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The Mexican

337 statements
65 feature instances
16 referencing feature instances

The Mexican	type	TVTItem
The Mexican	label	The Mexican
The Mexican	page	TheMexican
The Mexican	comment	A 2001 crime comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts.Jerry Welbach (Pitt) is a basically decent guy with pretty poor driving skills. Through inattention at the wheel, he manages to crash his car into that of Arnold Margolese (Gene Hackman), a notorious gangster. Margolese just happened to have a body in the trunk of his car, leading to his arrest when the cops came to investigate the accident. Now Jerry is in his employ, at least until Margolese leaves prison... and much to the annoyance of his girlfriend, Samantha (Roberts).After five years of running errands for Margolese, Jerry is almost out of his debt. He just has one job left, a simple delivery. All he has to do is fly to Mexico and pick up a very special gun, the eponymous Mexican, then bring it to Margolese. Unfortunately for Jerry, things are about to get complicated. The Mexican is a very valuable commodity, and Margolese isn't the only one who wants it. With multiple buyers hoping to secure the gun, Jerry finds himself on the run from everything. And Sam, eager to leave him behind, is taken as collateral by the notorious hitman Leroy (James Gandolfini). Needless to say, it is Played for Laughs.
The Mexican	fetched	2024-02-25T19:21:21Z
The Mexican	parsed	2024-02-25T19:21:21Z
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The Mexican	processingComment	Dropped link to ProfessionalKillers: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
The Mexican	processingComment	Dropped link to nottinghill: Not a Feature - ITEM
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The Mexican	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Mexican / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Mexican / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite their constant bickering in each other's presence, Sam and Jerry get a couple of these moments towards the end of the film.
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The Mexican / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
The Mexican / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Jerry says he met Leroy one and he seemed fairly normal, making it hard for him to decide whether or not his hype as a Psycho for Hire was exaggerated or not as part of the way of obscuring Winston posing as Leroy.
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The Mexican / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Mexican / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Gene Hackman as Margolese.
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The Mexican / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Mexican / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Ted is a gangster, but a fairly jovial guy whose counting down toward retirement and just obeys orders even when he gets conflicting orders to help Jerry and kill him, he's just confused by the situation but rolling with it.
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The Mexican / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Mexican / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The film walks the line between this and Dramedy.
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The Mexican / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Mexican / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Mexican itself, in a literal example of this trope.
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The Mexican / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Mexican / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Do you like sex and travel?"
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The Mexican / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Mexican / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: It's not about a person from Mexico, but a gun.
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The Mexican / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
The Mexican / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Frank, though it's worth noting that it was because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and not because of his sexuality. Winston/Leroy as well.
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The Mexican / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Mexican / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: The hitman who goes after Sam and Leroy also known as the real Leroy.
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The Mexican / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Mexican / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: During a phone call Jerry makes to Sam he says, "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone". In Notting Hill, the song, "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone" plays in reference to Julia Roberts' character. Frank tells Samantha and Winston that he's a postman whose business is pornography. James Gandolfini previously starred in 8 MM, where a private detective whom embarks on a dark and dangerous journey into the porn industry to solve the mystery behind footage from a snuff movie which a teenage girl is slain by a mysterious masked killer.
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The Mexican / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Mexican / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Jery bungled his previous One Last Job because Sam borrowed the car and lost the keys.
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The Mexican / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
The Mexican / int_42bc6d2b	comment	Hostage for MacGuffin: At the end Bernie, who has Sam in the trunk of his car, offers to return her safely to Jerry for the Mexican.
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The Mexican / int_44d1e445	type	With or Without You
The Mexican / int_44d1e445	comment	With or Without You
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The Mexican / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Mexican / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Jerry gets treated like crap buy everybody and everything in the universe, and that is before he first gets the cursed gun.
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The Mexican / int_5327b609	type	Badass Driver
The Mexican / int_5327b609	comment	Badass Driver: Leroy, who manages to make a Volkswagen Beetle look cool as he dodges traffic and big-rigs while abducting Sam.
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The Mexican / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Mexican / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: We get several, as different people recount the origin of the Mexican.
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The Mexican / int_5bc36262	type	Backwards-Firing Gun
The Mexican / int_5bc36262	comment	Backwards-Firing Gun: The eponymous pistol killed its first victim this way when it was being test fired. This lead to the persistent rumor that the pistol was cursed.
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The Mexican / int_5d6db368	type	Four Eyes, Zero Soul
The Mexican / int_5d6db368	comment	Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Bernie.
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The Mexican / int_5e68bb61	type	Gayngster
The Mexican / int_5e68bb61	comment	Gayngster: Leroy. Well, Winston pretending to be Leroy.
