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* AnyoneCanDie: The film has no hints of being violent until [[spoiler: Eddie steps on an unexploded land mine, dying near instantly. After that, every character is put at risk of death, and main characters Paul and Melvin also die.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The gun Tiên gives Otis, with two distinct introductions and payoffs.
** It's introduced early on, then forgotten about until the rest of the Bloods discover it, leading to a tense, gun-wielding standoff. Soon after, the plot takes a violent turn featuring frequent use of the gun.
** In the final temple showdown, [[spoiler: the Bloods leave the gun with David, who's never used one before. Just afterward, they peacefully surrender the gold to Desroche and prepare to leave, and the gun is seemingly forgotten while David is incapacitated inside. The handover quickly turns into a firefight, but David is still ignored and incapacitated inside, until the very end, when he serves as TheCavalry for Otis and Vinh, saving them from Desroche with a trick shot to the head.]]
** It's introduced early on, then forgotten about until the rest of the Bloods discover it, leading to a tense, gun-wielding standoff. Soon after, the plot takes a violent turn featuring frequent use of the gun.
** In the final temple showdown, [[spoiler: the Bloods leave the gun with David, who's never used one before. Just afterward, they peacefully surrender the gold to Desroche and prepare to leave, and the gun is seemingly forgotten while David is incapacitated inside. The handover quickly turns into a firefight, but David is still ignored and incapacitated inside, until the very end, when he serves as TheCavalry for Otis and Vinh, saving them from Desroche with a trick shot to the head.]]
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* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: [[spoiler: Paul's paranoid theories about who is about to betray them are all proven wrong. Tiên, Hedy, and Vinh were all loyal to the group and remain on good terms with the surviving Bloods at the end. Paul's decision to abandon the party causes him to lose his share of the gold and die an ignoble death, while those who stuck together survive or go out in a blaze of glory and keep their gold.]] This fits with the larger theme about the Bloods being about brotherhood, unity, and loyalty.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Due to RuleOfDrama. In the final showdown [[spoiler: against Desroche, David, who's never shot a gun before in his life, gets a perfect headshot on Desroche with one bullet.]]
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* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: [[spoiler: Paul on some level hates his son David because his mother died giving birth to him. Paul straight up told David that he loved David's mother more than him.]]
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* OnlyAFleshWound: In the final showdown, [[spoiler: David gets shot in the leg, and while the others treat this as a serious injury that keeps him somewhat out of commission, it doesn't stop him from shooting Desroche, and he isn't shown to have long lasting injuries afterward. Vinh also gets shot in the arm, and Melvin tells him he'll be fine. He also survives with no apparent side effects. Most extremely, Otis gets shot multiple times and is lying incapacitated on the ground, but later on is walking around apparently fine.]]
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* TheVietnamVet: All the Bloods are Vietnam veterans, and their memories of the war are of course central to the plot. Of them all, Paul best fits the stereotype, a ShellShockedVeteran who's suffering from PTSD and proudly wears veterans' insignia.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: David struggles to earn his father's respect, and at one point sobs that his father hated him from the day he was born, which may explain why personality-wise he's a bit of a pushover. Paul shows him very little respect, and as his SanitySlippage progresses stops just short of disowning him.
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** The names of the 5 Bloods- Paul, Otis, Melvin, Eddie, and David- are a tribute to Music/TheTemptations.
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** The names of the 5 Bloods- Paul, Otis, Melvin, Eddie, and David- are a tribute to Music/TheTemptations. Norman is a reference to their producer, Norman Whitfield.
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** David randomly meets Hedy at a Vietnamese bar. Later, the Bloods encounter a landmine field, and Hedy's team is just a few hundred feet away from that precise landmine field at that precise time.
** David accidentally finds the first gold bar right at the spot where he was about to take a crap.
** David randomly meets Hedy at a Vietnamese bar. Later, the Bloods encounter a landmine field, and Hedy's team is just a few hundred feet away from that precise landmine field at that precise time.
