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El Dorado

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El Dorado	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })El Dorado is a classic 1966 Western directed by Howard Hawks, written by Leigh Brackett (who adapted the screenplay from the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown), and starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan.Famed gunfighter Cole Thornton (Wayne) comes to the small Texan town of El Dorado, hired by carpetbagger cattle baron Bart Jason (Ed Asner), and stays at the hotel owned by Maudie (Charlene Holt). The town's sheriff, J.P. Harrah (Mitchum), is an old friend of Thornton and warns him off: Jason wants to start a war with his neighbors, the MacDonald family, over water rights, and the MacDonalds are the rightful owners. Taking the hint, Thornton rides out to Bart Jason's farm and tells him the deal is off because he does not want to go up against Harrah. In the meantime the MacDonalds have heard about Jason's intentions, and as Thornton passes their territory, he is shot at by one of the sons, Luke MacDonald. Cole Thornton shoots back in self-defense, hitting Luke MacDonald in the stomach; the pain is too much for the boy, who commits suicide with a revolver Thornton overlooked. He brings the body to the MacDonald homestead and tells the family what happened, but Luke's tomboyish sister Joey (Michele Carey) will have none of it and shortly afterwards bushwhacks him as he rides back to El Dorado. Thornton survives and overpowers Joey MacDonald, but it is discovered that her bullet is lodged against his spine and the local doctor is not good enough to extract it without risking his death or paralysis. So after he is healed enough to ride, he leaves town and his friends J.P. and Maudie, promising to return when he can face the MacDonalds again.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A few months later, Cole Thornton reappears in a small town on the Mexican border. In a local cantina he witnesses a young man, Mississippi (James Caan), approaching a group of tough guys and challenging one of them. The man is the last of four men who had killed an old gambler, his surrogate father, and Mississippi wants revenge. The man's boss, gunslinger Nelse McLeod (Christopher George), is intrigued and watches, because Mississippi does not carry a gun. In a duel across the table, Mississippi manages to kill his opponent with a thrown knife before he can shoot. Thornton then saves Mississippi's life by shooting the gun out of the hand of another of MacLeod's men who now wants to avenge his late comrade. Impressed by his quick draw, MacLeod offers Thornton the dead man's place in his outfit for his next job — a range war in El Dorado. It should not be too difficult, he says, the only person who could interfere is the local sheriff, and he now is too drunk to shoot straight. Thornton politely refuses.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Grateful towards his lifesaver, Mississippi follows Thornton who the next morning sets off to El Dorado to aid his friend and because of his blood debt towards the MacDonalds. He witnesses Thornton falling off his horse as the moving bullet partially and temporarily paralyses him, and offers his help. Since Mississippi is a completely useless shot, Thornton at first refuses, then sees to it that he buys a sawn-off shotgun. The two make it to El Dorado ahead of McLeod's group; Maudie tells them that J.P. came to his sorry state after falling for a bad woman passing through town. With the help of Mississippi's hangover recipe they manage to sober J.P. up somewhat, but they still have to face McLeod's and Bart Jason's men heavily outnumbered: a gunslinger in constant danger of being laid low by the bullet nudging his spine, a recovering drunk sheriff, a useless shot, and crusty deputy Bull Harris (Arthur Hunnicutt)...For the Gottlieb pinball machine, click here.
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El Dorado / int_116f6f1c	type	Self-Plagiarism
El Dorado / int_116f6f1c	comment	Self-Plagiarism: The scene in which Thornton pushes one of McLeod's mooks through a door to be shot by his own men echoes a similar one from the first Hawks/Brackett collaboration, The Big Sleep.
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El Dorado / int_19077d9e	type	Professional Gambler
El Dorado / int_19077d9e	comment	Professional Gambler: Mississippi by schooling. He does card tricks to pass the time during The Siege.
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El Dorado / int_1c4adce1	type	The Siege
El Dorado / int_1c4adce1	comment	The Siege
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El Dorado / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
El Dorado / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Cole and J.P.
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El Dorado / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
El Dorado / int_1f250372	comment	J.P. also manages to show one when he finds out Jason hired MacLeod, giving an already-drunk J.P. a need for more whiskey.
