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Down Periscope is a 1996 comedy movie starring Kelsey Grammer as Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge USN, Executive Officer of the Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine USS Orlando. Though considered by many to be a talented officer, he has been denied command of his own submarine twice for his... cavalier command style. A third denial will forever bar him from commanding a submarine, but Vice Admiral Winslow has a feeling that summarily dismissing an officer like Dodge would be a bad thing, and has come up with a method of proving it — a war game which pits USS Stingray, one of the last remaining diesel submarines still owned by the US Navy (and long since forgotten in the Mothball Fleet at that), against the East Coast nuclear navy. Dodge's assignment — simulate a terrorist strike against Charleston and Norfolk.However, his opponent, Rear Admiral Graham, doesn't think the Navy needs irrepressible screwups like Dodge, and is willing to stretch the rules to the breaking point to prove it — starting by giving said screwup the crew he believes such a screwup deserves — ultimately a mistake that will make a laughing stock of the U.S. nuclear navy, as Admiral Winslow has explicitly ordered Dodge to "think like a pirate" to show that most of the world doesn't play by the book, and that's exactly what Dodge is going to do.Notably Lt. Emily Lake (Lauren Holly) is supposed to be the first female submarine crew member in the history of the United States Navy. She is a Diving Officer.The film is a parody of Up Periscope and other films in the submarine-film genre. | |
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Limited Advancement Opportunities | |
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Limited Advancement Opportunities: Dodge has already been passed over twice for command at the start of the film and a third time will mean that he'll be reassigned to a desk job, effectively ending his career. | |
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Control Freak | |
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Lt. Pascal starts off as this for most of the movie, but proves to be a Control Freak and The Neidermeyer, and ends up being made to Walk the Plank (into the waiting net of a fishing boat) after attempting The Mutiny against Dodge. | |
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Instant-Win Condition | |
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Instant-Win Condition: In the climax. All the Stingray has to do to win the wargame is sink the dummy ship. Their own survival was never part of the game. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: It's a sub movie called "Down Periscope". A title drop is a given. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Spots and R.J., the Stingray's Planesmen. The movie occasionally pauses to show them discussing whatever while at their post, usually R.J.'s basketball career and Spots' betting. | |
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Heh Heh, You Said "X" | |
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Heh Heh, You Said "X": Dodge gets on a Freudian Slippery Slope when talking to the crew about a woman (Lt. Lake) being on board: | |
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Custom Uniform of Sexy | |
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Custom Uniform of Sexy: Lt. Lake's uniform ends up being much more revealing after her shipmates sabotage her laundry, leaving her with the tiny uniform of the shrimpy XO. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: After Dodge gives the command to push Stingray's old clapped-out diesel engines well beyond redline for an extended period of time, the chief engineer pulls out a bottle of whisky and pours a shot for himself and the engineer's mate. He then dumps the rest of the bottle into the fuel line, stating that upping the proportion of ethanol to diesel in the fuel will let him squeeze another 50 RPM out of the engine. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Stepanek's first attempt to get out of serving on the Stingray is to openly insult Dodge to his face. Such a tactic would've worked with a by-the-book figure like Knox (who had earlier chastised Dodge's casual swearing), but he didn't realize he was dealing with a Military Maverick. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Two live torpedoes are given to the Stingray as an alternate objective for the final target of the war game. Using this option allows the crew to destroy the dummy ship even though they are killed in the game. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: The first thing Pascal declares to Stepanek after the latter's first attempt to get thrown off the Stingray is a characteristic "You're mine maggot!" Naturally, Stepanek throws it back in his face just before the final shove. | |
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling | |
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Lt. Emily Lake is (in this movie) the first woman to serve on a submarine of the United States Navy. Commander Dodge, not having been informed in advance, initially thinks that his crew have hired a stripper, and they do indeed treat her mostly as eye candy to start with (which leads them to sabotage her laundry to make her uniform more revealing). Her lack of real-world experience (and lack of confidence) doesn't help her in establishing her credentials, but when a particularly tricky situation calls for her specialist training, she rises to the occasion and proves her skill as a dive officer. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: When Graham dares his fellow admirals to "call [him] prude" during his anti-Dodge rant in the prologue, one of them can be seen grinning and giving a subtle "that's exactly what you are" nod in the background. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: In-Universe, the Stingray and her crew are the opposing force of the war game and they succeed in infiltrating Charleston harbor and sinking the dummy warship. On the other hand, Admiral Winslow considers it a good thing, since something like that happening in a war game is far better than an actual terrorist attack. And now the Navy knows one way it could happen and can act accordingly. | |
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Radio Contest | |
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Radio Contest: Nitro tried to connect the sub to Admiral Graham's phone call. Being Nitro, it got misdirected, | |
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Office Golf | |
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Office Golf: Early in the film, Dodge gets chewed out by his captain for playing golf off the weather deck of USS Orlando as she was sailing into port. He actually does rather well, hitting a long shot onto shore and getting very close to the hole. | |
