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Silverado

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Silverado is a 1985 Western film that's something of a Reconstruction of the genre. Released in July of that year, it was directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starred an Ensemble Cast of well-known (or soon to be well-known) actors, including Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette, John Cleese, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Jeff Goldblum, Linda Hunt, and Ray Baker.The basic plot: In 1880, four cowboys travel together to the small town of Silverado, where they encounter many injustices and dangers before finally engaging the "bad guys" and bringing peace and equality back to the locals.
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Menacing Hand Shot
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Menacing Hand Shot: During the climactic duel, the camera goes back and forth between Cobb and Paden's hands at their waists in anticipation of the draw.
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Exactly What I Aimed At
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Exactly What I Aimed At: As a posse is chasing the leads into some hills, several warning shots come from Danny Glover's character, who is hiding somewhere out of sight. As his shots ricochet off nearby rocks and cacti, a deputy says: "Let's go, he ain't hittin' nothin'". This prompts the sheriff, played brilliantly by John Cleese, to retort: "You idiot, he's hit everything he's aimed at." His hat is immediately knocked off by the next shot.
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The Wild West
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The Wild West: A reconstruction of classic frontier America during the Wild West era.
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Professional Gambler
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Professional Gambler: Slick. "Scuse me, Sheriff, I'm a gambler, lookin' to run an honest game. Who would I talk to about that?" Paden also spends his time playing cards in saloons, talks in gambling metaphors and mutters about bad luck.
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Punch-Clock Villain
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Punch-Clock Villain: Sheriff Langston is just trying to keep order in his town, but that puts him at odds with our heroes by enforcing the residents' racist views and holding Jake for execution.
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Aborted Arc
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Aborted Arc: For a while the film teases that Paden will run into and ultimately kill all of the four men who robbed him (and trekked all of his property) but two of them never encounter him or appear in person.
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Fire-Forged Friends
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Fire-Forged Friends: Jake and Emmett are brothers. But Paden is introduced having his hide saved by Emmett. Mal is introduced having his hide saved by Paden and Emmett, And Jake is broken out of jail by all three. It's understandable why they all developed such a quick bond.
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It Has Been an Honor
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It Has Been an Honor: Emmett's "see you around" right before the climactic charge into Silverado.
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Slick the gambler initially comes across as an unassuming, cordial ally of sorts to the heroes before selling out to Cobb.
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Retired Outlaw
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Retired Outlaw: While never openly acknowledged, all four heroes are quite skilled at shooting and don't seem to be shocked by the idea of killing people but also have no history as lawmen. The closest we get to confirmation is that Paden is said to have "ridden" with Cobb in their youth, which involved getting arrested.
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The Drifter
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The Drifter: Paden is a former bandit with no occupation, just riding around.
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Psycho for Hire
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Psycho for Hire: Tyree is a nasty piece of work.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: McKendrick won't let one of his men kill a boy, even though the boy saw their faces. They opt to kidnap him instead.
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The Sheriff
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The Sheriff: Langston as the (mostly) honest variety, Cobb as the corrupt variety.
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Actor Allusion
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Actor Allusion: Scott Glenn is once again in the role of a cowboy.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: How Paden got out of jail after getting caught for going back for the injured dog. He only jokes, "They locked me up. The dog sprung me."
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Blatant Lies
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Slick. "Scuse me, Sheriff, I'm a gambler, lookin' to run an honest game. Who would I talk to about that?"
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Lint Value
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Lint Value: Paden has been robbed, and just walked into town wearing nothing but his underwear, when he sees one of the men who robbed him. He barges into a nearby gun store and tries to buy a gun with the single coin he has on him.
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Scenery Porn
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Scenery Porn: Gorgeous views of the New Mexico Rockies and the High Plains. Bonus for managing to get so many amazing shots without showing any modern civilization in the backgrounds since it’s a relatively densely populated area and things could not just be digitally erased back then.
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands: McKendrick shoots Emmett's rifle out of his hands during the final fight in town. It was accidental, mind you, as McKendrick was aiming at Emmett and not his gun, but it still destroyed Emmett's rifle and forced Emmett to find another way to kill McKendrick.
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Smug Snake
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Smug Snake: "Slick," played by Jeff Goldblum.
