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Hacksaw Ridge

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Hacksaw Ridge	label	Hacksaw Ridge
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Hacksaw Ridge	comment	Hacksaw Ridge is a 2016 Australian-American biographical war film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Corr, Teresa Palmer, Richard Pyros and Rachel Griffiths.The film is set during World War II and Based on a True Story, that of Private Desmond Thomas Doss (Garfield), a Seventh-day Adventist conscientious objector who refused to bear arms and became a combat medic. He ended up awarded the Medal of Honor by President Harry S. Truman for single-handedly saving the lives of over 75 of his comrades while under constant enemy fire during the Battle of Okinawa.The trailer can be seen here.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_118a41d5	type	Daydream Surprise
Hacksaw Ridge / int_118a41d5	comment	Daydream Surprise: Desmond has one where he and Smitty are killed by Japanese soldiers. It's only after his Catapult Nightmare that the scene is revealed to be a dream.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Hacksaw Ridge / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Doss has one after Smitty's death. He asks God what he should do and finds his answer in saving as many injured as he can.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_17fe1048	type	Naked on Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge / int_17fe1048	comment	Naked on Arrival: Milt 'Hollywood' Zane, for no reason other than to show off his physique to everyone. The trope initially serves to show how much of a Jerkass the character is, as well as being blatant fanservice. After a dose of comeuppance at the hands of Sergeant Howell, the trope morphs into Naked People Are Funny as Zane is forced to complete training in the nude.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Hacksaw Ridge / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "That's our objective! Hacksaw Ridge!"
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Hacksaw Ridge / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: While they initially had doubts about Desmond joining, Drill Sergeant Nasty Howell and Glover are both caring towards their men under their command whilst on the battlefield and they were worried that Desmond's refusal to bear arms could mean the deaths of brothers-in-arms around him if he's not armed to defend himself and others in need, something that both of them brought up when Howell orders his platoon not to rely on Desmond to help them and Glover also telling him what would happen if Desmond on the battlefield had no weapon to protect himself and a wounded comrade. However, both superiors eventually warmed over and respected Desmond for being a Badass Pacifist and how he did managed to save many of his brothers-in-arms despite being unarmed himself.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Hacksaw Ridge / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: The only reason to have Milt 'Hollywood' in the picture.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
Hacksaw Ridge / int_1bf47ada	comment	From a practical perspective, Doss' refusal to carry a weapon does nothing to impede him in carrying out his duty as The Medic, and several scenes make it abundantly clear that if it weren't for his armed comrades he would have died on Hacksaw Ridge. His rescue of Sergeant Howell is the clearest example of this: Howell kills a sniper that nearly blew Doss' head off and kept him from getting to the sergeant, then provides essential covering fire while Doss hauls him to the cliff, killing several Japanese soldiers that would otherwise have shot Doss in the back.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Hacksaw Ridge / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: A group of Japanese soldiers emerges waving a white flag, but then toss grenades at the Americans.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Hacksaw Ridge / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Desmond's father fought his way into the military proceedings to deliver a letter to the judge that would keep Desmond from getting court-martialed.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Hacksaw Ridge / int_21e5b9c7	comment	While dodging enemy fire, Doss hides inside a Japanese tunnel, where he must dodge more enemy soldiers. In one corridor, patrols miss him because he uses the darkness to his advantage by standing in a corner facing the wall and possibly because the Japanese never expected an American inside said tunnel.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Hacksaw Ridge / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Doss and Smitty Ryker start off very antagonistic, even before Doss's status as a conscientious objector was revealed, but they end up being close to another to the point Doss refuses to abandon his dead body even when in imminent danger of getting killed by the Japanese.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Hacksaw Ridge / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Several draftees of Doss' unit beat him to a pulp at the training camp for his refusal to fight as it caused them to suffer as well.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Hacksaw Ridge / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: The cocky Milt "Hollywood" Zane shows off his physique by exercising nude in front of everyone. When Sergeant Howell shows up for an inspection, Zane has no time to put clothes on so stands in line as he is, dripping with sweat and whimpering in fear and embarrassment. He is further humiliated when Howell decrees that as he enjoys being naked so much, he can stay that way for the rest of the day's training.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_2bbba5f3	type	Say Your Prayers
