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High Plains Drifter

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High Plains Drifter	label	High Plains Drifter
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High Plains Drifter	comment	High Plains Drifter is a 1973 Western film directed by (and starring) Clint Eastwood, with a screenplay by Ernest Tidyman (The French Connection, Shaft). It was Eastwood's second film, and first Western, as a director.A mysterious drifter referred to only as "The Stranger" rides into the dismal mining town of Lago, which has a crisis on its hands: three ruthless gunmen are making their way to the town so they can settle scores over an old wrong done to them by the townspeople. After the Stranger kills a group of men hired by the cowardly townspeople to protect Lago, the town's elders decide to hire the Stranger as their protector. The Stranger only agrees to take up the role after the townspeople meet his bizarre demands, including painting all of the town's buildings red and rechristening the town itself as "Hell".As the Stranger trains the townsfolk to take arms and the gunmen draw closer, all the hidden secrets and corruptions of the town begin to unravel, and the truth behind Lago's feud with the outlaws â€“ and their culpability in the death of a federal marshal, with whom the Stranger has a connection â€“ soon comes to light...A Deconstruction of the Western genre with supernatural overtones, High Plains Drifter is one of Eastwood's most popular and acclaimed films.
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High Plains Drifter / int_115259c6	type	Taking Over the Town
High Plains Drifter / int_115259c6	comment	Taking Over the Town: The combination of the town's panic over the three gunfighters and The Stranger's deadliness allows said Stranger to rule the town.
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High Plains Drifter / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
High Plains Drifter / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: Marshal Jim Duncan is whipped to death. One of the three gunmen shares his fate later in the film.
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High Plains Drifter / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
High Plains Drifter / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Most of the townspeople fall under this description and won't risk their lives no matter what.
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High Plains Drifter / int_12c6bf73	type	Horsemen of the Apocalypse
High Plains Drifter / int_12c6bf73	comment	On the maybe magic side of the argument, an often-overlooked detail is that the Stranger rides a pale horse...
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High Plains Drifter / int_149605c1	type	Ambiguous Innocence
High Plains Drifter / int_149605c1	comment	Ambiguous Innocence: There's a sense that the whole town knows what happened to Marshal Duncan and why, but Luttie the bartender and a couple of other credited townspeople aren't specifically seen among the people watching him get whipped to death in the flashback., Granted, the discussion with the Hotelier and his wife implied that they were at least aware of it.
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High Plains Drifter / int_16178c64	type	Gratuitous Spanish
High Plains Drifter / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish: Lago is simply the Spanish word for "lake", appropriate for a town situated on a lake shore.
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High Plains Drifter / int_17330d6c	type	Terrible Trio
High Plains Drifter / int_17330d6c	comment	Terrible Trio: In addition to the main villains, there's the three goons who try and fail to intimidate The Stranger on his arrival.
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High Plains Drifter / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
High Plains Drifter / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: A popular interpretation is that the Stranger is the ghost of the dead marshal, given that he relives the marshal's death, which he wasn't there for otherwise. There's also, of course, the last line of dialogue in the movie. "I never did know your name" "Yes you do", as the camera pans to show the previous marshal's gravestone and name. Supported by Eastwood casting his own stunt double as the dead marshal. He could also be some sort of avenging spirit as well. The original script identified him as the marshal's brother.
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High Plains Drifter / int_1ca3c244	type	Who Are You?
High Plains Drifter / int_1ca3c244	comment	Who Are You?: "WWHHHOOOOO ARRRRRE YOUUUUUU!"
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High Plains Drifter / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
High Plains Drifter / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: This is essentially the Stranger's M.O.
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High Plains Drifter / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
High Plains Drifter / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: A man walks up behind The Stranger and starts to slip a knife out of its sheath. Without turning round, The Stranger informs him he'd look pretty stupid with that knife shoved up his ass. The man wisely backs off.
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High Plains Drifter / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
High Plains Drifter / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: The marshal's fate. Three men ambush him and slowly whip him to death while the whole town just watches. He repays this fate to one of the thugs.
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High Plains Drifter / int_1effdd6b	type	White Man's Burden
High Plains Drifter / int_1effdd6b	comment	White Man's Burden: Minor example, the Native American family that shows up for a very brief scene exists only to look helpless so The Stranger can stand up for them. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize they weren't civilians of Lago, meaning he has no reason to do anything shitty to them.