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Showdown at High Noon
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Showdown at High Noon: Cobb and Paden meet in the center of the main street for a quickdraw contest. It's complete with tumbleweeds.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The first and last words Paden and Cobb say to each other onscreen.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Cobb is cheerful and friendly even when he's doublecrossing and murdering people.
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Guns Akimbo
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Guns Akimbo: The character of Jake (portrayed by Kevin Costner) is styled in broad strokes. Lightning draws, blind trick shots, horse riding skills and firing two guns at the same time. Mal also brandishes his two rifles in one scene, though he doesn't use them at once.
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Taken in a different direction. Paden and Sheriff Cobb face off during the climax, both of them knowing that one will not be walking away from their showdown. Paden, who is slightly faster on the draw, ends up killing Cobb. Later as Emmett and Jake are about to ride off to California, Emmett comments that, eventually, Paden will become a good farmer. Paden tells him that he already has a job, placing his hands on his hips, and exposing his new Sheriff's badge.
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Friendly Enemy
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Friendly Enemy: Paden and Cobb used to ride together. They're still friendly with each other even though time has put them on opposite sides. Even their final exchange of words is a simple, but sad farewell, since they both know one of them won't be getting out of it alive.
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Disowned Sibling
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Disowned Sibling: Rae Jackson is very bitter about her brother Mal leaving his family to make money out in the frontier, which resulted in their father Ezra losing his ranch to McKendrick , their mother dying, and Rae becoming the mistress of the gambler Slick. When Slick sees Rae having a tense reunion with Mal and asks about her "friend", she replies, "He's not my friend, he used to be my brother."
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Clueless Deputy
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Clueless Deputy: See Smart People Play Chess for an example of how this is used in Langston's town. Cobb's deputies also count in a Dumb Muscle kind of way.
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We Have Reserves
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We Have Reserves: Actually averted when a rueful Cobb says that he's running out of deputies after a few shootouts.
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Sequel Hook
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Sequel Hook: Though it never happened, the last line is “We’ll be back,� which sure seemed like they were leaning on the fourth wall. The movie is on a lot of “movies that deserved a sequel but never got one.�
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Grievous Bottley Harm
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Grievous Bottley Harm: A local rowdy smashes the whiskey bottle that Mal just bought and attacks Mal with it. This leaves Mal with only the single shot he poured himself at the end of the fight.
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Mugging the Monster
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Mugging the Monster: The two white men who gang up on Mal in the saloon, while the bartender watches with a smile.
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Because You Were Nice to Me
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Because You Were Nice to Me: The whole reason Mal ends up with Emmett and Paden in the first place; Emmett speaks up on Mal's behalf to Sheriff Langston after his bar fight. Later, when Langston and his posse are chasing Emmett after he's sprung Jake and Paden from prison, Mal shoots at Langston and his posse to get them to back off.
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Action Prologue
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Action Prologue: The film opens with Emmett killing his assailants after they infiltrate the shack he's sleeping in.
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Duel to the Death
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Duel to the Death: Paden and Cobb's final confrontation, which ends in a shoot-out. What makes it very interesting is that both realize that such a thing has become necessary, and are saddened that their once friendship has ended in this way.
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Smart People Play Chess
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Smart People Play Chess: Sheriff Langston is shown playing chess. Sitting across the board is one of his deputies, but after Langston makes a move, his spins the board around to play the other side as well. This established him as intelligent and Surrounded by Idiots. To turn this up to eleven, the chess pieces are the famous Lewis Chessmen carved from walrus ivory in Scandinavia in medieval times. (The originals are in the British Museum).
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The Infiltration
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The Infiltration: Part of a hastily-concocted plan to retrieve a stolen chest of settlers' valuables from some bandits who had themselves posed as wagon train guides during the trip to the eponymous town. If it weren't for Mal, it would have ended... badly:
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Politically Correct History
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Politically Correct History: While Mal encounters racism from random townsfolk, all of our heroes are rather conveniently free of any and all racial bias.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: Emmett is introduced sleeping inside a shack when four men ambush him. He guns them down and heads off for Silverado.