Hacksaw Ridge / int_2bbba5f3	comment	Say Your Prayers: Desmond draws strength and courage from his faith through prayer through the ordeal he faced at Hacksaw Ridge. The second attack is held up for 10 minutes because Desmond was still busy praying.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Hacksaw Ridge / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Desmond has two. In the first, he relives a memory of his fight with his father (see The Atoner above), waking up abruptly when the gun goes off during the struggle. The second one is during the night on the ridge as he and Smitty are resting in a foxhole. Desmond sees a flare go up overhead and lifts his head to look out of the hole, only to find himself face-to-face with a squad of Japanese soldiers, who then proceed to storm the hole, killing Smitty while one of the soldiers is about to kill Desmond with a bayonet. Desmond wakes up right as he's about to be killed.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Hacksaw Ridge / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Captain Glover comes across, in his own words, as a "hardass who only cares about rules and regulations" but reveals to Desmond that he is also a devout Christian who struggles to reconcile his faith with his duty as a soldier. He even seems to respect Desmond's beliefs and his sincere devotion to them, just feeling they're not compatible with being a soldier.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
Hacksaw Ridge / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Doss's conviction through and through. He is even a vegetarian because of it.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
Hacksaw Ridge / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Dorthy is a nurse played by the gorgeous Teresa Palmer.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_323cd680	type	Geek Physiques
Hacksaw Ridge / int_323cd680	comment	Geek Physiques: Doss' skinny frame is mocked extensively by Sergeant Howell. Not that it slows him down at all. Footage of the real Doss at the end shows it wasn't just due to Andrew Garfield's casting.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Hacksaw Ridge / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Smitty. Doss closes them while in tears.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Hacksaw Ridge / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Hugo Weaving's character is a bitter person traumatized by his past that prompts him takes it out on his wife and kids, however, is still a decent person enough to genuinely loves his family and even comes to his child's rescue when he's in trouble somewhere, sounds a lot like Weaving's early voice-over role as the sheepdog Rex from Babe.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_3a69dbae	type	RunawayGroom
Hacksaw Ridge / int_3a69dbae	comment	Runaway Groom: Discussed. The priest at Desmond's and Dorothy's wedding mentions this trope as a possible reason for Desmond's no show.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Hacksaw Ridge / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Those aware of Doss' achievements know that he'll survive the horror of Okinawa.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Hacksaw Ridge / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: True to Imperial Japan, the Japanese soldiers attempt a banzai charge. Due to their overwhelming numbers, it works very well on the outnumbered Americans. The attack only ends up being stopped by the US navy performing shore bombardment, saturating the ridge with shells.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Hacksaw Ridge / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: What snaps Desmond out of his Heroic BSoD after Smitty's death is hearing wounded men left behind calling out for help, at which point Desmond dusts himself off, dons his helmet and charges back into the fire and smoke to save as many as he can.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Hacksaw Ridge / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Smitty. He acts quite assholish to Desmond because of the latter's nonviolent beliefs, even smacking him with his bible. He was also against another group of men for beating up Doss for the reason. And later on, he proves to be quite brave and selfless in battle and opens up to Doss and comes to respect him, and even admits that he can be an asshole. Howell is just a guy doing his job who doesn't think a guy who doesn't want to even touch a gun should be allowed into a combat zone where other soldiers will be forced to rely on him. He comes to respect Doss after he takes a vicious beating from his squadmates but still refuses to quit and later during their time in combat together. Thomas Doss is an alcoholic Abusive Dad and a Domestic Abuser, but sincerely loves his sons and wife and hates himself for his horrible treatment of them. Captain Glover works with Howell to try and force Desmond out, but he has a moment of private connection with him where he speaks about his own faith and his difficulty in reconciling it with his duty as a soldier and pleads with Doss to simply leave before he is dishonorably discharged, ruining his life. He also cares deeply for the men under his watch and tells Desmond he was wrong and asks his forgiveness after he sees how bravely he served in rescuing other soldiers.