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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 02:49:07 No.5676576 View View Reply Original Report

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I hadn't realized how pathetic wrestlers are before watching this. What do you think of this movie? Did it do a good job depicting the life of a wrestler?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 02:51:03 No.5676586 Report

Quoted By: >>5676777

i preferred the sequel when based ram came back repackaged with a new electrowhip gimmick and had a program with iron man

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 02:53:29 No.5676601 Report

Quoted By: >>5676615 >>5676750

>>5676576
His whole point was he was an alcoholic fuck up who couldnt succeed as a normal job or a wrestler

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 02:54:50 No.5676615 Report

Quoted By: >>5679214

>>5676601
But he was dimes. Multiple people recognize him and he gets a big pop any time he comes out

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 02:55:48 No.5676625 Report

Quoted By: >>5676642 >>5682230

>>5676576
happens more often than not, the hulkster would probably be in that situation if he didn't go over gawker

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 02:55:53 No.5676627 Report

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Necro Butcher co-starred in a Best Picture nominated film.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 02:58:20 No.5676642 Report

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>>5676625
More like ric flair now

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 02:58:34 No.5676644 Report

Quoted By: >>5676668

I never watched it. I heard it was gay (from me)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:02:12 No.5676662 Report

Quoted By: >>5677176

>>5676576
Its honestly one of the best films ever made
but in, like, a gay kinda way you know?
Either way the closing scenes of the movie are fucking unlimited gigadimes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:03:19 No.5676668 Report

Quoted By: >>5677128

>>5676644
it's pretty based, he rejected those sluts to be and die with his obese smelly smark fans

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:03:32 No.5676669 Report

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Randy the Ram is over with me, brother.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:06:01 No.5676682 Report

Quoted By: >>5677396 >>5677854 >>5678459

My Dad is a Heel Wrestler! is the best (and only) good pro-wrestling movie.l

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:07:51 No.5676697 Report

Quoted By: >>5676734 >>5676752 >>5686693

it was an artistically dishonest movie. there are literally zero wrestlers IRL who were as big as Randy the Ram was portrayed to be in the film who fell into pauperdom.
Before you say Jake Roberts, that's bullshit because he saved his money and lived decently, he was just a drunk.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:08:39 No.5676701 Report

Quoted By: >>5676758 >>5679990

In the wrestling community, there is a love/hate relationship with the movie. On one hand, it's obviously well shot and directed, and the performances are great. But it's kinda doom bait with a wrestling theme. Yes, it's true that a lot of wrestlers didn't have the best career after their peak or really got chewed up and spat out by the business. But there are also a lot of successful old wrestlers, some that can still perform at a decent level. It's the ones that dont save their money or live like rock stars that really fail at life and try to make some bucks in the nostalgia circuit.

Vince McMahon hated it, though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:11:15 No.5676725 Report

Quoted By: >>5677681

Yeah it captured whats its like to be on top and then just try to find those glory days. I'm sure this hit Hogan, Flair and the other old fucks hard

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:13:34 No.5676734 Report

Quoted By: >>5676746

>>5676697
What about Piper?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:16:06 No.5676746 Report

Quoted By: >>5679439

>>5676734
Piper had a nice house, had a loving family, and always got bookings.
Randy the Ram was single, barely scraped by as a supermarket worker, and lived in a cartoonishly bad trailer park.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:16:47 No.5676750 Report

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>>5676601
like most wrestlers back then

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:17:57 No.5676752 Report

Quoted By: >>5676763

>>5676697
Anon pleanty of guys got paid jack shit in the territory days. Ram was the ace of some rando bingo hall fed not a top TV star

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:18:46 No.5676758 Report

Quoted By: >>5676863

>>5676701
the ram never made it to the big time it's more like Indy shitter bingo hall struggles

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:20:23 No.5676763 Report

Quoted By: >>5676769

>>5676752
did you even see the movie? Randy the Ram was a headliner for a major promotion for many years. The film establishes this in the opening credits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:21:29 No.5676769 Report

