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Film: Man Vs Woman

The Man, Woman, Robot, and Dinosaur With No Name

A 2006 almost entirely dialog-free science fiction short film from Juan Carlos Vargas, who wrote it, directed it, and created the lion's share of the FX.

On a meteorite-battered desert planet, a man (Robert Reavis), a woman (Tiffany Shepis), a robot, and a velociraptor square off over a tiny pocket of water. It Makes Sense in Context.

You can watch the entire film on YouTube

This film provides examples of:

Action Girl / Cute Bruiser: It's Tiffany Shepis. With a ray gun. Duh.
Crapsack Planet
Do-Anything Robot / Easily Detachable Robot Parts - Even after large chunks of its body are blasted away, the robot can rebuild/reconfigure itself on the fly and resume the attack.
Duel of Seduction: Between The Man and The Woman. What were YOU thinking of? Ick.
Everything's Better with Dinosaurs / Somewhere, a Palaeontologist is Crying / Raptor Attack
Foot Focus - The Woman is barefoot. And not really happy about it. And would just LOVE to get her hands on the Man's boots...
Gambit Pileup: A large chunk of the film consists of each character imagining how he/she/it would take out the others. Ends predictably with a Last Plan Standing.
Killer Robot
Mexican Standoff
No Name Given: In the film's current form. Vargas' website does list each character's real name, which would also be revealed if plans to convert the short film to feature length come to fruition.
Precision S-Strike - The only dialog in the entire film.
Scavenger World
Spaghetti Western - Vargas drew inspiration for the short from Sergio Leone movies.
Survivalist Stash: Subverted. The Man has a shotgun, but no shells for it. The Woman has shells, but the battery of her ray gun is dying. The robot's battery would work fine with her ray gun. Et cetera.
Used Future
X Meets Y: Mad Max meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Meets Jurassic Park. Meets The Terminator.