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Hacksaw Ridge / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Howell, Ryker and Glover were initially critical of Desmond's refusal to bear arms and tried to either force him to either give in or quit, but in their viewpoint, any serviceman in their right mind would have the common sense to use a firearm in general and thought Desmond was being unpractical with his beliefs. They eventual warm over and respect Doss for standing by his beliefs. While Smitty and Doss are bonding in a foxhole while on night patrol, Smitty tells Doss "any sane man would be screaming for a weapon" to defend himself from the enemy after the latter's Catapult Nightmare.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
Hacksaw Ridge / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: A wounded soldier frantically says he has kids when another medic soldier tells Desmond to give the solider some morphine and leave him. Desmond gives the wounded soldier some morphine but doesn't leave him.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Hacksaw Ridge / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: During the Japanese counter-attack, a few soldiers take mortar shells, clang the primer on their helmets, and throw them at the incoming Japanese troops. Inverted when Doss uses an M1 Garand as a grip for a makeshift stretcher for Sergeant Howell, never using it to fire at his enemies.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Hacksaw Ridge / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: The real reason for Desmond refusing to hold a gun was because he nearly killed his father with his own gun after having enough of his abuse to his mother and himself and despite having all the hate in the world for his father, he doesn't kill him and this incident shames him from ever holding a gun. And while it may not have completely cleaned him of his sins, Doss' father coming to his defense with a letter exonerating Doss from the court-martial.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_4fb60159	type	Do Not Do This Cool Thing
Hacksaw Ridge / int_4fb60159	comment	Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Stated in-film by Tom Doss, Desmond's father, when he lectures his son about how everyone wanted to do the cool thing, and then die from it.invoked
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Hacksaw Ridge / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Desmond suffers a moment of this when even Dorothy calls him prideful for being unwilling to at least hold a gun. She quickly takes it back though, realizing that she loves him because his principles make him different.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Hacksaw Ridge / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: A defining characteristic of Desmond's father.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
Hacksaw Ridge / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Desmond Doss does this and enlists in the Army despite his pacifist beliefs. He states that he could've just stayed home working at a plant, but felt it was his duty to go out and that it wasn't right to sit at home peacefully while boys go out and fight and those who couldn't waste away at home.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Hacksaw Ridge / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: In real life, Desmond's wife Dorothy Schutte was not a nurse when they met and in fact did not become one until after the war, mainly to help support the family and take care of her husband due to his disability from war wounds. Also, they married shortly before he joined the army, not in the timeframe depicted in the film. Although Desmond was threatened with a court martial by an officer because he refused to touch a weapon, he was never actually court martialed as depicted in the film. While Doss' father did make calls on his son's behalf to help him get better treatment from the army, he never personally showed up in his old WWI uniform to plead on his behalf. The film depicts Doss' actions in Okinawa as if it was his first time in combat and his first chance to prove himself to his fellow soldiers. In real life, Doss had already earned two bronze stars before then in previous battles on Guam and the Phillippines. The film shows Japanese soldiers doing a fake surrender, then arming mortar shells and throwing them at the Marines. By this time in the island-hopping campaign, the unfortunate tendency of Japanese soldiers to commit perfidy (a war crime) in order to lure US troops in was well-known, and therefore surrenders were usually not accepted due to overwhelming caution on the part of US troops (however, refusing to accept a surrender is itself a war crime, so there's blame to go around). In all likelihood, the Japanese soldiers would have been shot on sight.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_5670cddb	type	Troubled Backstory Flashback
