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A 1997 novel by Charles Frazier (made into a film in 2003 directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, and Jude Law) which tells the story of Ada Monroe, who moves from Charleston to rural Cold Mountain with her aging (and ailing) father for his health, and W.P. Inman, a terse but goodhearted young man. Just as Ada and Inman seem to be developing a relationship, Inman leaves to fight for the Confederate Army and, after being wounded in battle, decides to desert and walk through often hostile territory to get back home to Ada. Meanwhile, Ada's father has died and she must learn how to survive on her own.So, as Inman is Walking the Earth to return to Ada, frequently encountering the worst and the downright bizarre of human nature, Ada learns slowly how to manage a farm with the blunt assistance of Ruby, a no-nonsense country girl, whose own drunk layabout father drops in from time to time.
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Age Lift
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Age Lift: Georgia is a sixteen year-old conscript in the book, but played by 28-year-old Jack White in the film, although this could also be a case of Dawson Casting.
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Daddy's Girl
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Daddy's Girl: Ada
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Marshmallow Hell
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Marshmallow Hell: Done to Inman by a black woman.
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Mutual Kill
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Mutual Kill: Inman and Boisie shoot each other dead, though Inman takes a little longer to die.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Ruby and Ada eventually turn into this. In the final, they're still working together with their children and Ruby's husband.
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Ambiguously Brown
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The Ambiguously Brown Ruby, who is noted to have dark hair and facial features, is played by the very fair (of hair and skin) Renee Zellweger.
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Dragon Their Feet
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Dragon Their Feet: Boisie manages to escape the initial encounter with Inman where Captain Teague gets killed. Inman pursues him on horseback and they face off in a Quick Draw duel where they kill each other.
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Uncertain Doom
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Uncertain Doom: In the book, although not in the film, when Teague and his men encounter Stobrod and Pangle on their way to hunt down another group of deserters hiding in the nearby caves. When they reappear for the final battle, one of the deserters is accompanying his group, having apparently undergone a Face–Heel Turn. It is unclear if the others were wiped out, but it's likely that at least some fell to the Home Guard's guns. In the film, although not the book, Ingram spots a large group of escaped slaves in a field. They go down a road and a few seconds later there's shooting and screaming and Ingram has to run himself to avoid some Home Guard men riding that way. It's unclear all of the scapes slaves were killed, some were shot and others just recaptured, or some of them might have managed to escape while the others were being shot and/or recaptured.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Ruby, Inman, and Ada. Ada's dies, but Ruby's comes back. Inman himself becomes one for Ada's child when he is killed by Boisie.
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Tomboy and Girly Girl
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tsundere Ruby who chokes a nasty rooster and the delicate, Proper Lady Ada, respectively.
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Psycho for Hire
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Psycho for Hire: Teague and all his men relish violence and take solace in being paid and protected to do it.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Captain Teague and his gang have too many cases of senseless murder and torture to count, all under the flimsy excuse of punishing deserters and those who aid them. Perhaps the worst instance was their murder of Pangle, a mentally handicapped musician who didn't even have the capacity to understand what was happening to him and why.
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Proper Lady
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Proper Lady: Ada was raised as one, but unfortunately once the war hits and her father passes, she finds herself frustrated that none of her 'ladylike' skills help her manage on the farm.
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Fourth-Date Marriage
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Ada and Inman both admit they haven't interacted much.
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The Hero Dies
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The Hero Dies: Inman himself at the end.
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Psychopathic Manchild
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Psychopathic Manchild: Boisie is shown hopping up and down and whistling on top of a fence... while nailing Mrs. Swanger's hands under the planks of said fence.
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*Click* Hello
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*Click* Hello: Inman makes his presence known to Veasey by drawing his pistol on him while the latter attempts to drown his mistress.