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Odd Name, Normal Nickname | |
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Odd Name, Normal Nickname: One of the submarine crew is called "Nitro" — full name "Michael K. Nitro", as mentioned in the script. When someone else tells him that's a cool nickname, he tells them it's his real name but he's been thinking of calling himself "Mike" as a nickname. | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Stepanek is actually very good at his job when he wants to be, it's just he doesn't want to be there. In his first scene he insults Dodge and then proceeds to give a detailed explanation of what regulations he just broke and the required punishment, which will get him out of serving on the Stingray. | |
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Lethal Chef | |
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Buckman, when confronted by Pascal regarding his cooking. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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However, after thinking it over for a minute he orders his sub to intercept the contact anyway. See Properly Paranoid above. He's a experienced officer who knows that he can't afford to assume anything. Dodge, knowing Knox very well, had a back-up plan ready because he was pretty sure that Knox would be thorough. | |
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Double Meaning | |
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Double Meaning: Stepanek gets "relocated" when he fails to help prepare the ship for service. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: The Murmansk brushing incident. Although it's known that in Real Life there have been such incidents, which generally are the end of the responsible CO's career, the details of the one involving Dodge are mostly unknown. All that's known is that he was an Ensign at the time (meaning he likely was not in command, though he was probably running the tactical plot and miscalculated the range to the Russian sub, leading to the collision), got blindingly drunk afterwards, and received his Embarrassing Tattoo while inebriated. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
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A sharp-eared Sonar Technician who could not only hear a pin drop, but identify the make and model of said pin from the sound it makes hitting the floor. In this case, there wasn't anything wrong with how he did his job, his leadership were just paranoid that anyone with hearing that sharp would be a security risk and wanted him gone. Oh, he doesn't hear everything. And don't worry, he's very trustworthy... too. | |
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Freakier Than Fiction | |
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Freakier Than Fiction: The basis of the movie - war games pitting decades-old naval hardware against modern equipment - has not only been done repeatedly in Real Life, but has often resulted in victories for the low-techs through skill and guile. The losing side has even changed the rules mid-game on occasion, but not in a subtle manner like Graham's manipulation of the playing area - they actually declared that the ships the low-techs sank were floating again. At least one of the incidents in question, however, the low-tech forces were cheating even by the standards of the exercise (real assets cannot teleport, and a 2,000 pound fishing trawler cannot launch a missile whose launcher alone weighs double the boat's displacement). And "refloating" sunk assets is actually SOP for a naval wargame: The exercises exist as much to train the crewmen as they do the Admirals, and getting "sunk" on day 1 of a wargame and having nothing to do for the rest of the exercise would be counterproductive (think of it as "Ok, we'll pretend you did evade that torpedo and got away, proceed as if you did" or "Ok, you're acting as a replacement for a ship of the same class that was sunk on day 1"). | |
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Indestructible Edible | |
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Indestructible Edible: The can of Deviled Ham in the galley. It's been on that shelf since Korea. It expired in 1966. It still tastes like cream corn... | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Towards the end, Dodge calls out Admiral Graham on his flagrant cheating. | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight | |
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However, it's successfully inverted by Stingray as well. At one point, being hunted by sonar, Dodge leads his crew in a drunken singalong. However, combined with some modifications to their profile and a howling storm, they convince the opposing sub that they're just a trawler full of drunk fishermen. It also helps that Orlando crew is unaware that their opponent is a diesel sub. When Knox's sonar technician tells him he heard a diesel engine, Knox immediately dismisses the possibility of a diesel submarine. However, after thinking it over for a minute he orders his sub to intercept the contact anyway. See Properly Paranoid above. He's a experienced officer who knows that he can't afford to assume anything. Dodge, knowing Knox very well, had a back-up plan ready because he was pretty sure that Knox would be thorough. | |
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Alcohol Is Gasoline | |
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Alcohol Is Gasoline: Played With. At the climax, the Stingray's chief mechanic pours a bottle of whiskey inside of the (diesel) submarine's fuel feed to thin the mixture and make the sub go faster. | |
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Submarine Pirates | |
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Submarine Pirates: A U.S. Navy wargame calls for simulating an attack by terrorists working in conjunction with Submarine Pirates. Winslow's orders explicitly say "think like a pirate". The Stingray crew even plays it up when making LT Pascal Walk the Plank following LCDR Dodge's decision to ignore RADM Graham's attempt to rig the wargame, flying a Jolly Roger and dressed up in piratical clothing. Nitro never bothers to change out of his costume or wash off the fake beard for the rest of the run, and even giving the occasional "Arr". Truth in Television with the Jolly Roger, which is a traditional victory flag for submarines. For example, HMS Conqueror flew one during her return to Britain after sinking the General Belgrano in the Falklands. | |
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Starship Luxurious | |
