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Tall Tale
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Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill is a 1995 movie from Walt Disney Pictures that features Nick Stahl as a young boy in the late 1800s who meets folk heroes Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, and John Henry.After his father is shot for refusing to sell the deed to his land in Paradise Valley to an evil coal-mining magnate, Daniel Hackett (Stahl) goes on the run trying to keep the deed from falling into the mining company's hands. He is saved from two outlaws by badass cowboy Pecos Bill (Patrick Swayze). After explaining the situation, Pecos offers to help Daniel, but not before seeking out the help of his old friend, legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (Oliver Platt). The trio heads to Liberty City, where they encounter John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the steel-driving man. The group continues to battle their way back to Paradise Valley against the mining company's hired guns. All the way, Daniel learns about courage and what it means to be a real man. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Grub and Zeb after Pecos Bill disarms them. | |
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Right-Hand Cat | |
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Right-Hand Cat: Stiles is seen a few times petting a hairless sphynx. | |
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Memetic Badass | |
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Memetic Badass: Pecos Bill is this in-universe. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: William H. Macy as one of the Big Bad's investors. Burgess Meredith as an old man who tells Daniel & Pecos where they can find Paul Bunyan. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Daniel gives this to Styles when he's poised to knock down the last pillar holding up the train tunnel: | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Paul Bunyan. | |
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands | |
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Pecos prefers shooting off the "trigger finger" as opposed to killing. | |
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Guns Akimbo | |
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Guns Akimbo: Pecos Bill carries a pair of Merwin Hulbert revolvers which he usually dual wields. Similarly, Calamity Jane has a pair of Colt revolvers which she exclusively fires in this fashion. | |
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Not His Sled | |
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Not His Sled: John Henry actually loses his legendary contest with the steel-driving machine, though at the end he mentions looking into a rematch. Well, since he would have died during his introduction if it had followed the original story... | |
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World's Strongest Man | |
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World's Strongest Man: John Henry, at least according to Pa's tall tales. When he loses the contest against the Steam driver, he gets so mad that when he drives a rail into the rock he's standing on, the whole boulder splits in half. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: It's never explained how or when Daniel went from resting with Pecos, Paul, and John Henry after crossing the desert to being right back home in Paradise Valley after his bad dream, in the same place that he was when he went to sleep. | |
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Carry a Big Stick | |
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Carry a Big Stick: John Henry wields his sledgehammer in combat just as effectively as he drives steel with it. | |
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Bar Brawl | |
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Bar Brawl: It happens right after some tough guy pushes Pecos Bill's... | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words/Phrase Catcher: "The Code of the East/North/South/West" | |
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Technical Pacifist | |
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Technical Pacifist: Pecos Bill will not kill a man on a Sunday. He shoots off their trigger finger instead. | |
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Stout Strength | |
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Stout Strength: Paul Bunyan in this movie is not a giant, just "Three Hundred Pounds of Raging Fury!'' | |
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Mighty Lumberjack | |
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Mighty Lumberjack: Paul Bunyan is literally the embodiment of this trope. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Swayze and Platt | |
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Arboreal Abode | |
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Arboreal Abode: Paul Bunyan is living in a Californian Sequoia forest. (In this version, he's a very large guy but not a giant as he was in the original tall tales.) He's converted the trunk of a single felled Sequoia into a spacious house. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Bad Ass Boast: Pecos' introductory (and parting) words. The latter is said while he's lassoing a tornado. | |
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Saving the Orphanage | |
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Saving the Orphanage: Daniel is trying to protect his family farm from an evil developer, leading him on a long quest across the country to protect the deed to the farm and meeting legendary heroes of American tall tales who join him. | |
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Cool Horse | |
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Cool Blue Ox: Babe, Paul Bunyan's mount. | |
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Cool Train | |
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Cool Train: J.P. Stiles has a magnificently baroque creation as his Base on Wheels. | |
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Bottomless Magazines | |
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Bottomless Magazines: Nobody ever seems to run out of bullets for their six shooters. | |
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Achilles in His Tent | |
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Achilles in His Tent: Paul Bunyan has become a recluse after the logging industry was modernized. | |
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Tall Tale | |
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Tall Tale: Natch. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Insulting Texas. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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Crippling the Competition: In a rare good guy example, Pecos Bill shoots the trigger fingers off rival gunslingers as an alternative to killing them. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: Right before a shoot-out with the Big Bad and his mooks, Daniel loses consciousness and wakes up in the raft he fell asleep in back in the beginning. Subverted, when he learns that the coal company has already begun mining, and Pecos, Bunyan, and Henry show up to help stop them. | |
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Saving the Orphanage / int_39a4806d | |
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World's Strongest Man / int_39a4806d |
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