Quoted By: >>5677850

>>5676763
they literally tell you he sold out madison square garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8vOpyGW1sA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:22:53 No.5676777 Report

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>>5676586
The Jogger-Smasher 3000 device did make an appearance at the height of Ram-posting

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 03:37:16 No.5676863 Report

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>>5676758
>the ram never made it to the big time
have you watched the film or are you a bot/pajeet(e-drone)? the whole premise of the movie was that the ram was a huge star in the 80s who fell off and turned to the independent scene to try and make some money

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 04:04:47 No.5676970 Report

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Shoot my favourite movie of all time

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 04:25:22 No.5677097 Report

Quoted By: >>5677129

>>5676576
>Randy finally reconnects with his daughter and even gets a kinda but not really gf.
>Comes to accept that his wrestling glory days are behind him and starts enjoying his time as the deli putting his showmanship skills to use.
>It all unravels because some wrestling nerd recognizes him.
It was all coming together for him. Why did he sabotage it for himself?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 04:31:33 No.5677128 Report

Quoted By: >>5677144

>>5676668
Yea im not gonna watch it. Reading some of the other reviews in this thread and it seems like a major downer of a movie. I like good vibes. This movie seems like the drizzling shits

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 04:31:40 No.5677129 Report

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>>5677097
wrasslin's a helluva drug

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 04:34:09 No.5677144 Report

Quoted By: >>5677236

>>5677128
Same dude that wrote and directed requim, except he didn't actually write the wrestler. I guess the doom story stood out to him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 04:38:31 No.5677176 Report

Quoted By: >>5677279 >>5677314 >>5677324

>>5676662
what's gay about it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 04:46:04 No.5677236 Report

Quoted By: >>5677372 >>5678203

>>5677144
Never watched that. I thought it was stupid. Just looked it up and again, major downer. The fuck is with people that watch that stuff? Its like virtually any indie movie. Miserable. The last three ive tried the main characters been retarded so i quit after 20 minutes. Tried watching euphoria, everybody just gets raped. Sick shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 04:52:44 No.5677279 Report

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>>5677176
he was a 45 year old man with no steady girlfriend or wife. despite being a charismatic guy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 04:58:29 No.5677314 Report

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>>5677176
He was excited to shower with other men

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:00:02 No.5677324 Report

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>>5677176
the only time he was comfortable in the entire film was when he was in a locker room full of beefy men

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:06:02 No.5677354 Report

Quoted By: >>5677372 >>5677376 >>5679447

>>5676576
>terrible pay, unless you either make it to the WWE/AEW (which like 5% ever do) or make it really big on the indies you're most likely not going to be able to make a living off of it alone
>probably one of the more demanding sports given how athletic you have to be, how much stamina you have to have and the time and effort you'll need to put into getting a good physique
>really painful to do so a lot of the wrestlers get addicted to painkillers
>have to deal with bullshit backstage as a decent amount of wrestlers are egotistical retards
>even if you strike it big you're pretty much on the road all the fucking time
Wrestlers are the most pathetic people walking this earth but you gotta respect them because you know most of them are putting their lives on the line purely because they love the sport

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:09:49 No.5677372 Report

Quoted By: >>5679465

>>5677236
Yeah, it's a hot thing to do with indies, just make a stark as fuck movie where the hero is subjected through complete total hell, including rapings

It's for emotional burnouts who need to watch extreme shit to feel anything. They'd be libertines with enough money.

