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The Proposition

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The Proposition	type	TVTItem
The Proposition	label	The Proposition
The Proposition	page	TheProposition
The Proposition	comment	The Proposition is a 2005 film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave, who also composed the soundtrack with his Bad Seeds bandmate Warren Ellis. The film is a Western set in colonial Australia in the 1880s, and was described by Cave as a story full of beautiful sadness and longing, intercut with moments of intense violence.In the rural outback, Irish criminals Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) and his younger, mentally handicapped brother Mikey are caught by Captain Morris Stanley (Ray Winstone) and his troopers. Stanley offers a deal: Charlie has until Christmas Day to find and kill his older brother Arthur (Danny Huston), leader of the feared and depraved Burns gang, or else Mikey will be hanged by the local authorities. As Charlie faces the question of which brother will live and which will die, Captain Stanley fights to bring civilisation — and perhaps justice — to the brutal, desolate landscape.The film also stars Emily Watson as Martha, Captain Stanley's wife; David Wenham as Eden Fletcher, the extremely British pillar of the local community; and John Hurt as Jellon Lamb, an elderly alcoholic bounty hunter.Cave, Ellis, and Hillcoat also collaborate on the 2009 film The Road, and again on 2012's Lawless.
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The Proposition / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
The Proposition / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: More than just a taste. Fletcher sentences the mentally handicapped Mikey to a hundred lashes from the cat o' nine tails. They don't even reach forty lashes before the previously baying audience have all turned away in disgust and Mikey's back is reduced to bleeding ribbons. A blood-splattered Fletcher still wants the full hundred lashes.
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The Proposition / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
The Proposition / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: Of Mikey (not really the hero, but still a victim figure) being flogged. If you listen carefully, you'll also notice that he's only given 39 lashes out of the full 100 by the end of the scene.
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The Proposition / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
The Proposition / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: The natural consequences of averting Pretty Little Headshots, as seen on one of the Aboriginals who try to kill Charlie. Sam is delighted by this.
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The Proposition / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Proposition / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "I wish to present you with a proposition..."
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The Proposition / int_1a237409	type	Order Versus Chaos
The Proposition / int_1a237409	comment	Order Versus Chaos: The events of the film makes it explicit clear that Stanley can't and won't "civilise this land". It took putting chaos versus chaos to take down Arthur and destroyed any order and pretense of civilisation in the process.
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The Proposition / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Proposition / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Jellon Lamb, "man of no little education", and Arthur Burns. In Arthur's case, the trope is used to humanize him, rather than its standard use as just another villainous trapping.
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The Proposition / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Proposition / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Arthur Burns is a sadist who likes to inflict these on his victims, such as Jellon Lamb.
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The Proposition / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Proposition / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Jacko pointing out smoke on the horizon, which the white troopers can't see even when pointed out to them. We even get a shot of what Jacko sees, and if you look really, really closely, there is a tiny puff of what could be smoke.
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The Proposition / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Proposition / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: The third member of Arthur's gang, Two-Bob, is a hard to hate: he is a resourceful and badass aborigine who just wants his land back, and is notably absent for Arthur and Sam's big Moral Event Horizon.
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The Proposition / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Proposition / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Life in the outback is portrayed as a dirty, hardscrabble existence in a dusty wasteland populated by brutal bandits and equally brutal and corrupt lawmen.
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The Proposition / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
The Proposition / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: This is why Fletcher can make his own laws in the outback town.
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The Proposition / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
The Proposition / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Of The Western. A reviewer noted that the great authority figure in this genre, the sheriff, is emasculated here. It's most evident in the scenes where Captain Stanley has his authority completely undermined by Eden Fletcher, and is reduced to a pathetic bystander.
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The Proposition / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
The Proposition / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Sergeant Lawrence who works under Captain Stanley. He is almost as horribly evil as any of the main villains, and leads a massacre of an aborigine village. Arthur may be worse than him, but when he murders this guy, it's his Moment of Awesome.
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The Proposition / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Proposition / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: In the backstory, Charlie and Mikey both abandoned Arthur after his Moral Event Horizon crossing. It's pretty clear that Charlie was himself a robber and probably a murderer as well, but what Arthur and Samuel did was unforgivable. Charlie also realizes that it isn't fair to draw his mildly mentally handicapped younger brother Mikey into the life of a bandit and outlaw where the most likely eventual outcome is to be shot or hanged.