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The Mexican / int_60426489	type	Citizenship Marriage
The Mexican / int_60426489	comment	In a deleted scene, after his Citizenship Marriage Ted is shown to have left the mob, and provides some genuine aid and advice to Jerry.
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The Mexican / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Mexican / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Margolese was a ruthless gangster in the past, but is trying to recover the pistol out of sentient, and too repay a debt, and some of Bernie's dialogue implies that he's going to retire from the gangster lifestyle and shut down his organization. The commentary suggests that this happened to Leroy the fake one anyway given the job he set out to do, and the bond he forms with Sam. In a deleted scene, after his Citizenship Marriage Ted is shown to have left the mob, and provides some genuine aid and advice to Jerry.
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The Mexican / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Mexican / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Averted, when Bernie is confronted by another mobster whose figured out what he's up to he simply tries to buy him off, and apparently succeeds.
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The Mexican / int_65fcc287	type	Lima Syndrome
The Mexican / int_65fcc287	comment	Lima Syndrome: Leroy and Sam are actually really affectionate the entire movie... Right up until Jerry kills him.
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The Mexican / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Mexican / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The gunsmith's daughter on the final telling of The Mexican's story. The man she loved, the gunsmith's assistant, had just been killed by the Jerkass general that she had been given to, and she didn't fired the gun to save him because she wasn't sure the thing would work. She's explicitly told that her heart was broken.
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The Mexican / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
The Mexican / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Subverted. Winston kills the real Leroy, then tells Sam he's Leroy. But the real Leroy isn't actually dead, since he was wearing a Kevlar vest. Leroy comes back after them, but Winston kills him for real before he can reveal who he really is.
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The Mexican / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Mexican / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: The film starts with Samantha and Jerry arguing (or more like Samantha having an "It's All About Me" angry girlfriend tirade and threatening to leave him if he goes to Mexico while Jerry points out that he cannot say no to Margolese's request — he will be killed if he refuses) and for the most part being angry about being dragged into the whole situation and blaming Jerry for it... and at the end of the film, once they have reaffirmed that Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other and are Riding into the Sunset, Jerry says one wrong thing and Samantha is going off about leaving him again.
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The Mexican / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
The Mexican / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: The directors commentary claims that Winston's death had aspects of this as a result of Character Development.
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The Mexican / int_74c3078d	type	TheRashomon
The Mexican / int_74c3078d	comment	The Rashomon: The story of the gun is told several times. Each time is slightly different. On the final time it's said, it is mentioned that the gun's curse was placed by the assistant of the gunsmith that made the gun, because he loved the gunsmith's daughter, and miffed that she was being given to some Jerkass general, she made it so the gun wouldn't work unless it was being shot for the sake of The Power of Love.
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The Mexican / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Mexican / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Sam angrily notes that if Jerry had been a better driver, he never would have ran a traffic light for years ago, crashed into Margolese's car, and gotten them indebted to the gangster. Margolese himself notes to Jerry that this chain of events led to his incarceration, to his learning about the pistol and becoming determined to return it to its rightful owners, and indirectly to the deaths of his cellmate and his grandson, among others.
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The Mexican / int_7b14acfb	type	Revealing Reflection
The Mexican / int_7b14acfb	comment	Revealing Reflection: Jerry is changing a flat tire and sees, in the reflection of the hubcap, his supposed ally Leroy pull a gun on him. Leroy ( actually Winston, hired to kill Jerry), not knowing he's been spotted, relents and goes to help with the tire. He then sees the reflection of Jerry pulling his own gun, who takes advantage of the opportunity and shoots Winston.
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The Mexican / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
The Mexican / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Considering he's played by James Gandolfini and exhibits no mannerisms (apart from checking out one guy in a diner), Leroy qualifies.
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The Mexican / int_84762bed	type	Product Delivery Ordeal
The Mexican / int_84762bed	comment	Product Delivery Ordeal: Jerry, an errand boy for a notorious gangster, is tasked with one One Last Job—fly to Mexico and pick up an antique pistol, the eponymous Mexican, then bring it to his boss. However, Jerry's boss isn't the only one who wants it. His girlfriend is taken hostage on her way to Las Vegas, his contact in Mexico gets killed by an errant bullet, his car gets stolen with the gun (and the contact's body) inside it, he's briefly arrested by the police, his boss's second-in-command orders him killed, and he loses his passport. It all eventually culminates in a Mexican Standoff between Jerry and the mobster's second-in-command before he can finally turn over the gun.
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The Mexican / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Mexican / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Say it with me... Ellllllll Camiiiiiiinoooooooooooooo!
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The Mexican / int_939a84fa	type	Embarrassing Tattoo
The Mexican / int_939a84fa	comment	Embarrassing Tattoo: Leroy has one on his arm that says "Winston." Sam presses him on its meaning, but Leroy says it's the name of a guy he doesn't like. She assumes it's an ex. Actually, it's his real name.
