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* DownerEnding: Not that her life with Mr. Dennis offered a lot of hope to begin with, but Wanda is left alone again at the end after Mr. Dennis is shot to death.
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* DownerEnding: Not that her life with Mr. Dennis offered a lot of hope to begin with, but [[spoiler: Wanda is left alone again at the end after Mr. Dennis is shot to death.death]].
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''Wanda'' is a 1971 film written by, directed by, and starring Barbara Loden, who in her spare time was married to Creator/EliaKazan.
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''Wanda'' is a 1971 independent drama film written by, directed by, and starring Barbara Loden, who in her spare time was married to Creator/EliaKazan.
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Things go from bad to worse for Wanda when she wanders into a movie theater and falls asleep, only to wake up and discover that someone stole the very little money in her wallet. Lacking anywhere else to go, she wanders into a bar, ignoring the agitated man behind the counter who tells her that the bar is closed. It turns out the agitated man is an armed robber, one Norman Dennis. Wanda, lacking any other options in her life, latches on for dear life to the abrasive, abusive "Mr. Dennis", joining him in a life of crime.
[[NoBudget Made on a budget of $100,000]]. The only feature film directed by Loden before her untimely death from breast cancer at the age of 48 in 1980.
[[NoBudget Made on a budget of $100,000]]. The only feature film directed by Loden before her untimely death from breast cancer at the age of 48 in 1980.
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Things go from bad to worse for Wanda when she wanders into a movie theater and falls asleep, only to wake up and discover that someone stole the very little money in her wallet. Lacking anywhere else to go, she wanders into a bar, ignoring the agitated man behind the counter who tells informs her that the bar is closed. It turns out that the agitated man is an armed robber, one Norman Dennis. Dennis (Michael Higgins), an armed robber. Wanda, lacking any other options in her life, options, latches on for dear life to the abrasive, abusive "Mr. Dennis", soon joining him in a life of crime.
[[NoBudget Made on a budget of$100,000]]. The $100,000]], this was the only feature film directed by Loden before prior to her untimely death from breast cancer at the age of 48 in 1980.
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Wanda Goransky (Loden) is a dirt-poor woman living in a dirt-poor housing development in southwest Pennsylvania that directly abuts a coal mine. She is beaten down by life, perpetually melancholy, barely literate, unable to get a pathetically low-paying job in a garment factory, sleeping on her sister's couch (and her brother-in-law wants her out). She is late for her own divorce hearing, at which she apathetically agrees to let her husband have custody of their two children.
Things go from bad to worse for Wanda when she wanders into a movie theater and falls asleep, only to wake up and discover that someone stole the very little money in her wallet. Lacking anywhere else to go she wanders into a bar, ignoring the agitated man behind the counter who tells her the bar is closed. It turns out the agitated man is an armed robber, one Norman Dennis. Wanda, lacking any other options in her life, latches on for dear life to the abrasive, abusive "Mr. Dennis", joining him in a life of crime.
Things go from bad to worse for Wanda when she wanders into a movie theater and falls asleep, only to wake up and discover that someone stole the very little money in her wallet. Lacking anywhere else to go she wanders into a bar, ignoring the agitated man behind the counter who tells her the bar is closed. It turns out the agitated man is an armed robber, one Norman Dennis. Wanda, lacking any other options in her life, latches on for dear life to the abrasive, abusive "Mr. Dennis", joining him in a life of crime.
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Wanda Goransky (Loden) is a dirt-poor woman living in a dirt-poor housing development in that directly abuts a southwest Pennsylvania that directly abuts a coal mine. She Wanda is beaten down by life, life – aimless, perpetually melancholy, barely literate, unable to get keep a pathetically low-paying job in a garment factory, sleeping on her sister's couch (and her brother-in-law wants her out). She is turns up late for to her own divorce hearing, at which she apathetically agrees to let her husband have custody of their two children.
Things go from bad to worse for Wanda when she wanders into a movie theater and falls asleep, only to wake up and discover that someone stole the very little money in her wallet. Lacking anywhere else togo go, she wanders into a bar, ignoring the agitated man behind the counter who tells her that the bar is closed. It turns out the agitated man is an armed robber, one Norman Dennis. Wanda, lacking any other options in her life, latches on for dear life to the abrasive, abusive "Mr. Dennis", joining him in a life of crime.
Things go from bad to worse for Wanda when she wanders into a movie theater and falls asleep, only to wake up and discover that someone stole the very little money in her wallet. Lacking anywhere else to
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Wanda is very bad at picking up on social cues, has difficulties remembering and following simple instructions, and doesn't seem to be aware of the concept of taxes despite being old enough to be a divorced mother of two.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Wanda is very bad at picking up on social cues, has difficulties remembering and following simple instructions, and doesn't seem to be aware of the concept of taxes despite being old enough to be a divorced mother of two.
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* BathOfPoverty: The whole reason Wanda and Mr. Dennis meet in the first place is because Wanda, who is utterly broke and now homeless, dives into a bar to wash up.
