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Actors: Tom Berenger, Diane Venora
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Substitute |
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A Vietnam War vet goes undercover as a high school substitute teacher to find out who's behind a drug smuggling ring, involving a gang known as the KOD.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Substitute |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- gang conflict
- drug dealers
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- white
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- accused criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinoa
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
City?
Yes
City:
- Miami
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- flamed
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Rap/hip-hop
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