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High Plains Drifter / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
High Plains Drifter / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Lago is a dumpy little Old West town in the middle of nowhere that's populated by a bunch of amoral cowards.
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High Plains Drifter / int_2259967	type	Paint the Town Red
High Plains Drifter / int_2259967	comment	Paint the Town Red: When The Stranger takes over the duties of sheriff, he has the town painted red and renamed Hell before the shooting starts.
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High Plains Drifter / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
High Plains Drifter / int_225d8ff9	comment	Ambiguously Human: It's left unclear whether the Stranger is the brother of the dead marshall in Lago or the dead marshall's vengeful spirit. It's up to the viewer to decide.
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High Plains Drifter / int_2292c854	type	Between My Legs
High Plains Drifter / int_2292c854	comment	Between My Legs: Callie is framed this way — between the Stranger's legs — after he rapes her.
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High Plains Drifter / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
High Plains Drifter / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: Of all the people in Lago, only the hotelier's wife cared enough to try and stop the murder of the marshal.
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High Plains Drifter / int_2b1d7c0a	type	The Drifter
High Plains Drifter / int_2b1d7c0a	comment	The Drifter: The film plays with this trope; the Drifter in this case isn't interested in helping the townspeople so much as punishing them, along with the three gunmen, for their role in the marshal's death.
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High Plains Drifter / int_2c3a7a97	type	Cast as a Mask
High Plains Drifter / int_2c3a7a97	comment	Cast as a Mask: To support the ambiguity about The Stranger's identity, when the marshal's murder is shown, he's played by Buddy van Horn (Eastwood's longtime stunt double).
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High Plains Drifter / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
High Plains Drifter / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: During the flashback to Ducan's death, Callie and two men watching from inside their houses look shaken by Duncan's fate, while most other people seem unaffected or grimly pleased.
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High Plains Drifter / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
High Plains Drifter / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The Stranger always inexplicably has a stick of dynamite on hand.
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High Plains Drifter / int_33e48eb9	type	Hysterical Woman
High Plains Drifter / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: Callie Travers, the town prostitute, is understandably pissed off about being raped by the Stranger in broad daylight and tries to incite the cowardly townspeople to stand up to him. When her complains are dismissed as hysteria, she sarcastically reminds the man who said this (implied to be a client) that "I can remember some hysterics one night not too long ago!"
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High Plains Drifter / int_34260591	type	Impromptu Tracheotomy
High Plains Drifter / int_34260591	comment	Impromptu Tracheotomy: How Morgan dies.
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High Plains Drifter / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
High Plains Drifter / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Depending on how you feel about Callie. More straightforward when Morgan punches out Mordecai.
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High Plains Drifter / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
High Plains Drifter / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: The Stranger seems to know damn well that the City of Lago Volunteers are going to botch the ambush of Bridges and the Carlin boys, which will allow him to get retribution on both groups.
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High Plains Drifter / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
High Plains Drifter / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Every time someone tries to kill the Stranger, one of these follows. Calling the town's attempt to fend off the gunmen a 'battle' is a hilarious understatement: none of the townsfolk even fire a shot as the trio just rampage through town, destroying everything and even killing a couple of people along the way, all while Mordecai tries in vain to get the people to return fire and stick to the plan.
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High Plains Drifter / int_40e993f4	type	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization
High Plains Drifter / int_40e993f4	comment	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: The Stranger uses this defense when Sarah accuses him of raping Callie — and she did seem to enjoy it, although she turns homicidal again afterward.
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High Plains Drifter / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
High Plains Drifter / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: The Stranger. Who is he and where did he come from? How is he connected to the former marshal? We never find out. Dialogue earlier in the film, and the final scene with Mordecai strongly imply, however, that he's the vengeful ghost of marshal Duncan.
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High Plains Drifter / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
High Plains Drifter / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: While maybe not conventionally scenic, Mono Lake, a salt lake located near the California/Nevada border, provides a memorable, picturesque setting for the film.
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High Plains Drifter / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
High Plains Drifter / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: While it doesn't exactly clear up the mystery of who The Stranger is, the dolly shot and zoom in the final scene showing Marshal Jim Duncan's name on the gravestone Mordecai just finished engraving after The Stranger tells him that he does in fact know The Stranger's name establishes at the very least that The Stranger did indeed come to Lago to avenge Duncan's death.
