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Free Fire is a 2017 British action-comedy directed by Ben Wheatley, starring Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley and others. The screenplay is by Wheatley and Amy Jump.Set in 1976, the film follows an arms deal between IRA members Chris and Frank with arms dealer Vernon, along with middlemen Justine and Ord, and both parties' respective muscle. When the henchmen turn out to have an outstanding dispute, the deal dissolves into a running, inept gunfight.
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Miles Gloriosus
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Miles Gloriosus: As Justine puts it, Vernon was misdiagnosed as a child genius and he never got over it. While he's projecting a persona of a tough arms dealer that saw everything, he barely can handle the deal itself (Martin is implied to be the real mastermind and Vernon being just a frontman) and when things go south, has to be coached on how to aim a pistol. Despite being loud, dim-witted (if not outright Too Dumb to Live) lowlife, Stevo's very first establishing moment is him musing about taking revenge for the beating he took and how great he is in every single regard.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: As soon as shots start firing, it's not long before people start dying. By the end of the movie, Justine is the only survivor.
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The Dandy
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The Dandy: Vern is very proud of his suit. Ord wears a fashionable turtleneck and uses scented beard oil.
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Those Two Guys
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Those Two Guys: Stevo and Bernie, dubbed "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum" by Ord.
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Mutual Kill
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Mutual Kill: Stevo and Harry.
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Cruel and Unusual Death
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Stevo's head gets slowly crushed underneath the van Harry drives over him. At the same time, Harry goes Shot in the Ass and the bullet exits his brain; we even here his brief yelp of agony before his death.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: More or less what the movie runs on, from the beginning to the end.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: A few gas canisters are knocked loose, and naturally get ignited several minutes later. A crowbar used to open up the crates of guns keeps getting used. The most seemingly obvious case is averted: the MacGuffin assault rifles are rendered useless because the ammunition is locked in the van, and nobody ever manages to get it unlocked.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Ord, who not only actually knows how to fight, but is the one person trying to figure out who hired the third party of snipers.
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: While Ord is lighting up his first joint, Vernon and Gordon can be heard talking in the background. Then, a few moments later:
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The ending, big time. It looks like the two most likable characters have survived and are going to split the cash and leave; then they both get shot dead, out of nowhere, by Justine, who takes the cash and then promptly gets arrested.
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Extremely Short Timespan
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Extremely Short Timespan: The film basically runs in real time, covering 90 minutes.
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Small Name, Big Ego
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Small Name, Big Ego: As Justine says, Vernon was misdiagnosed as a child genius and never got over it.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: The AR-70s, even if they're not what Chris and Frank ordered, provide this. Subverted since most of the ammo is locked in the van and the guns run dry fast.
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: Stevo turns out to be more loyal and caring than he's set up to be, while Harry turns out to be much more of a Jerkass. Justine and Martin too. They come off as two of the more sympathetic people, but by the end of the movie it's revealed that they were planning to kill everyone else and steal the money. In fact, Justine successfully kills everyone else, only to be arrested.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: Everyone is disgusted to learn what Stevo did to Harry's cousin. Justine is repeatedly assured early in the fight that none of the others will shoot a woman. Then she's hit by accident and starts shooting back, making it a moot point. Even after Harry keeps betraying them and trying to kill him specifically, Ord expresses sympathy for Harry suffering the indignity of being shot in the ass.
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Black and Nerdy
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Black and Nerdy: Martin.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: Whatever happened to Martin while in the Panthers that made him leave. Ord: "I got a John Denver story for you...."
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Bad Boss
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Bad Boss: Vernon, to a tee. It's why Martin joined Justine to rob the deal.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Guns are not point-and-click instruments with incredible accuracy. In particular, handguns are not at all designed for firing across a warehouse of all places, with the shots fired missing more than they hit. Even trained soldiers and hardened criminals (which is what more than a few cast are implied to be) can only manage the average accuracy under combat stress or battle fatiguenote Going by the Real Time entry below, they have been shooting at each other for almost 90 minutes. Bottomless Magazines and Pretty Little Headshots are averted. In the latter case, when Vernon finally gets a bullet in the head, his nose is obliterated. Also, while the result isn't shown to the audience, Harry can see parts of Martin's brain when struggling to get the keys to the van off him. The Odd Couple dynamic between Vernon and Martin plays out as exactly as one would expect. As mentioned under Bad Boss above, Vernon's Jerkass attitude leads to Martin forming an alliance with Justine in order to kill everyone else and steal the money for themselves.
