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* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Mrs. Miller's name in the title could arguably count, since she doesn't show up until a half-hour into the film, and is only onscreen for about a fifth of its total run time (remember, the original novel was only called ''[=McCabe=]'').
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* SignatureStyle: The film is a good representation of what would go on to become director Robert Altman's signature style: a meandering plot touching on a wide range of story lines in an ensemble cast, with lots of overlapping dialogue when characters congregate.
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* SignatureStyle: The film is a good representation of what would go on to become director Robert Altman's signature style: a meandering plot touching on a wide range of story lines in an ensemble cast, with lots of overlapping dialogue when characters congregate.congregate, and copious GenreDeconstruction (in the case of TheWestern).
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Subverted. It looks like Mrs. Miller will play out this way in her romance with [=McCabe=], but their relationship never grows beyond financial, and she ends the film [[spoiler:getting high on opium, unaware that he's died]].
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Subverted. It looks like Mrs. Miller will play out this way in her romance with [=McCabe=], [=McCabe=] since we do see that she shows concern and care for him, but their relationship never grows beyond financial, financial business partners, and she ends the film [[spoiler:getting high on opium, unaware that he's died]].
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* AntiHero: [=McCabe=] is no villain but he is not the noble cowboy you expect in a more romanticized western. He is insecure, gets drunk, and doesn't think smartly when it comes to taking the next step. When he ''does'' start to stand up for himself, he doesn't realize who he is messing with. When a powerful company doesn't give him a high enough offer for his business, they sent guys out to get him. He does get a moment near the end where he gets to shoot down three of the films antagonists in a gunfight.....[[spoiler: but he never gets praise for it because no one bothers to look for him]].
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* AntiHero: [=McCabe=] is no villain but he is not the noble cowboy you expect in a more romanticized western. He is insecure, gets drunk, bumbling, stubborn, and doesn't think smartly when it comes to taking the next step. When he ''does'' start to stand up for himself, he doesn't realize who he is messing with. When a powerful company doesn't give him a high enough offer for his business, they sent guys out to get him. He does get a typical heroic moment near the end where he gets to shoot down three of the films antagonists in a gunfight.....[[spoiler: but he never gets praise for it because no one bothers to look for him]].
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* AntiHero: [=McCabe=] is no villain but he is not the noble cowboy you expect in a more romanticized western. He is insecure, gets drunk, and doesn't think smartly when it comes to taking the next step. When he ''does'' start to stand up for himself, he doesn't realize who he is messing with. When a powerful company doesn't give him a high enough offer for his business, they sent guys out to get him.
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* AntiHero: [=McCabe=] is no villain but he is not the noble cowboy you expect in a more romanticized western. He is insecure, gets drunk, and doesn't think smartly when it comes to taking the next step. When he ''does'' start to stand up for himself, he doesn't realize who he is messing with. When a powerful company doesn't give him a high enough offer for his business, they sent guys out to get him. He does get a moment near the end where he gets to shoot down three of the films antagonists in a gunfight.....[[spoiler: but he never gets praise for it because no one bothers to look for him]].
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* AntiHero: [=McCabe=] is no villain but he is not the noble cowboy you expect in a more romanticized western. He is insecure, gets drunk, and doesn't think big and when he starts to stand up for himself he doesn't realize who he is messing with. When a powerful company doesn't give him a high enough offer for his business, they sent guys out to get him which he is not strong enough to handle on his own.
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* AntiHero: [=McCabe=] is no villain but he is not the noble cowboy you expect in a more romanticized western. He is insecure, gets drunk, and doesn't think big and smartly when it comes to taking the next step. When he starts ''does'' start to stand up for himself himself, he doesn't realize who he is messing with. When a powerful company doesn't give him a high enough offer for his business, they sent guys out to get him which he is not strong enough to handle on his own.him.
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* AntiHero: [=McCabe=] is no villain but he is not the noble cowboy you expect in a more romanticized western. He is insecure, gets drunk, and doesn't think big and when he starts to stand up for himself he doesn't realize who he is messing with. When a powerful company doesn't give him a high enough offer for his business, they sent guys out to get him which he is not strong enough to handle on his own.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: [=McCabe=] and Mrs. Miller aren't exactly paragons of virtue, but they're up against a murderous monopoly.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: [=McCabe=] and Mrs. Miller aren't exactly paragons of virtue, but they're up against a murderous monopoly.monopoly by Harrison Shaughnessy.
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* GenreDeconstruction: The film subverts or completely ignores the tropes associated with the western genre. The films version of the west is not a world of heroes with virtue, criminal outlaws, pretty dames, and characters who fight for honor come out on top in a big showdown and then ride into the sunset. It's a rather cold and dirty world fueled by greed and people feel lonely and unvalued. The protagonists are AntiHero 's, the antagonists are less evil and more powerful businessmen, the prostitutes are dirty, dangerous, and even have some teeth missing, the climax is more of a cat-and-mouse game instead of a high noon showdown, and the movie ends with [[spoiler: it's hero dying cold and alone in the snow with barely anyone even acknowledging that he died]].
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: While the fate of [[spoiler:[=McCabe=]]] is the same in both the book and the film, the film's ending is interestingly grimmer than the book's, reversing the usual direction of this trope. In the book [[spoiler:[=McCabe=] dies in Mrs. Miller's arms, and she avenges his death by killing Sheehan]].
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: While the fate of [[spoiler:[=McCabe=]]] is the same in both the book and the film, the film's ending is interestingly grimmer than the book's, reversing the usual direction of this trope. In the book [[spoiler:[=McCabe=] dies in Mrs. Miller's arms, and she avenges his death by killing Sheehan]].Sheehan. In the movie, Sheehan lives while [=McCabe=] just dies wounded, cold, and alone in the freezing snow. Mrs Miller isn't around when he dies nor is she aware of it]].
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: "I'm payin' you boys 15 cents an hour after you've been in them goddamn mines all day so's you'll have something to do at night besides go home and play with Mary Five Fingers!"
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* BrickJoke: In one scene, the Bartender asks Smalley whether he should shave his beard and leave his mustache. In a later scene, he's only wearing a mustache and asks Smalley for his reaction.
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* BrickJoke: In one scene, the Bartender asks Smalley whether he should shave his beard and leave his mustache. In a later scene, he's only wearing a mustache and asks Smalley for his reaction.reaction -- Smalley has forgotten all about the conversation and doesn't know what the Bartender's even trying to point out.
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* FakeAmerican: Many of the supporting roles are played by Canadian actors, as the film was shot in Vancouver.
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* FakeAmerican: Many of the supporting roles are played by Canadian actors, as the film was shot in Vancouver.
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* RareGuns: [=McCabe=]'s revolver, which someone believes to be a "Swedish gun", is a [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasser_M1870 Montenegrin Gasser]], which was designed by the Gasser firm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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* PyrrhicVillainy: [[spoiler:Butler mortally wounds [=McCabe=] but leaves him alive long enough to get mortally wounded himself.]]
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* PyrrhicVillainy: PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Butler mortally wounds [=McCabe=] but leaves him alive long enough to get mortally wounded himself.]]
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* PopStarComposer: Music/LeonardCohen lent some of his songs to this movie, including "The Stranger Song" and "Sisters of Mercy".
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* PopStarComposer: Music/LeonardCohen lent some of his three songs from his 1967 debut album to this movie, including "The movie ("The Stranger Song" and Song, "Sisters of Mercy".Mercy", "Winter Lady").