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* HassleFreeHotwire: Mr. Dennis breaks into a car and hotwires it, only for Wanda to pluck the keys from the eyeshield and say "Why didn't you use these?"
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* HassleFreeHotwire: Mr. Dennis breaks into a car and hotwires it, only for Wanda to pluck the keys from the eyeshield sun visor and say "Why didn't you use these?"
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''Wanda'' is a 1971 film written by, directed by, and starring Barbara Loden, who in her spare time was married to Creator/EliaKazan.
Wanda Goransky (Loden) is a dirt-poor woman living in a dirt-poor housing development in southwest Pennsylvania that directly abuts a coal mine. She is beaten down by life, perpetually melancholy, barely literate, unable to get a pathetically low-paying job in a garment factory, sleeping on her sister's couch (and her brother-in-law wants her out). She is late for her own divorce hearing, at which she apathetically agrees to let her husband have custody of their two children.
Things go from bad to worse for Wanda when she wanders into a movie theater and falls asleep, only to wake up and discover that someone stole the very little money in her wallet. Lacking anywhere else to go she wanders into a bar, ignoring the agitated man behind the counter who tells her the bar is closed. It turns out the agitated man is an armed robber, one Norman Dennis. Wanda, lacking any other options in her life, latches on for dear life to the abrasive, abusive "Mr. Dennis", joining him in a life of crime.
[[NoBudget Made on a budget of $100,000]]. The only feature film directed by Loden before her untimely death from breast cancer at the age of 48 in 1980.
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!!Tropes:
* CassandraTruth: Mr. Dennis goes to see an older man, an old criminal acquaintance, and tries to get him to be the getaway driver in the bank robbery. The old man declines, saying there's "one chance in a hundred" they'd get away. In the end, of course. Mr. Dennis doesn't get away.
* ControlFreak: Mr. Dennis bosses Wanda around harshly, demanding that she wear only dresses, demanding she wear a hat because he thinks her hair is unattractive. Wanda goes along with all of it.
* CrapsackWorld: The deeply depressing coal mining country of southwest Pennsylvania, where even the people who have jobs are living in desperate poverty.
* DownerEnding: Not that her life with Mr. Dennis offered a lot of hope to begin with, but Wanda is left alone again at the end after Mr. Dennis is shot to death.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Mr. Dennis takes a break from his life of crime to go home and visit his dad. Pop Dennis knows what his son does for a living and thus refuses his son's money, but does say that he likes Wanda.
* ExtremeDoormat: Depression, low self-esteem, hopelessness--whatever the reason, Wanda is only too willing to let Mr. Dennis walk all over her. Wearing only dresses, wearing hats, robbing banks: she'll do what he tells her. When she comes back to the hotel room and finds her wallet in the trash can (Mr. Dennis had rifled through it and was preparing to leave) all she says is "How did that get there?" Most disturbing is when he slaps her across the face while she's chattering about going to get the hamburgers, and after a pause, she keeps chattering.
* HassleFreeHotwire: Mr. Dennis breaks into a car and hotwires it, only for Wanda to pluck the keys from the eyeshield and say "Why didn't you use these?"
* LastNameBasis: Wanda only ever calls her lover "Mr. Dennis", demonstrating the dominant/submissive nature of their relationship.
* MeetCute: It's not very cute, honestly, but it's the kind of setup that could start a romcom: Wanda blunders into a bar while Mr. Dennis is in the process of robbing it, and she goes away with him.
* OutlawCouple: She's just kind of tagging along for a while, but they graduate to full Outlaw Couple status by the time Wanda helps Mr. Dennis conduct a home invasion, then rob a bank.
* ParentalAbandonment: At the divorce hearing, Wanda's husband says he'd often come home to find the kids running around unsupervised outside while Wanda slept on a couch inside. She then agrees with barely a shrug to let him have the kids, skipping town with Mr. Dennis soon after.
* RedHerring: Mr. Dennis is occasionally seen popping aspirins, and in one scene he's in severe distress from a migraine headache. Does he have brain cancer? Is he going to have a stroke? The headaches never lead anywhere.
* RevealShot: At first Mr. Dennis seems to be the bar owner , who is agitated when Wanda entered through the unlocked door after closing time. Then the camera moves and reveals that the bar owner is BoundAndGagged on the floor behind the bar.
* StressVomit: Wanda does this for a little bit before she and Mr. Dennis leave for the big bank robbery.
* ThousandYardStare: Wanda suffers from the shock of Mr. Dennis's death, only to have to fend off a would-be rapist who picks her up at a bar. She flees from the rapist, running through a forest until she gets clear and wanders into a bar. She winds up getting roped into a table with some drunken revelers. The film then ends with a freeze-frame on Wanda's empty stare, as she gazes off into nothing.
