Line #13 Film/InAValleyOfViolence


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3	''In a Valley of Violence'' is a 2016 [[TheWestern western film]] directed by Ti West, starring Creator/EthanHawke, Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/JamesRansone, Creator/TaissaFarmiga and Creator/KarenGillan.
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5	A mysterious stranger and a random act of violence drag a town of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge.
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8	!!This movie contain examples of the following tropes:
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10	* AintTooProudToBeg: Harris tries to FaceDeathWithDignity, while acknowledging that he's undercut himself by [[IHaveAFamily noting he has a daughter]].
11	* AnimatedCreditsOpening: A la a SpaghettiWestern from Creator/SergioLeone.
12	* AssholeVictim: The priest who tries to rob Paul at gunpoint, as well as the people who attack him and his dog later. Especially Gilly and Roy.
13	* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Paul had promised his dog he wouldn't kill anybody in Denton. He decides he has to break that promise when Gilly pushes him too far.
14	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Even at the end Paul is still asking why Gilly would kill his dog. Trying to kill Paul himself, on the other hand, is completely understandable to him.
15	* BathtubScene: Paul gets one in the first act of the film. Roy gets one later, which doesn't turn out as well for him.
16	* BloodFromTheMouth: Gilly, after getting punched by Paul.
17	* DeadlyBath: Roy's overgrown beard results in Ellen sending in a shaving kit, but the straight razor doesn't get used for shaving.
18	* EmbarrassingNickname: Tubby. In his very last scene he gets fed up and insists that his name is Lawrence.
19	* ExperiencedProtagonist: Gilly's father warns him that Paul is from one of the most dangerous military units the country has seen, but Gilly doesn't heed his warning.
20	* GhostTown: Mary-Anne explains away the lack of people in Denton by noting that most people left when the silver mine gave out, and more left because the Marshal and Gilly did a terrible job of running things. By the end of the film, the town may well follow the Marshal's prediction of dying without him.
21	* HeroesLoveDogs: Paul thinks of himself as a coward rather than a hero, but he's the hero within this film.
22	* KickTheDog: Gilly starts out as almost comical... until he kills Paul's dog. It all goes downhill from there.
23	* MayDecemberRomance: Averted, for the most part. Mary-Anne claims to be 16, and wants to run away with Paul, but he thinks she's young enough to be his daughter [[spoiler:And he actually does have a wife and daughter that he abandoned to enlist in the Army, but has no plans to return to either.]]
24	* MoralityPet: Literally the case for Abbie the dog. Paul only fights Gilly after he turns his attention to her, and once he and his gang kill her, he informs each of them that he'll kill them for it.
25	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Gilly says he hopes Paul killed every Indian he came across, and that Gilly holds him in contempt for deserting the Indian Wars.
26	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mary-Anne thinks the Marshal and Gilly have both helped to ruin the town, but within the film we see the Marshal being the most reasonable antagonist to Paul.
27	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Limited by the size of the cast populating the town, and also dragging in the Marshal, though he wanted to avoid this but also can't permit Paul to go murdering all his deputies.
28	* SmallTownBoredom: Part of why Mary-Anne is so interested in Paul and his dog.
29	* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Ellen tells her fiancee [[BigBad Gilly]] that she's pregnant right before he leaves to die in a gunfight.
30	* TitleDrop: Not precisely. Gilly says the place is called "the valley of violence", but the entire phrase is never said.
31	* TokenGoodTeammate: Harris. The Marshal himself is far more reasonable than his son, but clearly hasn't done enough to prevent him from lording over the town with his toady friends.
32	* WarIsHell: Paul has flashbacks to his service against Indian tribes. Marshal Martin lost his own leg in the service and sympathizes even with his decision to desert.
33	* WouldHitAGirl: Gilly, when he's supposed to be protecting them in the last act.
34	* WretchedHive: When the nearby mine dried up, everybody who could leave left. The people who remained are either the town jerks or too undecided about whether or not to leave. The place is named "the valley of violence" by one of its inhabitants.

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