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El Dorado / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
El Dorado / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Well don't you think I know a girl? The first time said by Cole while he and Mississippi are traveling. The second time by Mississippi after he stopped for a chat while they were tracking down a group of gunmen. Granted, she was telling him where to find them.
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El Dorado / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
El Dorado / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: The title refers to the poem Eldorado (1849) by Edgar Allan Poe, which is recited by Mississippi at various points in the film. The hero of the poem is an ageing knight who loses his strength searching for the legendary city of gold, while the hero of the film is an ageing gunfighter whose strength is sapped by his life-threatening wound.
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El Dorado / int_287deed8	type	Retired Outlaw
El Dorado / int_287deed8	comment	Retired Outlaw: In a town a couple days of riding from El Dorado, the sheriff and deputy are old friends of Cole, who recalls how the two were running from a posse the last time he saw them.
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El Dorado / int_2985eda0	type	Prisoner Exchange
El Dorado / int_2985eda0	comment	Prisoner Exchange: JP is forced to release Jason to McLeod and his men in exchange for Cole whom they captured.
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El Dorado / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
El Dorado / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: McLeod makes it a point to rebuke the Mook who helped murder Mississipi's friend. "It really shouldn't have taken four of you...."
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El Dorado / int_33576bdb	type	The Sheriff
El Dorado / int_33576bdb	comment	The Sheriff: J.P. Harrah.
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El Dorado / int_33ebf487	type	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
El Dorado / int_33ebf487	comment	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight: Downplayed. Mississippi can kill with throwing knives, but he makes a point of hiding them behind his back inside his jacket and surprising his enemies in the middle of a duel while they think they have the advantage.
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El Dorado / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
El Dorado / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: A belt buckle that Thorton sports in many scenes features the Red River D brand, an homage to John Wayne's first collaboration with Howard Hawks, Red River.
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El Dorado / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
El Dorado / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: When Cole and McLeod are first introduced, McLeod describes himself, Cole and another man as the fastest gunfighters in the world. McLeod mentions the third man is dead, and that's the last we hear of him. Subverted with Cole's insistence that there's a "fourth", which originally passed over, but later explained to be J.P. Harrah, who has since lost his status after an encounter with a wandering petticoat.
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El Dorado / int_4252627f	type	Determined Homesteader
El Dorado / int_4252627f	comment	Determined Homesteader: The MacDonalds.
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El Dorado / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
El Dorado / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: McLeod considers Cole Thorton this. Cole more or less reciprocates to the dying McLeod after shooting him, acknowledging that he took McLeod by surprise to ensure the job gets done.
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El Dorado / int_465ac8e0	type	Please Get Off Me
El Dorado / int_465ac8e0	comment	Please Get Off Me: Mississippi sneaks up on and tackles a mysterious gunman hiding out across the street from The Sheriff's office, discovering it to be Joey MacDonald, who, true to form, trades a few words before asking him to get off. He replies that he's actually pretty comfortable before getting socked for his trouble.
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El Dorado / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
El Dorado / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Cole Thornton. Acknowledged by Nelse McLeod at the end after Cole surprises him while rescuing Saul MacDonald. Once Bull signals, Cole uses the ruckus to shoot McLeod with a hidden rifle before falling off the wagon and engaging the other gunslingers.
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El Dorado / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
El Dorado / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: Luke's head looks remarkably intact when his family takes it off his horse for having shot himself in the head. Possibly due to the censorship of the time, it doesn't even look like he has an entrance wound, let alone an exit one, unless he put the pistol in his mouth.
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El Dorado / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
El Dorado / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: McLeod has a scar over his left eye.
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El Dorado / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
El Dorado / int_5008a1bb	comment	Mysterious Informant: The Mexican girl sitting by her window who tells Mississippi that the gunmen, he, Cole, JP and Bull are after are hiding in the church.
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El Dorado / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
El Dorado / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil
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El Dorado / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
El Dorado / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: In any other movie, Mississippi's quest to avenge his father figure, a task which takes him two years and four duels where he has to use a throwing knife in gunfights since he doesn't know how to use a gun properly, would be the main story. In this one, we meet him at the end of his self-appointed task and instead he's regulated to Cole's sidekick and the position of Comic Relief Butt-Monkey.