** David accidentally finds the first gold bar right at the spot where he was about to take a crap.
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* ContrivedCoincidence:
**ContrivedCoincidence: David randomly meets Hedy at a Vietnamese bar. Later, the Bloods encounter a landmine field, and Hedy's team is just a few hundred feet away from that precise landmine field at that precise time.
** David accidentally finds the first gold bar right at the spot where he was about to take a crap.time.
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** David accidentally finds the first gold bar right at the spot where he was about to take a crap.
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Seppo is likely Finnish, given that he has a Finnish name and is played by a Finnish actor.
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* FrenchJerk:
** Desroche is a crooked Frenchman who is condescending toward Americans and [[spoiler:turns out to be the villain of the film]].
** Downplayed with Seppo. He holds a very low opinion of Americans and acts very condescending towards them, but he's also a humanitarian worker helping remove landmines in former war zones.
** Desroche is a crooked Frenchman who is condescending toward Americans and [[spoiler:turns out to be the villain of the film]].
** Downplayed with Seppo. He holds a very low opinion of Americans and acts very condescending towards them, but he's also a humanitarian worker helping remove landmines in former war zones.
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* FrenchJerk:
**FrenchJerk: Desroche is a crooked Frenchman who is condescending toward Americans and [[spoiler:turns out to be the villain of the film]].
** Downplayed with Seppo. He holds a very low opinion of Americans and acts very condescending towards them, but he's also a humanitarian worker helping remove landmines in former war zones.film]].
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** Downplayed with Seppo. He holds a very low opinion of Americans and acts very condescending towards them, but he's also a humanitarian worker helping remove landmines in former war zones.
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* LoveInterestTraitor: Paul is distrustful of Tiên from early on, seeming to fear she is either trying to turn Otis against the rest of the Bloods or team up with Desroche and betray all of them. It only gets worse when the Bloods discover that she gave Otis a pistol "just in case." At the climax of the movie, Desroche reveals [[spoiler: Tiên knew nothing about his plan, and the end scene shows Otis reuniting with her and embracing Michon as his daughter, suggesting the three will remain on good terms.]]
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* LoveInterestTraitor: Paul is distrustful of Tiên from early on, seeming to fear she is either trying to turn Otis against the rest of the Bloods or team up with Desroche and betray all of them. It only gets worse when the Bloods discover that she gave Otis a pistol "just in case." At the climax of the movie, Desroche reveals [[spoiler: [[{{SubvertedTrope}} Tiên knew nothing about his plan, and the end scene shows Otis reuniting with her and embracing Michon as his daughter, suggesting the three will remain on good terms.]]]]]]
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* MixedAncestry: Michon, the daughter of Otis's former flame Tiên, is of mixed Vietnamese and black ancestry. [[{{AsianBabyMama}} It doesn't take Otis long to puzzle out who the father is.]] Tiên admits Michon had a very rough childhood, looked down not only for being a mixed Black girl but also for very clearly being the result of [[AsianHookerStereotype Tien servicing American GIs.]]
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* MixedAncestry: Michon, the daughter of Otis's former flame Tiên, is of mixed Vietnamese and black ancestry. [[{{AsianBabyMama}} It doesn't take Otis long to puzzle out who the father is.]] Tiên admits Michon had a very rough childhood, looked down on not only for being a mixed Black girl but also for very clearly being the result of [[AsianHookerStereotype Tien servicing American GIs.]]
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->"''We repossess this gold for every single black boot that never made it home. Every brother and sister stolen from Mother Africa to Jamestown, Virginia way back in 1619. We give this gold to our people.''"
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-->-- '''Norman'''
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* VillainInAWhiteSuit: [[spoiler: Desroche]] in the movie's climax. The purpose of the look seems to be to invoke the FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit trope, particularly because he's also wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap, but the character is [[spoiler: French.]]
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* VillainInAWhiteSuit: [[spoiler: Desroche]] in the movie's climax. The purpose of the look seems to be to invoke the FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit trope, particularly because he's also wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap, but the character is [[spoiler: French.]]]]
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* FrenchJerk: Desroche is a crooked Frenchman who is condescending toward Americans and [[spoiler:turns out to be the villain of the film]].