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Unrelated in the Adaptation
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Unrelated in the Adaptation: Possibly. In the novel it's briefly mentioned that Pangle might be a relative of the Swangers, but has been living alone in the woods for most of his life, and can't remember if he's part of the Swanger or Pangle family, with Stobrod deciding he has more of a Pangle look to him. This is cut from the movie, where instead of being a hermit Stobrod encountered, Pangle is apparently a fellow deserter.
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The Greatest Story Never Told
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The Greatest Story Never Told: When Ada asks Inman about his journey back home, he replies with an uncomfortable, vague description which skips over most of his remarkable or gritty experiences. And given his death soon afterward, he wouldn't have been able to reveal more later.
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Voiceover Letter
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Voiceover Letter: opens the film.
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Deus ex Machina
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In the book, Georgia only gets taken in by Stobrod and Pangle shortly before the events of the chapter where the home guard catch them, making his existence kind of a Deus ex Machina. In the film, he's present with them from the beginning.
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Cold-Blooded Torture
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Torture on short notice is Teague and the Home Guard's specialty.
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Honor Before Reason
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Honor Before Reason: Blount, a Hopeless Suitor to Ada before she moved to Cold Mountain, died in the battle of Gettysburg, walking backwards during the retreat because he was terrified of the disgrace of being shot In the Back.
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Someone to Remember Him By
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Someone to Remember Him By: Ada's night with Inman produced a daughter named Grace.
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Evil Stole My Faith
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Evil Stole My Faith: Hinted at with the girl running the ferry boat, who says that she doesn't belong to a church and "the devil rules the roost around here", likely a reference to the tyranny of the Home Guard and their like.
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Bullet Holes and Revelations
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Bullet Holes and Revelations: When Boisie and Inman face off at the end. Twice, first Boisie is shown dead, then Inman mortally wounded.
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Intelligence Equals Isolation
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Intelligence Equals Isolation: Ada, more so in the novel than the film. This is gradually subverted over the course of her friendship with Ruby, who is Book Dumb, but very observant, and knowledgeable about aspects of the world that mystify Ada. Sometimes, this even extends to her relationship with Inman, who is confused and upset when Ada shields herself with upper-class manners out of pure habit.
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Snow Means Death
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Snow Means Death: Inman's final confrontation with the Home Guard takes place on a snowy day.
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Artistic License – History
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Artistic License – History: The film depicts the explosion that preceded the Battle of the Crater as occurring in broad daylight. In real life, it happened before 5 am when it was still dark out. Furthermore, the depiction of the battle in the film portrays the entire Union attack happening into the Crater, with the result that the Confederates can simply surround the hole and fire down. In reality, the entire front at Petersburg was in contact that morning, with the Crater simply the focal point: a realistic portrayal would have a substantial Union concentration in the Crater but also attacking aboveground on the sides, with the Confederates fighting a defensive action in a line.
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Chocolate Baby
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Chocolate Baby: In the book, Junior complains that his wife delivered a chocolate baby to him after they'd been married a year.
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Orphan's Ordeal
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Orphan's Ordeal: Ada, having been taken care of all her life, has no idea what to do when her father dies.
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Her Heart Will Go On
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Her Heart Will Go On: Ada at the end.
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Missing Mom
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Missing Mom: Ada's, Inman's, and presumably Ruby's mothers are all dead.
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The Simple Life is Simple
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The Simple Life is Simple: A subversion: Papa Monroe buys a farm in the South basically as a hobby to pass the time while he works on writing. But when he dies, Ada can't find anyone to buy the land, and would starve were it not for Ruby's help, and the work never ends. In the book, Ada wearily suggests that they'll rest when snowbound in winter, whereupon Ruby promptly lists out ten tasks for that season alone.
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Babies Ever After
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Babies Ever After: At the end of the film Ada has a baby and Ruby and Georgia have kids.
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Named by the Adaptation
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Named by the Adaptation: Acton and Ellis Swanger, the sons of Ada's neighbors. Also Ascended Extra, as they were only mentioned briefly in the book, but have a small subplot in the film which, given that it ends in Death By Adaption for them and their father, isn't exactly a good thing for them. Inverted with Georgia, who is revealed to be named Reid in the novel, with this never being mentioned in the film.