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From Camouflage to Criminal
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From Camouflage to Criminal: Ord is implied to be former military who likely fought in the Vietnam War, with his superior combat skills and casual attitude.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Ord remarks at one point that they have about and hour and a half before they have to worry about blood loss, and even calls it "The Golden Hour-and-a-Half". Sure enough, the movie runs almost exactly 90 minutes.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: Everyone except Justine is dead, and Justine herself is significantly injured. Plus, it's heavily implied she's about to be arrested, considering the police are just outside the warehouse.
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Squashed Flat
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Squashed Flat: Stevo's death, courtesy of Harry.
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The Big Guy
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The Big Guy: Leary who at one point throws Harry over the van. Ord is also very large, with some spoken references made to this fact, and does prove to be very strong in hand-to-hand combat, but his personality type is different from most examples of this trope.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The firefight proper begins and ends with somebody standing next to Chris getting shot, only the second time around Chris is fatally hit by the final round fired.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Ord and Chris, one of whom is an arms dealer, and the other of whom is a terrorist. Despite this, they are the most professional, sane, and moral individuals in the whole film. This is why they're the last to die.
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Combat Breakdown
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Combat Breakdown: Few of the characters are very skilled in the first place, and the fight gets even more sloppy when several of them get hit in the arm or leg. This most specifically affects Ord, who goes from the most physically capable and dangerous to limping.
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Minor Injury Overreaction
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Minor Injury Overreaction: Gordon whines a lot about getting a splinter, just before the whole cast starts shooting each other. When Vernon is first grazed by a bullet, he complains loudly about while while Justine tells him it hit "mostly shoulderpad."
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Police Are Useless
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Police Are Useless: The cast spends a solid hour exchanging gunfire in a single location without any apparent interest from the cops. Toward the end of the film, Ord guesses that the cops are still about 15 minutes away. However, it's subverted by their sudden arrival at the very end of the film, just in time to catch the only survivor.
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Friendly Enemy
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Friendly Enemy: Ord considers himself this to Frank. Frank can't stand him. Ord even expresses concern when he learns that Frank's a recovering alcoholic, and he goes so far as to stop insulting Frank after finding out. Ord and Howie clearly are on good terms, and Howie is willing to reveal who hired them because he respects Ord.
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The Smurfette Principle
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The Smurfette Principle: Justine is the only on-screen female character, in a cast of 13 people.
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Almost Dead Guy
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Almost Dead Guy: Stevo spends the second half of the film drifting in and out of consciousness. Martin is shot in the head, with his brains leaking out, but rouses himself to go on a delirious rampage through the warehouse, shouting, "I'm not shooting at you!" as he fires on random people and, at one point, asks everyone to wait while he reloads. He eventually just collapses as a delayed reaction to his injury.
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Always Save the Girl
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Always Save the Girl: Chris's default setting, particularly for Justine.
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The Stoner
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The Stoner: Ord is a pretty suave and competent take on the trope. Stevo's more of a junkie. (Also, Ord's smoking pot where Stevo's on heroin.)
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Shot in the Ass
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Shot in the Ass: What finally kills Harry, courtesy of Stevo in a Mutual Kill.
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Politically Incorrect Villain
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Vernon is from apartheid-era South Africa and it shows. He repeatedly calls Martin his "boy."
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Amusing Injuries
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Amusing Injuries: Maybe not where they're injured, but the characters' reactions to getting shot are pretty humorous. That and the sheer number of times some of them end up getting shot and just keep going is darkly funny.
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Neutral Female
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Neutral Female: Invoked, exploited and generally played with. Most of the shooters are willing to give Justine a pass (although a couple are suspicious about her loyalties); she's willing to let them.
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Manly Facial Hair
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Manly Facial Hair: Ord is the toughest person in the film, and his beard is frequently commented upon. He even reveals that he uses scented beard oil.
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Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
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Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Harry. And also Justine.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: Everyone has one. Frank is introduced antsy and anxious, while Chris is relaxed and chatting with Justine, establishing their dynamic. Stevo is hungover and complaining, setting up his Miles Gloriosus persona. Bernie meanwhile shows his stupidity by offering smack as a hangover solution. Ord is jovial and chipper when he meets the Irish. Harry keeps talking about "his moment" and self-advancement, while a bored Gordon shoots him down. Subverted by Justine. She's introduced stating that she wants everyone to walk away happy from the deal. She plays the impartial mediator throughout the film, but turns out to be one of the traitors who planned an ambush on the deal. Also subverted with Bernie. He is introduced engaging in road rage and yelling at other drivers behind the wheel of his Winnebago at the start of the film, but is rendered a cowering and whimpering mess in the warehouse once the deal goes south and the bullets start flying.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Vernon, so much so. Stevo slips into this when high. Ord occasionally gets into it.
