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[[Blood Simple]] is a 1984 film about a bar-owner in Texas who is certain that his wife is cheating on him and hires a private detective to spy on her. It was
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* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: The "heroes" are a selfish adulterous couple, one of whom buries a man alive. The villains? Wooh boy...
* [[Blackmail]]
* [[Buried Alive]]: Marty, by Ray.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Subverted. It's a vital part of the plot that the characters keep losing or forgetting about the various items presented to us, the viewers, as obvious [[Plot Coupons]].
** There's also an actual gun, namely the pearl-handled .38 owned by the heroine. The number of bullets it contains is also a [[Chekhov's Gun]].
* [[DVD Commentary]]: Subverted. An imaginary film historian Kenneth Loring spouts obvious nonsense about the process by which the movie is made.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Seemingly played straight with Visser's refusal to murder the couple. Cruelly averted later when he has no problem killing them to protect himself.
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* [[Gambit Pileup]]: It quickly becomes quite a chore to keep track of what each of the four main characters thinks is happening, along with what's really happening.
* [[Good Is Dumb]]: While Ray may not be conventionally "good," he's about as close as a [[Black and Gray Morality|film noir character]] gets. And he has got to be about the dumbest character every to wander into a crime movie.
* [[The Hyena]]: Detective Visser.
* [[Hyper Awareness]]: Totally averted, causing the loss of Chekhov's Guns.
* [[Instant Death Bullet]]: Seemingly played straight when
* [[Last
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: To a line from [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s ''Red Harvest'', itself famously adapted by [[Akira Kurosawa]] as [[Yojimbo]]. Which was '''then''' adapted once more as a [[Spaghetti Western]] ([[Sergio Leone]]'s ''[[A
* [[Mistaken Identity]]: With fatal results.
* [[New Old West]]: Like several of the Coens' films.
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* [[Not Afraid of You Anymore]]
** Subverted in that it is someone else she is confronting.
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* [[Shoot the Messenger]]: Inverted. Oh Lord, how it's inverted.▼
* [[The Remake]] / [[Foreign Remake]]: [[Zhang Yimou]] remade this film in 2010 as ''A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop''. It was widely criticized for its replacement of the [[Black Comedy]] from the original with broad slapstick violence. The Coens liked it, though, and joked that they should remake [[Raise the Red Lantern]] in return.
▲* [[Shoot the Messenger]]: Inverted. Oh Lord, how it's inverted.
* [[Title Drop]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Ray, and he doesn't either.
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