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The Mexican / int_93f7e79f	type	Beautiful Sexual Assault Victim
The Mexican / int_93f7e79f	comment	Beautiful Sexual Assault Victim: Discussed. Sam asks her kidnapper whether he plans to rape her, and he says "Not likely." When she asks whether it's because she's not attractive, he says she is attractive, and explains to her that rape is about hate toward someone, not attraction.
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The Mexican / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Mexican / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Margolese outlives his grandson, and the father of his dead cellmate is in a similar situation.
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The Mexican / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Mexican / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: In two of the three tellings about the pistol, the Nobleman's son comes across as a creepy, unpleasant person.
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The Mexican / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Mexican / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Frank saying to Samantha and Winston "Guns don't kill people" foreshadows Frank's death when he is killed by the Well Dressed Black Man.
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The Mexican / int_9fbe06a5	type	Badass in a Nice Suit
The Mexican / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Badass in a Nice Suit: the real Leroy who's even credited as "Well-dressed black man."
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The Mexican / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
The Mexican / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Poor Beck. He was drunk and just trying to pee against the wall of a building when a stray bullet from some folks shooting their guns in the air catches him straight in the forehead. This is why celebrating with gunfire isn't such a smart idea.
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The Mexican / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Mexican / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The movie constantly shifts between broad comedy and a whimsical score on Jerry's side of the story, and introspective conversations and shocking bursts of violence on Sam and Leroy's.
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The Mexican / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
The Mexican / int_a5f998ea	comment	Stockholm Syndrome: A downplayed example. If you took a clip of Sam and Fake!Leroy, after the scene where Sam tries to escape from the bathroom window, you wouldn't think that she was being held hostage at all. Sam even encourages Leroy to pick up a guy at a diner and they travel with him. Without Sam ever mentioning the fact that she's being held for ransom for the Mexican. However, Sam is also very comfortable around Leroy due to the fact that she is not in any kind of danger, and has no problem speaking her mind to him, which is something people with Stockholm Syndrome donâ€™t do. A person with the actual condition would not risk asking their captor if they are gay.
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The Mexican / int_ab160fbe	type	South of the Border
The Mexican / int_ab160fbe	comment	South of the Border: Referenced when Jerry turns down a Chrysler at the car rental, just after arriving in Mexico, because he drives a Chrysler in the US and was hoping for something more Mexican. The renter jokes that he must believe Mexicans still ride horses. He eventually agrees to take the El Camino, which is also a US car but has a Spanish name. Afterward, the movie plays the trope completely straight, depicting the country as arid and undeveloped, with virtually no difference between the modern day and the retellings of the gun's origin.
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The Mexican / int_ab802f4b	type	Work Off the Debt
The Mexican / int_ab802f4b	comment	Work Off the Debt: Why Jerry is working for Margolese; he accidentally got him arrested and is stuck making it up to him.
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The Mexican / int_b8ab7dc4	type	Treacherous Advisor
The Mexican / int_b8ab7dc4	comment	Treacherous Advisor: Ted, who is only out for himself and was setting Jerry up for a hit Bernie Nayman, Margolese's second in command while he's in prison, also counts. Nayman is after the Mexican for himself, and doesn't care whether Jerry lives or dies, just as long as he gets the gun.
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The Mexican / int_b901ef97	type	Forgotten Fallen Friend
The Mexican / int_b901ef97	comment	Forgotten Fallen Friend: Consistently averted, with the deaths of Frank, Winston, Beck, and Margolese's cellmate in the backstory. all providing a decent amount of motivation and angst with Sam especially grieving over Winston even after finding out the truth, although Beck isn't mentioned too much.
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The Mexican / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The Mexican / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Sam
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The Mexican / int_c4b0faae	type	Can't Hold His Liquor
The Mexican / int_c4b0faae	comment	Can't Hold His Liquor: Beck
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The Mexican / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
The Mexican / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Zigzagged. Jerry is doing his One Last Job, while Ted only has a few more months of work left before he plans to retire to Boca Raton, and both live. Winston is hinted to be thinking about abandoning his violent life after Frank dies, but it's unclear if he's sincere or not, and either way he ends up killed by Jerry.
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The Mexican / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Mexican / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Whether or not the titular gun is cursed. A lot of bad things happen to Jerry from the moment he gets a hold of it, and its backstory is plagued with people who died because it appears to be it will only work correctly if the user has The Power of Love on his side. In the end, the gun (all of several hundred years old and never fired during that time) works perfectly and allows Sam to place a perfect kill shot on Bernie's chest when he threatens Jerry. Even the implication that there was a ring lodged in the gun's barrel, it still comes off as this trope.
