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{{quote|"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"|'''Gold Hat''', saying it as how he, [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|not]] [[Blazing Saddles|Mel Brooks]] said it}} |
{{quote|"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"|'''Gold Hat''', saying it as how he, [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|not]] [[Blazing Saddles|Mel Brooks]] said it}} |
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'''Howard:''' Yeah, here in this joint it seems like a lot. But I tell you, if you was to make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away. Not even the threat of miserable death would keep you from trying to add 10,000 more. Ten, you'd want to get twenty-five; twenty-five you'd want to get fifty; fifty, a hundred. Like roulette. One more turn, you know. Always one more. }} |
'''Howard:''' Yeah, here in this joint it seems like a lot. But I tell you, if you was to make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away. Not even the threat of miserable death would keep you from trying to add 10,000 more. Ten, you'd want to get twenty-five; twenty-five you'd want to get fifty; fifty, a hundred. Like roulette. One more turn, you know. Always one more. }} |
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''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' is a 1948 film directed and written by [[John Huston]], staring his father Walter and [[Humphrey Bogart]], and adapted from a 1927 novel by B. Traven. Father and son both won [[Academy Award|Oscars]] for their achievements in the film, which was also nominated for Best Picture. |
''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]'' is a 1948 film directed and written by [[John Huston]], staring his father Walter and [[Humphrey Bogart]], and adapted from a 1927 novel by B. Traven. Father and son both won [[Academy Award|Oscars]] for their achievements in the film, which was also nominated for Best Picture. |
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A trio of gringos in Mexico; Fred Dobbs, Bob Curtin and Howard the prospector, decide to search for gold in the eponymous mountain range. At first, the adventure seems simple enough; in fact, they even find their gold. What they didn't count on might just be the greatest obstacle of all: themselves. |
A trio of gringos in Mexico; Fred Dobbs, Bob Curtin and Howard the prospector, decide to search for gold in the eponymous mountain range. At first, the adventure seems simple enough; in fact, they even find their gold. What they didn't count on might just be the greatest obstacle of all: themselves. |
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'''This film features examples of:''' |
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* [[All That Glitters]] |
* [[All That Glitters]] |
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* [[Bandito]]: The fake Federales who deliver the film's most famous line (the page quote). |
* [[Bandito]]: The fake Federales who deliver the film's most famous line (the page quote). |
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** The character of Stinky Pete in ''[[Toy Story 2]]'' is a direct parody of Howard. |
** The character of Stinky Pete in ''[[Toy Story 2]]'' is a direct parody of Howard. |
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* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Dobbs. Howard {{spoiler|mentions it happening to his comrades before}}. |
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Dobbs. Howard {{spoiler|mentions it happening to his comrades before}}. |
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: The technical aspect of mining is brought out courtesy of Howard's lectures. |
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* [[Sound-Only Death]]: A few: {{spoiler|gold hat, Dobbs, banditos, Bob(although he doesn't get killed.}}. Justified as it is an old film: they may have been missing special effects, or didn't want to get censured. |
* [[Sound-Only Death]]: A few: {{spoiler|gold hat, Dobbs, banditos, Bob(although he doesn't get killed.}}. Justified as it is an old film: they may have been missing special effects, or didn't want to get censured. |
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* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: Even getting rescued from a mine collapse and then a Gila monster doesn't make Dobbs any less suspicious of his partners. |
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: Even getting rescued from a mine collapse and then a Gila monster doesn't make Dobbs any less suspicious of his partners. |
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"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
—Gold Hat, saying it as how he, not Mel Brooks said it
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 film directed and written by John Huston, staring his father Walter and Humphrey Bogart, and adapted from a 1927 novel by B. Traven. Father and son both won Oscars for their achievements in the film, which was also nominated for Best Picture.
A trio of gringos in Mexico; Fred Dobbs, Bob Curtin and Howard the prospector, decide to search for gold in the eponymous mountain range. At first, the adventure seems simple enough; in fact, they even find their gold. What they didn't count on might just be the greatest obstacle of all: themselves.
Tropes used in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre include:
- All That Glitters
- Bandito: The fake Federales who deliver the film's most famous line (the page quote).
- Bittersweet Ending: Dobbs' insanity catches up with him, he dies, and the treasure is lost; rendering 10 months of Curtin and Howard's lives a waste. But Howard gets a nice position as a medicine man, and Curtin may yet get his dream of a nice peach farm.
- Chekhov's Gun: The burros the group rent. Or rather, their branding marks. The bandits who kill Dobbs are caught when someone recognizes the mark.
- Cool Old Guy: Howard.
- Creator Cameo: That's John Huston as the white-suited man Dobbs keeps accosting for a handout in Tampico.
- Death by Materialism: Dobbs.
- Fedora of Asskicking: Dobbs wears one.
- Gold Fever: A driving force. Provides the page quote.
- Happy Dance: Courtesy of Howard.
- Hat Damage: Dobbs fires a warning shot right into the bandito leader's hat.
- Magnificent Moustaches of Mexico: The fake Federales exemplify this.
- Nice Hat: Gold Hat insists on putting his hat back on before being executed.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Dobbs and Curtin give the foreman of their work crew one of these after he cheats them out of their pay.
- Pet the Dog: Fixing the mountain when they leave, burying Cody's body, and informing his widow.
- Prospector: All three main characters, but Howard in particular exemplifies the "old and grizzled" stereotype of the trope.
- The character of Stinky Pete in Toy Story 2 is a direct parody of Howard.
- Sanity Slippage: Dobbs. Howard mentions it happening to his comrades before.
- Shown Their Work: The technical aspect of mining is brought out courtesy of Howard's lectures.
- Sound-Only Death: A few: gold hat, Dobbs, banditos, Bob(although he doesn't get killed.. Justified as it is an old film: they may have been missing special effects, or didn't want to get censured.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Even getting rescued from a mine collapse and then a Gila monster doesn't make Dobbs any less suspicious of his partners.
- Villain Protagonist: It will surprise nobody who pays attention for the first ten minutes to know that Dobbs turns out this way.
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: The bandits who kill Dobbs steal his gold, but mistake it for sand and dump it off; it gets blown away by a windstorm.
- Or given Dobbs and the others' descent into madness, and the ease with which the gold blew away, maybe the bandits were right.
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