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Starship Luxurious: The modern Orlando in comparison to the elderly, rickety Stingray. Backfires on the modern Navy men, though — some guy dropping his pocket change because he was buying snacks while the Orlando was in Silent Running Mode was the only sound "Sonar" Lovacelli needed to hear to know that the enemy sub was nearby. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Lt. Marty Pascal is an obnoxious lout who abuses his crew. The crew abuse him right back as he become the victim of several pranks and pratfalls. Bonus points for the fact that he's played by Rob Schneider. | |
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Anti-Mutiny | |
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Anti-Mutiny: What Pascal sees his attempted takeover as. He wants to play by Adm. Graham's changed rules, not realizing that Dodge has higher orders, and claims Dodge has "hijacked [his] own boat" before addressing the crew and trying to take command. | |
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Reassignment Backfire | |
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Reassignment Backfire: Dodge and his entire crew. He also sees the importance of the war game to the Navy, while Graham simply sees it as another feather in his cap. | |
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Big Good | |
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Big Good: Vice Admiral Winslow sees potential in Dodge and arranged the war game to give the Lieutenant Commander one last shot at commanding his own submarine. He's also determined to figure out if it's possible for a rogue obsolete sub to seriously threaten the mighty US Navy, unlike the rest of the brass, who automatically dismiss the notion as ridiculous. He's proven right on both counts. | |
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Plank Gag | |
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Plank Gag: Dodge gets Buckman to unwittingly pull one on Stepanek, as Stepanek's comeuppance for slacking while everyone else is doing scut work. | |
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Straw Hypocrite | |
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Straw Hypocrite: Graham doesn't like Dodge because he doesn't play by rules, or act like a proper officer. So how does Graham go about ensuring that Dodge won't receive command of a submarine? By cheating, and generally being an arrogant prick. | |
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Mathematician's Answer | |
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Mathematician's Answer: Buckman's answer as to what time of the day 1100 is is indeed mathematically correct. | |
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Pirate Parrot | |
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Pirate Parrot: Nitro wears one at Pascal's walking the plank. Oh, and it is an uncooked chicken. | |
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Friendly Enemy | |
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Friendly Enemy: The crew of USS Orlando are just doing their best to win the wargame, same as the crew of USS Stingray. It's Graham that acts as the Big Bad of the film. Even Commander Knox, who's excessively straight-laced and refused to recommend Dodge for promotion, is not a bad guy at all. | |
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The Mountains of Illinois | |
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The Mountains of Illinois: An odd version: The Appalachians do run through Virginia, but aren't visible in any way in Norfolk, being nearly 200 miles away! Most of the film was shot in and around San Francisco Bay in California (USS Pampanito, which plays USS Stingray, is a museum ship in San Francisco), where the hills are much closer to the coast. | |
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The Drunken Sailor | |
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The Drunken Sailor: Invoked by Dodge to fool the Orlando into thinking his sub is just a civilian fishing boat caught in a storm. It works. | |
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Sub Story | |
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Sub Story: The entire film focuses on wargames conducted on submarines. | |
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Blunder-Correcting Impulse | |
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Blunder-Correcting Impulse: While the submarine is passing between the propellers of a larger ship Dodge has to remind Lake that she received higher dive officer training marks and desperately needs her to get over her crisis of ability and back behind the wheel. | |
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Recruiters Always Lie | |
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Recruiters Always Lie: When stringing halogen lamps on the periscope as part of a ruse to look like a fishing boat in rough nighttime weather, Jackson grumbles, "I didn’t see this shit in no recruiting poster!" After successfully taping down the light without drowning, he sings an old US Army recruiting ad song. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Most of the crew fit this trope, which is how they ended up on the ship to begin with, starting with their Commanding Officer, LCDR Dodge. Both on and off the job, he's an immature goofball, but he also shows that immature does not necessarily mean irresponsible. His antics are never shown to actually affect his job performance, he gets along well with his subordinates, and he whips a derelict rustbucket submarine into seaworthiness over the course of a montage. Even the way he screws around can indicate his skills. He treats teeing a golf shot off the deck of the boat the same way he would calculating a torpedo shot, with subordinates reading off relevant information about distance, heading, and weather conditions. And gets rather close to a hole in one. | |
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The Mutiny | |
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The Mutiny: Lt. Pascal, way too by-the-book for this Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, eventually decides to "relieve the captain of his duties" after Dodge ignores both Rear Admiral Graham's orders and Pascal's advice to follow them. However, as Dodge secretly had orders from a higher-ranking admiral, Pascal's move was a classic case of mutiny. As for how well it worked, see above under Didn't Think This Through. | |
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Do-Anything Soldier | |
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Do-Anything Soldier: Nitro is the ship's electrician, but he is doing double duty as a radio operator as well. Also, Buckman is seen doing deck maintenance when he should be cooking. Truth in Television, as all crew members of a sub are cross trained in different departments. | |
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Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell | |
