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'''''The Quick and the Dead''''' is a 1995 [[Western]] revolving around a [[Quick Draw]] shooting contest that attracts a variety of competitors, some of whom have personal reasons for taking a shot at the reigning champion.
The film was directed by [[Sam Raimi]] and starred [[Sharon Stone]], [[Gene Hackman]], [[Russell Crowe]] and [[Leonardo
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* [[Action Girl]]: Lady.
* [[All
** Leo seems to subvert this trope here (and any other film released between 1993 and 1997). While he certainly wasn't in a state of prominence equivalent to his post-''Titanic'' years, the fact that he earned an Oscar nomination for ''What's Eating Gilbert Grape?'' likely enhanced his clout somewhat.
* [[Apathetic Citizens]]: When they're not throwing rocks at a priest, they're pretending not to notice when {{spoiler|a young girl gets raped}}.
* [[Arbitrary Gun Power]]: The bullets range from blowing a gory hole through a man's head large enough for a view of the other shooter, to a neat hole that lets a single ray of sunlight through.
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* [[Because I'm Jonesy]]: {{spoiler|Ace claims the kill of Herod, bragging about how he killed the Terrence brothers. Herod calls him out because ''he'' was the one who really killed them, and shoots Ace in the heart.}}
* [[Badass Preacher]]: Cort
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** Lady ''despises'' Herod with the flaming passion of a thousand suns, and nearly draws down on him several times before she gets the chance to face him for real.
** Lady sets aside her beef with Herod to challenge and kill a child molester.
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* [[Costume Porn]]: The outfits were all vintage period attire, weathered to look appropriately beaten up for everyone except Herod.
* [[Death Seeker]]: Cort would rather have been hanged than be forced to return to his violent ways.
* [[Duel to
* [[Eat the Dog]]: Dog Kelly was forced to eat his beloved dog or die of starvation. It is not advisable to bring this up around him.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Herod's nameless bodyguards have black hats, black dusters, and 15-round repeating rifles.
* [[Ensemble Cast]]: Everyone gets roughly an equal amount of time in the limelight.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Herod sticks to the rules when he changes them. Upon requiring a kill in every duel to win, he warns the Kid multiple times to back out with no strings attached. {{spoiler|While Herod shoots the Kid himself, he appears regretful.}}
** Herod also hates liars and cowards.
* [[
* [[Fastest Gun in
* [[Foe Yay]]: Herod invites Lady over for a romantic candlelit dinner and offers to make her his mistress if she'll drop out of the dueling contest. Later, as he's about to fight Cort, he leans in ''really'' close and says, "I've always wanted to fight you, Cort. Ever since I first laid eyes on you. It was just this itch I had to scratch." [[Is That What
** In the deleted scene, Lady and Cort before they duel each other.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]
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* [[The Gambler]]: Ace
* [[Give Me a Sword]]: Cort has to call desperately for a bullet after his first shot fails to kill Spotted Horse. The blind kid finally tosses him one.
* [[The Gunfighter Wannabe]]: The Kid seems like this, but is actually quite competent. The real wannabe is {{spoiler|Ace}}.
* [[The Gunslinger]]: Most of the cast.
* [[Gun Porn]]: One scene in particular, in the Kid's gun shop, where he shows off custom models of the Colt Single Action Army, the Remington 1875, and the Smith & Wesson Model 3.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]
* [[Gun Twirling]]: In a rather nice touch, the main actors were all taught to do it themselves--which was probably easier to film, considering the ''massive'' amount of gunfights shown.
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* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Herod is more offended at Cort telling the Lady to back out of the tournament--rather than how, immediately after, that they argue over {{spoiler|which one of them will kill him}}.
* [[Kirk Summation]]: The Kid is fond of these, sprinkled with a heavy dose of bragging, before each of his fights.
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* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: The title comes from the King James version of [[The Bible]] (where "quick" was meant in the then-current sense of "alive").
* [[Made of Iron]]: Spotted Horse.
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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: It wouldn't be a true Sharon Stone vehicle without being able to see her breasts (twice if you included the deleted sex scene).
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Herod.
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: Lady and Herod have a very civil dinner with each other. Lady's pointing a gun at Herod under the table. {{spoiler|He's just faking her out with the lid of a metal matchbox}}.
* [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]]
* [[Not Just a Tournament]]: The gunfighting tournament is primarily a way for the [[Big Bad]] to eliminate any threats to himself and intimidate any of the locals who might try to oppose him. He knows that there is an assassin gunning for him and that the Kid is itching to take him on. The tournament is a trap for them to face him in the open where he can gun them down in a duel. It is implied that if anyone proves too much of a threat, his Mooks will gun that person down.
* [[The Noun and
* [[Only Known
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Upon adding a rule which outright requires shooting to kill, Herod warns the Kid to back out of the contest, without any dishonor whatsoever, multiple times. {{spoiler|And, while the Kid dies by Herod's own gun, Herod does appear to regret it.}}
* [[Pocket Protector]]: {{spoiler|The Lady keeps her father's badge on her chest, which--along with a bottle of red ink for fake blood--keeps her from dying when Cort shoots her in their duel.}}
* [[Preacher Man]]: Cort
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* [[Production Posse]]: It's tradition that Bruce Campbell has a cameo in a Raimi movie. In this case, he shows up in a deleted scene involving a pimp literally having his ass kicked out of town.
* [[Rasputinian Death]]: Spotted Horse.
* [[Rape
* [[Reformed Criminal]]: Cort. Unfortunately, he is forced into the gunfighting tournament after Herod burns down his mission.
* [[Retired Gunfighter]]: Cort, again.
* [[Right in Front of Me]]: When Lady first arrives in town, she goes to the saloon to look for a place to stay. Since [[Averted Trope|she's standing right behind the bartender]] while he's fetching things from a high shelf, he makes the mistake of thinking that she wants to work at the local brothel. Unlike others in this film whose words put them into a bad situation, he gets knocked down, but is otherwise not harmed.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Lady's reaction to her young friend's rape.
* [[Quick Draw]]: All over the place. Justified in that it ''is'' [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: The Kid gets a lot of face time, but in the end he's {{spoiler|gut-shot and left to die in the street}}, simply to show that Herod's so evil he would do anything to finish a gunfight {{spoiler|including kill his own son.}}
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Herod is fond of giving people these.
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* [[Undertaker]]: The town has an undertaker who can tell the height of newcomers just by looking at them. While they're on horseback.
* [[Unkempt Beauty]]: Lady.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: The Kid to Herod.
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Cort plays this straight when a mob of children gang up on him and start beating him with planks, but the Lady subverts this and sends them all running to their dad.
* [[The Western]]
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Poor Ratsy...
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Although, technically, Herod forced the Lady to kill her own father. He also forced Cort {{spoiler|[[Double Meaning|to kill a priest]]}}.
* [[Young Gun]]: The Kid.
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