A 1966 Western starring Jack Nicholson as Billy Spear and Warren Oates as Willet Gashade. A Deconstruction of the western made on the same year as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Tropes used in The Shooting include:
- Doomed Hometown: The film opens with the lead finding his mining camp depopulated.
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue: A horse trader who barely speaks english is nonetheless capable of reading and writing (no small feat) and seems to run a successful business. He walks away from the confused Gillet mumbling in some language or another.
- Gainax Ending
- Gosh Dang It to Heck: Played painfully straight by Willet's sidekick.
- Hyper Awareness: Willet.
- Jump Cut: Stylishly used.
- Retired Gunfighter
- Rouge Angles of Satin: On someone's grave. Lousy 19th century education.
- Kick the Dog: The woman who hires Willet to accompany her to Kingsley keeps killing horses.
- No Name Given: The Woman.
- The Western
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