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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: To a line from Creator/DashiellHammett's ''Literature/RedHarvest'', itself famously adapted by Creator/AkiraKurosawa as ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''. Which was '''then''' adapted once more as a SpaghettiWestern (Creator/SergioLeone's ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''). Which was then adapted again into an action-y western noir starring Bruce Willis, ''Film/LastManStanding''.
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* AssassinOutclassin: [[spoiler:Abby manages to fight off and kill Visser.]]
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Meurice, in confronting Ray over what he thinks is Ray's ransacking of the bar's safe, takes a cigarette out of Ray's mouth because "these things are nothing but coffin nails." But right afterwards, as he is walking away, Meurice lights up himself.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Meurice, in confronting Ray over what he thinks is Ray's his ransacking of the bar's Marty's safe, takes a cigarette out of Ray's mouth because "these things are nothing but coffin nails." But right afterwards, as he is walking away, Meurice lights up himself.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Seemingly played straight with Visser's refusal to murder the couple. Cruelly averted later when he has no problem killing them to protect himself.
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* InstantDeathBullet: Seemingly played straight when [[spoiler: The private eye shoots Marty.]] but later shown to be a rather horrific aversion when[[spoiler: he regains consciousness just in time to be buried alive]]
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* EvilDetectingDog: Averted. Abby's dog's happy reaction is what makes her realize Marty's in the house.
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* TheRemake / ForeignRemake: ZhangYimou remade this film in 2010 as ''A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop''. It was widely criticized for its replacement of the BlackComedy from the original with broad slapstick violence. The Coens liked it, though, and joked that they should remake RaiseTheRedLantern in return.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Co-director Joel Coen and actress Frances [=McDormand=].
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* DVDCommentary: Subverted. An imaginary film historian Kenneth Loring spouts obvious nonsense about the process by which the movie is made.
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* DVDCommentary: Subverted.Parodied. An imaginary film historian Kenneth Loring spouts obvious nonsense about the process by which the movie is made.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Julian Marty is played by [[{{Cheers}} Nick Tortelli]].
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* PsychoForHire: Visser initially comes across as little more than a buffoonish, washed-out private investigator, but he turns out to be a murderous double crosser who's happy to play hitman if the price is right, and then some.
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BloodSimple is a 1984 film about a bar-owner in Texas who is certain that his wife is cheating on him and hires a private detective to spy on her. It was the TheCoenBrothers' debut film and features many of their odd trademarks.
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!!Tropes used in this film:
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The "heroes" are a selfish adulterous couple, one of whom buries a man alive. The villains? Wooh boy...
* BlackMail
* BuriedAlive: Marty, by Ray.
* ChekhovsGun: Subverted. It's a vital part of the plot that the characters keep losing or forgetting about the various items presented to us, the viewers, as obvious PlotCoupons.
** There's also an actual gun, namely the pearl-handled .38 owned by the heroine. The number of bullets it contains is also a ChekhovsGun.
* DVDCommentary: Subverted. An imaginary film historian Kenneth Loring spouts obvious nonsense about the process by which the movie is made.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Seemingly played straight with Visser's refusal to murder the couple. Cruelly averted later when he has no problem killing them to protect himself.
* FilmNoir
* GallowsHumour: This is a Coen Brothers film, after all.
* GambitPileup: It quickly becomes quite a chore to keep track of what each of the four main characters thinks is happening, along with what's really happening.
* GoodIsDumb: While Ray may not be conventionally "good," he's about as close as a [[BlackAndGrayMorality film noir character]] gets. And he has got to be about the dumbest character every to wander into a crime movie.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Julian Marty is played by [[{{Cheers}} Nick Tortelli]].
* TheHyena: Detective Visser.
* HyperAwareness: Totally averted, causing the loss of Chekhov's Guns.
* InstantDeathBullet: Seemingly played straight when [[spoiler: The private eye shoots Marty.]] but later shown to be a rather horrific aversion when[[spoiler: he regains consciousness just in time to be buried alive]]
* LastNameBasis: No one ever calls Marty by his first name, Julian.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: To a line from DashiellHammett's ''Red Harvest'', itself famously adapted by AkiraKurosawa as {{Yojimbo}}. Which was '''then''' adapted once more as a SpaghettiWestern (SergioLeone's ''AFistfulOfDollars'').