Hacksaw Ridge / int_5670cddb	comment	Troubled Backstory Flashback: The traumatic incident where Desmond points a gun at his father is explored in two flashback scenes.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_57d31ad5	type	Determined Doctor
Hacksaw Ridge / int_57d31ad5	comment	Determined Doctor: Doss was resolved to save as many lives as he could, even if there's just a remote chance of helping them, until he either collapsed or died trying.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Hacksaw Ridge / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Desmond's father would sometimes be physically abusive to Desmond's mother.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_5cd5841	type	Satchel Charge
Hacksaw Ridge / int_5cd5841	comment	Satchel Charge: US M37 Satchel charges are used to clear out Japanese bunkers, tunnels, and surface defenses during the fight to take the titular ridge. When used alongside flamethrowers, they prove to be very efficient at wiping out huge swathes of hiding Japanese soldiers.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_5d397b9c	type	The Mountains of Illinois
Hacksaw Ridge / int_5d397b9c	comment	The Mountains of Illinois: There are no mountains visible from Fort Jackson, S.C.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
Hacksaw Ridge / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: The Americans use flamethrowers, and there are several shots of men in flames running about as well as scenes showing still-burning corpses.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_5fff364d	type	Combat Medic
Hacksaw Ridge / int_5fff364d	comment	Combat Medic: Doss joined the army for this, as despite his religious convictions in regards to killing he did believe the war was justified. However, the army's job description and his personal belief eventually clashed and led to his court-martial. He eventually fits more in the role as The Medic.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Hacksaw Ridge / int_6163afd9	comment	While lowering men down the ridge, a Japanese soldier had Doss in his sights several times, and every time he did, his gun jammed, preventing him from shooting him. This was also omitted amidst fears of unbelievability.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Hacksaw Ridge / int_6375f746	comment	Howell is just a guy doing his job who doesn't think a guy who doesn't want to even touch a gun should be allowed into a combat zone where other soldiers will be forced to rely on him. He comes to respect Doss after he takes a vicious beating from his squadmates but still refuses to quit and later during their time in combat together.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Hacksaw Ridge / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Smitty tells Desmond that his mother left him at an orphanage as a child and he's never seen her since.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Hacksaw Ridge / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Jerks they may be, the men in the army are right that a battlefield isn't the best place for a pacifist.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Hacksaw Ridge / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When Doss makes a double-loop knot at basic training, Howell mocks it by saying he's supposed to be "tying a bowline, not building a bra". Doss jokingly repeats it back to Howell as he uses the same loop to lower Howell down the ridge to safety.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_6c22a57b	type	Jumping on a Grenade
Hacksaw Ridge / int_6c22a57b	comment	Jumping on a Grenade: One American soldier contains a grenade's blast by forcing an enemy soldier to jump on one. Another protects his company by trapping a grenade between the enemy and himself, though he doesn't die and is recovered by Doss later.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_767caf1f	type	Multiple Demographic Appeal
Hacksaw Ridge / int_767caf1f	comment	Multiple Demographic Appeal: The first act centers around the love story between Desmond and Dorothy which clearly caters to the female audience while the second and third act are depicting the brutal reality of war which is more appealing to the male audience.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_7860d036	type	Get It Over With
Hacksaw Ridge / int_7860d036	comment	Get It Over With: In his Troubled Backstory Flashback, we see Desmond pointing a gun at his drunk father who begs him to pull the trigger.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_78629e9c	type	Badass Pacifist
Hacksaw Ridge / int_78629e9c	comment	Badass Pacifist: Doss, a conscientious objector who ends up saving 75 of his comrades during one of the most ferocious battles of the Pacific War as a combat medic. Without firing a single bullet.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Hacksaw Ridge / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: This is Doss's raison d'être after the first battle. Resolved to save as many lives as he can before either collapsing from exhaustion or dying, he continuously pushes on regardless of his own safety. When he's finally forced to flee, he takes Smitty's body with him.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