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Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell: Admiral Winslow explains to Dodge that the Russians are selling off their diesel submarine fleet to countries hostile to the U.S., in order to raise much-needed cash. These subs may not be any match for the American nuclear fleet in a conventional battle, but Winslow believes there is a credible threat that a rogue sub, in the hands of a hostile military or a terrorist group, could slip into a U.S. harbor and wreak havoc. Dodge ends up proving him right. | |
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Insane Admiral | |
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Insane Admiral: Rear Admiral Graham. He starts off as just an asshole, but by the end of the film the lengths he goes to to try and rig the wargame and screw Dodge over have pushed him fully into Mad Brass territory. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: While Lt. Pascal may be a loud Control Freak, his complaints about how Buckman runs the galley are entirely justified. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Lt. Lake, who's never done an actual dive, having only been on a simulator—think of anyone who's only had training experience (if anything) in a lake, who suddenly has to face the open ocean. | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: Dodge's Embarrassing Tattoo, which everyone seems to know about and feel the need to mention. | |
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Artistic License – Military | |
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Artistic License – Military: There's plenty of stuff that has those actually familiar with the Real Life US Navy's Submarine Service laughing not only at the intentional comedy that's a surprisingly accurate reflection of submariners, but the unintentional variety as well. While some of the inaccuracies are due to writer ignorance, and some are due to Rule of Cool or convenience to the plot, some of the issues surrounding USS Orlando can be chalked up to the film production staff not having access to classified USN information. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
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The Comically Serious: Just about the entire crew of Orlando, from Commander Knox on down. They act completely professional and serious at all times, completely unaware of ensuing hilarity happening on Stingray, or the unconventional tactics her crew is pulling off to elude them. | |
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Crisis Makes Perfect | |
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Crisis Makes Perfect: Lt. Lake's lack of real-time experience bites them when she accidentally drives the sub into the ocean floor, and as a result she loses confidence until the above-mentioned between the screws incident. Invoked in that Dodge was doing it deliberately, as she speaks to him afterwards and she asks him how much longer he would have waited before doing it right. | |
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Curse Cut Short | |
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Curse Cut Short: When Admiral Winslow asks Captain Dodge what he thinks of the Stingray, he replies, "It's a complete piece of... antiquated equipment, sir." | |
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So Much for Stealth | |
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Other notable events that break silence: three loose coins hitting the deck (Orlando) and accidentally hitting the ocean floor (Stingray). | |
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Amusing Injuries | |
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Nitro, a skilled but very eccentric electrician who manages to coerce the aging ship's radio equipment to work via various short-circuits (including several passing through his own body). | |
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Rock Beats Laser | |
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Rock Beats Laser: The whole point of the film's plot is that an old diesel submarine could be a threat to US harbors - if it was crewed and commanded by people willing to play outside the rule books of more conventional submarine forces in an underwater version of guerrilla warfare. This is Truth in Television for modern diesel-electric subs with air-independent propulsion; not so much for a World War II vintage submarine. | |
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Gasshole | |
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Gasshole: Buckman interrupts the sub's silent running with a fat ripper (in his defense, he really tried to hold it in). | |
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Moving the Goalposts | |
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Moving the Goalposts: Graham constantly changes the rules in order to give himself the advantage in the war games, including "I have to know where my attacker is coming from in order to catch him," as if a real enemy combatant would make it that easy. Dodge rightly ignores him; he had higher orders. | |
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Talk Like a Pirate | |
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Talk Like a Pirate: The "think like a pirate" order doesn't immediately lead to this, but Dodge and the crew go all in when making Pascal Walk the Plank. Even after changing back into their regular clothes, they still indulge a little bit in this for the climax. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Dodge: sure, the part involves a captain who has many reasons to be gleeful in giving Graham his comeuppance, but Kelsey Grammer clearly was relishing every line. Admiral Winslow is a booming-voiced authority figure. It's Rip Torn for Christ's sake! Pascal. He has No Indoor Voice, he gets in people's faces a lot, and when he tries to ask Dodge permission to leave the Stingray and get another assignment he does some really weird, wild gesturing with his arms as he attempts to phrase his request politely. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: When the crew is assembled, there are three officers of the Lieutenant Rank: Martin Pascal, the XO; Emily Lake, the Dive Officer; and a third Lieutenant standing next to Lake. This third officer is only seen in group scenes such as making Pascal walking the plank and the final scene when everyone is marching toward Admiral Winslow after disembarking from the Stingray. It is unknown what happened to Pascal after he was thrown overboard on to a fishing boat by the crew of "Stingray" after a failed attempt to take command of the submarine. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: Although diesel-electric submarines like Stingray lack the speed and endurance of a modern nuclear-powered boat, they're also quieter and much harder to detect when submerged and running silentnote In nuclear submarines, pumps must run constantly to keep reactors cool. Diesel-electric submarines can simply shut off their engines while underwater and go almost completely silent. A rogue diesel sub therefore presents a significant threat for a modern navy. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: As we're introduced to the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, Dodge fully expects Sonar to be completely deaf and just have an Ironic Nickname. Pascal whispers that Sonar actually has superior hearing and was considered a security risk for it, to which Sonar interjects a good distance away to say that he is quite trustworthy. | |
