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El Topo

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El Topo	comment	El Topo is a 1970 Spanish-language acid Western film written, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. It combines the violence and gunplay traditionally associated with the Western with Jodorowsky's obsession with mysticism and the occult. It's also intended to evoke a similar reaction to a psychedelic experience (Jodorowsky occasionally fed acid to his actors before filming), so that may explain some of the odder elements in the plot.The movie is divided in three parts. During the first part, a gunslinger known as El Topo (who travels with his naked 7 year old son) murders a group of bandits in revenge for the massacre of an entire village. The bandits are strangely dressed, degenerate and led by a fat, balding Colonel. In the process, he liberates a woman he calls Mara (who the bandit leader was using as a slave). El Topo falls in love with Mara and rides off with her, abandoning his son at the monastery the bandits had occupied.In the second part, Mara convinces El Topo that before she can love him he will need to be the best gunfighter in the world. In order to do so, he needs to find and kill four Great Masters who live in the desert. With the aid of a semi topless woman who speaks with a man's voice (see above re: LSD) El Topo tracks down the four Masters and kills them all by means of tricks. Once he has killed them all, the mysterious woman shoots him, seduces Mara, and leaves him to die.The third part begins with El Topo awaking in an underground cavern filled with deformed people, who believe he is some kind of god. He discovers they're trapped in the cavern, and their deformities are the result of inbreeding. After sucking on a psychedelic beetle (see above re: the LSD, again) and undergoing a symbolic rebirth (ummm... never mind, you probably get it by now) El Topo volunteers to dig a tunnel out of the mountain and in the process falls in love with a dwarf girl and destroys America, or at least Capitalist Amerika.Yup. Acid.
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El Topo / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: El Topo at the end of part two, complete with stigmata in his hands, feet, and side.
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El Topo / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
El Topo / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: El Topo has one after he kills the gun masters and his girlfriend leaves him for another woman.
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El Topo / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
El Topo / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: A woman cuts open a prickly pear, runs her finger several times through the incision she made, then licks it.
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El Topo / int_1d95dcb7	type	LadyMacBeth
El Topo / int_1d95dcb7	comment	Lady Macbeth: Mara turns out to be this, as she urges El Topo to go on killing even as the emotional toll it's taking on him becomes obvious.
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El Topo / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
El Topo / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: A child commits suicide with the gun being passed around the church, once El Topo's son has switched the blank round with a live one.
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El Topo / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
El Topo / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Desconocida means "Unknown". El Topo means "The Mole".
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El Topo / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
El Topo / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The Church of the All-Seeing Eye in the third part. In one instance, the head priest loads a revolver with a blank round and claims that Divine intervention will protect the shooter; the priest's cynical assistant, El Topo's son, switches the blank for a live round. It doesn't end well.
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El Topo / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
El Topo / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: El Topo's wife does conceive a son, ironically there was a sequel planned but it's been stuck in development hell.
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El Topo / int_710bd545	type	Mind Screwdriver
El Topo / int_710bd545	comment	Mind Screwdriver: ... and then the DVD with the Director's commentary came out.
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El Topo / int_714342fb	type	Erotic Eating
El Topo / int_714342fb	comment	Erotic Eating: A girl offers sex to another girl by licking a fruit.
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El Topo / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
El Topo / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The town ruled by the Corrupt Church
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El Topo / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
El Topo / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: After finally freeing the trapped lepers from the mountain, the townspeople respond by massacring them. In a rage El Topo charges at them, and despite being hit with heavy gunfire he scares the townspeople away and in a dying act, immolates himself.
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El Topo / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
El Topo / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: The first great gun master. And El Topo by the end, as the bees on his grave would imply.
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El Topo / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
El Topo / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: El Topo and the four great gun masters.
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El Topo / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
El Topo / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: Colonel: "I don’t even know who you are?!" El Topo: "I am GOD!" This is followed by the Colonel being castrated by our hero.
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El Topo / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
El Topo / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The second desert master's expression when he realizes he's been outwitted by El Topo. Though it's more of an exasperated version.
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El Topo / int_b64b1fc1	type	Left for Dead
El Topo / int_b64b1fc1	comment	Left for Dead: Desconocida shoots El Topo and leaves him for dead in the desert and the end of part 2.
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El Topo / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
El Topo / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Have you tried to shoot a crow in the heart?
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El Topo / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
El Topo / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: NOBODY can understand it. Mind Screwdriver: ... and then the DVD with the Director's commentary came out.
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El Topo / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
El Topo / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: The priest's protege is El Topo's son.
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El Topo / int_d026cad8	type	Sigil Spam
El Topo / int_d026cad8	comment	Sigil Spam: The "All-Seeing Eye" logo is absolutely everywhere in the town.
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El Topo / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
El Topo / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Numerous times with El Topo.
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El Topo / int_df24d8fa	type	Platonic Cave
El Topo / int_df24d8fa	comment	Platonic Cave: A very literal approach to this trope with the third part of the film.
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El Topo / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
El Topo / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Lordy, look no further than the opening of our hero stumbling on the slaughtered villagers.
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El Topo / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
El Topo / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: When El Topo castrates the Colonel!
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El Topo / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
El Topo / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: One possible explanation for El Topo's final fate.
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