Badass Longcoat: In each of the first two films Kate wears a badass full-length overcoat that subtly underscores her Determinator/ Mama Bear nature.Despite this, the movie is explicitly set on and shortly after January 8th. The plot does have some holiday trappings the airport is decorated for Christmas, and the plot is set in motion by a gift Alex receives. In the second, the toy store owner he befriended has a load of surprise presents delivered to the McCallisters' hotel room. In the first one, Kevin puts some presents under the tree after cleaning up from Harry and Marv's break-in and before going to bed. The first two films are set in the days immediately leading up to Christmas.It's right around when he loses his shoe through the doggy door. Averted by Marv, who utters an S-bomb at one point ( and if you can't hear it, it's in the subtitles on the DVD).Pesci had a tough time shaking off the word during his Angrish rants it apparently took him a single day to fill a Swear Jar Columbus brought on set. Director Chris Columbus suggested Pesci focus on saying the word "fridge" Pesci joined this film after wrapping up Goodfellas, where his character set the gold standard for Cluster F-Bomb-ing. Harry speaks it often in the third acts of both films, because they couldn't let Joe Pesci swear.Amusing Injuries: The injuries the villains sustain make up most of the movies' comedy, despite the fact that several of them are pretty extreme for a kid's movie series, and should have killed the villains several times over if used even semi-realistically.The second has Fuller mixed with Tracy, Sondra, Rod and Brooke. The first has Buzz and Linnie along with Kevin, Jeff and Megan. Aerith and Bob: Both McCallister families.Kevin is rescued by Marley in the first film and the Pigeon Lady in the second. Subverted (briefly) by Harry and Marv, who do manage to catch Kevin in both movies. An essential trope here, since each movie is built around a small child outsmarting an array of dim and gullible adults.That said, the original movie inspired a bunch of family movies throughout the 1990s that featured clever kids using booby traps and Homemade Inventions to thwart dimwitted adults. Technically, the first film is from 1990, but the cultural '80s didn't end until 1992 or 1993. The '80s: In the first film, while it's The '90s in the sequels.
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