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High Plains Drifter / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
High Plains Drifter / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The town's solution to their quarrel with the marshal (having him whipped to death). The Drifter's rape of Callie seems to be motivated by the fact she was rude to him.
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High Plains Drifter / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
High Plains Drifter / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The Stranger emerging from/disappearing into the heat haze.
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High Plains Drifter / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
High Plains Drifter / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: To the murder of the marshal.
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High Plains Drifter / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
High Plains Drifter / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: The three gunmen hired to protect the town are all quickly dispatched by the Stranger.
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High Plains Drifter / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
High Plains Drifter / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: It says a lot that The Stranger is established as a cold-blooded killer and rapist in the first ten minutes, and yet the audience ultimately takes his side because everyone else in the story except Mordecai and Sarah is so repugnant. It's that ambiguity that keeps The Stranger away from Villain Protagonist territory.
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High Plains Drifter / int_64dd304c	type	Pre-emptive Declaration
High Plains Drifter / int_64dd304c	comment	Pre-emptive Declaration: The Stranger tells a guy creeping up on him with a knife "You'll look real funny with that knife stuck up your ass". The guy wisely backs away.
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High Plains Drifter / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
High Plains Drifter / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: The reason why the townspeople had the marshal killed. He found out the mine was on government land and was going to report it, which would result in it being closed.
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High Plains Drifter / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
High Plains Drifter / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Stacey and his two henchmen have a legitimate grievance against the residents of Lago, who set them up to go to jail soon after they killed the marshal for them.
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High Plains Drifter / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
High Plains Drifter / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The townspeople have their ambush set up and ready, the gunmen ride into town, and what do they do? Cower down and refuse to shoot.
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High Plains Drifter / int_7458a1a4	type	Southern Gothic Satan
High Plains Drifter / int_7458a1a4	comment	Southern Gothic Satan: The Stranger is the maybe-brother-maybe-ghost of the Marshal the town whipped to death in order to keep their secret gold. He's back to taking advantage of the townsfolks' cowardice and greed by painting the town red, renaming the town Hell, and inflaming their quarrel with the outlaws until everyone's dead and everything's on fire.
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High Plains Drifter / int_79fa704c	type	Training the Peaceful Villagers
High Plains Drifter / int_79fa704c	comment	Training the Peaceful Villagers: Except here, the villagers aren't so much "peaceful" as they are "Dirty Cowards". And they're terrible at learning how to fight. And the Stranger isn't really interested in training them; he wants to set them up for the three gunmen to practically slaughter.
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High Plains Drifter / int_7bd88e4a	type	Slain in Their Sleep
High Plains Drifter / int_7bd88e4a	comment	Slain in Their Sleep: Morgan tries to do this The Stranger, but he was one step ahead.
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High Plains Drifter / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
High Plains Drifter / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: The three gunmen who were hired to defend the town harass and try to intimidate The Stranger. It doesn't end well for them.
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High Plains Drifter / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
High Plains Drifter / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Horribly gone wrong. It appears Callie wanted to flirt with the Drifter by bumping into him and insulting him. This is a horrible mistake.
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High Plains Drifter / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
High Plains Drifter / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the first 10 minutes we saw the Stranger silently wander into Lago, order a drink, kill three men without hesitation when they started bothering him to find out who he is, and then rapes a woman for insulting him. This pretty much tells you that this man isn't the Man with No Name.
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High Plains Drifter / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
High Plains Drifter / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Quoth the Stranger: "I'm a lot faster than you'll ever live to be."
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High Plains Drifter / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
High Plains Drifter / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Lewis the innkeeper. By the end of the film, he's lost (in order) his barn, his customers, his hotel, his wife, and his life.
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High Plains Drifter / int_8aa496df	type	Rape Discretion Shot
High Plains Drifter / int_8aa496df	comment	Rape Discretion Shot: The camera pans up right before the Stranger rapes Callie to teach her a lesson in manners.
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High Plains Drifter / int_8c80a69f	type	YourCheatingHeart
High Plains Drifter / int_8c80a69f	comment	Your Cheating Heart: Stacey Bridges notes that Callie use to date him before betraying him to be with Morgan, with the implication that she was planning on doing the same with the Stranger till the rape incident.
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High Plains Drifter / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
High Plains Drifter / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Most of the people killed by the Stranger qualify. In fact, the only people to die who weren't assholes are Marshal Duncan, and a trio of innocent men who are robbed and murdered by the three outlaws on their way back to Lago.