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The Proposition / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Proposition / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Captain Stanley makes a big gamble setting Charlie loose by assuming that he'll value Mikey's life enough to kill his older brother Arthur.
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The Proposition / int_3cf29583	type	Trojan Prisoner
The Proposition / int_3cf29583	comment	Trojan Prisoner: Two-Bob does this to get the gang into the prison.
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The Proposition / int_401089da	type	Offstage Villainy
The Proposition / int_401089da	comment	Offstage Villainy: Actually done very well here with Arthur. When he first appears he's a charming, cultured man... and then you see what he does to Jellon Lamb...
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The Proposition / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Proposition / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Compared to most stories, it's a Downer Ending. Compared with anything else Nick Cave has written, it's pretty happy.
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The Proposition / int_419f0db	type	Bedouin Rescue Service
The Proposition / int_419f0db	comment	Bedouin Rescue Service: Inverted. The Aborigines throw a spear into Charlie, and he is rescued by Arthur.
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The Proposition / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Proposition / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: While the towns are in the middle of an otherwise bleak wasteland, some of the hills and other rock formations in the desert look magnificent, especially with the red earth against the backdrop of sunrises and sunsets.
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The Proposition / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
The Proposition / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: Martha Stanley. She coerces her husband into having an essentially innocent boy flogged to death, but seems more horrified than pleased when she gets what she wanted.
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The Proposition / int_5485efbf	type	Dreaming of a White Christmas
The Proposition / int_5485efbf	comment	Dreaming of a White Christmas: It's Australia, so it's a broiling hot summer. It doesn't stop Captain Stanley and Martha from imagining they are at home in England. At one point, Martha even uses cotton as snowflakes.
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The Proposition / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
The Proposition / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: Two instances. After the first couple of dozen lashings, it's clear that the flogging of Mikey has become a slow execution by torture, and many of the leering townspeople and even Eden Fletcher look away from the gore. Captain Stanley hands Fletcher the bloody lash as if to tell him to at least own up to his own actions by watching. Arthur Burns beats up Captain Stanley but leaves him alive so that he could be forced to watch as Samuel rapes his (Stanley's) wife.
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The Proposition / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Proposition / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Burns Gang, Eden Fletcher.
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The Proposition / int_6858aca8	type	Punctuated Pounding
The Proposition / int_6858aca8	comment	Punctuated Pounding: "HELP! YOUR! FUCKING! SELF!"
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The Proposition / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Proposition / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Drives the motivations of both Charlie and Arthur. And then it turns out that Arthur couldn't care less.
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The Proposition / int_6b18b774	type	"What Now?" Ending
The Proposition / int_6b18b774	comment	"What Now?" Ending: You were expecting anything else from Nick Cave?
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The Proposition / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Proposition / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Most of the characters in this movie. Both Jellon Lamb and Sam are heavily racist. Seemingly subverted with Arthur (possibly due to his Faux Affably Evil nature) who has an Aborigine best friend and is not heard speaking ill of any race, despite being a complete psychopath. See Moral Myopia for more on that.
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The Proposition / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Proposition / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: While Captain Stanley is a gentleman, his men are not, to put it mildly.
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The Proposition / int_794095d7	type	Boxed Crook
The Proposition / int_794095d7	comment	Boxed Crook: Charlie is used by Captain Stanley to track down his brother. Fletcher is quite unhappy about the idea of letting a criminal loose in order to catch a worse one.
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The Proposition / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Proposition / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Jellon Lamb, especially when he's drunk, and Sam when he's pretending to be a policeman.
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The Proposition / int_831164fe	type	Signature Style
The Proposition / int_831164fe	comment	Signature Style: Nick Cave exercises his love of literary discussion, religious debating, and extreme amounts of violence. He even gets to work in some flowers in Martha's rose garden.
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The Proposition / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
The Proposition / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Much of the soundtrack has names like "Sad Violin Thing".
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The Proposition / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Proposition / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Queenie (the female member of Arthur's gang) disappears entirely from the movie after a certain point. Two-Bob, the Aboriginal member of the gang isn't present for the finale. It's not clear whether Captain Stanley survived his injuries, though it's implied that he would probably make it. Fletcher doesn't appear after discovering the two prison guards with their heads blown off, but he seems to have gotten off scot-free.
