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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Dead Man |
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After his parents die, William "Bill" Blake travels out to the western frontiers with a paper promising him a job as an accountant. When he arrives, he finds that his job has already been filled and, after a nasty confrontation with the owner of the business, goes out drinking. He ends up sleeping with an ex-prositute who's fiancé arrives and shoots her. Bill picks up her gun and shoots the man as the man is preparing to kill Bill. Bill runs and is blamed for both murders. It turns out that the fiancé was the son of the boss Bill had confronted, and the man sends out three well-known killers to find Bill and, well, kill him. Bill is helped by a strange Native American called Nobody, who mistakes Bill for the poet William Blake. Although Bill is dying, he makes it through the forests with Nobody, killing anyone in his path.
--Ariana, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Dead Man |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Wilderness adventure
Yes
Plotlets:
- chased/chasing criminals
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- accused criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- longhair/girliemon (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) long, like a girl
Body type
- fat (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- American Indian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- white
Body type
- skinny (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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