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High Plains Drifter / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
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High Plains Drifter / int_91a7d252	type	Fake in the Hole
High Plains Drifter / int_91a7d252	comment	Fake in the Hole: With a stick of dynamite instead of a grenade. Everyone scatters, the fuse goes down, but nothing happens.
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High Plains Drifter / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
High Plains Drifter / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Lago's preacher is a man who talks of piety but is just as corrupt as the rest of the town's leaders.
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High Plains Drifter / int_9303d6d1	type	Battle Amongst the Flames
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High Plains Drifter / int_95a18ad7	type	Devil in Disguise
High Plains Drifter / int_95a18ad7	comment	After Belding says "It couldn't be worse if the devil himself had ridden into Lago!" we cut to a shot of the Stranger, seemingly implying yet another possibility for who the Stranger might be.
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High Plains Drifter / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
High Plains Drifter / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Some awkward dialogue between Sarah and Lewis establishes that the marshal was killed because he was going to close down the mine.
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High Plains Drifter / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
High Plains Drifter / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Right after The Stranger rides into town, he shoots a group of people, then rapes a woman. And he's the protagonist.
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High Plains Drifter / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
High Plains Drifter / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When the Stranger rides into town, a couple of drivers are about to haul away a wagon of lumber. One driver uses his whip to start the horses, and the Stranger looks up quickly at the sound of the whip's crack. This ties in with the later scene of the marshal being whipped to death.
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High Plains Drifter / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
High Plains Drifter / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: The Stranger is a combination of Trick Shooter and Quick-Draw, although it could just be everyone else's incompetence making him look better.
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High Plains Drifter / int_a22ae9a5	type	Hat Damage
High Plains Drifter / int_a22ae9a5	comment	Hat Damage: The Stranger is training the townsfolk by having a wagon with dummies driven around so the townspeople can shoot at it. Annoyed by their A-Team Firing, he draws and shoots the heads off all the dummies, then shoots the hat off the driver for good measure. Another man standing behind The Stranger who's contemplating stabbing him In the Back suddenly decides he has urgent business elsewhere.
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High Plains Drifter / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
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High Plains Drifter / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
High Plains Drifter / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: At the end of the movie, the murdered marshal gets his grave marker.
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High Plains Drifter / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
High Plains Drifter / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Particularly bad is the scene where Callie ambushes the Stranger while he's taking a bath, unarmed, and fires several shots at him. She's standing less than 8 feet away from him, but he simply ducks under the water and comes out completely unscathed. Of course, another possibility is that the Stranger is a supernatural being. Averted by the Stranger, who never seems to miss.
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High Plains Drifter / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
High Plains Drifter / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Callie tries to deliberately engineer this by bumping into the Stranger. It doesn't end well.
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High Plains Drifter / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
High Plains Drifter / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: The film ends with The Stranger riding away into desert until he disappears; it's a complete reversal of the opening, which showed him appearing seemingly out of nowhere and riding into the corrupt little town.
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High Plains Drifter / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
High Plains Drifter / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: When the three gunmen see the "Welcome Party," they proceed to smash up the table and destroy all the food instead of simply stealing and eating it. When they corner most of the townspeople in the saloon, the leader goes the extra mile by only having one swig of a bottle of whiskey before smashing the bottle and demanding another.
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High Plains Drifter / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
High Plains Drifter / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: After a federal marshal discovered that Lago's mine was on government land (which would have forced the closing of the mine), the town hired three gunfighters to murder him.
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High Plains Drifter / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
High Plains Drifter / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: Stacey and his men are rattled when the warden suggests he fed them meat from their horses during their incarceration, although they quickly decide he's probably lying to cover selling the horses and pocketing the money.
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High Plains Drifter / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
High Plains Drifter / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Louis' excuse for letting the marshal die when he threatened the towns property.
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High Plains Drifter / int_b2b2093c	type	Rape and Revenge
High Plains Drifter / int_b2b2093c	comment	Rape and Revenge: Callie tries this twice and it doesn't work out well for her.
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High Plains Drifter / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
High Plains Drifter / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: This was one of the motivations for having the marshal whipped to death in full public view, when they could have just given him an instant death with a gunshot.