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* FrenchJerk: FrenchJerk:
** Desroche is a crooked Frenchman who is condescending toward Americans and [[spoiler:turns out to be the villain of thefilm]].film]].
** Downplayed with Seppo. He holds a very low opinion of Americans and acts very condescending towards them, but he's also a humanitarian worker helping remove landmines in former war zones.
** Desroche is a crooked Frenchman who is condescending toward Americans and [[spoiler:turns out to be the villain of the
** Downplayed with Seppo. He holds a very low opinion of Americans and acts very condescending towards them, but he's also a humanitarian worker helping remove landmines in former war zones.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Probably due to the popularity of ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', the film's official Netflix title card features Chadwick Boseman's Norman front and center. In the actual movie, while very important to the plot, Norman is a PosthumousCharacter who only appears in a handful of flashbacks [[spoiler: and once as a ghost/hallucination near the end of the movie]].
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* AdvertisedExtra: Probably due to the popularity of ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', the film's official Netflix title card features Chadwick Boseman's Norman front and center. In the actual movie, while very important to the plot, Norman is a PosthumousCharacter who only appears in a handful of flashbacks [[spoiler: and once as a ghost/hallucination near the end of the movie]].film]].
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* AdvertisedExtra: Probably due to the popularity of ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', the film's official Netflix title card features Chadwick Boseman's Norman front and center. In the actual movie, while very important to the plot, Norman is a PosthumousCharacter who only appears in a handful of flashbacks [[spoiler: and once as a ghost/hallucination near the end of the movie]].
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* TheAtoner: Hedy runs an organization that removes landmines from former war zones as a way to make up for her family's past exploitation of the Vietnamese during colonial times.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: David randomly meets Hedy at a Vietnamese bar. Later, the Bloods encounter a landmine field, and Hedy's team is just a few hundred feet away from that precise landmine field at that precise time.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: ContrivedCoincidence:
** David randomly meets Hedy at a Vietnamese bar. Later, the Bloods encounter a landmine field, and Hedy's team is just a few hundred feet away from that precise landmine field at that precisetime.time.
** David accidentally finds the first gold bar right at the spot where he was about to take a crap.
** David randomly meets Hedy at a Vietnamese bar. Later, the Bloods encounter a landmine field, and Hedy's team is just a few hundred feet away from that precise landmine field at that precise
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Melvin jokes that he'd ''never'' jump on a grenade to save his comrades. [[spoiler:In the final act, he does just that]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Melvin jokes that he'd ''never'' jump on a grenade to save his comrades. [[spoiler:In the final act, he does justthat]].that]].
** When threatening Seppo, Paul tells him "Boy, I've killed far better men than you." [[spoiler: TheReveal near the end of the film is that he accidentally killed Norman back during the war.]]
** Melvin jokes that he'd ''never'' jump on a grenade to save his comrades. [[spoiler:In the final act, he does just
** When threatening Seppo, Paul tells him "Boy, I've killed far better men than you." [[spoiler: TheReveal near the end of the film is that he accidentally killed Norman back during the war.]]
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* AngryBlackMan: Paul, whose attitude is driven by his PTSD.
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* AngryBlackMan: Paul, whose Paul has a very confrontational and violent attitude which is driven by explained as a result of his PTSD.PTSD and [[spoiler:lingering guilt over accidentally killing Norman]].
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* PosthumousCharacter: Stormin' Norman Holloway.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Stormin' Norman Holloway."Stormin' Norman" Holloway is long dead by the time of the film's main plot and only appears in flashbacks to the Vietnam War.
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* MessianicArchetype: During the Vietnam War, the pure-hearted, sage-like Norman served as a spiritual leader to the Bloods, who continue to revere him long after his death. It is mentioned that Paul in particular "believed in Norman like a religion." [[spoiler:The messianic undertones are made explicit towards the end of the film when Paul, after abandoning the other Bloods, has a vision of Norman, who absolves him of his sins and sets him on the path of redemption]].