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El Dorado / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
El Dorado / int_5d6f4033	comment	Agonizing Stomach Wound: Cole accidentally shoots Luke MacDonald in the stomach, only seeing a man shooting at him from a ridgetop and not realizing it's a young teenage boy. Luke tells him that his pa told him that gutshot injuries mean the man is destined to die. Cole tries to help, but the minute his back is turned, Luke pulls out a pistol and shoots himself in the head to spare himself any more pain.
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El Dorado / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
El Dorado / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The movie jumps six months ahead after the first act.
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El Dorado / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
El Dorado / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: In the later part of the film, Jason and McLeod try to blackmail Kevin MacDonald by holding his son Saul hostage. This not only brings Saul's sister Joey up in arms, but also his wife.
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El Dorado / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
El Dorado / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Luke MacDonald shoots himself in the head instead of having to deal with a gutshot wound that will likely kill him slowly no matter what kind of medical care he receives.
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El Dorado / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
El Dorado / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: McLeod is this in spades. He makes no attempt to defend the henchman that took part in the murder of Mississippi's friend, and is generally shown to be quite an affable sort of guy with lines he won't cross.
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El Dorado / int_7598fec1	type	Stocking Filler
El Dorado / int_7598fec1	comment	Stocking Filler: Maudie spends part of one scene with nothing over her legs besides a pair of black stockings.
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El Dorado / int_75a63013	type	Farmer's Daughter
El Dorado / int_75a63013	comment	Farmer's Daughter: Joey is a more tomboyish version, dressed in jeans and carrying a rifle, which she is more than capable of using.
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El Dorado / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
El Dorado / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: During the mid-movie hunt for some of Jason's men, J.P. is juggling his guns around and pointing them at Bull and Cole while he's arguing with them. This is directly after Cole has just loaded J.P.'s revolver. Somewhat justified in that J.P. is still coming off a miserable binge and could either be drunk or hungover, but you'd think Cole or Bull would tell him to stop it.
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El Dorado / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
El Dorado / int_7eebe99c	comment	J.P. Harrah can never seem to remember meeting Mississippi, probably because he was too schnockered to stand most of the times they are introduced.
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El Dorado / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
El Dorado / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The local doctor sends a messenger to warn the MacDonald family that Col has come to town to work for their ruthless enemy, Bart Jason. Cole decides not to take Jason's job, but the news of his arrival causes a tragic and avoidable gunfight between Cole and the youngest MacDonald son.
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El Dorado / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
El Dorado / int_7febc23b	comment	After Mississippi kills a man in his Establishing Character Moment, a mook attempts to kill him, only for the gun to be shot out of said Mook's hand by Cole Thorton. Thorton then taunts the man to pick up the gun and draw. Before the mook can prove he is Too Dumb to Live, MacLeod forbids him from doing so saying that he can't afford to lose another man. When the Mook complains of his boss' lack of faith in him, MacLead correctly identifies Thorton for who he is. The Mook doesn't say anything, but the look on his face is more than enough.
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El Dorado / int_89102272	type	Artistic Title
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El Dorado / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
El Dorado / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Johnny Diamond, an old riverboat gambler who raised Mississippi and was killed during a card game a few years before the story takes place. We learn a lot about him from Mississippi who wears his funny-looking top hat as a tribute.
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El Dorado / int_8b5e7316	type	Cattle Baron
El Dorado / int_8b5e7316	comment	Cattle Baron: Bart Jason.
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El Dorado / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
El Dorado / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Mississipi's real name is Alan Bourdillion Traherne.
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El Dorado / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
El Dorado / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Swede tells Mississippi a story about a gunfighter who had lousy eyesight who tended to shoot in the general direction of where he heard the other guy coming from. He shot a particularly noisy piano player. When J.P. Harrah and his posse go into a bar looking for a wounded gunman they were tracking, the trail of blood leads behind a piano being played by a very nervous and off-key piano player.
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El Dorado / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
El Dorado / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Alan. Bourdillion. Traherne.
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El Dorado / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
El Dorado / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: Cole Thornton and Nelse McLeod.
