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* [[Buried Alive]]: Marty, by Ray. |
* [[Buried Alive]]: Marty, by Ray. |
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* [[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]]. |
* [[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]]. |
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** 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]]. |
** 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]]. |
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* [[DVD Commentary]]: Subverted. An imaginary film historian Kenneth Loring spouts obvious nonsense about the process by which the movie is made. |
* [[DVD Commentary]]: Subverted. An imaginary film historian Kenneth Loring spouts obvious nonsense about the process by which the movie is made. |
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* [[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. |
* [[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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** Subverted in that it is someone else she is confronting. |
** Subverted in that it is someone else she is confronting. |
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* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: Delivered by the victim. After Abby shoots him and says "I'm not afraid of you, Marty" (she hasn't seen that it's Visser and believes it to be Marty back from the dead), Visser bursts into laughter and proclaims: "Well Ma'am if I see him, I'll give him the message." |
* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: Delivered by the victim. After Abby shoots him and says "I'm not afraid of you, Marty" (she hasn't seen that it's Visser and believes it to be Marty back from the dead), Visser bursts into laughter and proclaims: "Well Ma'am if I see him, I'll give him the message." |
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* [[Recut]]: The Coens have quipped that this is the first film in Hollywood history for which the Director's Cut actually REMOVES material. |
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* [[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. |
* [[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. |
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* [[Shoot the Messenger]]: Inverted. Oh Lord, how it's inverted. |
* [[Shoot the Messenger]]: Inverted. Oh Lord, how it's inverted. |
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[[Category:Films of the 1980s]] |
[[Category:Films of the 1980s]] |
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[[Category:One Hundred Scariest Movie Moments]] |
[[Category:One Hundred Scariest Movie Moments]] |
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[[Category:The Criterion Collection]] |
[[Category:The Criterion Collection]] |
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