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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Blackbird confirms his Native heritage, Richie asks if he has a cool name.
-->'''Blackbird:''' A cool name?
-->'''Riche:''' Yeah. Red Elk. Runnin' With the Wolves.
-->'''Blackbird:''' Blackbird
-->'''Richie:''' Blackbird? (pauses to consider) Yeah, that's pretty cool.
-->'''Blackbird:''' A cool name?
-->'''Riche:''' Yeah. Red Elk. Runnin' With the Wolves.
-->'''Blackbird:''' Blackbird
-->'''Richie:''' Blackbird? (pauses to consider) Yeah, that's pretty cool.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Richie, a fancy-talking hoodlum and wannabe badass decides to steal the cadillac Cadillac of a middle-aged man (Blackbird) who looks dressed like a modern-day cowboy after the man grabbed a bite at a cheap diner. After driving around for a while at gunpoint they park the car somewhere, and Richie peruses through Blackbird's wallet. Then Blackbird shoves a gun in Richie's face and reveals that he's a contract killer. Interestingly he doesn't kill Richie, but hangs around with him for the remainder of the film.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Richie. Unlike the more calm and reserved Blackbird, Richie is playful and generally puts on a humorously cheerful front. This is all because he's utterly a perverted sadist and has no sense of nobility using killing as fun and game.
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''Killshot'' is a 2008 American thriller film directed by Creator/JohnMadden and starring Creator/DianeLane, Creator/ThomasJane, Creator/MickeyRourke and Creator/JosephGordonLevitt. It is [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the 1989 novel of the same name by Creator/ElmoreLeonard.
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''Killshot'' is a 2008 American crime thriller film directed by Creator/JohnMadden and Creator/JohnMadden, starring Creator/DianeLane, Creator/ThomasJane, Creator/MickeyRourke and Creator/JosephGordonLevitt. It is [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the 1989 novel of the same name by Creator/ElmoreLeonard.
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Carmen and Wayne Colson live a quiet, suburban life. Carmen (Diane Lane) is a realtor while Wayne (Creator/ThomasJane) is an ironworker. Suddenly everything is violently changed when they stumble upon an extortion plot hatched by two crooks, Armand "Blackbird" (Mickey Rourke) Degas and his partner Richie Nix (Creator/JosephGordonLevitt). While Richie is unstable and impatient, the Blackbird is calm and collected. After Wayne forces the two away with a Sleever Bar, the criminals decide to exact vengeance on the Colsons…
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Carmen and Wayne Colson live a quiet, suburban life. Carmen (Diane Lane) (Creator/DianeLane) is a realtor while Wayne (Creator/ThomasJane) is an ironworker. Suddenly everything is violently changed when they stumble upon an extortion plot hatched by two crooks, Armand "Blackbird" (Mickey Rourke) Degas and his partner Richie Nix (Creator/JosephGordonLevitt). While Richie is unstable and impatient, the Blackbird is calm and collected. After Wayne forces the two away with a Sleever Bar, the criminals decide to exact vengeance on the Colsons…
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Part of what makes [[spoiler:Blackbird turn on Richie]] since the latter makes it clear he intends to assault Carmen and makes her strip down. After [[spoiler:shooting Richie]] Blackbird agrees to let her put on some clothes.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Part of what makes [[spoiler:Blackbird turn on Richie]] since the latter makes it clear he intends to assault Carmen and [[ShamefulStrip makes her strip down. down]]. After [[spoiler:shooting Richie]] Blackbird agrees to let her put on some clothes.clothes.
* ShamefulStrip: When Blackbird and Richie invade the Colsons' home in the climax, Richie forces Carmen to strip down to her underwear and indicates that a sexual assault is next. [[spoiler:This pisses off Blackbird so much that he kills his associate.]]
* ShamefulStrip: When Blackbird and Richie invade the Colsons' home in the climax, Richie forces Carmen to strip down to her underwear and indicates that a sexual assault is next. [[spoiler:This pisses off Blackbird so much that he kills his associate.]]
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''Killshot'' is a 2008 American thriller film directed by Creator/JohnMadden and starring Creator/DianeLane, Creator/ThomasJane, Creator/MickeyRourke and Creator/JosephGordonLevitt. It is [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the 1989 novel of the same name by Creator/ElmoreLeonard.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Richie, a fancy-talking hoodlum and wannabe {{Badass}} badass decides to steal the cadillac of a middle-aged man (Blackbird) who looks dressed like a modern-day cowboy after the man grabbed a bite at a cheap diner. After driving around for a while at gunpoint they park the car somewhere, and Richie peruses through Blackbird's wallet. Then Blackbird shoves a gun in Richie's face and reveals that he's a contract killer. Interestingly he doesn't kill Richie, but hangs around with him for the remainder of the film.
