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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.
* [[Hey
* [[The Hyena]]: Detective Visser.
* [[Hyper Awareness]]: Totally averted, causing the loss of Chekhov's Guns.
* [[Instant Death Bullet]]: Seemingly played straight when {{spoiler|The private eye shoots Marty.}} but later shown to be a rather horrific aversion when {{spoiler|he regains consciousness just in time to be buried alive}}
* [[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 Fistfulof Dollars]]'').
* [[Mistaken Identity]]: With fatal results.
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* [[Not Afraid of You Anymore]]
** Subverted in that it is someone else she is confronting.
* [[Pre
* [[Re Cut]]: The Coens have quipped that this is the first film in Hollywood history for which the Director's Cut actually REMOVES material.
* [[Romance On the Set]]: Co-director Joel Coen and actress Frances McDormand.
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