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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A 1982 romantic drama directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, and Louis Gossett Jr.Zack Mayo (Gere) is an orphaned loner who grows up to be an emotionally isolated opportunist after his mother commits suicide and his father ignores him. After graduating from college, he joins the Navy in hopes of becoming an aviator, and enters officer's training under the tutelage of Drill Sergeant Nasty Emil Foley (Gossett). Despite being warned about the local girls who are looking for potential officers to marry, Zack and his friend Sid Worley (Keith) begin to date two local girls, Paula Pokrifki (Winger) and Lynette Pomeroy (Lisa Blount). Along the way, Zack learns the importance of friends and colleagues.Earned a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award and Golden Globe for Gossett...who, it should be noted, had to beat out his co-star Keith, who had also been nominated for the latter award.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Despite the name, the movie is not the Trope Namer for the Officer and a Gentleman trope. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son!" Guy: Casey, who wants to be a female naval aviator and win the approval of her father. She gets a Heroic BSoD when Sgt. Foley exposes her weakness and calls her out on it. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: When Zack moves in with his father in the Philippines after his mother's death, his Dad explicitly tells him that he won't "do the daddy stuff" and leaves Zack to raise himself above a brothel. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Sgt. Foley, part and parcel of his Drill Sergeant Nasty role. A case of Truth in Television: While doing research, screenwriter Douglas Stewart found out that all of the top drill instructors at Pensacola were African-American, which inspired the casting of Louis Gossett Jr. And Gossett had good training; the military adviser for the film was R. Lee Ermey. Averted (for good reason, in this case) in the Takarazuka version, with Kaname Ouki as Foley.◊ | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Arguably, Sid Worley, who drops out of the program with only two weeks remaining when he thinks Lynette is pregnant with his child. | |
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Like Parent, Like Spouse | |
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Like Parent, Like Spouse: Paula confesses to Zack that she loves him because he reminds her of her biological father, a Navy aviator. | |
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Good Old Fisticuffs | |
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Good Old Fisticuffs: Averted when Zack fights Sgt. Foley after Sid's suicide. While Zack is a skilled fighter who learned streetwise fisticuffs, Foley — the self-defense instructor with kung fu expertise — eventually defeats him. | |
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CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable | |
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CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable:It doesn't work though, as Sid was already dead. Sgt. Foley successfully resuscitates a trainee who nearly drowns during the dunker crash-escape simulation. | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
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Hero of Another Story: Casey Seeger. You get the feeling that if the camera were to ignore Zack Mayo and start following her around, the movie would be just as entertaining. | |
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The Scrounger | |
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The Scrounger: Zack, who does a brisk business selling polished boots and belt buckles for his comrades to pass inspection. | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty: Played to perfection by Louis Gossett Jr. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Sid Worley, who drops out of the program despite nearly finishing because he believes his girl Lynette is pregnant. When she tells him it was a lie and she doesn't want to marry a non-airman, he hangs himself in a motel shower stall. | |
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Artistic License – Military | |
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Artistic License – Military: As a general rule, Gunnery Sergeant Foley should be referred to by that rank, or by the accepted informal shorthand "Gunny." In Navy OCS, however, the proper term of address for a drill instructor of any rank is "Sergeant Instructor." The movie gets it wrong in either case by referring to him as simply "Sergeant." The location of Aviation Officer Candidate School is also wrong. Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, where this movie is set, is in actuality, just a base for anti-submarine patrol airplanes such as the P-3 Orion. Navy OCS is in Newport Rhode Island now, and during that time, the aviation OCS was at Naval Air Station Pensacola in /Florida.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); }) | |
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Bar Brawl | |
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Bar Brawl: Subverted. Despite the obvious tensions, the brawl doesn't happen until everyone is outside, and it ends after one well-timed roundhouse kick. | |
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No One Gets Left Behind | |
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No One Gets Left Behind: Played mildly when Casey, in her final run of the obstacle course, still can't make the rope-climb wall she needs to pass the test. Zack abandons his attempt at breaking the course record to return and yell encouragement at her until she climbs it. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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A case of Truth in Television: While doing research, screenwriter Douglas Stewart found out that all of the top drill instructors at Pensacola were African-American, which inspired the casting of Louis Gossett Jr. | |
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Quitting to Get Married | |
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Quitting to Get Married: David Keith's character (Jim Worley) is an naval officer candidate who has a fling with one of the town girls (as candidates often do) named Lynette; she reports that she is pregnant in order to get him to marry her, but then he quits the navy to marry her. Lynette had wanted to be a navy officer's wife, so she dumps him (and informs him that she wasn't pregnant after all). He hangs himself. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: Sid resigning from OCS when Lynette insinuates that he knocked her up, is actually quite a foolhardy decision. Had he commissioned into the Navy, then married Lynette, his status as a naval officer would have allowed them to live quite comfortably. They would have received free housing, free healthcare, travel allowances, subsidized groceries at the PX, free on base schooling for the kid, access to the Officers Club, not to mention veterans benefits and size able retirement benefits had he made it to twenty years. The kid would even have access to financial aid for college bound military dependents. Lynette wasn't entirely off base for yelling at him when he quit. | |
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Military Brat: Zack Mayo and Sid Worley. | |
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The Squadette | |
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The Squadette: Casey Seeger, the only woman in Zack's class of candidates. | |
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Not So Different | |
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Not So Different: Lynette attempts to invoke this when Paula calls her out for faking a pregnancy, which ultimately leads to Sid's suicide, stating that Paula is trying to do the same thing to Zack. Except Paula isn't. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Foley delivers literally all of his dialogue this way. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Sid's girlfriend, Lynette. She lies to Sid about being pregnant, setting off a chain of events that leads to Sid's suicide. Yet by the end of the movie, she appears no worse for wear, whose only repercussion, apart from a brief "The Reason You Suck" Speech, is to cheer Paula as she's being carried off in Zack's arms. Subverted sinceLynette's cheer of Paula in the end is bittersweet as she realizes that she is never leaving her dismal factory life. | |
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The Ace | |
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The Ace: Deconstructed. Mayo leaps every hurdle—from the obstacle course to shining belt buckles—with ease. But he falls far short of Foley's standards for character, who makes it clear he'd rather pass the girl who can't make it over the climbing wall than the ethically elastic Mayo. | |
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My Sibling Will Live Through Me | |
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My Sibling Will Live Through Me: Sid is driven to succeed for the sake of his older brother, who was killed in combat. | |
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Training from Hell | |
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Training from Hell: Zack gets this personally from Sgt. Foley after he's busted for selling inspection-approved boots and buckles. | |
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The Baby Trap | |
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The Baby Trap: A central point of the film. The cadets are clearly warned about how the local women want to marry an officer to escape their blue-collar lives, and aren't afraid of using The Baby Trap to do so. Subverted when Lynette fakes being pregnant so that Sid will marry her. She confesses to the hoax when he resigns from the Navy to do so, which she didn't want. | |
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Blackface | |
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Averted (for good reason, in this case) in the Takarazuka version, with Kaname Ouki as Foley.◊ | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: How Foley defeats Mayo during their fight at the end. | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Gold Digger: Lynette. If you had any doubt, you'll know it when Sid proposes and she starts acting like she won the lottery. | |
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