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The Dark Wind
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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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Hanlon's Razor | |
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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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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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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: The supposed jewellery thief from Jake's store turns out to be this by the end. | |
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The Brute: Larry, the henchman of Agent Johnson. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: Detective Johnson sports them when he's introduced, and he seems to intentionally wear them for intimidation. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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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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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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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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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: Chee's background narration when the first body is found: | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
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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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Women Are Wiser | |
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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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Wrench Wench | |
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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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Slashed Throat | |
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Slashed Throat: Ben Gaines is killed in this way. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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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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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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555 | |
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555: The phone number for Jim Chee's Spirit Healing business is 602 - 555 - 75 - 38. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: The jewelry thief likes his father. | |
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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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Leave the Camera Running | |
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Leave the Camera Running: Used a couple of times to pad out running time. | |
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Blood from the Mouth | |
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Blood from the Mouth: Nearly the only sign of death on the first body found. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Gail Pauling when she finds out about her husband's death. | |
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot | |
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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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Dull Surprise | |
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Dull Surprise: The reaction of several Hopi people when they stumble upon the body. | |
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CorruptCop | |
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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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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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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night | |
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The final showdown occurs during one. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Joe Leandgren. | |
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Translation Convention | |
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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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Made of Explodium | |
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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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Redemption Equals Death | |
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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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