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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Lone Star, directed by John Sayles, is a modern-day western that examines the relationship between past and present, morality and righteousness, and the difference between myth and reality all while tackling the issues of race, gender, social class, police brutality, international relations, and historical revisionism.The movie takes place in fictional Rio County, Texas, bordering Mexico. 19 out of 20 people in Rio County are Mexican-American, with whites in the minority and blacks in an even smaller minority. Anglos, however, have always run the town of Frontera, but with an all-but-elected Hispanic mayor, the minority white population feels that times are changing. To make matters worse, the local military base is shutting down (to be replaced with a new for-profit prison), big-city crime seems to be on the rise, and the discovery of a half-buried skeleton in the desert threatens to reveal a past that everybody would prefer to remain buried.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })In the 1950's, Rio County suffered under the brutal rule of Sheriff Charlie Wade (Kris Kristofferson), an amoral lawman who terrorized the county profiting from protection rackets, smuggling, and wholesale murder when it suited him. Wade was especially fond of preying on powerless blacks and hispanics, either sending them to "the farm," or killing them in cold blood with impunity. When Deputy Buddy Deeds (Matthew McConaughey) arrives in town after a tour in the Korean War, he openly confronts the Sheriff, brazenly warning him to get out of town before he ended up "dead or in jail." The next day, Wade disappears along with $10,000 in county funds, and Rio County sees decades of peace and prosperity under Sheriff Buddy Deeds' watch.When a rusted sheriff's badge is discovered near the above-mentioned skeleton, evidence mounts that Charlie Wade didn't go peacefully into the night. Buddy's son Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), now Sheriff of Rio County 40 some years later, investigates and suspects that his father just might not have been the hero that everybody remembers him to be...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The film's sole Academy Award nomination was for Sayles' original screenplay. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Many of Rio County's problems center around this, with Sheriff Wade in the 40's and 50's, followed by Buddy Deeds, up to Hollis Pogue and the current mayor of Frontera. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Otis Payne, even though he was a Disappeared Dad kept close tabs on his son's progress in the military and bragged about him to whomever would listen, as Delmore learns upon seeing what amounts to a small shrine Otis erected detailing all of Delmore's accomplishments. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Charlie Wade. Anytime he walked in a room, people froze and wondered if they were the next one Wade was going to shoot. | |
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Black Gal on White Guy Drama | |
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Black Gal on White Guy Drama: A white sergeant plans to ask a fellow sergeant, who is black, to marry him. They're both aware of the problems this will cause, but really do love each other so it doesn't matter. | |
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Flashback: Much of the story is revealed in this fashion, with a conversation in present-day Rio County turning into a voice over as the camera pans to one side, showing the same location 40 years before. | |
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Surprise Incest: Star crossed lovers Sam and Pilar are revealed to be half-siblings; they shared the same father. By the time they find this out, they have already consummated their relationship and still stay together after the revelation. It's a short, calm discussion where Pilar mentions that she can't have any more children; the whole conversation plays out where the question of if they should continue their relationship is never brought up, they're simply talking through details to ensure they can continue said relationship. | |
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I Am Not My Father | |
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I Am Not My Father: Sam resents any implications that he is similar to his dad in any way. Inverted in that pretty much the entire town agrees, wishing collectively that Sam was more like their beloved Buddy Deeds. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
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Intrepid Reporter: Danny Padilla is a small-town equivalent. He works for a local paper and has spent a great deal of time uncovering the truth about local hero Buddy Deeds, including crooked elections, corruption, and the illegal damming of a river to create a lake which destroyed another small town but created lake-front property for the rich people of the county, including Buddy himself. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Hollis Pogue meekly stood by and watched Sheriff Wade terrorize Rio County for years, all the while taking his payoffs and keeping quiet. He credits seeing Buddy stand up to Wade as the reason he was able to shoot Wade when Wade was about to kill an unarmed man he'd just beaten to the ground. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: Multiple, almost one for each major character. Charlie Wade was indeed shot in the back by one of his deputies, but it was the seemingly spineless Deputy Hollis Pogue that did it to keep Wade from shooting Otis in the back in cold blood. Buddy arrived just in time to see it happen, then to protect Hollis and Otis helped them bury the body in the desert. To make Wade's disappearance seem more credible, Buddy took $10,000 from the county safe and gave it to Mercedes to help the struggling widow after Wade murdered her husband. Mercedes, who constantly looked down on illegal immigrants is revealed in flashback to be one herself, having gotten separated from her group at night in the middle of the Rio Grande, to be rescued by future husband Eladio Cruz. A tragic one when reunited lovers Sam and Pilar discover the reason their parents, Buddy and Mercedes, tore them apart as lovestruck teenagers wasn't because their parents were heartless racists, but because Buddy and Mercedes had an affair which resulted in Pilar's birth... making Sam and Pilar half-brother/sister. Otis Payne, even though he was a Disappeared Dad kept close tabs on his son's progress in the military and bragged about him to whomever would listen, as Delmore learns upon seeing what amounts to a small shrine Otis erected detailing all of Delmore's accomplishments. | |
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Spicy Latina | |
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Spicy Latina: Pilar invokes this when discussing another teacher's interest in her. He's a white man who apparently goes for "hot blooded latinas," which is a stereotype Pilar apparently does not believe in. | |
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Meaningful Name: "Buddy" Deeds, whose approach to law enforcement was being friendly (and exchanging favors or deeds under the table to keep the peace). | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Brother–Sister Incest: Half-brother and sister to be exact. lovers Sam and Pilar are half-siblings; his father had an affair with her mother. Such being the reason why their romance was forbidden — and in the end, it's strongly implied they're going to continue their relationship sexually. | |
