Dead Man (film): Difference between revisions

 

* [[The Alleged Steed]]: Mr. Dickinson's Pinto, which he wants back in addition to wanting his son's killer dead. The others, quite naturally, mock him behind his back for it.

* [[Arc Words]]: "Have you got any tobacco?"

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Mr. Dickinson, the boss of Machine. He seems to carry a shotgun around with him at all times, and even uses it to threaten the three baddest bounty hunters in the west into taking his assignment. This was Robert Mitchum's final role.

* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]

* [[Gorn]]: Deliberately subverted. Scenes of violence are staged as brief, awkward, and nausea-inducing; the camera lingers sadly over the outcome.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Cole Wilson.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "What if they try to kill me?" ''"Nobody will observe."''

* [[Pop Star Composer]]: [[Neil Young]] provides a soundtrack that's entirely improvised on electric guitar.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Cole Wilson, the cannibal bounty hunter. He's so bad that {{spoiler|he kills his two infamous colleagues just for annoying him, and eats the second}}.

{{quote| '''Trainman:''' Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of [[Foreshadowing|when you were]] [[Cryptic Conversation|in the boat]], and then later than night, you were looking up at the ceiling, and the water in your head was not dissimilar from the landscape, and [[Second Person Narration|you think to yourself]], "Why is it that the landscape is moving, [[Mind Screw|but the boat... is still?"]] And also... where is it that you're from?<br />

'''Blake:''' [describes his journey]<br />