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* SpiritualAntithesis[=/=]TakeThat: To ''Film/HighNoon'', which Creator/HowardHawks and Creator/JohnWayne were both highly critical of. Specifically, the scene where Chance explains to Wheeler exactly why he ''doesn't'' go out asking any civilians for help: numbers or no, if they aren't ''professionals'', they're more apt to end up as just more targets.

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* SpiritualAntithesis[=/=]TakeThat: To SpiritualAntithesis: ''Rio Bravo'' is a feature-sized TakeThat to ''Film/HighNoon'', which Creator/HowardHawks and Creator/JohnWayne were both highly critical of. of.
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Specifically, the scene where Chance explains to Wheeler exactly why he ''doesn't'' go out asking any civilians for help: numbers or no, if they aren't ''professionals'', they're more apt to end up as just more targets.
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* {{Symbolism}}: When Chance and Dude chase an enemy gunman into a bar, the men in the bar have hidden the man well enough to make Dude, who saw the man run into the bar, doubt his judgment. Under the stress, he sees a drink on the bar--and he sees blood in the drink. The blood in the drink is not only his clue that the gunman is hiding in the rafters, it's also a visible sign of the death that awaits him if he returns to his addiction.

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