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High Plains Drifter / int_b76fe275	type	Ungrateful Townsfolk
High Plains Drifter / int_b76fe275	comment	Ungrateful Townsfolk: This happens before the beginning of the movie and is the basis for everything that happens during it. Including the subversion that happens before we actually learn this; after seemingly teaching the townsfolk to fight back against the evil bandits threatening the town, the 'hero' betrays the townspeople by abandoning them, letting the bandits have the run of the town before he returns to take his vengeance on them.
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High Plains Drifter / int_b773ec0e	type	DidNotThinkThisThrough
High Plains Drifter / int_b773ec0e	comment	Did Not Think This Through: Two examples: The Lago townspeople hire three outlaws to whip Marshal Jim Duncan to death for the "crime" of infringing on the mining company's profits, then frame these three brutal, sadistic mercenaries for an imaginary crime instead of just paying them. The town's apparent method to deal with the impending issue of the bandits' release was to hire three other bandits as protection: judging by the town leaders' dialogue, the three protectors were bullying brutes who'd been taking advantage of the town's predicament for almost a year. And one day before the bandits are scheduled to be released, the town's protectors needlessly pick a fight with The Stranger who easily dispatches all of them, leaving the town at the mercy of either the bandits who hate them, or The Stranger, whose opinion of Lago's residents is scarcely better. Mordecai is elevated to the dual role of Mayor and Sheriff because The Stranger likes him (and because doing so clearly annoys the other residents). Mordecai's response to this sudden and temporary promotion is to lord it over everyone and act positively gleeful over The Stranger's bullying of them, never realizing that The Stranger will be gone soon and Mordecai will likely not be going with him, leaving the dwarf to deal with a bunch of pissed-off townspeople, all of whom are bigger and stronger than he.
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High Plains Drifter / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
High Plains Drifter / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: After the Stranger tells the townspeople to literally paint their town red, one of them says, "When we get done, this place is gonna look like hell." The Stranger is then shown painting "HELL" over the Lago town sign. After Belding says "It couldn't be worse if the devil himself had ridden into Lago!" we cut to a shot of the Stranger, seemingly implying yet another possibility for who the Stranger might be.
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High Plains Drifter / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
High Plains Drifter / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Best shown when the Stranger shoots the heads off three target dummies in a moving cart in a matter of seconds, without shifting his position. Of course, there might be a very good reason his marksmanship is so inhumanly good...
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High Plains Drifter / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
High Plains Drifter / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: Mordecai is this to the Stranger — and to the other townspeople before the Stranger shows up.
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High Plains Drifter / int_c31dc964	type	Grew a Spine
High Plains Drifter / int_c31dc964	comment	Grew a Spine: Mine owner Allen shows a cowardly streak during his attempts to kill the Stranger, as he uses both Callie and Sarah as human shields. But when he's captured by Stacey's gang and faces a painful death unless he hands over the combination to his safe, he replies "I wouldn't give you the combination to the gates of hell."
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High Plains Drifter / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
High Plains Drifter / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: The Stranger takes out one of the three gunmen who harass him this way.
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High Plains Drifter / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
High Plains Drifter / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: The Stranger threatens a guy with this. Wisely, the dude backs off.
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High Plains Drifter / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
High Plains Drifter / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Hotel Manager attempting to shoot the Stranger in the back after he's killed all the gunmen is remarkably similar to the remaining Rojo brother trying to shoot The Man With No Name in the back after he's killed everybody else in A Fistful of Dollars. In both cases, the friend of Eastwood's character shoots the gunman before he can fire. There are two headstones in the graveyard with the names of Don Siegel and Sergio Leone on them — a tribute from Eastwood to the two (then-living) directors who shaped his career.
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High Plains Drifter / int_c7686239	type	Clint Squint
High Plains Drifter / int_c7686239	comment	Clint Squint: Some of the most iconic examples thereof.
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High Plains Drifter / int_c7f96bce	type	Especially Zoidberg
High Plains Drifter / int_c7f96bce	comment	Especially Zoidberg: "You can't possibly mean the church!" "I mean especially the church!"
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High Plains Drifter / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
High Plains Drifter / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: The townsfolk while the marshal is being killed. Only Sarah makes any protest.
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High Plains Drifter / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
High Plains Drifter / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: The Stranger. Well, he is played by Clint Eastwood.