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** At one point, the Bloods' Vietnamese guide, Vinh, says that Ho Chi Minh is to modern-day Vietnam what George Washington is to the United States. Otis responds that there is one crucial difference between the two -- unlike Washington, Ho Chi Minh was not a slave owner.
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** At one point, the Bloods' Vietnamese guide, Vinh, says that Ho Chi Minh is to modern-day Vietnam what George Washington is to the United States. Otis responds that there is one crucial difference between the two -- two: unlike Washington, Ho Chi Minh was not a slave owner.
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* At one point, the Bloods' Vietnamese guide, Vinh, says that Ho Chi Minh is to modern-day Vietnam what George Washington is to the United States. Otis responds that there is one crucial difference between the two -- unlike Washington, Ho Chi Minh was not a slave owner.
* TimeShiftedActor: [[AvertedTrope Notably averted]], the Vietnam bloods are played by the same actors as they are in the present, with no effort made to de-age them.
* TimeShiftedActor: [[AvertedTrope Notably averted]], the Vietnam bloods are played by the same actors as they are in the present, with no effort made to de-age them.
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* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Paul takes the classic approach of telling a Frenchman that America saved his country, and they'd all be speaking German if not for the Yanks.
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* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Paul takes the classic approach of invokes this stereotype by telling a Frenchman Desroche that America saved his country, country in World War II, and they'd the French would all be speaking German if not for the Yanks.Yanks. Desroche counters that the Americans fared no better in Vietnam than the French.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Paul voices anti-immigration sentiments and surprises the other Bloods by mentioning he voted for "President Fake Bone Spurs." He even wears a "Make America Great Again" cap for most of the second and third acts of the movie.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Paul voices anti-immigration sentiments sentiments, uses offensive language against French and Vietnamese people, and surprises the other Bloods by mentioning he voted for "President Fake Bone Spurs." He even wears a "Make America Great Again" cap for most of the second and third acts of the movie.
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* At one point, the Bloods' Vietnamese guide, Vinh, says that Ho Chi Minh is to modern-day Vietnam what George Washington is to the United States. Otis responds that there is one crucial difference between the two -- unlike Washington, Ho Chi Minh was not a slave owner.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Heddy is a landmine disposal expert, and she pops up the moment there are landmines. [[spoiler:It's subverted in that her team does nothing to help. It's Paul who comes up with a solution]].
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* ChekhovsSkill: Heddy Hedy is a landmine disposal expert, and she pops up the moment there are landmines. [[spoiler:It's subverted in that her team does nothing to help. It's Paul who comes up with a solution]].
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* ContrivedCoincidence: David randomly meets Heddy at a Vietnamese bar. Later, the Bloods encounter a landmine field, and Heddy's team is just a few hundred feet away from that precise landmine field at that precise time.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: David randomly meets Heddy Hedy at a Vietnamese bar. Later, the Bloods encounter a landmine field, and Heddy's Hedy's team is just a few hundred feet away from that precise landmine field at that precise time.
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* FrenchJerk: Desroche is a crooked Frenchman who is condescending toward Americans and [[spoilers:turns out to be the villain of the film]].
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* FrenchJerk: Desroche is a crooked Frenchman who is condescending toward Americans and [[spoilers:turns [[spoiler:turns out to be the villain of the film]].
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As I recall, it's ironic, and he curses it when he tosses it aside at the end.
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** Several of the Bloods take cracks at Donald Trump for dodging the draft. Paul, the only Blood with obvious mental illness, is the only Blood who endorses Trump. And the only other character who does is the BigBad.
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** Several of the Bloods take cracks at Donald Trump for dodging the draft. Paul, the only Blood with obvious mental illness, is the only Blood who endorses Trump. And the only other character who does is the BigBad.The BigBad also wears a MAGA hat ironically for a while before throwing it away and cursing it.
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** The Bloods make fun of movies like ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' and ''Film/MissingInAction'' (except Paul, who says he likes them) asking why Hollywood wanted to make movies where white soldiers get to go back and win the Vietnam War instead of telling stories of real-life heroes like Milton Olive III, a black soldier who saved his platoon by jumping on a grenade.
