History Film / TheViolentYears

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* SedgwickSpeech: [[FamousLastWords "Hah! Look at 'em jump! Just like rabbits!"]] BLAM.[[note]]'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Servo]]:''' Rabbits... with... ''guns''... and... good ''aim''. Or: '''[[Film/ItCameFromHollywood Dan Aykroyd]]:''' Yeah, look at 'em shoot, just like professional marksmen![[/note]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: A notworthy aversion: The film establishes that this is a ''very'' bad thing the girls have done, and is played completely for drama.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Ed Wood's dialog always bubbles with subconscious sexuality.
-->'''Barney:''' They're a cute pair.
-->'''Paula:''' They have their points.

* SedgwickSpeech: [[FamousLastWords "Hah! Look at 'em jump! Just like rabbits!"]] BLAM.[[note]]'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Servo]]:''' Rabbits... with... ''guns''... and... good ''aim''.[[/note]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Done in such a way to subvert AManIsAlwaysEager.

* PoliceAreUseless: The police are laughably ineffective at catching the gang. Until the end at least.

* HollywoodLaw: So the grandparents of an orphaned child have to specifically petition the courts for custody, and the same judge that just presided over a murder trial can turn them down because he thinks they're neglectful and [[MoralDissonance a state orphanage is a better place for the baby than with an affluent family]]? In RealLife - even then - the judge would be overturned on appeal at warp speed, likely followed by a rebuke from the state judicial review board.

->"''(An EasterEgg shows) a condensed version of [[FetishFuel every man's fantasy]] from THE VIOLENT YEARS... IT DOESN'T HAPPEN--GET OVER IT!''"

* Creator/EdWood: He wrote this.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Done in such a way to subvert AllMenArePerverts.
** Also sets up the particularly harsh DownerEnding.

This lack of attention means that Paula must naturally turn to crime to get satisfaction with life. She forms a girl gang with three friends and they end up knocking over gas stations. Eventually they're forced to switch targets, and ultimately Paula seeks greater fare. And boy does she (and her friends) get it.

* HollywoodLaw: So the grandparents of an orphaned child have to specifically petition the courts for custody, and the same judge that just presided over a murder trial can turn them down because he thinks they're neglectful and [[MoralDissonance a state orphanage is a better place for the baby than with an affluent family?]] In RealLife - even then - the judge would be overturned on appeal at warp speed, likely followed by a rebuke from the state judicial review board.

* MisterExposition: The family court judge, who also functions as a bookend for the movie.

* PokeThePoodle: The gang's (for want of a better word) "rampage" through their school consists mostly of... [[FelonyMisdemeanor tipping chairs over and erasing chalkboards.]] [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Oh, and killing a cop.]]

* VillainousCrossdresser: Paula and her gang dress as boys during their crimes. They also call themselves by the male equivalent of their names over the phone (as code). Paula is Paul, Phyllis is Phil, etc.
** Amusingly they don't make any ''other'' attempt to hide their gender, so it's not any kind of disguise. They still wear makeup, jewelry, obviously female hairstyles...
** In an earlier version of the script, the characters were boys. Yes, even Ed Wood had ideas he didn't use.

* DirtyCommunists: Sheila's dialogue implies that [[DirtyCommunists the Soviet Union]] is paying her, and the girls by extension, to smash up a classroom. It's a ''seriously'' stupid example.

* BiggerBad: Sheila's dialogue implies that [[DirtyCommunists the Soviet Union]] is paying her, and the girls by extension, to smash up a classroom. It's a ''seriously'' stupid example.

''The Violent Years'' is a 1956 {{Glurge}}fest bringing us the story of one young Paula Parkins. She has it all on the surface... money, things, a lovely house, beauty and youth. However, the movie posits, she lacks the most important thing, true parental attention.

-->DVD Drive-In [[http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/t-z/violentyears.htm review]]

->"''An EasterEgg shows a condensed version of [[FetishFuel every man's fantasy]] from THE VIOLENT YEARS... IT DOESN'T HAPPEN--GET OVER IT!''"

->"''An EasterEgg shows a condensed version of every man's fantasy from THE VIOLENT YEARS... IT DOESN'T HAPPEN--GET OVER IT!''"

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E10TheViolentYears episode recap page]].

* MoralMyopia: "[The cops] are shooting back!"[[note]]'''[[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Servo:]]''' ''(chuckling)'' What?! The ''bastards''![[/note]]

* SedgwickSpeech: [[FamousLastWords "Hah! Look at 'em jump! Just like rabbits!"]] BLAM.[[note]]'''[[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Servo]]:''' Rabbits... with... ''guns''... and... good ''aim''.[[/note]]

* AuthorAppeal: Angora sweater? You bet. Crossdressing? Yep, though the less common female crossdressing. However, the rape victim's girlfriend is wearing an angora sweater, Eddie's favorite fabric.

* AuthorAppeal: Angora sweater? You bet. Crossdressing? Yep, though the less common female crossdressing.