The Indians are neither romanticized nor stigmatized. Blake looks out on the typical tepee camps of the Plains Indians while aboard the train and eventually travels through the Injun Country of the Northwest, which looks much different from the Plains Indians. I'm a Humanitarian: Cole Wilson has the reputation of eating his parents.It turns out to be a bad idea for both of them. Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Thel is an ex-hooker turned paper flower maker and takes Blake in when he has nowhere to go.Scenes of violence are staged as brief, awkward, and nausea-inducing the camera lingers sadly over the outcome. His reply, "Nobody", is completely accurate and completely misleading. Exact Words: Blake is asked at point who he's traveling with.Everything Trying to Kill You: Blake is surrounded by trigger-happy psychos.You're just as likely to find your own grave!" before a shot rings out. Foreshadowing: The trainman warns Blake, "I wouldn't trust no words written down on no piece of paper, especially from no Dickinson out in the town of Machine.Downer Ending: Shouldn't come as a surprise given the film's title and the fact that the protagonist is mortally wounded by the end of the first act. ![]() "You don't stop the clouds by building a ship." His favorite poet is William Blake and Jarmusch felt that many of Blake's aphorisms sounded similar to Native American spiritualism. Much of Nobody's dialogue in the film is in this vein. Don't Think, Feel: Nobody tells Blake that he might see better without his glasses.Disproportionate Retribution: Cole shoots Johnny dead for telling him "Fuck you", and later kills and eats Conway just because Conway annoyed him by trying to make idle conversation with him by asking what race his family was. ![]() Deliberately Monochrome: Shot in beautiful black-and-white, like an Ansel Adams photo.Nobody has this in his background as a Native boy who was raised by whites.He's even more out of depth when traipsing about the wilderness with Nobody. Blake is out of sorts as a city slicker in the frontier.It's just as unsettling to William Blake as it is to the audience. Creepy Monotone: Crispin Glover rambles through a strange philosophical rant with little inflection.Creepy Crossdresser: Iggy Pop's character wears a woman's dress in the wilderness, cluing the viewer in that the trio to which he belongs is deranged.City Slicker: The protagonist is a quintessential tenderfoot.Catchphrase: Nobody's is "Stupid fucking white man!" He even gets to say it in Jarmusch's next film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.Bounty Hunter: Three of them, all insane to varying degrees and killed off in inverse order to the height of their insanity. ![]()
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