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The Proposition / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Proposition / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Although only one or two characters in the whole film qualify on the "gray" side. And they don't get to do a whole lot of heroic things throughout.
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The Proposition / int_89937faf	type	Watching the Sunset
The Proposition / int_89937faf	comment	Watching the Sunset: The film's ending between Charlie and his dying brother, Arthur.
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The Proposition / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Proposition / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Used in-universe.
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The Proposition / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Proposition / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: No tears are shed for the psychopathic Arthur Burns and Samuel, nor for most of the policemen that they kill (particularly Sergeant Lawrence, who is nearly as depraved as any member of the Burns gang).
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The Proposition / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Proposition / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Turns out not to work.
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The Proposition / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Proposition / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Arthur's actions, other characters reactions and his past make it clear that he lost his affability a long time ago. In the end it turns out he doesn't even care for his own family anymore.
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The Proposition / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
The Proposition / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: Or rather, reciting poetry.
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The Proposition / int_9c464123	type	Saving Christmas
The Proposition / int_9c464123	comment	Saving Christmas: The devastating climax.
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The Proposition / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Proposition / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Or in this case, younger brothers.
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The Proposition / int_a0e51cd2	type	Judge, Jury, and Executioner
The Proposition / int_a0e51cd2	comment	Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Stanley and Fletcher fight over this.
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The Proposition / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Proposition / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The three Burns brothers.
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The Proposition / int_a7f4710f	type	Mood Dissonance
The Proposition / int_a7f4710f	comment	Mood Dissonance: In many ways, The Proposition is a story of contrasts. The violent events and the natural beauty of the land - the outlaws even make mention of the beautiful sunset at one point. The stars in a field of blue seen from under a withered tree and then from behind prison bars. The genteel Christmas setting and the savage torture of the Stanleys at the end. The director has also pointed out the extreme dissonance in the "civilized" Victorian era and the violent settling of Australia. The outlaws are destroying the Victorian English attempts at beauty and order in the Australian wilderness, best represented by the trail of destruction at the end when the scruffy criminal Charlie stomps through the rose garden and the white fence.
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The Proposition / int_a80ad52c	type	Hanging Judge
The Proposition / int_a80ad52c	comment	Hanging Judge: The pointlessly cruel Eden Fletcher.
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The Proposition / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
The Proposition / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Arthur, Sam, Captain Stanley, and Jellon Lamb. As has been noted, this is a Nick Cave movie.
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The Proposition / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Proposition / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The hauntingly beautiful "Peggy Gordon" sung while the flogged Mikey is shrieking in agony. And again during a rape scene.
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The Proposition / int_b2ad812d	type	So What Do We Do Now?
The Proposition / int_b2ad812d	comment	So What Do We Do Now?: Arthur's last words at the end.
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The Proposition / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Proposition / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Arthur thinks like this. He loves his brothers and friends dearly, but for him, no one outside this little group is truly human. Fletcher seems to feel the same way, except about race and nationality, rather than Arthur's clannish sense of loyalty. Fletcher is fiercely protective of his white colonists, but utterly cavalier the lives of the Aborigines. In any story about colonialism and cultural conflict, this trope is inevitable.
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The Proposition / int_ba9073e6	type	Land Downunder
The Proposition / int_ba9073e6	comment	Land Down Under: Played in a very un-stereotypical way
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The Proposition / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Proposition / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Right there in the premise: choose which of your brothers will live.
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The Proposition / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
The Proposition / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Arthur's reaction when his brother Charlie, fed up with his sociopathic behavior, shoots him in the stomach after shooting Sam in the head. In the former instance, it's also an instance of Major Injury Underreaction.
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The Proposition / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Proposition / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Arthur's band of outlaws.
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The Proposition / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Proposition / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: There are several: Sam shooting the Aborigine who speared Charlie (we see half of the man's head blown off). Charlie shooting Jellon Lamb as Arthur tortures him as a Mercy Kill. Charlie shooting Sam while Sam tries to rape Martha Stanley.