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The Mexican / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
The Mexican / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Leroy and Sam get back to their hotel to find that Frank, the guy Leroy picked up the previous night, is splattered all over the pavement after seemingly leaping to his death. In reality, the real Leroy has come back to pick up Sam, and killed Frank when he found him in the room.
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The Mexican / int_d8e40b47	type	El Spanish "-o"
The Mexican / int_d8e40b47	comment	El Spanish "-o": "I need a ride in your El Truck-o to the next town-o."
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The Mexican / int_dcd115e7	type	Compartment Shot
The Mexican / int_dcd115e7	comment	Compartment Shot: Of Jerry putting a gun into the glovebox of his car.
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The Mexican / int_dcd115e7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_dcd115e7
The Mexican / int_e069fae8	type	Bad Guy Bar
The Mexican / int_e069fae8	comment	Bad Guy Bar: Jerry walks into one to find Beck.
The Mexican / int_e069fae8	featureApplicability	1.0
The Mexican / int_e069fae8	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_e069fae8
The Mexican / int_e1d50489	type	Convenient Misfire
The Mexican / int_e1d50489	comment	Convenient Misfire: The legend of "The Mexican" involves the gun undergoing so many of these (among other disasters) during its creation process that it's believed to be cursed.
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The Mexican / int_e1d50489	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_e1d50489
The Mexican / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
The Mexican / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: In a deleted scene while being held at gunpoint by the hitman, Frank says he doesn't know when Leroy and Sam will be "black" instead of back, leading to a Mistaken for Racist argument which contributes to the real Leroy deciding to kill him.
The Mexican / int_e8ca5cb3	featureApplicability	1.0
The Mexican / int_e8ca5cb3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_e8ca5cb3
The Mexican / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
The Mexican / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: The gunsmith's daughter and the gunsmith's assistant. It was the only time the gun worked right (other than Samantha shooting Bernie) in the hundred-plus years since it's been made.
The Mexican / int_f6624c30	featureApplicability	1.0
The Mexican / int_f6624c30	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_f6624c30
The Mexican / int_f76425d3	type	MacGuffin Escort Mission
The Mexican / int_f76425d3	comment	MacGuffin Escort Mission: Jerry is responsible for fetching the Mexican and bringing it to Margolese. Unfortunately, while he gets the gun rather easily, he has a much harder time hanging onto it.
The Mexican / int_f76425d3	featureApplicability	1.0
The Mexican / int_f76425d3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_f76425d3
The Mexican / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
The Mexican / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Jerry; it's what landed him into debt with Margolese in the first place. Also, at the end of the movie, Jerry purposefully crashes his car more than once, first to get the Mexican back and the second time just because Sam wouldn't stop talking.
The Mexican / int_f96f188c	featureApplicability	1.0
The Mexican / int_f96f188c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_f96f188c
The Mexican / int_fa7d3dfe	type	Number Two
The Mexican / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Number Two: Bernie
The Mexican / int_fa7d3dfe	featureApplicability	1.0
The Mexican / int_fa7d3dfe	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_fa7d3dfe
The Mexican / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Mexican / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Sam can be very sweet (if a tiny bit of a drama queen when it comes to her relationship), but with Jerry's life on the line she has no problem pulling the trigger
The Mexican / int_fccd06b6	featureApplicability	1.0
The Mexican / int_fccd06b6	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_fccd06b6
The Mexican / int_fec6ea72	type	BloodSplatteredInnocents
The Mexican / int_fec6ea72	comment	Blood-Splattered Innocents: Sam walks around covered in the real Leroy's blood after Leroy shoots him at close range.
The Mexican / int_fec6ea72	featureApplicability	1.0
The Mexican / int_fec6ea72	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_fec6ea72
The Mexican / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
The Mexican / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: A relieved Jerry doesn't realize how much celebrating his victory over Winston is hurting Sam due to how close they'd gotten.
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The Mexican / int_ff17ccf1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_ff17ccf1
The Mexican / int_name	type	ItemName
The Mexican / int_name	comment
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The Mexican / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mexican	hasFeature	The Mexican / int_name
The Mexican / int_name	itemName	The Mexican

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The Mexican	hasFeature	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me? / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	Backwards-Firing Gun / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	Beautiful Sexual Assault Victim / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	Can't Get Away with Nuthin' / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	Collateral Damage / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	Convenient Misfire / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	El Spanish "-o" / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	Firing in the Air a Lot / int_4fa0e1f0
GoreVerbinski	seeAlso	The Mexican
The Mexican	hasFeature	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	Product Delivery Ordeal / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	Retraux / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	Revealing Reflection / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	So Beautiful, It's a Curse / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	Stray Shots Strike Nothing / int_4fa0e1f0
The Mexican	hasFeature	With or Without You / int_4fa0e1f0

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