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Hot Sub-on-Sub Action | |
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Hot Sub-on-Sub Action: Stingray has to make the final stage of their run on Norfolk with Orlando in hot pursuit. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Dodge's crew obviously. We've got: A hot-tempered and uptight Executive Officer. A crusty old Chief Machinist's Mate who's actually retired and working as a civilian contractor (because no active Naval personnel is familiar with a Balao-class engine system). A rebellious Engineman who wants to be court-martialed. A sharp-eared Sonar Technician who could not only hear a pin drop, but identify the make and model of said pin from the sound it makes hitting the floor. In this case, there wasn't anything wrong with how he did his job, his leadership were just paranoid that anyone with hearing that sharp would be a security risk and wanted him gone. Oh, he doesn't hear everything. And don't worry, he's very trustworthy... too. A compulsive gambler with a well-established (and hilarious) losing streak. A former U.S. Naval Academy basketball player who choked on his Big Game, flunked out, and wound up as an enlisted Seaman. A shock-prone (and shock-addled) Electrician who can channel more voltage than a Pikachu. A cigar chomping chef of questionable culinary skill and even-more-questionable personal hygiene. A female Dive Officer (who has never served aboard a ship before) to test the feasibility of a coed crew (giving Dodge further headaches). And pretty much every other insubordinate reject the Navy had available. All put together in a World War II vintage rustbucket of a submarine by a Glory Hound Admiral who was actively sabotaging both the wargames and Dodge's career. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: Pascal tries to remove Dodge from command, as Dodge has intentionally disregarded Graham's orders. Dodge did so because he has higher orders from Winslow. He fails to account for two things. One, Dodge's actions have earned the respect of the crew. Two, his own actions have alienated the whole crew. He seems shocked and outraged when he realizes that Dodge has called him mutinous and is about to take care of the matter. | |
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Crazy Enough to Work | |
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Crazy Enough to Work: Several of Dodge's plans are incredibly risky, dangerous, or just so ludicrous that they seem unlikely, such as disguising themselves as a trawler full of drunk fishermen. Lampshaded in the climax by Spots, who says that the crew would prefer the risky maneuver, since it keeps working for them. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Admiral Graham tries to nullify the exercise by complaining about Dodge ignoring orders. Admiral Winslow shuts him down with a terse "Stow it. He had higher orders. And you can forget about that third star." Graham figured this war game would clinch his appointment for promotion; however, his promotion wasn't yanked for the war game. The Navy would probably overlook his changing the size of the game board; however, a visiting US Navy admiral on board a ship has no authority to just take over which Graham does on board the Orlando because it's personal between him and Dodge. Command in the US Navy is sacrosanct. | |
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Military Brat | |
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Military Brat: Stepanek, of all people. Turns out his father is Vice Admiral Winslow, and Stepanek's been using his mother's maiden name to avoid allegations of favoritism. | |
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Communications Officer | |
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Communications Officer: Nitro, a skilled but very eccentric electrician who manages to coerce the aging ship's radio equipment to work via various short-circuits (including several passing through his own body). Patton Oswalt has a small role as Stingray's dedicated radio operator. | |
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The Squadette | |
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The Squadette: Emily Lake. | |
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Embarrassing Tattoo | |
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Embarrassing Tattoo: One of Rear Admiral Graham's complaints against Commander Dodge is his owning one of these. | |
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Behind the Black | |
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Behind the Black: When Pascal is walking the plank, Lt. Lake doesn't seem to notice Pascal is going to fall safely into a fishing net until he actually does so. | |
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HarmlessVoltage | |
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Harmless Voltage: Nitro, of course. With all the voltage he's absorbed over the years, he's built up a considerable amount of tolerance. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: What Dodge's infamous tattoo actually was. Graham sharks that it's "Welcome Aboard" early on, but we don't get a confirmation either way. | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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Not So Above It All: Turns out Knox and his first mate had a little bet going on. Knox lost. The payoff happened behind Admiral Graham's back. | |
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Springtime for Hitler | |