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* LeaveNoWitnesses: Blackbird has a policy of killing anyone who sees his face during his kills. This comes back to bite him when he is hired by the mafia to kill an old criminal but goes off-plan by also killing the girl who let him in and could identify him. The pissed off mob boss puts a prize on Blackbird's head because the girl was his mistress.
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* LeaveNoWitnesses: Blackbird has a policy of killing anyone who sees his face during his kills. This comes back to bite him is because of a prior hit that went wrong when his brother let a nurse who witnessed them go freely, who then sounded an alarm. When he is hired by the mafia to kill an old criminal but criminal, he goes off-plan by also killing the girl woman who let him in and as she could identify him. The pissed off mob boss who hired him puts a prize on Blackbird's head because the girl woman was his mistress.
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* SickbedSlaying: Blackbird, a Native American contract killer, remembers a hit on someone who was staying in the hospital. Unfortunately, he brought his younger brother along, who, when confronted by a nurse, let her live when she saw them. She immediately sounds the alarm and gets Blackbird's brother killed.
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* DressingToDie: The old man whom mafia hitman Blackbird kills in the opening decides that he'd rather die with some decent clothes when Blackbird catches him walking out of the shower.
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* MixedAncestry: Blackbird is half-Ojibwe, and while it's not explicitly touched on ([[ShowDontTell it's Elmore Leonard after all]]) it's heavily implied that this has made him feel like an outsider his whole life.
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* BookEnds: The opening and closing lines of are both Blackbird reciting/narrating the set of rules that he lives by as a contract killer, albeit in truncated form the second time around.
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Carmen and Wayne Colson live a quiet, suburban life. Carmen (Diane Lane) is a realtor while Wayne (Thomas Jane) (Creator/ThomasJane) is an ironworker. Suddenly everything is violently changed when they stumble upon an extortion plot hatched by two crooks, Armand "Blackbird" (Mickey Rourke) Degas and his partner Richie Nix (Creator/JosephGordonLevitt). While Richie is unstable and impatient, the Blackbird is calm and collected. After Wayne forces the two away with a Sleever Bar, the criminals decide to exact vengeance on the Colsons…
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: The old man Blackbird kills at the beginning calmly accepts his murder, but requests he be allowed to put some clothes on first. Blackbird obliges.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: The old man Blackbird kills at the beginning calmly accepts his murder, but requests he be allowed to put some clothes on first. Blackbird obliges. This scene is repeated nearly word for word at the end of the book when Blackbird is about to shoot Carmen and he lets her get dressed, [[spoiler:but this time she takes the opportunity to grab a gun and turn the tables on him]].
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* NobleDemon: Blackbird is a ruthless killer but he ''does'' have limits, and is generally polite and makes it clear to his victims that it's NothingPersonal [[spoiler:Richie excepted]].
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* AnimalMotifs: Blackbird, made obvious enough by his alias, but in the novel he also mentions that his Ojibwe grandmother kept saying she would turn him into an owl but the one time they actually tried she said he hadn't done the ritual right and it didn't work.
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* FakeMixedRace: Mickey Rourke plays the half-Ojibwe Blackbird.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Part of what makes [[spoiler:Blackbird turn on Richie]] since the latter makes it clear he intends to assault Carmen and makes her strip down. After [[spoiler:shooting Richie]] Blackbird agrees to let her put on some clothes.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: John Travolta, Viggo Mortensen, and Justin Timberlake were originally attached to play Mickey Rourke's, Thomas Jane's, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's roles.
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Carmen and Wayne Colson live a quiet, suburban life. Carmen (Diane Lane) is a realtor while Wayne (Thomas Jane) is an ironworker. Suddenly everything is violently changed when they stumble upon an extortion plot hatched by two crooks, Armand "Blackbird" (Mickey Rourke) Degas and his partner Richie Nix (JosephGordonLevitt).(Creator/JosephGordonLevitt). While Richie is unstable and impatient, the Blackbird is calm and collected. After Wayne forces the two away with a Sleever Bar, the criminals decide to exact vengeance on the Colsons…
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* AffablyEvil: Blackbird. When he's not on duty he's a somewhat easy fellow to get along with. Even when he has a reason to kill he's fairly conservative.
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* AffablyEvil: Blackbird. When he's not on duty he's a somewhat easy fellow to get along with. Even when he has a reason to kill he's fairly conservative.
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* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted. The mafia girl at the beginning thinks the ProfessionalKiller Blackbird, after finishing his job killing someone else that she was aware of, disturbs her while she's showering because he very blatantly wants to sneak a peek. Instead he shoots her in the head for having seen his face.
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* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted. The mafia girl at the beginning thinks the ProfessionalKiller Blackbird, after finishing his job killing someone else that she was aware of, disturbs her while she's showering because he very blatantly wants to sneak a peek. Instead [[LeaveNoWitnesses he shoots her in the head for having seen his face.face]].