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Adaptational Early Appearance
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Adaptational Early Appearance: Stobrod first appears during the battle of the Crater, playing music for a friend of Inman's before he dies when in the book he isn't mentioned until well after that point and doesn't physically appear until later still. In the book, Georgia only gets taken in by Stobrod and Pangle shortly before the events of the chapter where the home guard catch them, making his existence kind of a Deus ex Machina. In the film, he's present with them from the beginning.
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Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy
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Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy: during the Battle of the Crater, a Native American Confederate soldier throws his bayonet-fixed gun like a spear, nailing a Union soldier in the chest. While improbable, this is not outside the realm of possibility: muzzleloaders could not be reloaded with a bayonet fixed, and as a Native the thrower may have been more familiar (and thus deadlier) with a spear than with a normal rifle.
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The Cast Showoff
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The Cast Showoff: Jack White as Georgia gets to do some singing.
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Shell-Shocked Veteran
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Inman is troubled and a bit edgy due to his war experiences.
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Off with His Head!
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Off with His Head!: Ruby decapitates an annoying rooster with her bare hands.
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Tsundere
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Tsundere: Ruby. She's brash, if not quite a Jerkass, and pretends not to care about Georgia or her father but is really quite a softie.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Ruby, and her larger-than-life demeanor is enhanced by mostly sharing screentime with the calm and composed Ada.
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Adaptational Nice Guy
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Adaptational Nice Guy: While still a sympathetic character in the book, Georgia is a bit edgier, has a Self-Serving Memory, and bargains for food and shelter before telling Ada and Ruby where to find and bury Stobrod and Pangle, and then refuses to accompany them out of fear. However in the film, due to his Adaptational Early Appearance making him a more established acquaintance of the main characters, he tells them what they want to know quicker, was willing to guide them back but is told to stay behind due to being half-frozen and malnourished and out of fear that another excursion into the snow would kill him, and in a deleted scene where he meets Inman, lacks the Self-Serving Memory. On the flip side, however, in the book he's never tortured by Teague into revealing where to find Ada and Ruby, although it wasn't really his fault that he cracked.
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Plucky Girl
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Plucky Girl: Ruby is this up to eleven, having had to fend for herself virtually all her life. Ada becomes one of these. While more of a bit character, the same is also true of the ferry girl, especially in the book.
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Badass Boast
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Badass Boast: In a deleted scene from the film, after Inman finally arrives at the farm, only to find Ada and Ruby gone going to bury Stobrod -who turns out to be Not Quite Dead- and Pangle. Georgia offers to give Inman directions to find Ada and Ruby, but warns him that it's a long walk. Inman replies "I've been on a long walk."
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Big Beautiful Woman
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Big Beautiful Woman: One of the sisters that beds Veasey is a heavy-set woman and along with her thinner sisters, is praised as examples of fine specimens of women.
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Token Good Teammate
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Token Good Teammate: Bardolph (Cillian Murphy) is the only one of the three Union soldiers who doesn't try to rape Sarah, opting to help her baby instead. Doesn't stop Sarah from putting a bullet in his back. Also one of Junior's family members who gives Inman back his picture of Ada as he's being taken away.
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Self-Serving Memory
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Self-Serving Memory: In the book, Georgia tells Inman a wildly exaggerated version of the home guard capturing and shooting Stored and Pangle. That makes his survival sound heroic instead of just lucky. The film averts this when, in a deleted scene, Georgia does give an accurate story about what happened.
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Sinister Minister: Reverend Veasey is not only an adulterer, but he almost drowns a slave woman who is pregnant with his illegitimate child. Monroe, Ada's father, is a hard aversion.
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Outliving One's Offspring
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Outliving One's Offspring: Poor Sally Swanger, Home Guard finds out that she and her husband are harboring their deserter sons in secret, kills her husband, tortures Sally to lure her sons out in her defense, and executes them.