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Springtime for Hitler: Since he doesn't want to serve on a submarine at all (let alone one like the Stingray), Stepanek tries to get himself kicked out of Lt. Cmdr. Dodge's crew, starting from the moment he first arrives. Of course, Dodge sees through it immediately. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Lt. Commander Dodge's threat: "If I throw you off, it'll be in the middle of the Atlantic." The only difference between when he said it and when he finally does it is the person to whom he speaks. He says it to Stepanek, but he does it to Pascal. In fact, it's Stepanek who ends up doing the throwing. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: Sonar is one to Radar from M*A*S*H, in name if not necessarily manner. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: Played with. Each time Dodge gets a call from Admiral Graham, he has Nitro put it through on a different method. The first time, it shocks Nitro. The second time, it seriously shocks Nitro. The third time, Nitro prepares himself with as much safety gear as possible. It works as intended and Nitro isn't hurt at all, much to his own surprise. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Buckman, when confronted by Pascal regarding his cooking. Also, while Pascal is yelling at him, Buckman sprays shortening on the floor and ladder behind Pascal's back, leading to the latter to slip on both items. | |
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Entitled Bastard | |
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Entitled Bastard: Despite treating his crew mates like crap, Pascal expects them to support when he attempts to take command of the Stingray from Dodge. The rest of crew simply laugh at this and stay on Dodge's side. | |
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Well-Trained, but Inexperienced | |
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Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: Lt. Emily Lake has the highest simulator score in the US Navy, but no actual experience on a boat prior to being assigned to the Stingray. Also, she's not very confident, which doesn't help. | |
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Underdogs Never Lose | |
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Underdogs Never Lose: A commander on his last chance, leading an intentionally collected Ragtag Bunch of Misfits crew, with an obsolete rust bucket of a sub as his craft. Of course, they pull off the win! | |
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Dissimile | |
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Dissimile | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Sonar's attempts to mimic whales by recording their calls. Also, Dodge's skill in calculating targeting solutions is shown early on via him nearly getting a hole in one while teeing a golf shot from the deck of a moving submarine. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Graham's providing a bum crew for Dodge probably would have steered him straight for another wargame victory, if only Sonar hadn't been among them. His insane talents for hearing and sonar use, not to mention mimicry, are the most directly responsible for Dodge coming ahead in troubling situations. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: The Orlando is able to catch the Stingray during the final run and get a torpedo firing solution, but unfortunately not before the Stingray was able to launch two live torpedoes that blow up a designated target sky-high. In the end, Admiral Graham (who was gloating his victory just one second before Dodge points this out) can only sit down and listen to Dodge's countdown as the torpedoes approach their target, and once the exercise is over his career offically goes down the drain thanks to his actions during it. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Most everyone gets a moment or two, it's that kind of movie, but of note is Stepanek's introductory scene; dressed like a biker, being escorted by SPs as he yells at and threatens them... Stepanek has a few good lines of his own, such as after Lake screws up and crashes the submarine on the ocean bottom. | |
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Glory Hound | |
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And pretty much every other insubordinate reject the Navy had available. All put together in a World War II vintage rustbucket of a submarine by a Glory Hound Admiral who was actively sabotaging both the wargames and Dodge's career. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Nitro can never get Admiral Graham's name right. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Lt. Lake is left in a too-tight top that her breasts almost pop out of after her laundry is sabotaged. Fortunately this sabotage only lasts one short scene. In-Universe, the crew views Lake as this until she proves her skill as dive officer. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Stepanek isn't trying to screw everybody, only himself. | |
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Accidental Innuendo | |
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Accidental Innuendo: In-Universe, Dodge's speech introducing Diving Officer Lake to the rest of the crew has some of these, much to his embarrassment and their amusement. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Captain Dodge (reading his own fitness report): "This is a confirmed kill. Twenty years down the fucking drain!" | |
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Prank Punishment | |
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Prank Punishment: When XO Lt. Pascal tries to mutiny and take over the USS Stingray, Commander Dodge and the other crew dress up as pirates and hold a mock execution for him, forcing Pascal to walk the plank off the submarine, blindfolded. He falls harmlessly into the net of a waiting fishing trawler that takes him back to shore. | |
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Walk the Plank | |
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Walk the Plank: What the crew of USS Stingray makes Pascal do when he pushes them too far. A fishing boat is in on the joke and catches him in a strung net for laughs. As added injury, Stapanek gives Pascal his luggage-by dropping it on his crotch. | |
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The Neidermeyer | |
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The Neidermeyer: Rear Admiral Graham tries to change the rules of the war game behind the back of his own superior officer, is abusive to the crew of the Orlando and takes over command of the Orlando at the end of the war game over its captain's protests. Lt. Martin Pascal doesn't speak at anything quieter than a shout and verbally abuses the entire crew even though they all have his number. | |
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Outside-the-Box Tactic | |
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Outside-the-Box Tactic: To give the Navy the experience of a renegade submarine, Winslow orders Dodge to "think like a pirate." The extreme actions taken by Dodge are so far from normal submarine operations he fools his old CO on the Orlando, exactly like a terrorist would do in a similar situation, proving that when the target has nothing to lose, he's extremely hard to counter. | |
