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The Dark Wind

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The Dark Wind	comment	The Dark Wind is an American mystery film made in 1991, directed by Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) and adapted from the Leaphorn & Chee novel of the same name by Tony Hillerman.It is set on the Native American reservation shared by the Navajo and Hopi tribes, with tensions simmering between them. The main character, Jim Chee (Lou Diamond Phillips), is a Navajo police officer who has been transferred there a week earlier. Initially, he's sent to investigate the mundane case of vandalism at the local water pump, but things soon take a turn for the worse when a body is found killed in accordance to Navajo's "skinwalker" fashion. Soon, there's also a suspicious fatal crash of a small plane, whose pilot was a known drug-runner. It is up to Jim Chee to unravel the mess and find the bigger picture.
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The Dark Wind / int_118a2d16	type	Hanlon's Razor
The Dark Wind / int_118a2d16	comment	Hanlon's Razor: Invoked by Joe Leandgren when Chee is questioned by Johnson on there apparently being 40 minutes unaccounted for. When Jim asks if he also finds it suspicious, he replies:
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The Dark Wind / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Dark Wind / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: More like the entire tagline drop at one point (see above), when Jim Chee lectures Gail that Navajo don't believe in revenge.
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The Dark Wind / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
The Dark Wind / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: The supposed jewellery thief from Jake's store turns out to be this by the end.
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The Dark Wind / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
The Dark Wind / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Brute: Larry, the henchman of Agent Johnson.
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The Dark Wind / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
The Dark Wind / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: Detective Johnson sports them when he's introduced, and he seems to intentionally wear them for intimidation.
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The Dark Wind / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Dark Wind / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The circus poster on the wall of Jake's West shop. It foreshadows his circus past and ability to escape from bonds.
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The Dark Wind / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Dark Wind / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Jim and Dashee start off distrusting each other and implicitly racist towards' each other's group. By the end of the film, they work together and genuinely care about each other.
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The Dark Wind / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Dark Wind / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Chee's background narration when the first body is found:
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The Dark Wind / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Dark Wind / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Jake West is driven by revenge when he embarks on his murder spree and only uses the "skinwalker" rituals to make his involvement less obvious. Soon, however, he begins to enjoy it and does a ritual dance around the fire just for the hell of it.
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The Dark Wind / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
The Dark Wind / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Averted. Gail Pauling, the young widow of Richard Holanzer is considerably more impulsive and on the whole rather less wise than Chee.
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The Dark Wind / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
The Dark Wind / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: Edna Nezzie, a Navajo bulldozer driver who is interrogated at one point in the film, has looks that fit with the trope.
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The Dark Wind / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
The Dark Wind / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: Ben Gaines is killed in this way.
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The Dark Wind / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Dark Wind / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Jake West. He's nice in the first meeting with others, and we see him entertaining young kids with some of his tricks. However, he is very much merciless when it comes to his revenge.
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The Dark Wind / int_980647af	type	Visible Boom Mic
The Dark Wind / int_980647af	comment	Visible Boom Mic: On several occasions. The film reportedly had been re-written many times and was running over-budget, so there wasn't time to re-shoot the scenes or edit it out in post-production.
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The Dark Wind / int_984763bb	type	555
The Dark Wind / int_984763bb	comment	555: The phone number for Jim Chee's Spirit Healing business is 602 - 555 - 75 - 38.
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The Dark Wind / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Dark Wind / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: The jewelry thief likes his father.
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The Dark Wind / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
The Dark Wind / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: Often used throughout the film. A particularly interesting example is when Jim is drawing a mind map in his note-book: the camera zooms in on the paper and pencil.
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The Dark Wind / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
The Dark Wind / int_b2af79fb	comment	Leave the Camera Running: Used a couple of times to pad out running time.
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The Dark Wind / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
The Dark Wind / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Nearly the only sign of death on the first body found.
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The Dark Wind / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Dark Wind / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Gail Pauling when she finds out about her husband's death.
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The Dark Wind / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The Dark Wind / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Averted with the water mill vandalism: it turns out to be motivated by the mill drying up the sacred ceremonial spring nearby.
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The Dark Wind / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
The Dark Wind / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: The reaction of several Hopi people when they stumble upon the body.
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The Dark Wind / int_cd70c3dc	type	CorruptCop
The Dark Wind / int_cd70c3dc	comment	Corrupt Cop: Agent Johnson is one, setting up Jake West's son to be killed so that he can manipulate the father into killing all accomplices in his drug trade operation when he no longer needs them. He also thinks nothing of intimidating Chee into dropping his investigation. Chee himself also gets shades of this by the end, given that he aids the Hopi keeper in disabling the water pump in exchange for help and distracts a hotel keeper with a staged fire (granted, a tiny one in a bin, but still) to get the phone recordings)
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The Dark Wind / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The Dark Wind / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The moment when Jim draws a mind map on paper to help him figure out what happened. It's literally just pencil moving on grid paper in extreme close up, yet it somehow feels almost gripping.
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The Dark Wind / int_d67aae8f	type	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
The Dark Wind / int_d67aae8f	comment	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The final showdown occurs during one.
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The Dark Wind / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Dark Wind / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Joe Leandgren.
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The Dark Wind / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
The Dark Wind / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: When Jim is present, only the dialogue in Navajo language is subtitled. The Hopi language speech between Dashee and the Hopi keeper is left unsubtitled. When there are only Hopi around (like when the first body is found) their speech is subtitled.
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The Dark Wind / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
The Dark Wind / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: Averted throughout the film. Even when a small plane crashes, we see the wires sparkle and a small fire, but there is no explosion.
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The Dark Wind / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Dark Wind / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Jake West is forgiven by Chee for his crimes when he saves him from Agent Johnson, but gets mortally wounded.
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