Red Right Hand: Claude recognizes the real murderer by his accent and the scar across his cheek.Orphan's Plot Trinket: Ray's watch, given to him by his deceased father who hung himself in prison.The Old Convict: Claude and Ray become this over decades of incarceration.Odd Couple: Straight laced Claude and petty thief Ray.Make It Look Like an Accident: The superintendent explains to the police that the shooting was a Dick Cheney style hunting accident.However, his baseball skills earn him a full pardon and he manages to have an affair with the superintendent's daughter. Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Can't Get Right is obviously very simple and never speaks.Imagine Spot: The inmates have one when Ray talks about his dream of owning a nightclub.I Am Spartacus: The entire camp claims fathership of Mae Rose's child to save Can't Get Right.Unfortunately, the stress of the day's events causes a heart attack and he dies without drawing up the papers or telling a soul. Hope Spot: When the superintendent finds out Ray and Claude are innocent, he immediately moves to write their pardon - right after he gets out of the restroom.Foregone Conclusion: Ray and Claude die in prison.Fire-Forged Friends: Ray and Claude hate each other until they have to spend decades in each other's company.Amazingly, he's shown being shoved into The Hole with no injuries other than a hilarious covering of soot. Everything Makes a Mushroom: Ray's attempt to escape in the crop duster ends this way.No one ever even knows Can't Get Right's real name, as he can't speak to introduce himself. Instead they are introduced by their prison names: Biscuit, Jangle Leg, Cookie, etc. Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": We never hear most of the inmate's real names.Ray's father gave up hope and hung himself in prison.Driven to Suicide: Unable to cope with the idea of living on the outside, Biscuit commits suicide by running across the gun line.Deep South: Even though they are black men in the early 1900s, Claude is shocked to see the differences in their treatment when they leave New York and head South.The best of which is Murhpy's crack during the watch scene: "Hey, this ain't my daddy's watch!" Credits Gag: A bloopers reel is shown during the credits.This leads to a hilarious scene where the Superintendent lines the prisoners up and compares the baby to each of them, trying to root out the father. Chocolate Baby: The Superintendent's daughter gives birth to a very obviously not white child.Still the ending treats this in a positive light. By the time they finally pull of a successful escape, they're both fairly old men living in the modern world. Bittersweet Ending: Debatable but Claude and Ray pretty much spend their whole lives locked away for a crime they never committed.Sentenced to life, their friendship is forged by proximity and the dream of escape. While making the sale in the Deep South, the boys get involved in a crooked game of cards and end up framed for the murder of the local card shark. Fitting it firmly in the Dramady territory.Ĭlaude Banks (Lawrence) gets caught up in a bootlegging scheme after a fateful run in with no-good Ray Gibson (Murphy). It has surprising depths as it follows several decades of the main characters' unlikely friendship. At first glance, it appears to be a normal, Murphy, screwball comedy. Life is a 1999 film starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed.
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