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Silent Running Mode | |
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Silent Running Mode: Pretty much a given in a submarine movie, and played with in multiple scenes: When Stingray is trying to avoid detection by Orlando earlier in the exercise, they're doing well in hiding until Buckman rips a massive fart that the Orlando's sonar operator says almost sounds like an explosion. Other notable events that break silence: three loose coins hitting the deck (Orlando) and accidentally hitting the ocean floor (Stingray). However, it's successfully inverted by Stingray as well. At one point, being hunted by sonar, Dodge leads his crew in a drunken singalong. However, combined with some modifications to their profile and a howling storm, they convince the opposing sub that they're just a trawler full of drunk fishermen. It also helps that Orlando crew is unaware that their opponent is a diesel sub. When Knox's sonar technician tells him he heard a diesel engine, Knox immediately dismisses the possibility of a diesel submarine. However, after thinking it over for a minute he orders his sub to intercept the contact anyway. See Properly Paranoid above. He's a experienced officer who knows that he can't afford to assume anything. Dodge, knowing Knox very well, had a back-up plan ready because he was pretty sure that Knox would be thorough. | |
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Way Past the Expiration Date | |
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Way Past the Expiration Date: The food stores in Stingray's galley date, in at least one case, back to The Korean War. Most of the crew view the Stingray as such, at least until she starts winning the wargame. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Nitro, due to having "absorbed a lot of voltage" in his electrical career. His Establishing Character Moment is basically him testing loose wires for voltages without a meter. 'Sonar' Lovacelli is, to a lesser degree, one as well. | |
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Side Bet | |
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Side Bet: Spots and Jackson are seen exchanging money a couple of times. Keep an eye on them whenever something exciting happens. Money changes hands aboard Orlando right after the climax of the film, between the normally strait-laced Captain Knox (CO of Orlando) and his (rather smug-looking) XO.note eXecutive Officer Note that Knox bet against his former subordinate. Of all people, he should have known better, though the other option would be betting against himself. To be fair, Knox didn’t KNOW who was commanding the “enemy� sub (which would be the case in a real life situation) and was more likely betting that he and Orlando would win. He can console himself with the fact that Graham had pulled rank and took command, so the loss was Graham’s. | |
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GoshDangItToHeck | |
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Commander Knox. Profanity is his Berserk Button. | |
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Hyper-Awareness | |
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Hyper-Awareness: Sonarman 2nd Class E.T. "Sonar" Lovacelli can hear how much change is dropped on a nearby submarine. And a crewman eating an Oreo on another deck. And a couple of lobsters dukin' it out. This IS helped by his listening equipment, but it takes more than fancy gear to point out that someone dropped "forty-five cents. A quarter... and two dimes", after jerking as if an explosion went off in his ear after the coins hit the deck. | |
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Break Out the Museum Piece | |
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Break Out the Museum Piece: Deconstructed by Admiral Winslow. Dodge believes that he's been set up for an elaborate practical joke, appointed to command a rusted World War II-era diesel sub, but Winslow explains that the whole point of the wargame is to test whether a diesel sub, of the kind that the former Soviet Union is selling off in droves to smaller countries hostile to the U.S., could evade the U.S. Navy's submarines and surface ships protecting its harbors. | |
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ToiletHumor | |
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Toilet Humor: Buckman almost ruins Silent Running Mode with a mammoth fart. More comedy as the crew must stifle any urge to shout in disgust, which stretches into an Overly Long Gag. | |
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Inter-Service Rivalry | |
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Interservice Rivalry: Downplayed, but when R.J. sings the Army's then-current recruiting jingle ("Be all that you can be") while participating in one of Dodge's Crazy Enough to Work plans, Dodge is visibly annoyed. In the middle of a storm. | |
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Permission to Speak Freely | |
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Permission to Speak Freely: Emily Lake asks for this, gets it, and then kisses the captain. Earlier, Dodge gives permission to Pascal when he tries to ask Dodge to relieve him of his post so he can go to another assignment, and Pascal buries himself deeper by calling the whole crew "the biggest collection of assholes and retards in naval history!" and tried to open up his attempt at using Present Company Excluded on his captain with "I know why you're here (the damned penis tattoo), but..." | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Vice Admiral Winslow. He sees the potential in Dodge and gives him higher orders that give him more flexibility than Graham would permit in the war game. Dodge himself may be a loose cannon when it comes to dealing with his superiors, but he treats his crew with genuine respect, which earns him their loyalty (unlike Pascal who berated and abused them). | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: Dodge and Emily. At one point Emily even expresses her admiration and gratitude to Dodge by giving him a kiss on the lips. | |
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Seal the Breach | |
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Seal the Breach: After Stepanek and the engine crew seal a series of smaller leaks, the main water pipe bursts, releasing a geyser that Stepanek plugs single-handed. | |
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Casual Danger Dialogue | |
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Casual Danger Dialogue: Stepanek leads the engine crew in stopping the leaks that almost sink the boat, after Howard, the civilian specialist, gets knocked-out. Afterwards, Stepanek helps Howard back to his feet when he comes to. | |
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Indy Ploy | |