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Mistaken for Racist | |
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Mistaken for Racist: Buddy (who is white) and Mercedes (who is latina) both go to great lengths to keep their children from dating each other, ostensibly because of their different races. The real reason? Buddy and Mercedes had an affair, and their children are related. A minor case for the viewers. At a predominately white bar, the bartender sees an interracial couple at a table and comments to Sam that Buddy Deeds would have gone over and given them a warning. "Not because he had it in for the coloreds, but as kind of a safety tip," strongly implying he wished Sam would do the same. Sam does go to the couple's table, but only because he knows they're military and can give him some information about his murder investigation, and race never comes up. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: Sam always resented his father for his strict upbringing, but as he interviews the "old timers" of the town starts to believe that the legendary Sheriff Deeds was a cold blooded murderer. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Buddy Deeds gets one during the flashback recounting his showdown with Sheriff Wade. Wade has his hand on his pistol. Buddy pulls his own from under the table and sets it on top. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: Sam and Pilar's incestuous relationship is a metaphor for the Anglos and Latinos learning to be closer in Texas. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Sheriff Charlie Wade. He walked tall, always kept his uniform clean and sharp and knew everybody in the county by their first name. He was also corrupt as hell and though he "took care of his boys," if you didn't do what he said, when he said to do it he'd show you the underside of his boot. If he wanted you out of the way, he'd send you to jail, where you may or may not live to see trial. Get him really annoyed, he'd just search you, and ask politely to show him any weapons you might be carrying... then gun you down with a wink as you "went for a piece." | |
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Rewatch Bonus: | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: After discovering Charlie Wade's body, Sam visits an elderly Hollis Pogue to ask him if he thinks Buddy killed Wade. Hollis is sitting in a fishing boat during the conversation and says, "Hey, look at all this will ya? Tackle, boat... All just to catch a little ol' fish minding his own business down at the bottom of the lake. Hardly seems worth the effort, does it, Sam?" Hollis was the one who shot Wade. | |
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Accomplice by Inaction | |
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Accomplice by Inaction: A recurring motif in the flashbacks is how Hollis is present while Wade is killing or extorting people, not really helping him, but not doing anything to stop him either. Eventually, he can't take any more of this and shoots Wade to keep him from killing again. | |
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Framed for Heroism | |
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Framed for Heroism: Buddy Deeds, a deputy who stood up to the crooked - and deadly - Sheriff Wade, becomes a local hero after Wade's disappearance 40 years ago. The community doesn't know - or care to know - how it happened, they're just glad that Wade's gone. Deeds builds on that reputation as the replacement sheriff, who develops a reputation for questionable (but effective) under-the-table deals to keep the peace. | |
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Benevolent Boss | |
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Benevolent Boss: Sam Deeds, to the point that his senior deputy tells him that the Mayor and Hollis have both approached him behind Sam's back to run for Sheriff in the next election. Sam encourages him to do it, telling him he'd do a good job. | |
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Character Witness: Counteracting Sam's growing distaste over his father's corrupt methods, just about everyone he talks to refuses to say anything bad about the man, especially everyone who survived the reign of Charlie Wade. | |
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Bigot with a Badge | |
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Bigot with a Badge: Charlie Wade was the sheriff of a small Texas county in the 1950's. He was an unrepentant racist who murdered blacks and Hispanics with impunity. Whenever he came upon a Black or Hispanic person with a gun, whether or not that person was committing a crime, Wade would point his own gun at the person and command him to hand over the gun. As soon as the person's hand was on the gun Wade would shoot him and claim self-defense. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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Loophole Abuse: During the time of the flashback scenes, the county has an ordinance stating that only clubs and fraternal organizations can serve liquor. Saloon Owner Roderick Bledsoe gets around around this by declaring that his bar is a club, and that the membership admission is buying a drink every time a "club member" visits. | |
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Subverted with the sheriff who came before either of them: Charlie Wade was a bigot, violent, crooked, as worse a thief than any crook in the state, and prone to shooting people In the Back and claiming "self defense". | |
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Follow in My Footsteps | |
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Follow in My Footsteps: Twenty years after running away from Frontera, Sam Deeds returns to his hometown and becomes the new Sheriff of Rio County. Delmore Payne expects his son to go join ROTC, go to West Point and be a career soldier like himself. His son doesn't want any of it. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Sam Deeds is an honest, fair-minded Sheriff who treats his staff, the townspeople and even prisoners with decency and respect. His father Buddy Deeds had a reputation for making deals ("trading favors") with the locals but was otherwise an honest cop who treated prisoners fairly and kept the peace. Subverted with the sheriff who came before either of them: Charlie Wade was a bigot, violent, crooked, as worse a thief than any crook in the state, and prone to shooting people In the Back and claiming "self defense". | |
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Ambiguous Disorder: Bunny (Frances McDormand) is obsessively manic about college football, and it seems she can't control herself. Sam seems to pity her, as she seems to pity herself, too. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Buddy, to the citizens of Rio County; a young, dashing deputy who rode into town in a car with "too much engine," who ran off the evil sheriff who ruled the county with an iron fist. | |
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Secret Other Family: One of Buddy's many secrets. | |
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Running Gag: "Your mother was a saint." "In English, Enrique!" from Mercedes. | |
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