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Right for the Wrong Reasons
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: Vernon was absolutely right to assume Justine wants to double-cross him and steal the money, despite his assumption being more based on paranoia and chaotic course of the gunfight rather than solid proof or deduction.
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Mexican Standoff
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Mexican Standoff: At first, it appears to be one group against another, barring a few internal squabbles; until it's revealed that there are snipers who aren't aligned with either.
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Red Oni, Blue Oni
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Harry is the red to Gordon's blue. Ord is the blue to Vernon's red.
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What the Hell Is That Accent?
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What the Hell Is That Accent?: In-universe, everyone is confused by Vernon's accent. He's quickly revealed to have Sharlto Copley's real nationality of South African.
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Abhorrent Admirer
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Abhorrent Admirer: Vernon, to Justine.
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Villain Protagonist
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Villain Protagonist: To the extent that there is a protagonist. Two of the most sympathetic members of the cast are terrorists; all the rest are arms dealers or thugs for hire.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Almost everybody who dies. Special mention goes to Gordon for sadistically trying to murder Justine, Martin for setting up the double-cross, Vernon for shooting Justine in the back and in general being a terrible boss, Stevo for sexually assaulting Harry's cousin and then taunting him over it, and Harry for starting the whole fucking shootout over an argument with Stevo. Only Chris, Frank, and maybe Ord fully avert this.
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Token Good Teammate: Ord, almost the only sympathetic character siding with the arms dealers. Vernon is a self-centred coward, Harry is a grade-A Jerkass, Gordon is almost psychotic, and Martin and Justine were planning to kill and rob everyone else.
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Major Injury Underreaction
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Major Injury Underreaction: People repeatedly react to being shot with annoyance and offense rather than horror or fear.
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Not So Above It All
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Not So Above It All: Justine spends the start of the gunfight urging everyone to calm down. When Harry accidentally shoots her, she pulls out a gun and fires right back.
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Men Are the Expendable Gender
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Men Are the Expendable Gender: A particularly ridiculous version: There's exactly one woman among approximately a dozen men. She's the only survivor.
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Black Dude Dies First
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Black Dude Dies First: Played with; Martin appears to be one of the first killed, but later turns out to have just been unconscious. Then he dies from the wound anyway, but only after Bernie and the snipers are dead.
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Odd Couple
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The Odd Couple dynamic between Vernon and Martin plays out as exactly as one would expect. As mentioned under Bad Boss above, Vernon's Jerkass attitude leads to Martin forming an alliance with Justine in order to kill everyone else and steal the money for themselves.
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Stevo and Harry have this dynamic. As do Frank and Ord.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: A lot, particularly for Justine being behind the ambush. In the beginning, Justine talks about being in it solely for herself. When Howie is shot immediately before revealing his employer, the very next cut is to Justine looking very spooked. When Martin gets his second wind, he immediately starts shouting for Justine.
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Stupid Crooks
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Stupid Crooks: Too many too count. Almost all of them have moments of unbridled stupidity, as the plot demands. Some of them have bad aim and accidentally hit someone on their side. They also don't stop and call for a truce at a few moments, simply out of pride, or before the shooting begins, to have Stevo and Harry settle their differences outside, away from everybody else. To say nothing of Harry triggering the whole event by shooting Stevo, not stopping to think that shooting at someone during the middle of an illegal arms deal, might be a bad idea. When they do try to negotiate a ceasefire so Justine can escape and negotiate a stand-down, Vernon's stupidity ruins it.
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Killed Mid-Sentence
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Killed Mid-Sentence: Ord gets shot by Justine just as he is about to tell his "John Denver story" to Chris.
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More Deadly Than the Male
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More Deadly Than the Male: Justine has the single highest bodycount in the movie (Howie, Gordon, Ord and Chris) and plotted from the start to kill everyone and take the money.
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Instant Death Bullet
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Instant Death Bullet: Averted for the most part, unless it's a Boom, Headshot! (and even then that doesn't get Martin). People get shot to hell and keep going. Bernie takes one square in the back and keeps going for about three seconds. Frank, already heavily injured, is shot in the chest and dies.
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Real Time
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Guns are not point-and-click instruments with incredible accuracy. In particular, handguns are not at all designed for firing across a warehouse of all places, with the shots fired missing more than they hit. Even trained soldiers and hardened criminals (which is what more than a few cast are implied to be) can only manage the average accuracy under combat stress or battle fatiguenote Going by the Real Time entry below, they have been shooting at each other for almost 90 minutes.
