History Film / Deadman

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* DontThinkFeel: Much of Nobody's dialogue in the film. "You don't stop the clouds by building a ship." His favorite poet is Creator/WilliamBlake and [[Creator/JimJarmusch Jarmusch]] felt that many of Blake's aphorisms sounded similar to Native American spiritualism.

* BannedInChina: The Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification banned the film initially, considering a brief (i.e. 4 seconds) scene where a woman is being held at gunpoint while fellating a man to be gratuitous sexual violence. The distributors then delivered a prompt "what the fuck, idiots?" to the review board, who passed it with the R18+ rating.

''Dead Man'' is an acid/existential {{Western}} written and directed by JimJarmusch, released in 1995. The protagonist, played by Creator/JohnnyDepp, is an out-of-work accountant from Cleveland named William Blake, though the name is purely coincidental. He goes to a frontier town on the promise of a job, but once there finds the position already taken. He gets briefly mixed up in a love triangle, kills the son of the most powerful man in town in self-defense and is forced to run for his life with a bullet in his chest.

* CatchPhrase: Nobody's is, "Stupid fucking white man!" He even [[ActorAllusion gets to say it]] in Jarmusch's next film ''Film/GhostDogTheWayOfTheSamurai''.

* DontThinkFeel: Much of Nobody's dialogue in the film. "You don't stop the clouds by building a ship." His favorite poet is William Blake and Jarmusch felt that many of Blake's aphorisms sounded similar to Native American spiritualism.

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: William Blake, Nobody, almost everyone they encounter on their journey, Thel, Charlie Dickinson, and the three bounty hunters all die, leaving only Mr. Dickinson and a few very minor characters alive at the end.]]

''Dead Man'' is an acid/existential {{Western}} written and directed by JimJarmusch, released in 1995. The protagonist, played by Creator/JohnnyDepp, is an out-of-work accountant from Cleaveland named William Blake, though the name is purely coincidental. He goes to a frontier town on the promise of a job, but once there finds the position already taken. He gets briefly mixed up in a love triangle, kills the son of the most powerful man in town in self-defense and is forced to run for his life with a bullet in his chest.

* IncrediblyLamePun: "What if they try to kill me?" ''"Nobody will observe."''

* InstantDeathBullet: Averted multiple times in the film, but played straight with [[spoiler:Thel. Charlie shoots her in the chest, and she immediately falls over dead without any final throes.]]

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->''"It is preferable not to travel with a dead man."''\\
-- '''Henri Michaux'''

* OneSceneWonder: Pretty much half the cast. Highlights include Crispin Glover as a creepy train fireman, Robert Mitchum in his last notable role as John Dickinson, John Hurt as his secretary, Gabriel Byrne as his son and Alfred Molina as a racist trading post missionary, as well as Billy Bob Thornton, Jared Harris and Iggy Pop(!) as a trio of deranged hicks.

Not to be confused with the DCComics character of the [[ComicBook/{{Deadman}} same name]], and ''not'' to be confused with [[DeadmanWonderland that one really]] {{Gorn}}y {{anime}} about an amusement park prison.

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While trying to evade the bounty hunters and marshals who are after him he meets Nobody, a solitary and surprisingly erudite Native American who- upon hearing his name- believes him to be the wandering spirit of the English poet.

''Dead Man'' is an acid/existential {{Western}} written and directed by JimJarmusch, released in 1995. The [[JohnnyDepp the protagonist]] is an out-of-work accountant from Cleaveland named William Blake, though the name is purely coincidental. He goes to a frontier town on the promise of a job, but once there finds the position already taken. He gets briefly mixed up in a love triangle, kills the son of the most powerful man in town in self-defense and is forced to run for his life with a bullet in his chest.

Not to be confused with the DCComics character of the [[ComicBook/{{Deadman}} same name]], and ''not'' to be confused with [[DeadmanWonderland that one really]] {{Gorn}}y {{anime}} about a amusement park prison.

Not to be confused with the DCComics character of the [[ComicBook/{{Deadman}} same name]].

Not to be confused with the DCComics character of the same name.

* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Nobody and Cole Wilson.]]

* CatchPhrase: Nobody's is, "Stupid fucking white man!" He even [[ActorAllusion gets to say it]] in Jarmusch's next film ''GhostDog''.

''Dead Man'' is an acid/existential {{Western}} written and directed by JimJarmusch, released in 1995. The main character is an out-of-work accountant from back East (played by JohnnyDepp) named William Blake, though the name is purely coincidental. He goes to a frontier town on the promise of a job, but once there finds the position already taken. He accidentally kills the son of the most powerful man in town (played by Robert Mitchum) and is forced to run for his life, with a bullet in the chest.

While trying to evade the bounty hunters and Pinkerton agents who are after him, he meets Nobody, a solitary and surprisingly erudite Native American who believes him to be the ghost of the poet William Blake.

''Dead Man'' is an acid/existential {{Western}} by Jim Jarmusch, released in 1995. The main character is an out-of-work accountant from back East (played by JohnnyDepp) named William Blake, though the name is purely coincidental. He goes to a frontier town on the promise of a job, but once there finds the position already taken. He accidentally kills the son of the most powerful man in town (played by Robert Mitchum) and is forced to run for his life, with a bullet in the chest.

* BountyHunter: Three of them, all insane to varying degrees and [[spoiler:killed off in inverse order to the height of said insanity]].

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