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El Dorado / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
El Dorado / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: During the After Action Patch Up, the town's surgeon comments to Cole that a wound in Cole's leg was caused by a shot from a shotgun and asks who was using the shotgun. Mississippi, looking embarrassed, confesses to the action, to which Bull quips that the safest place to be when Mississippi fires his gun is behind him.
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El Dorado / int_a48ffb8	type	Awkwardly-Placed Bathtub
El Dorado / int_a48ffb8	comment	Awkwardly Placed Bathtub: J.P. Harrah is forced to take a bath in the middle of the sheriff's office because there are hired guns in town waiting to kill him, and because he needs to keep watch on a prisoner the gunmen are after.
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El Dorado / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
El Dorado / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Mississippi, because he's got more name than most characters have bullets.
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El Dorado / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
El Dorado / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Cole Thornton. Joey puts a bullet in his back in revenge for Cole killing her brother. It only bothers him sometimes, but when it bothers him, it bothers him hard. Nelse McLeod has a big scar on his face and is blind in one eye.
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El Dorado / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
El Dorado / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: McLeod goes out giving Cole his regards, and Cole himself can't help feeling sad at having to kill him. Helps that Nelse has been a Noble Demon from the beginning.
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El Dorado / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
El Dorado / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: After Mississippi kills a man in his Establishing Character Moment, a mook attempts to kill him, only for the gun to be shot out of said Mook's hand by Cole Thorton. Thorton then taunts the man to pick up the gun and draw. Before the mook can prove he is Too Dumb to Live, MacLeod forbids him from doing so saying that he can't afford to lose another man. When the Mook complains of his boss' lack of faith in him, MacLead correctly identifies Thorton for who he is. The Mook doesn't say anything, but the look on his face is more than enough. J.P. also manages to show one when he finds out Jason hired MacLeod, giving an already-drunk J.P. a need for more whiskey.
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El Dorado / int_ae087674	type	I Can Still Fight!
El Dorado / int_ae087674	comment	I Can Still Fight!: Cole's right arm is paralyzed from the bullet against his spine and J.P. was shot in the leg and needs crutches. Despite these limitations they come up with a plan to rescue Saul MacDonald from McLeod and Jason.
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El Dorado / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
El Dorado / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Just about everybody, at one time or another.
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El Dorado / int_b0c3cb64	type	Hometown Nickname
El Dorado / int_b0c3cb64	comment	Hometown Nickname: Mississippi and The Swede. We learn Mississippi's real name, many times, but it's just too long for anyone to bother remembering.
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El Dorado / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
El Dorado / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Mississippi
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El Dorado / int_b1c398d1	type	The Gunfighter Wannabe
El Dorado / int_b1c398d1	comment	The Gunfighter Wannabe: Mississippi.
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El Dorado / int_b61b755f	type	Tomboy
El Dorado / int_b61b755f	comment	Tomboy and Unkempt Beauty: Joey (Josephine) MacDonald.
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El Dorado / int_bd635007	type	Fauxreigner
El Dorado / int_bd635007	comment	Fauxreigner: Mississippi doing a horrid impression of a Chinese Launderer to sneak up on a thug.
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El Dorado / int_bffb777a	type	Sawed-Off Shotgun
El Dorado / int_bffb777a	comment	Sawed-Off Shotgun: What Mississippi winds up with after he is shown to be incredibly inept with a regular handgun.
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El Dorado / int_c3e5c40d	type	The Hilarity of Hats
El Dorado / int_c3e5c40d	comment	The Hilarity of Hats: There is a Running Gag concerning the other characters' opinions of Mississippi's choice of headwear:
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El Dorado / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
El Dorado / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To Shoot the Piano Player, directed by noted Howard Hawks admirer François Truffaut. A belt buckle that John Wayne sports in many scenes features the Red River D brand, an homage to his first collaboration with Howard Hawks, Red River.
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El Dorado / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
El Dorado / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: The only way Jason's mook could have been deceived for a second by Mississippi's Paper-Thin Disguise.
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El Dorado / int_caa47c3c	type	Bits of Me Keep Passing Out
El Dorado / int_caa47c3c	comment	Bits of Me Keep Passing Out: After being shot by Joey McDonald, Cole occasionally succumbs to screaming pain before his right arm goes numb. As explained by Dr. Donovan during the gang's first After Action Patch Up, the paralysis will last longer with each event until it eventually becomes permanent unless someone operates on it.