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Soundtrack Dissonance
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Soundtrack Dissonance: John Denver's "Annie's Song" plays over the fight's final few minutes, courtesy of Gordon's 8 track.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Everyone's reaction when the first shot is fired. The final image when Justine limps out as the only survivor, only for the cops to show up. Chris when he sees the rampaging Martin standing over him with a rifle. Gordon, when he runs out of ammo and finds himself facing an armed Justine, who he'd just been trying to murder.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Chris and Ord excel at it.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: Vernon likes to boast about his business savvy with the phrase "Watch and Vern."
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JustAFleshWound
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Just a Flesh Wound: Played with and subverted. Everyone who gets shot in a limb pretty much has that body part immobilized. Stevo takes a bullet straight to the shoulder, and yet seems able to function though.
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Bottomless Magazines
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Bottomless Magazines and Pretty Little Headshots are averted. In the latter case, when Vernon finally gets a bullet in the head, his nose is obliterated. Also, while the result isn't shown to the audience, Harry can see parts of Martin's brain when struggling to get the keys to the van off him.
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McGuffin
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McGuffin: The briefcase full of money.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Stevo's deeds push the groups very close to violence, but everyone manages to calm down and Stevo is told to apologise. Then he brags about what he did to Harry's cousin instead, kicking off the firefight. Bernie gets shot by Vern in the back when the former stands up and slowly walks away from the firefight as opposed to seeking cover.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Vernon, big time. See Bad Boss above. Also, to a lesser extent, Harry. Averted with Stevo, who remains utterly faithful to Chris and Frank throughout; see Hidden Depths above.
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His Name Is...
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His Name Is...: Howard is about to reveal who hired the snipers, but Frank kills him before he can.
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Irony
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Irony: Despite being at an arms deal for assault rifles, the 30 AR-70s are essentially useless in the shootout because Vernon locked the bullets in the van. The shootout takes place in an old umbrella factory. When the sprinklers turn on, soaking everyone, it turns out that the remaining umbrellas have no canvas covering, making them useless.
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Boom, Headshot!
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Boom, Headshot!: How Martin, Howie, Vernon, and Ord all meet their demise. It just takes a bit of time to get Martin.
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Ballistic Discount
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Ballistic Discount: When Chris grabs one of the assault rifles to test and loads it with live ammunition, Ord pulls out his sidearm and informs the group as a precaution in case Chris tries to pull this.
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick
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Hypercompetent Sidekick: Ord's more of a middleman and hired contractor for Vernon, but it applies. He even has to give pointers to Vernon on how to shoot.
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Western Terrorists
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Western Terrorists: The Irishmen are implied to be IRA members buying rifles to outfit their resistance. This is one of the few reasons why the film is set in the 1970s.
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Ship Tease
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Ship Tease: Chris and Justine.
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Gambit Pileup
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Gambit Pileup: Only one gambit at the start, but by halfway through the movie Chris, Frank, and Ord are the only ones who actually want the deal to go through.
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Closed Circle
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Closed Circle: Likely the major reason for the '70s setting, as there are no cell phones to call for backup. Everyone thus puts a lot of effort to getting to the warehouse's phone. Leary, Chris and Frank's cohort, shows up and does enter the building, but just to check on the late Irishmen. As soon as he enters, the door slams shut, locking him in.
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Briefcase Full of Money
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Briefcase Full of Money: Full of tens. Getting the money is one of the reasons why the various crooks are reluctant to just run for it.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Once Martin gets his second wind, he drops his Black and Nerdy attitude for Scary Black Man, showing how unstable he is from his wound.
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Concealment Equals Cover
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Concealment Equals Cover: Defied; Ord points out that wooden crates are useless at stopping bullets, as he starts stacking up sandbags. Several people get hit through cover.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Harry.
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Dumbass Has a Point
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Dumbass Has a Point: Stevo and Bernie try to point out the difficulty it would take to move the gun crates up the winding, long path they took to the warehouse. Vernon is...well...Vernon, but when Stevo and Harry start fighting, he's one of the first to try to figure out what's going on, and tries to defuse the situation, calling out Martin's suggestion that Harry attack him again.
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Would Hit a Girl
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Would Hit a Girl: Gordon and Vernon, toward Justine. Justified in hindsight though since she planned to ambush the deal alongside Martin.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Stevo's belief that Vernon is Austrian. The supposed fact that everyone has 90 minutes to live after being shot before bleeding out.
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: The factory used to make umbrellas. It starts to rain in the end.
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Pet the Dog
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Pet the Dog: Stevo is set up as an idiot, violent guy who attacked Harry's cousin when she wouldn't sleep with him. He turns out to be loyal to Chris and Frank and weeps heavily at Bernie's death.
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