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A 1966 {{Western}} film directed by Monte Hellman, starring Creator/JackNicholson as Billy Spear and Creator/WarrenOates as Willet Gashade, ''The Shooting'' is a {{deconstruction}} of the genre made in the same year as ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.

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!!This film has the examples of:

* CruelMercy: After ambushing Billy Spear and beating him senseless, Willett had him at his mercy. He prepared to smash Billy's head with a rock, but then changed his mind and smashed Billy's gun hand instead.
* DoomedHometown: The film opens with Willett Gashade returning to his mining camp and finding it depopulated. He sees the fresh grave of his partner Leland Drum, but his brother Coigne and their partner Coley are nowhere to be seen.
* DwindlingParty: A variation with the party's horses. They start with a horse for everyone, plus a pack mule. Then the mule disappears. Then the woman's horse dies and she takes Coley's horse. Then Willett's horse dies. Then Billy's horse dies (and he won't even put it out of its misery). Then Coley's horse (being ridden by the woman) dies.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: The Indian horse trader at Cross Tree barely speaks English, and resorts to gestures to communicate with Willett. But he can read and write, and runs a successful business. He walks away from the confused Willett muttering in his native language.
* GainaxEnding
* GoshdangItToHeck: Played painfully straight by Coley.
* TheGunslinger: Billy Spear
* HyperAwareness: Willett Gashade.
* JumpCut: Stylishly used.
* MuggingTheMonster: Coley's attempt to ambush Billy Spear does not end well for him.
* RetiredGunfighter: Willett Gashade was a bounty hunter before he took up mining.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Coley's writing on Leland Drum's grave marker. To top it off, he even got the month of Drum's death wrong.
* KickTheDog: The woman who hires Willet to accompany her to Kingsley keeps killing horses.
* NoNameGiven: The Woman.
* {{Revenge}}: The woman's motivation for her single-minded pursuit.
* SoleSurvivor: Of the major characters, only [[spoiler:Willet Gashade]] is alive at the end of the movie, albeit alone in the desert without water or a horse.
* TheWestern
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