History Film / ElTopo

* {{Corrupt Church}}: The Church of the All-Seeing Eye in the third part. In one instance, the head priest loads a revolver with a blank round and claims that Divine intervention will protect the shooter; the priest's cynical assistant, [[spoiler: El Topo's son]], switches the blank for a live round. It doesn't end well.
* {{Crucified Hero Shot}}: El Topo at the end of part two, complete with stigmata in his hands, feet, and side.

* {{Groin Attack}}: [[spoiler:When El Topo ''castrates'' the Colonel!]]
* {{The Gunslinger}}: El Topo and the four great gun masters.

* {{Immune To Bullets}}: The first great gun master.

* {{Improbable Aiming Skills}}: Have you tried to shoot a crow in the heart?

* {{Luke I Am Your Father}}: [[spoiler:The priest's protege is El Topo's son.]]

* {{Mind Screw}}: NOBODY can understand it.

* {{Sequel Hook}}: [[spoiler: El Topo's wife does conceive a son, ironically there was a sequel planned but it's been stuck in {{development hell}}.]]

* {{What The Hell Hero}}: Numerous times with El Topo. At least once with Jodorowsky, who was hailed as a creative genius: There is a scene where El Topo rapes Mara that Jodorowsky claims ''was not staged and was actually him raping the actress.'' Mercifully, this is was only one of the many shocking lies he told the press to get past [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity Hollywood's indifference to foreign films at the time]] and explained that the enormous man-power needed to safely shoot the scene would have made it impossible for him to get away with such a crime.

''El Topo'' is a Spanish-language [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs acid]] {{Western}} written, directed by and starring Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky. It combines the violence and gunplay traditionally associated with the Western with Jodorowsky's obsession with mysticism and The Occult. It's also intended to evoke a similar reaction to a psychedelic experience (Jodorowsky occasionally fed acid to his actors before filming) so that may explain some of the odder elements in the plot.

* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: A child kills commits suicide with the gun being passed around the church, once El Topo's son has switched the blank round with a live one.]]

** MindScrewDriver: ... and then the DVD with the Director's commentary came out.

* {{Groin Attack}}: [[spoiler:when El Topo ''castrates'' the Colonel!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am laid low in the dust of death."'']]

--'''El Topo'''

* {{Badass Beard}}: El Topo sports a pretty impressive one for the first half of the film.

* SigilSpam: The "All-Seeing Eye" logo is absolutely everywhere in tihe town.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[spoiler: A child kills commits suicide with the gun being passed around the church, once El Topo's son has switched the blank round with a live one.]]

* {{What The Hell Hero}}: Numerous times with El Topo. At least once with Jodorowsky, who was hailed as a creative genius: There is a scene where El Topo rapes Mara that Jodorowsky claims ''was not staged and was actually him raping the actress.'' Mercifully, this is was only one of the many shocking lies he told the press to get past {{NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity Hollywood's indifference to foreign films at the time}} and explained that the enormous man-power needed to safely shoot the scene would have made it impossible for him to get away with such a crime.

* {{What The Hell Hero}}: Numerous times with El Topo. At least once with Jodorowski, who was hailed as a creative genius: There is a scene where El Topo rapes Mara that Jodorowksi claims ''was not staged and was actually him raping the actress.'' However, Jodorowski has made a number of very outlandish claims about himself, his life and his work, and it is very advised to take what he says with a few grains of salt.
%%* {{World of Symbolism}}

* {{Pre Ass Kicking One Liner}}: Colonel: "Who are you, to judge me?!" El Topo: "I am GOD!" This is followed by [[spoiler: the Colonel being castrated by our hero.]]

* SigilSpam: The "All-Seeing Eye" logo is absolutely everywhere in the town.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[spoiler: A child kills themselves with the gun being passed around the church, once El Topo's son has switched the blank round with a live one.]]

* {{Yum Yum}}: A girl offers sex to another girl by licking a fruit.

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