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* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: While it doesn’t hurt that color wasn’t in vogue for serious/art films at the time, the black-and-white color schemes are suggestive of a good-vs.-evil conflict in a morally-complex story. The photography was intended to look 19th-century, and especially intended to resemble the solemn palettes from photography of the [[The American Civil War|Civil War]]. When the idea of colorizing black and white films turned to ''High Noon'', [[Word of God]] was, in essence, "No, thank you."
* [[Divided We Fall]]: Will's deputy refuses to help him unless Will agrees to him being the next marshal.
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: "The Ballad of High Noon
* [[Extremely Short Timespan]]: The film is in real-time; there are clocks in almost every room, constantly keeping track.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Frank Miller sports some evil scars.
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* [[Insignia Rip Off Ritual]]: Kane takes off his own badge.
* [[In the Back]]: Amy shoots one of Miller's man, Pierce, in the back through a window.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Will Kane.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Frank Miller dresses in white in contrasting his goons wearing black.
* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Subverted. Two minutes before he faces Frank Miller alone at noon, Kane sits down in his office and begins preparing by writing his will. Enter Dimitri Tiomkin's score and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MooNISe8aM montage] of Kane at his desk, the omnipresent clock, Amy and Helena in the hotel, Miller's goons at the depot, and pretty much everybody else in the whole town at the saloon or church.
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{{quote|'''Helen''': I don't understand you. No matter what you say. If Kane was my man, I'd never leave him like this. I'd get a gun. I'd fight.
'''Amy''': Why don't you?
'''Helen''': He is not my man. He's yours.
* [[Neutral Female]]: Subverted. Amy vows not to support or help her husband fight the thugs, but ultimately she is the only person to help him fight. She shoots a bad guy and is even able to break free of Miller's hold so her husband can shoot him.
** Played straight by many of the female townspeople. Some seem disgusted at their husbands' refusal to help Kane, but do nothing themselves.
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