Meaning of buddy cop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A film and television genre with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process.
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2. One of the two characters.
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Examples

“Buddy cop movies were raised to an art form⟳ in the eighties.”

“Thus buddy-cop films exemplified a finding of common ground between reckless, suicidal cops and responsible family cops (Lethal Weapon), between fast-talking convicts and tough, world-weary detectives (48 Hours), between strict Russian police officers and boorish Chicago cops (Red Heat).”

“More action-heavy than other buddy cop movies, Die⟳ Hard paired the gut-punching blend of eye-popping stunts (John McClane leaping from a roof with nothing but a firehose tied around his waist) and insane violence (that close-up of the bad guy’s knees being shot to pieces) that audiences adored from the money-spinning Rambo franchise with the sparky dialogue of Beverly Hills Cop, injected a dose of satire, and wrapped it all up with a new kind of action hero.”

“By applying elements of Joseph Campbell’s philosophy of the heroes’ journey (2008) and Jung’s archetypes (Miller & Chodorow, 2004) of the hero, the mother, the sage and the child, this chapter will explore⟳ the hero’s journey, with a specific focus⟳ on how younger partners in the buddy cop narrative transcend from boys to men, and how masculinity is defined within this space through the lens of their peer relationships.”

“With a long pedigree of heroic duos that can be traced back to Holmes and Watson, the original buddy cops, this genre of films tends to be more focused on inter-character chemistry than it is on big explosions or drawn-out fistfights.”

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