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* CelebrityParadox: A poster for the film ''Film/WagonMaster'', which starred Ben Johnson, is seen at the theatre.
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* CelebrityParadox: A poster for the film ''Film/WagonMaster'', which starred Ben Johnson, is seen at the theatre. Johnson also worked as a stuntman on ''Film/RedRiver'', which ends up being the actual "last picture show."
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* CoolShades: Lois wears them. Abilene's aviator shades are also worth mentioning, though for a Texas oil driller they're more functional than a fashion choice.
* DidIMentionItsChristmas: A major set piece early in the film takes place at a big community Christmas party.
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* TheLastTitle: The title.It's called ''The Last Picture Show'' because the movie theater is forced to close due to lack of business.
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* MrsRobinson: Sonny starts a relationship with Ruth Popper, the middle-aged wife of the high school coach. It's also implied that Jacy's mother Lois might be attracted to him.
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* MrsRobinson: Sonny starts a relationship with Ruth Popper, the middle-aged 40-year-old wife of the high school football/basketball coach. It's also implied that Jacy's mother Lois might be attracted to him.
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* SmallTownBoredom: Anarene has around 1,000 people, and the only real economy in town is the dying oil industry. The teens and the adults live restless lives. As summed up by Creator/RogerEbert, it's a story "about a town with no reason to exist, and people with no reason to live there. The only hope is in transgression."
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* SmallTownBoredom: Anarene has around a little over 1,000 people, and the only real economy in town is the dying oil industry. The teens and the adults live restless lives. As summed up by Creator/RogerEbert, it's a story "about a town with no reason to exist, and people with no reason to live there. The only hope is in transgression."
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Averted. Jimmie Sue, the town hooker, is probably the single most loathsome character in the film, for her downright rude treatment of Billy.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Averted. Jimmie Sue, the drive-in restaurant owner who moonlights as the town hooker, is probably the single most loathsome character in the film, for her downright rude treatment of Billy.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: A huge theme of the story.
-->'''Sonny''': Is being married always so miserable?
-->'''Sam the Lion''': Not really. About eighty percent of the time, I guess.
-->'''Sonny''': Is being married always so miserable?
-->'''Sam the Lion''': Not really. About eighty percent of the time, I guess.
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* CurbStompBattle: The football game played the night before the film starts was a hugely humiliating loss for the Anarene team. 121-14!
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* CurbStompBattle: The football game played the night before the film story starts was a hugely humiliating loss for the Anarene team. The basketball team doesn't fare much better, losing one game by a score of 121-14!
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With a stellar cast that also included Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Randy Quaid (in his film debut) and John Hillerman, [[DeliberatelyMonochrome it was shot in black and white for aesthetic and technical reasons]], which was unusual for its time.
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With a stellar cast that also included Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Randy Quaid (in his film debut) debut), and John Hillerman, [[DeliberatelyMonochrome it was shot in black and white for aesthetic and technical reasons]], which was unusual for its time.
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* BittersweetEnding: Pretty close to a DownerEnding. Sonny loses Jacey, who honestly was really not that interested in the first place and used him as a tool to piss off her parents. Duane leaves for the army. The DyingTown gets that much closer to dead as the movie theater closes. And poor Billy is struck and killed in the street by a truck. The only thing that leavens the ending somewhat is the reconciliation between Sonny and Ruth at the end, with her taking his hand and saying "Never you mind."
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--> "Never you mind, honey... never you mind."
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%%* IWasQuiteALooker: Lois Farrow.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: Sonny leaving childish things behind.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: Sonny leaving childish things behind.behind, as he and the other kids graduate from high school and have to start the adult world.
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* CurbStompBattle: The football game played the night before the film starts was apparently a hugely humiliating loss for the Anarene team.team. 121-14!
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* GlassEye: [[spoiler:Sonny ends up with one after Duane hits him with a beer bottle in a fight]]
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Happens to [[spoiler:Duane]] when he [[spoiler:first tries to deflower Jacy]].
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Happens to [[spoiler:Duane]] Duane when he [[spoiler:first first tries to deflower Jacy]].Jacy.
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* HangoverSensitivity: Duane comes back in rough shape after he and Sonny went on a spree in Mexico.
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Bogdanovich and most of the cast reunited for the sequel ''Film/{{Texasville}}'' in 1990.
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* {{Sequel}}: ''Texasville'', [=McMurtry=]'s sequel to the original novel, was itself adapted for the screen by Bogdanovich in 1990. Bridges, Shepherd, Leachman, Bottoms, Quaid, and Brennan all reprised their roles.
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* {{Sequel}}: ''Texasville'', ''Film/{{Texasville}}'', [=McMurtry=]'s sequel to the original novel, was itself adapted for the screen by Bogdanovich in 1990. Bridges, Shepherd, Leachman, Bottoms, Quaid, and Brennan all reprised their roles.