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Small Girl, Big Gun
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Small Girl, Big Gun: Ruby, Ada, and Sarah all carry shotguns or rifles for hunting and/or self-defense, compared to Inman and his standard-issue military pistol.
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Hot Gypsy Woman
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Hot Gypsy Woman: Inman briefly encounters one serving as a bareback rider with a show of Romani travelers who he briefly has a meal with in the book.
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Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
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Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: Ada indulges in "the easement of maiden, spinster, and widow," and, being the daughter of a minister, feels suitably guilty over it. After checking with a female relative who tells her basically everyone does it, she doesn't feel quite so bad.
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I Will Fight No More Forever
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I Will Fight No More Forever: Inman uses this as an explanation for why he's willing to let Boisie go instead of just shooting him which ultimately results in both of their deaths when Boisie refuses to back down.
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Adaptation Dye-Job
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Adaptation Dye-Job: Ada and Ruby are both brunettes in the book and blonde in the movie.
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Ascended Extra
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Acton and Ellis Swanger, the sons of Ada's neighbors. Also Ascended Extra, as they were only mentioned briefly in the book, but have a small subplot in the film which, given that it ends in Death By Adaption for them and their father, isn't exactly a good thing for them.
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Died in Your Arms Tonight
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: Inman dies in Ada's arms.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Junior gets no comeuppance for turning Inman and Veasey in.
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"No Peeking!" Request
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"No Peeking!" Request: Inman and Ada are about to have Their First Time and she begins to undress and shyly asks him if to turn his back and he does for a moment, but then changes his mind and turns and tells her he won't while looking at her in the eye. She begins to smile and the scene cuts to them post-coital.
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Oscar Bait
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Oscar Bait: An epic historical drama, based on a bestselling book which was in turn based on the letters passed between the author's ancestors, featuring death, racism, and philosophical musings... nominated for seven Oscars and won for Best Supporting Actress (Renée Zellweger as Ruby.)
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Swanger at the end of the confrontation with the Home Guard, right before they kill him. He only has one shot in his gun (which the leader of the Home Guard already pointed out to him), so when they start distracting him and closing in, he points his gun from one to the other but is clearly afraid to fire his one shot even though he knows trying to bluff them isn't working. For all the good it did him, the gun may as well have been unloaded.
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Face–Heel Turn
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In the book, although not in the film, when Teague and his men encounter Stobrod and Pangle on their way to hunt down another group of deserters hiding in the nearby caves. When they reappear for the final battle, one of the deserters is accompanying his group, having apparently undergone a Face–Heel Turn. It is unclear if the others were wiped out, but it's likely that at least some fell to the Home Guard's guns.
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: Stobrod, along with (and probably because of) being an Alcoholic Parent. In the film, Ruby asserts that he regularly beat her, and he doesn't deny it. In the book, however, Stobrod asserts that he never hurt Ruby once — but he neglected her to an abusive extent, anyway.
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Now or Never Kiss
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Now or Never Kiss: Inman's about to head to war, so he plants one on Ada despite having only spoken with her a few times.
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Young Gun
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Young Gun: Boise is a villainous example.
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Blood from the Mouth
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Blood from the Mouth: When Inman is shot at the end.
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Demoted to Extra
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Demoted to Extra: In the book, the Ferry Girl sticks around for several pages, gets a little speech describing her sense of Small Town Boredom, and survives the Home Guard firing on her boat. In the film, she is shot out of the boat after a minute and twenty seconds of screen-time.
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Noble Confederate Soldier
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Noble Confederate Soldier: Played with. Most of the prominent Confederate soldiers in the movie are highly sympathetic but are also deserters who hate the Confederacy (although self-preservation is a major part of that). However, a flashback shows most of those same people voluntarily enlisting to fight for the Confederacy (although some were peer-pressured into it) while brushing over the fact that they're fighting to preserve slavery. When Acton Swanger boasts about fighting for the South, his father tells him that the South is just a direction, which Action, his brother, and their friends ignore. The Home Guard, on the other hand, is portrayed entirely negatively, working to keep the worst aspects of the Confederacy alive without taking any risks in battle and hunting and killing soldiers who do abandon the war.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": Ada when Inman stumbles back after killing Boisie, amid crows.
