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Yes, the tapestry portrays a simple scene, yet upon closer inspection, one realizes that its threads have been woven with complexity. But Lee has always been a master of using the cinematic tropes that have always worked as an okey-doke: the left hand lures you in with the familiar before the right hand blindsides you with the unexpected punching power of the intended point. In lesser hands, the occasional messiness of the script by Lee, his fellow Oscar winning вЂњBlacKkKlansmanвЂќ scribe Kevin Wilmott, and Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo might result in a film weakened by its occasional predictability. The gold itself is just as big a MacGuffin, except here itвЂ™s also a deus ex machina of sorts, pulling out of the ether a note of hopeful uplift that ties the fictional story to a much-desired, reality-based outcome thatвЂ™s almost too good to believe but wonderful to behold. So, thereвЂ™s a nod to Walter HustonвЂ™s joyous gold discovery dance and Vietnamese bandits dare to paraphrase that line about not needing any stinkinвЂ™ badges. Steal from the best, as the adage goes, and вЂњTreasureвЂќ is a vein worth mining. The loot has also already been turned into more palatable and recognizable gold bars.ДЄs in films like вЂњ Inside ManвЂќ and вЂњ BlacKkKlansman,вЂќ Lee unabashedly quotes his influences-he knows that you know what heвЂ™s doing, and he milks that for as much mileage as he can. TravenвЂ™s classic parable of greed, вЂњ The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.вЂќ Like that film, the plot involves a search for gold, though unlike Humphrey Bogart and JohnвЂ™s dad, Walter, the main characters here have a good idea where the treasure is. Running in parallel with these criticisms are blatant homages to other films, and not just war movies like вЂњ Apocalypse Now,вЂќ which gets a visual name-check as the main characters do a pseudo-Soul Train line boogie to Marvin GayeвЂ™s вЂњGot to Give it Up.вЂќ A big chunk of вЂњDa 5 BloodsвЂќ pays tribute to John HustonвЂ™s masterful 1948 adaptation of B.

ItвЂ™s this type of whitewashing of veterans that Lee chips at with his cast and his story, the same type that would allow an NFL quarterback to imply that his White grandfathers were more patriotic than the soldiers of color who fought in the war with them, yet came home to inferior circumstances. ThereвЂ™s also commentary on just how White these movies were, with people like Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone achieving mythic glory while blithely erasing the fact that 32% of the soldiers in the jungle were Black.

Lee is one of the few directors who takes to heart GodardвЂ™s comment that вЂњIn order to criticize a movie, you have to make another movie.вЂќ There is critique here, especially of films like вЂњ The Green Berets,вЂќ вЂњRamboвЂќ and вЂњMissing in Action,вЂќ with one character joking about how Hollywood went back to Vietnam to вЂњtry winning the warвЂќ on-screen.

#Deus ex tv tropes movie#

Deus Ex Universe: The Dawning Darkness (2016) note A one-shot digital comic that covers the hours leading up to Mankind Divided.Between these two bookends is a heist movie of sorts, albeit one with far more on its mind than its plot details would suggest.

#Deus ex tv tropes series#

Deus Ex Universe: Children's Crusade (2016) note A comic series that takes place just before the events of Mankind Divided.

Deus Ex: Black Light (2016) note An Interquel that takes place between Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, and sees Adam and Frank Pritchard teaming up to follow leads on the Illuminati.

Deus Ex: Hard Line (2016) note A novella that follows Alexandra Vega during the interim between The Fall and Mankind Divided.

Deus Ex: Fallen Angel (2013) note A novella focusing on Faridah Malik's whereabouts prior to Human Revolution.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (comic) (2011) note An Interquel that takes place between the 'Highland Park' and 'Hengsha' missions in Human Revolution.

Deus Ex: Icarus Effect (2011) note A novel which acts as a Prequel to Human Revolution and The Fall.