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High Plains Drifter / int_c9946987	type	Decoy Backstory
High Plains Drifter / int_c9946987	comment	Decoy Backstory: Implied. A mysterious drifter comes to a town ostensibly to help (but clearly seeking vengeance), and flashbacks show that the drifter looks like the town's previous Marshall, who was flogged to death by bandits while the townsfolk idly stood by. The original script had it that the drifter is the Marshall's brother, but in the finished film it is also possible that the drifter is the Marshall's ghost or else an avenging angel (or devil) taking the Marshall's form.
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High Plains Drifter / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
High Plains Drifter / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: He's even called The Stranger in the credits.
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High Plains Drifter / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
High Plains Drifter / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Eastwood said in interviews that the original script explicitly identified the Stranger as the dead marshal's brother, but he deliberately played it ambiguously. One interpretation says the Stranger is the ghost of the marshal, while another says he's some sort of avenging angel (or demon). And of course, he may still just be the marshal's twin brother. The film itself never gives a definitive answer. On the maybe magic side of the argument, an often-overlooked detail is that the Stranger rides a pale horse...
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High Plains Drifter / int_cd3703a2	type	Genre Mashup
High Plains Drifter / int_cd3703a2	comment	Genre Mashup: As many people have noted, this is basically a Horror movie done up in a Western framework, with The Stranger's supernatural undertones.
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High Plains Drifter / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
High Plains Drifter / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Stranger really does a number on the town.
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High Plains Drifter / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
High Plains Drifter / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: The Stranger and Sarah have Slap Slap Passionate Sex.
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High Plains Drifter / int_e404c1ba	type	Go Seduce My Archnemesis
High Plains Drifter / int_e404c1ba	comment	Go Seduce My Archnemesis: Callie appears to willingly sleep with the Stranger a second time, but it turns out it was a ploy by Morgan to get his guard down so that he and his gang could kill the Stranger in his bed. It doesn't work, naturally.
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High Plains Drifter / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
High Plains Drifter / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Naturally, The Stranger fares better upon coming back from the dead (although at the very end, it seems that the character may actually have been a ghost playing a cruel game on both his killers, and the people who allowed it).
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High Plains Drifter / int_ec9a5f50	type	Deconstructed Character Archetype
High Plains Drifter / int_ec9a5f50	comment	Deconstructed Character Archetype: Turns out the kind of character Eastwood usually plays would be terrifying in real life. A seemingly invincible gunman with Improbable Aiming Skills, who seemingly knows everything you've done wrong, has a very strict sense of justice, and can't be stopped, only appeased? Yikes. Of course, the townspeople themselves aren't exactly innocent either...
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High Plains Drifter / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
High Plains Drifter / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Having murdered Morgan Allen, Stacey Bridges tells The Stranger that he was already dying from his arm wound and he just put him out of his misery.
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High Plains Drifter / int_fa6cd5d7	comment	Weird West: The film keeps this mostly to a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane level.
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High Plains Drifter / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
High Plains Drifter / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: Whenever Stacey Bridges decides to pick up his Villain Ball, he tends to start Suddenly Shouting.
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High Plains Drifter / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: The Stranger shows his heart of gold towards the discriminated part of the town at a couple different points. When the townspeople agree to give him anything he wants for free in exchange for his help, he gives free jars of candy to two Native American children and a pile of blankets to their father, who'd just been called "savages" and told to get out of the store for not having money. He also appoints the town midget (and local Butt-Monkey) Mordecai as mayor and sheriff. While setting the ambush for the three outlaws, he tells a group of Mexicans to prepare some long tables for a "picnic". When they ask if they can come to the "fiesta", he says no. While seemingly an act of meanness, particularly in the way he said it, in truth he wants them to stay out of harm's way.
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High Plains Drifter	hasFeature	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title / int_51a7df31
High Plains Drifter	hasFeature	Southern Gothic Satan / int_51a7df31
High Plains Drifter	hasFeature	Taking Over the Town / int_51a7df31
High Plains Drifter	hasFeature	The Expy With No Name / int_51a7df31
High Plains Drifter	hasFeature	The Tall Dark Stranger / int_51a7df31
High Plains Drifter	hasFeature	Town with a Dark Secret / int_51a7df31
High Plains Drifter	hasFeature	Ungrateful Townsfolk / int_51a7df31
High Plains Drifter	hasFeature	Weird West / int_51a7df31
High Plains Drifter	hasFeature	Who Are You? / int_51a7df31

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