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Set in a small town in north Texas between November 1951 and October 1952, it is about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and his friend Duane Jackson (Creator/JeffBridges). The cast includes Cybill Shepherd in her film debut, Ben Johnson, Eileen Brennan, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Clu Gulager, Randy Quaid in his film debut and John Hillerman. [[DeliberatelyMonochrome For aesthetic and technical reasons it was shot in black and white]], which was unusual for its time.
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His best friend is Duane Jackson
But as Anarene's young people get ready to become adults, the town's adults are leading lives of desperation, with unhappy marriages and numerous extramarital affairs. Sonny gets drawn into this when he falls in love with Ruth Popper (Cloris Leachman), the shy wife of the school's athletic coach. Meanwhile, Jacy's and Duane's relationship gets strained and Jacy and Sonny start seeing each other, which naturally puts a wedge between Sonny and Duane. But as life goes on the relationships between various people in town resolve themselves in unexpected ways.
With a stellar cast that also included Eileen Brennan,
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Averted hard. Jimmie Sue, the town hooker, is probably the single most loathsome character in the film, for her downright rude treatment of Billy.
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''The Last Picture Show'' is a 1971 American drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry [=McMurtry=].
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''The Last Picture Show'' is a 1971 American drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, Creator/PeterBogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry [=McMurtry=].
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The film was nominated for eight {{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture, Best Director, and four nominations for acting: Ben Johnson and Jeff Bridges for Best Supporting Actor, and Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman for Best Supporting Actress. It won two: Johnson and Leachman.
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The film was nominated for eight {{Academy UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture, Best Director, and four nominations for acting: Ben Johnson and Jeff Bridges for Best Supporting Actor, and Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman for Best Supporting Actress. It won two: Johnson and Leachman.
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* NewOldWest: Though the film doesn't deal with a lot of the classic themes and plot elements of TheWestern, it was clearly influenced by the films of Creator/HowardHawks and Creator/JohnFord.
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* NewOldWest: Though the film doesn't deal with a lot of the classic themes and plot elements of TheWestern, it was clearly influenced by the films of Creator/HowardHawks and Creator/JohnFord. Having familiar Western character actors in the cast like Ben Johnson (Sam) and Clu Gulager (Abilene) also adds to this feel.
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** Another film advertised earlier on the cinema marquee is ''Film/Winchester73'', starring Creator/JamesStewart, who, as noted on the Trivia page, was Bogdanovich's first choice to play Sam the Lion.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Sam the Lion, and Genevieve the waitress.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The intense final scene with Sonny and Ruth has the goofy comedy record [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poCWRJTgMQU "It's in the Book"]] playing in the background.
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* SignatureMove: For Sam the Lion, rolling cigarettes.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Happens to [[spoiler:Duane]] when he [[spoiler:first tries to deflower Jacy]].
* ReCut: Columbia Pictures mandated that the film had to be under two hours in its original release (it ended up as 118 minutes). In TheNineties Peter Bogdanovich did a director's cut with eight additional minutes, which is the version that currently circulates
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** Opening the film with a silent white-on-black title card was a nod to ''Film/CitizenKane'', as was the frequent use of deep focus shots.
** The two main characters watch ''Film/RedRiver'' during the titular "last picture show" at the town's soon-to-be-closing
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* NothingButHits: This was a TropeMaker for using hit songs as a way to establish a period feel in a film, but there's an admirably eclectic choice of pop and CountryMusic hits from the early 1950s, ranging from ballads to uptempo numbers to novelty songs.
* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: The film has no score, but lots of songs from TheFifties played on radios and record players, with Music/HankWilliams as the dominant artist.
* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: The film has no score, but lots of songs from TheFifties played on radios and record players, with Music/HankWilliams as the dominant artist.
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* CelebrityParadox: A poster for the film ''Film/WagonMaster'', which starred Ben Johnson, is seen at the theatre.
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Set in a small town in north Texas between November 1951 and October 1952, it is about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and his friend Duane Jackson (Creator/JeffBridges). The cast includes Cybill Shepherd in her film debut, Ben Johnson, Eileen Brennan, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Clu Gulager, Randy Quaid in his film debut and John Hillerman. For aesthetic and technical reasons it was shot in black and white, which was unusual for its time.
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Set in a small town in north Texas between November 1951 and October 1952, it is about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and his friend Duane Jackson (Creator/JeffBridges). The cast includes Cybill Shepherd in her film debut, Ben Johnson, Eileen Brennan, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Clu Gulager, Randy Quaid in his film debut and John Hillerman. [[DeliberatelyMonochrome For aesthetic and technical reasons it was shot in black and white, white]], which was unusual for its time.
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The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, {{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture, Best Director, and four nominations for acting: Ben Johnson and Jeff Bridges for Best Supporting Actor, and Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman for Best Supporting Actress. It won two: Johnson and Leachman.
