The Shooting

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A 1966 Western starring Jack Nicholson as Billy Spear and Warren Oates as Willet Gashade. A Deconstruction of the western made on the same year as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Tropes used in The Shooting include:

• Doomed Hometown: The film opens with the lead finding his mining camp depopulated.
• Eloquent in My Native Tongue: A horse trader who barely speaks english is nonetheless capable of reading and writing (no small feat) and seems to run a successful business. He walks away from the confused Gillet mumbling in some language or another.
• Gainax Ending
• Gosh Dang It to Heck: Played painfully straight by Willet's sidekick.
• Hyper Awareness: Willet.
• Jump Cut: Stylishly used.
• Retired Gunfighter
• Rouge Angles of Satin: On someone's grave. Lousy 19th century education.
• Kick the Dog: The woman who hires Willet to accompany her to Kingsley keeps killing horses.
• No Name Given: The Woman.
• The Western