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Retired Gunfighter
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Retired Gunfighter: Emmett
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Paden is asked repeatedly by his old riding buddies what became of the injured dog that drove him out of banditry. When Stella asks, he says simply, "She left me," jokingly making it sound like the end of a romance, and continuing to evade the question.
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Badass Boast
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Badass Boast: Mal grumbles, "Now, I don't wanna kill you, and you don't wanna be dead."
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Formula with a Twist
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Formula with a Twist: the film is a Reconstruction of the classic western. However, one of the protagonists is a black man, and the racism he encounters in the American frontier is addressed, something not found in classic westerns.
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Posthumous Character
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Posthumous Character: McKendrick's father, who was killed by Emmet, escalating the feud between the families.
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Rancher
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Rancher: The Big Bad is a Corrupt Corporate Executive version, leading to conflict between him and Mal's dad.
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No One Could Survive That!
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No One Could Survive That!: When Paden is introduced, he has been left to die of exposure in the middle of the desert by a group of bandits. None of them are happy to see him. Immediately prior to the climax, some mooks get between Emmett and any chance of a reload while he's practicing his sharpshooting, and trample him repeatedly with horses. Mal treats him for his injuries.
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Big Bad Duumvirate
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Big Bad Duumvirate: Sheriff Cobb and Ethan McKendrick.
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WEstern
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Earlier in the movie, Jake is leading a horse through town when his nephew attempts the classic Western trope of leaping into the saddle.
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Evil Counterpart
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Evil Counterpart: Tyree is this to Jake. Both are quick on the draw, wild, and a little unhinged. However while Jake is a playful Manchild, who's ultimately a decent person, Tyree is a violent Psycho for Hire. Adding to their conflict is that both are attracted to Phoebe, and while Jake is kind and respectful, Tyree is abusive and possessive. So of course the film sets up Jake and Tyree for a showdown at the climax.
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Public Secret Message
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Public Secret Message: Langston tells Emmett and Paden that Jake will be hanged at 10 o'clock the next morning. Emmett then gives his brother a "Reason You Suck" Speech about an old friend of theirs always knowing he would hang, and that "at dawn" he'll be proven right. Langston corrects him, not realizing that Emmett was telling Jake when he would be springing him.
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Just Got Out of Jail
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Just Got Out of Jail: Emmett just served five years in prison for killing a man in self-defense.
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The Gunslinger
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The Gunslinger: All the main characters are gunslingers: Paden is a former outlaw who "rode with" Cobb and manages to outdraw Cobb in the final battle. Emmett is a seasoned gunfighter who shoots needles off cactuses Mal hits everything he aims at with his rifles. Jake wears a "flashy rig" of two pistols at his hip, twirls his guns theatrically and shoots two different guys at the same time, in different directions.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: When Paden confronts the bandits who stole all of his belongings and left him to die.
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Deadpan Snarker: Particularly Paden, Emmett, and Stella, but everyone gets in a few. Also-
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: Paden has "Bad luck" and "Deal me in/out." Mal has "That ain't right." Jake's half Catchphrase half Running Gag "All I did was kiss a girl."
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Young Gun
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Young Gun: Jake is a young, brash and cocky Manchild but backs it up with all the gunfighting and horseriding stunts of a western action hero.
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Everyone Has Standards
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Everyone Has Standards: Sheriff Langston is overly strict with upholding the law in Turley, but he has no patience for racism in his town.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Hannah's husband. He's a rude and suspicious Jerkass, who even after Paden, Emmett, and Mal help recover his wagon train's stolen money thinks they were just after it for themselves. It gets him killed when he turns his gun on them, delaying them just long enough for the last of the outlaws who stole it in the first place to shoot him dead.
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Land in the Saddle
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Land in the Saddle: After failing miserably the first time he tries this, Augie finally gets it right during the daring rescue from Mckendrick's ranch-house.
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Demoted to Extra
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Demoted to Extra: Almost all of Rosanna Arquette's scenes were deleted in post-production thus failing to explain how she goes from Emmett to Paden in the course of the movie.
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Mal gives a non-verbal one when one of the toughs trying to throw him out of the bar breaks the bottle of whiskey that he had just bought.
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Animal Stampede
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Animal Stampede: Since the heroes are attacking a cattle rancher, they have a convenient distraction ready to hand.
