of petty crime and material excess. ''Better Luck Tomorrow'' introduced Karin Anna Cheung to film audiences and features a cast including Parry Shen, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Roger Fan, and Creator/JohnCho.
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'''''Better Luck Tomorrow''''' is a 2002 crime-drama film directed by Justin Lin. The movie is about Asian American overachievers who become bored with their lives and enter a world of petty crime and material excess. ''Better Luck Tomorrow'' introduced Karin Anna Cheung to film audiences and a cast including Parry Shen, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Roger Fan, and JohnCho.
The film was based loosely on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stuart_Tay the murder of Stuart Tay]], a teenager from Tustin, California, by four Sunny Hills High School honor students on December 31, 1992, in nearby Fullerton.
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* CharacterOverlap: The character of Han (played by Sung Kang) may be the same Han who appears in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' films. Evidence for this can be seen in [[http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0063891/ the character's IMDB page]].
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of quite a few stereotypes about Asian-Americans.
* LoveHurts: Or rather love kills.
* {{Harem}}
* BewareTheNiceOnes
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The film was based loosely on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stuart_Tay the murder of Stuart Tay]], a teenager from Tustin, California, by four Sunny Hills High School honor students on December 31, 1992, in nearby Fullerton.
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* CharacterOverlap: The character of Han (played by Sung Kang) may be the same Han who appears in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' films. Evidence for this can be seen in [[http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0063891/ the character's IMDB page]].
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of quite a few stereotypes about Asian-Americans.
* LoveHurts: Or rather love kills.
* {{Harem}}
* BewareTheNiceOnes
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