* TimeBomb: Mr. Dennis' bank robbery plan involves invading the bank manager's house, tying up his wife and daughters, and leaving a time bomb with the threat that it will explode if he doesn't return to disarm it. It turns out to be a dummy bomb.
* WouldHitAGirl: An agitated Mr. Dennis slaps Wanda across the face when she comes back unexpectedly from the burger run, before he had the chance to ditch her.
Wanda Goransky (Loden) is a dirt-poor woman living in a dirt-poor housing development in southwest Pennsylvania that directly abuts a coal mine. She is beaten down by life, perpetually melancholy, barely literate, unable to get a pathetically low-paying job in a garment factory, sleeping on her sister's couch (and her brother-in-law wants her out). She is late for her own divorce hearing, at which she apathetically agrees to let her husband have custody of their two children.
Things go from bad to worse for Wanda when she wanders into a movie theater and falls asleep, only to wake up and discover that someone stole the very little money in her wallet. Lacking anywhere else to go she wanders into a bar, ignoring the agitated man behind the counter who tells her the bar is closed. It turns out the agitated man is an armed robber, one Norman Dennis. Wanda, lacking any other options in her life, latches on for dear life to the abrasive, abusive "Mr. Dennis", joining him in a life of crime.
[[NoBudget Made on a budget of $100,000]]. The only feature film directed by Loden before her untimely death from breast cancer at the age of 48 in 1980.
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!!Tropes:
* CassandraTruth: Mr. Dennis goes to see an older man, an old criminal acquaintance, and tries to get him to be the getaway driver in the bank robbery. The old man declines, saying there's "one chance in a hundred" they'd get away. In the end, of course. Mr. Dennis doesn't get away.
* ControlFreak: Mr. Dennis bosses Wanda around harshly, demanding that she wear only dresses, demanding she wear a hat because he thinks her hair is unattractive. Wanda goes along with all of it.
* CrapsackWorld: The deeply depressing coal mining country of southwest Pennsylvania, where even the people who have jobs are living in desperate poverty.
* DownerEnding: Not that her life with Mr. Dennis offered a lot of hope to begin with, but Wanda is left alone again at the end after Mr. Dennis is shot to death.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Mr. Dennis takes a break from his life of crime to go home and visit his dad. Pop Dennis knows what his son does for a living and thus refuses his son's money, but does say that he likes Wanda.
* ExtremeDoormat: Depression, low self-esteem, hopelessness--whatever the reason, Wanda is only too willing to let Mr. Dennis walk all over her. Wearing only dresses, wearing hats, robbing banks: she'll do what he tells her. When she comes back to the hotel room and finds her wallet in the trash can (Mr. Dennis had rifled through it and was preparing to leave) all she says is "How did that get there?" Most disturbing is when he slaps her across the face while she's chattering about going to get the hamburgers, and after a pause, she keeps chattering.
* HassleFreeHotwire: Mr. Dennis breaks into a car and hotwires it, only for Wanda to pluck the keys from the eyeshield and say "Why didn't you use these?"
* LastNameBasis: Wanda only ever calls her lover "Mr. Dennis", demonstrating the dominant/submissive nature of their relationship.
* MeetCute: It's not very cute, honestly, but it's the kind of setup that could start a romcom: Wanda blunders into a bar while Mr. Dennis is in the process of robbing it, and she goes away with him.
* OutlawCouple: She's just kind of tagging along for a while, but they graduate to full Outlaw Couple status by the time Wanda helps Mr. Dennis conduct a home invasion, then rob a bank.
* ParentalAbandonment: At the divorce hearing, Wanda's husband says he'd often come home to find the kids running around unsupervised outside while Wanda slept on a couch inside. She then agrees with barely a shrug to let him have the kids, skipping town with Mr. Dennis soon after.
* RedHerring: Mr. Dennis is occasionally seen popping aspirins, and in one scene he's in severe distress from a migraine headache. Does he have brain cancer? Is he going to have a stroke? The headaches never lead anywhere.
* RevealShot: At first Mr. Dennis seems to be the bar owner , who is agitated when Wanda entered through the unlocked door after closing time. Then the camera moves and reveals that the bar owner is BoundAndGagged on the floor behind the bar.
* StressVomit: Wanda does this for a little bit before she and Mr. Dennis leave for the big bank robbery.
* ThousandYardStare: Wanda suffers from the shock of Mr. Dennis's death, only to have to fend off a would-be rapist who picks her up at a bar. She flees from the rapist, running through a forest until she gets clear and wanders into a bar. She winds up getting roped into a table with some drunken revelers. The film then ends with a freeze-frame on Wanda's empty stare, as she gazes off into nothing.
* TimeBomb: Mr. Dennis' bank robbery plan involves invading the bank manager's house, tying up his wife and daughters, and leaving a time bomb with the threat that it will explode if he doesn't return to disarm it. It turns out to be a dummy bomb.
* WouldHitAGirl: An agitated Mr. Dennis slaps Wanda across the face when she comes back unexpectedly from the burger run, before he had the chance to ditch her.