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I Will Wait for You
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I Will Wait for You: Ada remains faithfully waiting for Inman to come back and doesn't take up with anyone else.
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Incoming Ham: "That cow wants milking. If that letter ain't urgent, the cow is -- is what I'm saying."
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Good Shepherd
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Monroe, Ada's father, is a hard aversion.
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ToiletHumor
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Toilet Humor: Veasey complaining about constipation ("Used to be as regular as morning prayers. Matter of fact I could set my watch by my bowels.") and eventually cheering incoming defecation.
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Hypocrite
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Hypocrite: Veasey. He's a priest and repeatedly lectures people about doing things the godly way, yet, while engaged, impregnated a woman out of wedlock, attempted to drown her, and repeatedly messes around with other women throughout the rest of his time in the book, not including all of the other underhanded stuff he does. Sarah. She expresses a disgust for senseless violence and says that she wishes all guns and other weapons would disappear, but she shoots Nym in the back out of spite without hesitation, in spite of the fact the unlike the other two Union soldiers he didn't attempt to rape her, and he actually helped her baby when he had the opportunity.
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Race Lift
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Race Lift: In the book, Georgia is described as being part Cherokee or Creek Indian. The movie has him played by the European American Jack White. The Ambiguously Brown Ruby, who is noted to have dark hair and facial features, is played by the very fair (of hair and skin) Renee Zellweger.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Inman deserts after being shot in the neck and receiving Ada's letter asking him to come back to her.
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Mama Bear
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Mama Bear: Inverted and played Straight with Sally Swanger and her sons who run out of their hiding place to defend their elderly mother from the Home Guard and get killed for their troubles, even while dreading for her life, Sally tries to signal her sons not to come rescue her.
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Calling the Old Man Out
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Calling the Old Man Out: Ruby doesn't hesitate to tell Stobrod what an abusive father he was and that she isn't happy to see him.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In the book, Stobrod and Pangle's run-in with the home guard comes while they're escorting Georgia to the state line, to show him the way back home, even though Stobrod dislikes that area.
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Moment Killer
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Moment Killer: In the film, when Ada and Inman are talking after they've reunited, and bringing up their past (including their Now or Never Kiss), it looks like they're reconnecting - and then Ruby storms in on them, telling them they're being too loud, and too romantic, for her taste ("If y'all goin' to wimble-wimble with each other, I might as well sleep with him"). Then it becomes a Subverted Trope when Ada and Inman end up sleeping with each other a few minutes later anyway.
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The Lost Lenore
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The Lost Lenore: Odell, a man Inman and Veasey spend some time with in the novel, is the son of a plantation owner who fell in love with one of his father's slaves, only for his father to sell her when he found out, causing Odell to become an abolitionist, and depart on a so far futile search for her. The story resonates a little for Inman, with his own long journey back to a woman he loved.
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Food Porn
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Food Porn: The food the characters eat is always described in great detail in the novel.
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Dangerous Deserter
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Dangerous Deserter: The three Union soldiers at Sara's cabin (assuming they are in fact deserters) are thieves and rapists. Averted with all of the Confederate deserters, who get a Defector from Decadence treatment.
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Easily Forgiven
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Easily Forgiven: A rare version where the one doing the forgiving is the scummier of the pair. Veasey is exposed for his hypocrisy and attempted murder to the people who knew him by Inman, getting him ran out of town and disgraced, yet when he tracks down Inman he makes no attempt to get revenge and they become an Odd Couple, traveling towards Cold Mountain together.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: Principally in regard to dramatizing The Battle of the Crater.
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