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The Proposition / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Proposition / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Jellon Lamb's name is likely a reference to the Scottish murder ballad "Jellon Grame", about a man who murders his pregnant girlfriend and takes her child as his own only to be murdered by said child years later, much as Charlie is forced to murder his "father", Arthur. After all, it's not like Nick Cave is ignorant about murder ballads.
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The Proposition / int_c84e56a2	type	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
The Proposition / int_c84e56a2	comment	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Danny Huston, Guy Pearce, And Ray Winstone Are About To Shoot You
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The Proposition / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Proposition / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Captain Stanley. The rest of the police are as thuggish as the outlaws they pursue.
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The Proposition / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The Proposition / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Two-Bob implies that Arthur's brothers were this to him, and that their absence has made him worse.
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The Proposition / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
The Proposition / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: Oh, the infinite and desolate plains of the Australian Outback during the blood-red sunset.
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The Proposition / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Proposition / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Eden Fletcher is arrogant, sadistic, and cowardly, and uses his wealth and power to lord over everybody else in town, including the police. He's show to be despicable to the point that even the murderous members of the Burns gang seem sympathetic by comparison.
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The Proposition / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Proposition / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Down to their first initials; C and A. Ironically, the one with the "A" name is much worse.
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The Proposition / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
The Proposition / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: No-one appears bothered by the death of the Chinese prostitutes killed in the opening shootout.
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The Proposition / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
The Proposition / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Arthur is implied to have raised Charlie and Mikey by himself.
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The Proposition / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
The Proposition / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Both bounty hunter Jellon Lamb and outlaw Arthur Burns pride themselves in being cultured and well-read, and adopt an educated speech that stands in sharp contrast to the way everyone else in the Outback speaks.
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The Proposition / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Proposition / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Charlie shoots Jellon Lamb in the head rather than watching Arthur slowly dismember him alive with a knife. After Charlie shoots Arthur in the stomach, he takes a second shot to the chest so that he would die more quickly and painlessly. Arthur lives long enough to walk quite a distance even with the chest wound.
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The Proposition / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Proposition / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Played with in the case of Captain Stanley. He seems like this initially when he pistol whips Mikey, but through the rest of the film, he's shown to be a decent and humane man in comparison to the other policemen (who may be extremist but certainly aren't well-intentioned).
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The Proposition / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
The Proposition / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Subverted and defied: the police think the Aborigines are sheltering Arthur, but in fact they hate and fear him. Some of them believe he's a werewolf.
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The Proposition / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Proposition / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: According to the other Wiki: "As noted in behind-the-scenes features included on The Proposition DVD, the film is regarded as uncommonly accurate in depicting indigenous Australian culture of the late 1800s, and when filming in the outback, the cast and crew took great pains to follow the advice of indigenous consultants. In an interview included on the DVD, [Tom E.] Lewis even compares the depiction of indigenous cultures in The Proposition to the landmark film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)." (Interestingly, that film's lead actor, Tom E. Lewis, plays Two-Bob in this movie.) A lot of behind-the-scenes work was done for this film. For example, the director John Hillcoat helped the actors prepare by giving them reading material and other sources for inspiration - Tom Budge (Sam) was given stuff about the My Lai massacre so he could get into the "war criminal" mindset, while David Wenham (Fletcher) was given books about Victorian English manners and etiquette.
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The Proposition	hasFeature	Black Best Friend / int_5019739f
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The Proposition	hasFeature	Boxed Crook / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Cain and Abel / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Cue the Sun / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Cultured Badass / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Damsel in Distress / int_5019739f
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The Proposition	hasFeature	Did I Mention It's Christmas? / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Dreaming of a White Christmas / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Fill It with Flowers / int_5019739f
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The Proposition	hasFeature	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	In a Worldâ€¦ / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Judge, Jury, and Executioner / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Land Downunder / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Mighty Whitey / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Native Guide / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Noble Bigot with a Badge / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Pop-Star Composer / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Promotion to Parent / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Recycled Trailer Music / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Saving Christmas / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Scarily Competent Tracker / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Siblings in Crime / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	So What Do We Do Now? / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Stay with Me Until I Die / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	The Highwayman / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	The Seven Western Plots / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	This Is Unforgivable! / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Trojan Prisoner / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Warrior Poet / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	Watching the Sunset / int_5019739f
The Proposition	hasFeature	"What Now?" Ending / int_5019739f

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