* MistakenIdentity: With fatal results.
* NewOldWest: Like several of the Coens' films.
* NoNameGiven: M. Emmet Walsh's scene stealing PrivateDetective is actually named Loren Visser.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore
** Subverted in that it is someone else she is confronting.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Delivered by the victim. After Abby shoots him and says "I'm not afraid of you, Marty" (she hasn't seen that it's Visser and believes it to be Marty back from the dead), Visser bursts into laughter and proclaims: "Well Ma'am if I see him, I'll give him the message."
* ReCut: The Coens have quipped that this is the first film in Hollywood history for which the Director's Cut actually REMOVES material.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Co-director Joel Coen and actress Frances [=McDormand=].
* ShootTheMessenger: Inverted. Oh Lord, how it's inverted.
* TheRemake / ForeignRemake: ZhangYimou remade this film in 2010 as ''A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop''. It was widely criticized for its replacement of the BlackComedy from the original with broad slapstick violence. The Coens liked it, though, and joked that they should remake RaiseTheRedLantern in return.
* TitleDrop
* TooDumbToLive: Ray, and he doesn't either.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Once.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Twice.
* YourCheatingHeart: The heroine, of all people.
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!!Tropes used in this film:
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The "heroes" are a selfish adulterous couple, one of whom buries a man alive. The villains? Wooh boy...
* BlackMail
* BuriedAlive: Marty, by Ray.
* ChekhovsGun: Subverted. It's a vital part of the plot that the characters keep losing or forgetting about the various items presented to us, the viewers, as obvious PlotCoupons.
** There's also an actual gun, namely the pearl-handled .38 owned by the heroine. The number of bullets it contains is also a ChekhovsGun.
* DVDCommentary: Subverted. An imaginary film historian Kenneth Loring spouts obvious nonsense about the process by which the movie is made.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Seemingly played straight with Visser's refusal to murder the couple. Cruelly averted later when he has no problem killing them to protect himself.
* FilmNoir
* GallowsHumour: This is a Coen Brothers film, after all.
* GambitPileup: It quickly becomes quite a chore to keep track of what each of the four main characters thinks is happening, along with what's really happening.
* GoodIsDumb: While Ray may not be conventionally "good," he's about as close as a [[BlackAndGrayMorality film noir character]] gets. And he has got to be about the dumbest character every to wander into a crime movie.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Julian Marty is played by [[{{Cheers}} Nick Tortelli]].
* TheHyena: Detective Visser.
* HyperAwareness: Totally averted, causing the loss of Chekhov's Guns.
* InstantDeathBullet: Seemingly played straight when [[spoiler: The private eye shoots Marty.]] but later shown to be a rather horrific aversion when[[spoiler: he regains consciousness just in time to be buried alive]]
* LastNameBasis: No one ever calls Marty by his first name, Julian.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: To a line from DashiellHammett's ''Red Harvest'', itself famously adapted by AkiraKurosawa as {{Yojimbo}}. Which was '''then''' adapted once more as a SpaghettiWestern (SergioLeone's ''AFistfulOfDollars'').
* MistakenIdentity: With fatal results.
* NewOldWest: Like several of the Coens' films.
* NoNameGiven: M. Emmet Walsh's scene stealing PrivateDetective is actually named Loren Visser.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore
** Subverted in that it is someone else she is confronting.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Delivered by the victim. After Abby shoots him and says "I'm not afraid of you, Marty" (she hasn't seen that it's Visser and believes it to be Marty back from the dead), Visser bursts into laughter and proclaims: "Well Ma'am if I see him, I'll give him the message."
* ReCut: The Coens have quipped that this is the first film in Hollywood history for which the Director's Cut actually REMOVES material.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Co-director Joel Coen and actress Frances [=McDormand=].
* ShootTheMessenger: Inverted. Oh Lord, how it's inverted.
* TheRemake / ForeignRemake: ZhangYimou remade this film in 2010 as ''A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop''. It was widely criticized for its replacement of the BlackComedy from the original with broad slapstick violence. The Coens liked it, though, and joked that they should remake RaiseTheRedLantern in return.
* TitleDrop
* TooDumbToLive: Ray, and he doesn't either.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Once.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Twice.
* YourCheatingHeart: The heroine, of all people.
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