Examples
Some examples used in movies include:
- Spaghetti Westerns (notably the iconic denouement of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly but has also been used elsewhere)
- B-movies (various)
- The Matrix Revolutions (2003, The Wachowskis)
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Saving Private Ryan, Munich (Steven Spielberg)
- City on Fire (Ringo Lam)
- Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
- True Romance, Enemy of the State (Tony Scott)
- Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
- The Killer, Hard Boiled, Face/Off (John Woo)
- The Rock, Transformers, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, (Michael Bay)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (movies)
- Trespass, (Joel Schumacher)
- Zombieland
- Shanghai Noon
- Shaun of the Dead
Nevertheless, it remains a staple in popular culture because of its potential for high-tension drama.
The ending of the video game Call of Juarez: The Cartel features the protagonists engaging in a Mexican stand-off. This then leaves the player(s) to decide whether or not to kill their teammates.
Read more about this topic: Mexican Standoff
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“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
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“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
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“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
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