>>5677354
Don't forget
>dealing with shithead promoters
>dealing with the gay mafia who run certain areas
>dealing with wrestling fans who stalk you
>dealing with rats MeTooing you
>dealing with the spergos like bix who will find your shoot social media and blast out all your shit from 10-15 years ago to cancel you
There's a reason most female wrestlers are going to onlyfans/patreon/dubai tours

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:10:26 No.5677376 Report

Quoted By: >>5677576

>>5677354
>sport

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:13:16 No.5677396 Report

Quoted By: >>5677430

>>5676682
You what?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:20:27 No.5677430 Report

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>>5677396
I got laid watching WWE's straight to Netflix movie The Main Event so that one's alright too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:28:05 No.5677467 Report

Quoted By: >>5677504 >>5677505

are there any other wrestlekinos like Nacho Libre and The Wrestler?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:31:30 No.5677480 Report

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i always thought randy the ram was a pedo, inviting random neighbor boys into his trailer to play nintendo and all

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:35:18 No.5677501 Report

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>>5676576
Abit over memed imo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:36:14 No.5677504 Report

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>>5677467
Heelz is a tv show, but it's pretty good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:36:26 No.5677505 Report

Quoted By: >>5677895 >>5678246 >>5679760

>>5677467
You won't regret watching this movie. One of the best wrestling movies ever made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80sEfEV6m74

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 05:47:33 No.5677576 Report

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>>5677376
>probably one of the more demanding performance arts
>purely because they love the performance art
You happy now, Meltzer?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 06:12:21 No.5677681 Report

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>>5676725
Nah they’re still living the life, they’re not getting ignored at the meet and greets or working the vfw for 50 bucks and a Big Mac voucher. This hits the guys who had their 15 minutes in the big time and have been slowly slipping through the indies, but it’s all they know how to do so they milk the stone of their long ago fame one more time for a midcard match against Bobby Boner at Grover Cleveland Junior High

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 07:09:25 No.5677850 Report

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>>5676769
Kek yeah man so did Jay White

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 07:11:14 No.5677854 Report

Quoted By: >>5677881

>>5676682
Is that ACE?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 07:15:41 No.5677862 Report

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>>5676576
At least he's still loved by many marks and manage to sell out 2300 Arena. He's in a better situation than most Americans at his age

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 07:18:34 No.5677881 Report

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>>5677854
That's Takashi Omura, anon. No clue what you're talking about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 07:24:47 No.5677895 Report

Quoted By: >>5678156

>>5677505
pretty good not a bad watch

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 07:45:01 No.5677977 Report

Quoted By: >>5678164

>>5676576
A career low midcarder or second rate fed worker’s life might look like that, but being a draw in a major fed is extremely lucrative. It’s way above middle class numbers. You’d have to mess up bad to be in his situation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 08:44:19 No.5678156 Report

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>>5677895
Yeah, no-budget filmmaking can be surprisingly good some times

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 08:45:58 No.5678164 Report

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>>5677977

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 09:00:09 No.5678203 Report

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>>5677236
dont forget to vote extra hard in 2024 goyim trump will 100% save us this time

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 09:03:08 No.5678213 Report

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>>5676576
Roid heads in general are pretty insecure and cringe. So of course a business built on the backs of these men pretending to be tough guys is going to be very cringe.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 09:12:15 No.5678246 Report

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>>5677505
Marco Pain, the color commentary guy, is arguably my favorite wrestling movie character. The guy who plays him also plays Al Thompson the owner of the company, which is based on Al Tomko, the promoter. The movie seems to be loosely based on the final days of All Star Wrestling out of Vancouver, which was big in its day but then...
The guy who plays Pain wrestled under the name Ladies Choice https://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=1534&name=Ladies+Choice

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 09:26:27 No.5678304 Report

Quoted By: >>5679363 >>5679528 >>5681288

>>5676576
I think it depicts the life that Chris Benoit would have had if he never died.
>Nancy divorces him, takes Daniel
>Has to take up a job locally to make ends meet
>Still wrestles for indie shows since WWE won't clear him anymore
>He mostly does deathmatches which make his condition even worse
>Old rival (likely Chris Jericho) challenges him to one last match in Ring Of Honor or TNA
>Shows signs of getting a jammer late into the match, knows his time is up and it's time to end the match
>One last diving headbutt, pinning Jericho for the 1,2,3
>Dies either during the pin or shortly after getting backstage