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Horseback Heroism
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Horseback Heroism: A Big Damn Heroes moment combined with a horseback Team Power Walk towards the Big Bad's ranch at the climax. Earlier in the movie, Jake is leading a horse through town when his nephew attempts the classic Western trope of leaping into the saddle.
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Improbable Aiming Skills
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Mal is astonishingly accurate with his Henry rifle. Also Emmett, who picks off cactus needles at several yards. Jake's trick-shot skills. After carefully lining up the angles on two mooks to either side of him, he yells, "Hey!" and then shoots them both at the same time as they spin around.
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Posse
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Posse: Sheriff Langston organizes a posse to chase Emmett, Paden and Jake when they escape from the Turley jail. However, he calls off the chase when he encounters resistance from Mal, leading to the immortal line: "Today my jurisdiction ends here!"
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And Your Little Dog, Too!
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And Your Little Dog, Too!: Lampshaded when corrupt town sheriff Cobb indicates to Paden that he'll harm Stella if Paden moves against him, even though Cobb acknowledges she has nothing whatsoever to do with their dispute. He does however know Paden (whom he used to work with when they were robbers) got caught while protecting a wounded dog he'd previously claimed to despise, so figures the threat will make Paden back off. It works at first, but Stella figures out what's happened and talks Paden into fighting Cobb anyway. Also, this is what gets Emmett to recover from his injuries; Mal tells him McKendrick has kidnapped his nephew (see Heroic Second Wind below).
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Large and in Charge
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Large and in Charge: Cobb, who is the Big Bad.
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Troperiffic
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Troperiffic: This film gleefully embraces so many Wild West Tropes its easier to list the ones that it doesn't include than it is to list the ones that it does.
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Iron Lady
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Iron Lady: Stella is soft-spoken and kind, but also has no time for bullshit or hysterics. When a crisis arises, be it a fire, gunfight, or one of her girls bringing Rae in with a bullet wound, Stella gives quick, firm orders without batting an eye.
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Badass Longcoat
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Badass Longcoat: Paden, Mal, and Cobb all wear longcoats at various point throughout the movie.
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Cool Old Lady
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Cool Old Lady: Stella, the saloon keeper/barmaid/madam who quickly befriends Paden. She even steps up as the town's impromptu fire chief.
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Slick is stabbed with his own knife by Mal.
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Feuding Families
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Feuding Families: Emmett killed a rancher named McKendrick in the past and comes home to find McKendrick's son harassing his sister and nephew, and happy at the idea of killing Emmett.
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The Seven Western Plots
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The Seven Western Plots: This is a combination of the Outlaw and Ranch plots, as the heroes are all implied to be Retired Outlaws and end up fighting to save the honest homesteaders from a Corrupt Corporate Executive Rancher and a sheriff whom one of said heroes used to ride with.
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Heroic Second Wind
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Heroic Second Wind: Emmett can barely move after his run in with Cobb's men, but when Mal (who's also been beat up by Cobb's men, before managing to escape) tells him McKendrick's men kidnapped Emmett and Jake's nephew, that's enough to get Emmett moving again.
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Miss Kitty
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Miss Kitty: Stella, "The 'Midnight Star' herself.
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Manchild
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Manchild: Jake is introduced in jail, breezily explaining to his older brother what he did wrong while climbing around his cell like a jungle gym. Augie later claims to be more mature than him, which Jake does not deny.
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Reconstruction
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Reconstruction: The film is Lawrence Kasdan's love letter to the classic Western.
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Ramp Jump
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Ramp Jump: Emmett does one on horseback towards the end of the Chase Scene, and knocks the Big Bad from his horse.
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Dirty Cop
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Dirty Cop: Cobb the sheriff of Silverado is in the pocket of the local rancher.
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Big Damn Heroes
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A Big Damn Heroes moment combined with a horseback Team Power Walk towards the Big Bad's ranch at the climax.
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Would Hit a Girl
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Would Hit a Girl: Tyree nearly provokes a gunfight with Jake when he (Tyree) manhandles Phoebe.
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Answer Cut
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Answer Cut: When Emmett describes his brother to Sheriff Langston, the sheriff responds, "I know where that gentleman is." Cut to the town jail.
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