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Indy Ploy: Almost everything Lt. Cmdr. Dodge does amounts to winging it. | |
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Fartillery | |
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Fartillery: Buckman's fart is not only loud enough to be picked up by the Orlando's passive sonar microphones (and the sonar technician who hears it flat-out calls it "some sort of explosion") but he stinks up the entire inside of the sub to the point the other crew members have a hard time breathing and their eyes start to water. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: Nitro is apparently both the boat's electrician and radio operator (in Real Life, these are separate rates). Justified in that for this mission, the Stingray really doesn't need a full-time radioman. Another possible justification is that the equipment is in such bad shape that only Nitro knows how to keep it working. | |
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The Chew Toy | |
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The Chew Toy: Nitro has to endure electric currents through his body several times, just so Dodge can talk to somebody. To be fair, he seems to like it - or at least not mind much. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Oh, he doesn't hear everything. And don't worry, he's very trustworthy... too. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Pascal gets his luggage tossed straight into his groin right after he's made to walk the plank. | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
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No Indoor Voice: Pascal, most of the time. Of course, it is Rob Schneider... | |
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The Alleged Car: USS Stingray, a Balao-class fleet submarine, was the fastest, quietest, deadliest, most advanced weapon under the sea in her prime... which was in 1943. She was considered obsolete by the late 50s, has been rusting on Red Lead Row since 1965, and didn't even get the GUPPY-II upgrade like many of her sisters. She was chosen to be the aggressor for the war game because of her obsolete, decrepit nature. A submarine without the GUPPY upgrades or any of the things a modern diesel submarine has is damn near impossible to find when it goes silent and a WWII-era submarine can go silent for 2-3 days. How alleged is the Stingray? Well, during the middle of the wargame, Nitro is still rewiring the entire radio system pretty much from scratch and ends up using his own body to close the circuit so Dodge can take radio calls. | |
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His Name Really Is "Barkeep" | |
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His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Nitro's name really is Nitro — his full name being "Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Michael K. Nitro" according to the filming script. He's considering "Mike" as a nickname. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: Graham's protests against giving Dodge a submarine over his "Welcome Aboard" tattoo only amused the other Admirals, and potentially made them more impressed with Dodge as a submariner, a naval branch that emphasizes roguish qualities. Admiral Winslow himself saw it as a positive trait for a renegade sub captain. | |
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Stripper/Cop Confusion | |
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Stripper/Cop Confusion: In Real Life, at the time the movie was made women weren't allowed on US submarines — Dodge is thus thrown by Lake's appointment as the ship's dive officer, not knowing about a (then fictional) experimental program to see if women will be allowed to serve on subs. He thought that she was hired by the crew as a present for him. | |
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Number Two | |
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Number Two: Lt. Pascal starts off as this for most of the movie, but proves to be a Control Freak and The Neidermeyer, and ends up being made to Walk the Plank (into the waiting net of a fishing boat) after attempting The Mutiny against Dodge. Lt. Lake, following Pascal's departure, basically becomes XO to Dodge by default, as every other named character on board is of enlisted rank. | |
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Comically Missing the Point: When Stingray makes her first dive in 40 years down to 500 feet, Chief Machinist Mate Howard attaches a string to the inside of the pressure hull taut from port to starboard. As Stingray's depth increases, the water pressure begins squeezing the hull, causing the string to sag noticeably. Howard grins at Nitro, having put up the string to demonstrate this very thing. | |
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Stepping Out to React: Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge is so surprised that he received a message to get to headquarters to be assigned a submarine for captaining (right after seeing that he was denied a commission for the third time, which made his career in his own words "thirty years down the fucking drain") that he asks his captain if this is a misunderstanding (and his captain says he had the message decoded twice, so it isn't) and then walks out of the room before whooping out in joy. | |
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Theme Naming: An interesting example as the different themes used by the two subs demonstrates just how far apart they are in terms of technology and service. Stingray is named using the US Navy's World War II-era tradition of naming submarines for fish, while Orlando uses the Navy's later tradition of naming attack submarines for cities note similar to how they used to name cruisers; missile subs meanwhile use the old battleship theme of being named for states | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Two with Stepanek: When he first meets his crew, Dodge gets Stepanek to settle down by informing him that "if I throw you off, it'll be in the middle of the Atlantic." Later in the film, Dodge does in fact throw an insubordinate member of his crew off of the Stingray in the middle of the Atlantic - but it's not Stepanek, it's Pascal, and he's tossed onto the waiting net of a helpful fishing boat rather than into the water, and Stepanek is the one doing the tossing. Early in the film when Stepanek makes his dislike of serving aboard a submarine (or in the Navy in general) clear, Dodge points out that the service is voluntary and he can simply resign. Stepanek notes in frustration that he can't because his father's an admiral. At the end of the film, Admiral Winslow thanks Dodge for getting his son (Stepanek) to face forward. | |
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