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 10:12:42 No.5678459 Report

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>>5676682
The kid actors bring it down a bit but it's still great

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 10:20:10 No.5678494 Report

Quoted By:

>>5676576
i liked it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 12:46:38 No.5679214 Report

Quoted By:

>>5676615
mint

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:10:36 No.5679336 Report

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>>5676576
So did he die in the end or what?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:15:48 No.5679355 Report

Quoted By: >>5679722

I don't get why he worked in a deli, why wasn't he a construction worker?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:17:34 No.5679363 Report

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>>5678304
thats like saying Jimmy page has to work at pub to make ends meet, holy fuck you're retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:23:26 No.5679390 Report

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>>5676576
youre all wrong the closest to that movie was scott hall

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:29:12 No.5679415 Report

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>>5676576
It's an accurate depiction of a self mark that is well past his prime and can't let go of his glory days. They exist all over wrestling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:35:01 No.5679439 Report

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>>5676746
Yeah big wrestlers don't work as deli clerks
https://deadspin.com/how-one-mans-hard-luck-journey-through-the-indie-wrestl-5984273
Or at target

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:37:59 No.5679447 Report

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>>5677354
>given how athletic you have to be, how much stamina you have to have and the time and effort you'll need to put into getting a good physique
Good thing you can now just be a skinnyfat manlet that does choreographed botches and the obese smarks will worship you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:41:49 No.5679465 Report

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>>5677372
>just make a stark as fuck movie where the hero is subjected through complete total hell, including rapings
I like when the suffering is used as an ordeal the lead has to overcome through extreme willpower and they emerge a better, stronger, happy person in the end.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:54:19 No.5679528 Report

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>>5678304
>Has to take up a job locally to make ends meet
His brain was mush at that point.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 14:25:38 No.5679666 Report

Quoted By: >>5680009 >>5684261

i miss based Ramposter breaking balls then asking what'll it be?
come back brother, one more run

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 14:36:35 No.5679722 Report

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>>5679355
>implying literally any wrestler could handle more than a day of construction work

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 14:43:41 No.5679760 Report

Quoted By: >>5684299

>>5677505
>Dated, clunky but was actually fun to watch. . And by clunky I mean the character drama falls a bit short: The way they don't resolve the unexpected run-in was just left in the air with no consequences or closing line, for example.

Good recommendation anyway, anon. Plenty of nice one-liners and pokes at the industry. Why can't hollywood remake this for change.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 15:19:26 No.5679990 Report

Quoted By:

>>5676701
The scene where he shot steroids into his bare ass had to be uncomfortable for him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 15:22:12 No.5680009 Report

Quoted By:

>>5679666
hey Ram, what's u-
>*shatters your window*
HAHA TAKE THAT BITCH

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 17:45:52 No.5681002 Report

Quoted By:

>>5676576
cringe

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 18:26:15 No.5681288 Report

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>>5678304
Benoit would've just gone back to Japan tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 20:28:23 No.5682230 Report

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>>5676625
No arguments from me on this

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 20:50:09 No.5682404 Report

Quoted By: >>5684043

Foley and Austin said it’s pretty accurate for most wrestlers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 20:54:09 No.5682439 Report

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>>5676576
Its a Hollywood version. Accurate for some but not for most.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 00:17:02 No.5684043 Report

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>>5682404
>still alive and rich
no

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 00:29:57 No.5684261 Report

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>>5679666
nice try, the devil
I deleted my entire /asp/ folder 2 years ago for lent lmao, which included all of my ram screens and oc edits

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 00:32:48 No.5684299 Report

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>>5679760
watch it again to pick up some of the meta stuff, like how the wrestlers helped edit the scenes in-character. Todd Powers being the one to edit the profanity-filled rant scene with Al Thompson, that's why it's the only scene to have the profanity bleeped out, etc

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 03:11:55 No.5686573 Report

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>>5676576

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Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 03:22:17 No.5686693 Report

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>>5676697
>Ox baker and Abdullah to name a few

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