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El Dorado / int_cbaa9102	type	Signature Headgear
El Dorado / int_cbaa9102	comment	Signature Headgear: Mississippi wears a very distinctive and instantly recognisable hat.
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El Dorado / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
El Dorado / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Mississippi was on one that lasted two years to avenge the murder of his mentor Johnny Diamond. He found and killed the last of the four men responsible when he met Cole.
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El Dorado / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
El Dorado / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Cole describes the type of woman J.P. tends to fall for as having "big sad eyes and a long, sad story." Subverted in that the girl that drives him to drink turns out to be no good at all, instead being a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk who runs off after breaking J.P.'s heart.
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El Dorado / int_d2d09c16	type	After-Action Patch-Up
El Dorado / int_d2d09c16	comment	After Action Patch Up: After J.P. gets shot in the leg, he's tended to by the new town surgeon, Dr. Donovan who also examines the bullet pressing against Cole's spine. Happens again after the gang rescues one of the McDonald boys, during which both Bart Jason and Nelse McLeod are killed. Compared to the lightheartedness of the first, it is downright goofy. Highlights include finding out that the shot from Cole's newest wound came from Mississippi's shotgun and Cole and J.P. fighting about their crutches.
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El Dorado / int_d51263b9	type	Fake Shemp
El Dorado / int_d51263b9	comment	Fake Shemp: Most of the scenes showing John Wayne running were performed by a double.
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El Dorado / int_d64c3cd4	type	Living MacGuffin
El Dorado / int_d64c3cd4	comment	Living MacGuffin and Hostage for MacGuffin: The villains capture Cole Thornton and offer to trade him for Bart Jason, who is in jail awaiting trial for murder.
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El Dorado / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
El Dorado / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Josephine "Joey" MacDonald wounds Cole at the beginning and kills Bart Jason at the end.
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El Dorado / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: Maudie starts to tell Cole about the girl J.P. got involved with and he stops her, finishing the description himself, giving an indication he tends to fall for the same type a lot.
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El Dorado / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
El Dorado / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Averted and Played for Drama twice. Cole is heedlessly attacked by Joey's little brother, who gets gut shot in turn, a crippling and agonizing wound that leaves him begging for Cole to finish him off. Joey herself shoots Cole in the back; while he recovers, the bullet remains lodged against his spine and occasionally causes him painful spasms and his right arm to go numb.
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El Dorado / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Mississippi. At first because he didn't know she was a girl. Afterwards because she hit him first, but not to the point of trying to hurt her.
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El Dorado / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
El Dorado / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: Subverted, in his introductory scene, Mississippi kills the last of four men responsible for the death of his mentor. With a knife. In a gunfight. He gets nothing but flak from everyone else for most of the rest of the movie because of his relative inexperience.
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El Dorado / int_f8d24fbb	type	BigSisterInstinct
El Dorado / int_f8d24fbb	comment	Big Sister Instinct: Hurt Joey's brothers, and she'll try to kill you.
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El Dorado / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
El Dorado / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: J.P. Harrah can never seem to remember meeting Mississippi, probably because he was too schnockered to stand most of the times they are introduced. Several different people dropping by while J.P. is taking what is widely stated to be a well-needed bath and giving him bars of soap. Adding to his indignity, the sheriff's office lacks a private place to bathe, so he's basically in the middle of the room as people parade through. Mississippi, in general, has a series of running gags. Of particular note is everyone's reaction to his hat and no one being able to say his real name correctly.
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El Dorado / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
El Dorado / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: A slight variation as the man Mississippi was avenging wasn't his father but the man did raise him.
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El Dorado / int_fc299bf1	type	Hideous Hangover Cure
El Dorado / int_fc299bf1	comment	Hideous Hangover Cure: It includes gunpowder.
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El Dorado / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
El Dorado / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: About halfway through, J.P., Cole, and Mississippi follow a man into Jason's saloon. J.P., upon noticing how nervous the piano player is, shoots the piano and the man hiding behind it. Much later, J.P. comments how bad the piano player is. Bull has to remind him it's because J.P. shot the piano.
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