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* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted. The mafia girl at the beginning thinks Blackbird the ProfessionalKiller Blackbird, after finishing his job killing someone else that she was aware of, disturbs her while she's showering because he very blatantly wants to sneak a peek. Instead he shoots her in the head for having seen his face.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: John Travolta, Viggo Mortensen, and Justin Timberlake were originally attacked to play Mickey Rourke's, Thomas Jane's, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's roles.
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* BadassBoast: Done by Blackbird to Richie.
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* BadassBoast: Done by Blackbird to Richie. Doesn't come off nearly as intimidating here as in the film.
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Carmen and Wayne Colson live a quiet, suburban life. Carmen (Diane Lane) is a realtor while Wayne (Thomas Jane) is an ironworker. Suddenly everything is violently changed when they stumble upon an extortion plot hatched by two crooks, Armand "Blackbird" (Mickey Rourke) Degas and his partner Richie Nix (JosephGordonLevitt). While Richie is unstable and impatient, the Blackbird is calm and collected. After Wayne forces the two away with a Sleever Bar, the criminals decide to exact vengeance on the Colsons…
Based on a 1989 book.
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* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted. The mafia girl at the beginning thinks Blackbird disturbs her while she's showering because he very blatantly wants to sneak a peek. Instead he shoots her in the head for having seen his face.
* BadassBoast: Done by Blackbird to Richie.
-->'''Blackbird:''' I shoot people. Sometimes for money, sometimes for nothing.
* BookEnds: The opening and closing lines of are both Blackbird reciting/narrating the set of rules that he lives by as a contract killer, albeit in truncated form the second time around.
-->'''Blackbird:''' You gotta know what you're doing when you go in. You gotta have it figured out. Those are the rules. How you get in, how you get out. How many shots you're gonna need. Make sure you know where everybody is. Make sure nobody sees you. Don't hang around. Don't get interested. And you don't make mistakes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Richie kills Donna in a fit of jealous rage, [[spoiler:which Blackbird later kills him for in turn]]. Discussed:
-->'''Blackbird:''' I'm not like Richie. I'm not the same as him.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The old man Blackbird kills at the beginning calmly accepts his murder, but requests he be allowed to put some clothes on first. Blackbird obliges.
* MuggingTheMonster: Richie, a fancy-talking hoodlum and wannabe {{Badass}} decides to steal the cadillac of a middle-aged man (Blackbird) who looks dressed like a modern-day cowboy after the man grabbed a bite at a cheap diner. After driving around for a while at gunpoint they park the car somewhere, and Richie peruses through Blackbird's wallet. Then Blackbird shoves a gun in Richie's face and reveals that he's a contract killer. Interestingly he doesn't kill Richie, but hangs around with him for the remainder of the film.
* NobleDemon: Blackbird.
* ProfessionalKiller: Blackbird.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: John Travolta, Viggo Mortensen, and Justin Timberlake were originally attacked to play Mickey Rourke's, Thomas Jane's, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's roles.
Based on a 1989 book.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted. The mafia girl at the beginning thinks Blackbird disturbs her while she's showering because he very blatantly wants to sneak a peek. Instead he shoots her in the head for having seen his face.
* BadassBoast: Done by Blackbird to Richie.
-->'''Blackbird:''' I shoot people. Sometimes for money, sometimes for nothing.
* BookEnds: The opening and closing lines of are both Blackbird reciting/narrating the set of rules that he lives by as a contract killer, albeit in truncated form the second time around.
-->'''Blackbird:''' You gotta know what you're doing when you go in. You gotta have it figured out. Those are the rules. How you get in, how you get out. How many shots you're gonna need. Make sure you know where everybody is. Make sure nobody sees you. Don't hang around. Don't get interested. And you don't make mistakes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Richie kills Donna in a fit of jealous rage, [[spoiler:which Blackbird later kills him for in turn]]. Discussed:
-->'''Blackbird:''' I'm not like Richie. I'm not the same as him.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The old man Blackbird kills at the beginning calmly accepts his murder, but requests he be allowed to put some clothes on first. Blackbird obliges.
* MuggingTheMonster: Richie, a fancy-talking hoodlum and wannabe {{Badass}} decides to steal the cadillac of a middle-aged man (Blackbird) who looks dressed like a modern-day cowboy after the man grabbed a bite at a cheap diner. After driving around for a while at gunpoint they park the car somewhere, and Richie peruses through Blackbird's wallet. Then Blackbird shoves a gun in Richie's face and reveals that he's a contract killer. Interestingly he doesn't kill Richie, but hangs around with him for the remainder of the film.
* NobleDemon: Blackbird.
* ProfessionalKiller: Blackbird.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: John Travolta, Viggo Mortensen, and Justin Timberlake were originally attacked to play Mickey Rourke's, Thomas Jane's, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's roles.
