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* NewOldWest: Sam Peckinpah returns to the setting of [[Film/TheWildBunch his Western]], but this time has the story in the contemporary days.
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* NewOldWest: Sam Peckinpah returns to the setting of [[Film/TheWildBunch his Western]], but this time has the story set in the contemporary days.then-present day.
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* LongTitle: Bordering on GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath, and [[TheJoyOfX inspiring imitations]].
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* NoNameGiven: El Jefe ("The Boss")
* OutlawCouple: Bennie and Elita.
* PosthumousCharacter: The titular Mr. Garcia.
* OutlawCouple: Bennie and Elita.
* PosthumousCharacter: The titular Mr. Garcia.
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* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: After a scornful Mexican crime lord known only as "El Jefe" offers a [[PriceOnTheirHead $1 million bounty]] to whomever [[DemandingTheirHead brings him Alfredo Garcia's head]], Bennie, a barroom pianist, ends up on a quest to collect the bounty. Finding Garcia proves easy enough, after Bennie learns that he died in a drunk driving accident a week prior. Bennie plans to dig up Garcia's grave, decapitate the corpse, and collect the money on it. However, after finding the grave, things get much more complicated. Others with similar motivations attack Benny, kill his girlfriend, claim the head for themselves, and prompt Bennie to track them down and retrieve it again. After that, he's ambushed by members of the Garcia family who also reclaim the head. The hitmen who initially told Bennie about the bounty show up and gun down most of the Garcia family before they, too, try to kill Bennie. Another firefight breaks out when Bennie returns with the head to one of El Jefe's business associates. [[spoiler:Then, at last, Bennie delivers the head to El Jefe's hacienda. Bennie's given a briefcase containing the million dollars before he relates how many people died for Garcia's head, including his girlfriend. El Jefe tells Bennie to take his money and throw the head to the pigs on the way out. Infuriated that the object responsible for his girlfriend's death and all this madness is viewed as nothing more than garbage, Bennie guns down all of El Jefe's bodyguards before offing the boss, as well. Then, as Bennie finally drives away from the scene, El Jefe's remaining men shoot him to bits with machine guns.]]
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Elita, Sappensly, Quill, El Jefe and Bennie all die.]]
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* AbusiveParents: El Jefe's first scene has him breaking his daughter's arm to find out who impregnated her. Yeah.
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* AbusiveParents: El Jefe's first scene has him breaking his pregnant daughter's arm to find out who impregnated her. Yeah.
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* AntiHero: Bennie is a type III or IV. He wants money and to regain a lifestyle he lost by moving to Mexico, everything else can go to hell.
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* AntiHero: Bennie is a type III Unscrupulous or IV.Nominal. He wants money and to regain a lifestyle he lost by moving to Mexico, everything else can go to hell.
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* DemandingTheirHead: The trope {{Invoked|Trope}} in the film's title. A powerful Mexican crime lord, El Jefe, offers a $1 million bounty to whomever brings him the head of Alfredo Garcia.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Sappensly and Quill.
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It begins with a feared Mexican landowner, known only as 'El Jefe' ('The Boss') brutally interrogating his pregnant teenage daughter over the identity of the father of the baby she's carrying. Upon learning that it was a trusted underling, El Jefe orders his henchmen to "[[TitleDrop Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia]]". This information eventually gets back to Bennie (Warren Oates), an American ex-pat who ekes out a living as the piano player in a dive bar, who in turn learns from his prostitute girlfriend Elita (Isela Vega) that Garcia is ''already'' dead, having been killed in a drunk driving accident some weeks previously. Bennie decides that he can earn some easy money by digging up Garcia's corpse, removing the head and taking it to El Jefe for the bounty, and drags Elita along to help him.
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It begins with a feared Mexican landowner, known only as 'El Jefe' ('The Boss') brutally interrogating his pregnant teenage daughter over the identity of the father of the baby she's carrying. Upon learning that it was a trusted underling, El Jefe orders his henchmen to "[[TitleDrop Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia]]". This information eventually gets back to Bennie (Warren Oates), (Creator/WarrenOates), an American ex-pat who ekes out a living as the piano player in a dive bar, who in turn learns from his prostitute girlfriend Elita (Isela Vega) that Garcia is ''already'' dead, having been killed in a drunk driving accident some weeks previously. Bennie decides that he can earn some easy money by digging up Garcia's corpse, removing the head and taking it to El Jefe for the bounty, and drags Elita along to help him.
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* DecapitationPresentation: Bennie gets the head of Garcia, and ends up fighting criminals and mercenaries for the chance to be one to present it El Jefe.
* DespairEventHorizon: Bennie reaches thus upon [[spoiler: the death of Elita]]. Before then, he's clearly going a bit mad for much of the movie, but that causes him to just completely lose touch with reality.
* DespairEventHorizon: Bennie reaches thus upon [[spoiler: the death of Elita]]. Before then, he's clearly going a bit mad for much of the movie, but that causes him to just completely lose touch with reality.