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** Several of the Bloods take cracks at Donald Trump for dodging the draft. Paul, the only Blood with obvious mental illness, is the only Blood who endorses Trump.
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** Several of the Bloods take cracks at Donald Trump for dodging the draft. Paul, the only Blood with obvious mental illness, is the only Blood who endorses Trump. And the only other character who does is the BigBad.
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* TheAce: Stormin' Norman was the Bloods' leader and the narrative makes clear that he was a very awesome man. [[spoiler:His death was even the result of a very stupid accident, instead of [[BitchInSheepsClothing the very dark secret]] that is hinted to be beforehand.]]
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* FriendlyFire: [[spoiler:It's revealed that this is how Norman actually died, with Paul accidentally plugging him with a round as he shot the Vietcong guerilla trying to get the drop on them.]]
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* FrenchJerk: Desroche is a crooked Frenchman who is condescending toward Americans and [[spoilers:turns out to be the villain of the film]].
* FriendlyFire: [[spoiler:It's revealed that this is how Norman actually died, with Paul accidentally plugging him with a round as he shot the Vietcongguerilla guerrilla trying to get the drop on them.]]
* FriendlyFire: [[spoiler:It's revealed that this is how Norman actually died, with Paul accidentally plugging him with a round as he shot the Vietcong
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'''Da 5 Bloods''' is a 2020 [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war]] / adventure [[InsistentTerminology joint]] by Creator/SpikeLee, with a screenplay by Lee and Kevin Willmott (''Film/{{Blackkklansman}}''), from an original screenplay by Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo (''Film/TheRocketeer'').
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'''Da 5 Bloods''' is a 2020 [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war]] / adventure [[InsistentTerminology joint]] by Creator/SpikeLee, with a screenplay by Lee and Kevin Willmott (''Film/{{Blackkklansman}}''), from an original screenplay by Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo [=DeMeo=] (''Film/TheRocketeer'').
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'''Da 5 Bloods''' is a 2020 [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war]] / adventure [[InsistentTerminology joint]] by Creator/SpikeLee, with a screenplay by [[Film/{{Blackkklansman}} Lee and Kevin Willmott]], Willmott (''Film/{{Blackkklansman}}''), from an original screenplay by [[Film/TheRocketeer Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo]].
DeMeo (''Film/TheRocketeer'').
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* SignatureStyle: As he has done in several other films, such as ''Film/MalcolmX'' and ''Film/BlacKkKlansman'', Spike Lee uses archival footage of historical events and speeches and ends the film with a montage of real people who weren't previously involved in the plot. He has a lot of shots of people [[BreakingTheFourthWall looking into the camera]], including a dolly shot where the subject seems to be floating forward.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: David randomly meets Heddy at a Vietnamese bar. Later, the Bloods encounter a landmine field, and Heddy's team is just a few hundred feet away from that precise landmine field at that precise time.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Melvin jokes that he'd ''never'' jump on a grenade to save his comrades. [[spoiler:In the final act, he does just that]].
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* ShoutingShooter: The Bloods mourn the death of Martin Luther Kind Jr. by screaming and shooting their rifles into the air in unison. It plays out like a parody of the trope.
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* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Paul takes the classic approach of telling a Frenchman that America saved his country, and they'd all be speaking German if not for the Yanks.
* ChekhovsSkill: Heddy is a landmine disposal expert, and she pops up the moment there are landmines. [[spoiler:It's subverted in that her team does nothing to help. It's Paul who comes up with a solution]].
* ChekhovsSkill: Heddy is a landmine disposal expert, and she pops up the moment there are landmines. [[spoiler:It's subverted in that her team does nothing to help. It's Paul who comes up with a solution]].
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* AuthorAppeal:
** The film is social commentary on the African-American experience, a subject dear to Spike Lee's heart.
** Every word in the subtitles is capitalized, which is how Spike Lee composes his tweets.
** The film is social commentary on the African-American experience, a subject dear to Spike Lee's heart.
** Every word in the subtitles is capitalized, which is how Spike Lee composes his tweets.