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* DecapitationPresentation: Bennie gets the head of Garcia, and ends up fighting criminals and mercenaries for the chance to be the one to present it to El Jefe.
* DespairEventHorizon: Bennie reaches thus upon[[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the death of Elita]]. Before then, he's clearly going a bit mad for much of the movie, but that causes him to just completely lose touch with reality.
* DespairEventHorizon: Bennie reaches thus upon
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* AntiHero: Bennie is a type III or IV. He wants money and regain a lifestyle he lost by moving to Mexico, everything else can go to hell.
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* AntiHero: Bennie is a type III or IV. He wants money and to regain a lifestyle he lost by moving to Mexico, everything else can go to hell.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Averted. The trailer is exceptionally blunt about how bleak and bloody the film is.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: TrailersAlwaysLie: Averted. The trailer is exceptionally blunt about how bleak and bloody the film is.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The BigBad wants the head of Alfredo Garcia, and the plot revolves around the efforts of the characters to find and bring it to him.
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* AllForNothing: After going through a hefty amount of trouble to get the damn head and then get it to El Jefe ([[spoiler:which included seeing his girlfriend die]]), risking death at every turn, for the reward money, Bennie [[spoiler:gets absolutely nothing. El Jefe decided (out of hatred, boredom, or both) to kill his own daughter and Garcia's child in her womb and, in a very bored tone of voice, tells Bennie to toss Garcia's head in the garbage on the way out (and pretty much going short of "and don't let the door hit you in the ass"). Bennie gets a murderous FreakOut as a result, killing El Jefe, and gets blown away by Jefe's goons shortly after.]]
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* KeepTheReward: A TakeThisJobAndShoveIt version. After going through a hefty amount of trouble to get the damn head and then get it to El Jefe ([[spoiler:which included seeing his girlfriend, Elita, die]]), risking death at every turn, for the reward money, Bennie [[spoiler:is enraged at El Jefe's apathy at the deaths of sixteen people - particularly Elita's. El Jefe tells Bennie to take the reward and leave, and to toss Garcia's head in the garbage on the way out (and pretty much going short of "and don't let the door hit you in the ass"). Bennie has a murderous FreakOut as a result, and attacks El Jefe and his bodyguards. Teresa, El Jefe's daughter, walks in mid-shootout carrying Garcia's newborn son - after the bodyguards are dead but with El Jefe still alive - which makes Benny pause, but when she tells him to avenge Garcia by killing her father, he finishes the job. He tells Teresa, "You take care of the boy. And I'll take care of the father." ...and drives off to re-bury Garcia's head... and is blown away by El Jefe's surviving men]].
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* AllForNothing: After going through a hefty amount of trouble to get the damn head and then get it to El Jefe ([[spoiler:which included seeing his girlfriend die]]), risking death at every turn, for the reward money, Bennie [[spoiler:gets absolutely nothing. El Jefe decided (out of hatred, boredom, or both) to kill his own daughter and Garcia's child in her womb and, in a very bored tone of voice, tells Bennie to toss Garcia's head in the garbage on the way out (and pretty much going short of "and don't let the door hit you in the ass"). Bennie gets a murderous FreakOut as a result, killing El Jefe, and gets blown away by Jefe's goons shortly after.]]
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* BlastOut: The climax, after Jefe tells Bennie to GetOut with no money, and Bennie decides to kill the guy.
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* CoolShades: Bennie wears some.
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* CoolShades: Bennie wears some. Necessary in the bleak Mexican desert.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Bennie arrives with Garcia's head to El Jefe's house after dodging killers and going through some SanitySlippage from the tension [[spoiler:only for El Jefe to decide to pay him nothing -- he killed his own daughter because of the dishonor of having Garcia's child in her womb and pretty much got bored afterwards. When he tells Bennie to dump Garcia's head in the trash on the way out, Bennie totally snaps and kills him... and then gets killed on the way out.]]
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Bennie arrives with Garcia's head to El Jefe's house after dodging killers and going through some SanitySlippage from the tension [[spoiler:only for El tension. [[spoiler:El Jefe to decide to pay him nothing -- he killed his own daughter because of the dishonor of having Garcia's child in her womb and pretty much got bored afterwards. When he tells Bennie to dump Garcia's head in the trash on the way out, out. Bennie is infuriated by how the object responsible for Elita's death is treated as garbage, totally snaps and kills him... El Jefe... and then gets killed gunned down on the way out.]]
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* TakeThat: When Bennie is first seen playing the piano in the Mexico City bar, a fake one-dollar bill on the brick wall directly behind him has a caricature of RichardNixon. Creator/SamPeckinpah inserted it there to show his contempt for Nixon, whose presidency was falling apart.
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* TakeThat: When Bennie is first seen playing the piano in the Mexico City bar, a fake one-dollar bill on the brick wall directly behind him has a caricature of RichardNixon.UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. Creator/SamPeckinpah inserted it there to show his contempt for Nixon, whose presidency was falling apart.