Hacksaw Ridge / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: Surprisingly averted. The attention given to Dorothy's bible opened up the possibility for it to play a larger role in saving Desmond's life but it didn't come to be.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Hacksaw Ridge / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Desmond's father is this, having witnessed horrors during the Great War. The soldiers who Desmond's unit is sent to reinforce, who've already spent a while trying to take Hacksaw Ridge, tend to have Thousand-Yard Stare's and display a good deal of cynicism.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
Hacksaw Ridge / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: The Japanese soldiers use their bayonets to make sure their enemies are really dead.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_7e1eccce	type	Orbital Kiss
Hacksaw Ridge / int_7e1eccce	comment	Orbital Kiss: Downplayed. When Desmond and Dorothy kiss on the mountain top, the camera does a 180° turn around them.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Hacksaw Ridge / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Desmond's father is a slave to the bottle.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Hacksaw Ridge / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The film begins with Desmond being carried on a gurney. Then, the scene cuts to him as a child.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Hacksaw Ridge / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: When Smitty and Doss are talking in the bombed-out crater and developing a lot of respect for each other, Smitty admits that he can be an asshole sometimes. Doss replies "sometimes?" Smitty can't help but laugh.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_823ac765	type	Blind Alley
Hacksaw Ridge / int_823ac765	comment	Blind Alley: Hiding behind a dead corner in the tunnel, Desmond successfully evades capture by the Japanese.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Hacksaw Ridge / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Howell as any self-respecting military hardass needs to be.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Hacksaw Ridge / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Smitty Ryker wields a M1918A2 BAR with lethal effect, mowing down dozens of Japanese soldiers.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Hacksaw Ridge / int_85557b38	comment	There are also the events covered above under Reality Is Unrealistic which were left out as Mel Gibson felt the audience wouldn't believe them as part of a true story.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_8a2d8868	type	Not Afraid to Die
Hacksaw Ridge / int_8a2d8868	comment	Not Afraid to Die: Even before setting foot anywhere near Hacksaw Ridge, Desmond is fully prepared to give his life for his country and the men he served alongside with, exemplified by the fact that he was willing and daring to die unarmed.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_8cb4b589	type	Symbolic Baptism
Hacksaw Ridge / int_8cb4b589	comment	Doss' shower after his long night on Hacksaw Ridge looks like a bucket of water baptizing him, as water and blood flow down, the same as flowed out of Jesus on the cross.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_9059bd5d	type	Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Hacksaw Ridge / int_9059bd5d	comment	Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Desmond's Oh, Crap! moment when bumping into a hanged Japanese in the tunnel system underneath the battlefield.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Hacksaw Ridge / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Ghoul is thought to be dead after he's found unmoving after his abortive assault on the Japanese bunker, and then after he's revealed to have survived that and gets wounded during the Japanese counteattack. He shows up alive and well in the background when Desmond is being thanked by the soldiers after rescuing Sergeant Howell.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_92d6110b	type	Grenade Hot Potato
Hacksaw Ridge / int_92d6110b	comment	Grenade Hot Potato: During the Japanese fake surrender scene, Doss sees two Japanese hand grenades coming and smacks one away with his palm and kicks the other away, but one ends up wounding him.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_94c1e2f7	type	Grave-Marking Scene
Hacksaw Ridge / int_94c1e2f7	comment	Grave-Marking Scene: After Desmond enlists, he confronts his father about his decision at the cemetery where his father's three best friends are buried, all killed in the battlefields in France during the Great War. Thomas revels over the anguish he's faced in the wake of their deaths, and does not wish to face the same with his sons.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Hacksaw Ridge / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: One American soldier pukes on-screen.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Hacksaw Ridge / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The second half of the movie focuses on the brutality of war, but also includes a quiet night when Doss and Smitty bond.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_9710c9a7	type	Biopic
Hacksaw Ridge / int_9710c9a7	comment	Biopic: Of Badass Pacifist Desmond T. Doss.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
Hacksaw Ridge / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: Doss not only refuses to name the men in his unit who beat him during the night, but he goes a step further by denying he was even beaten at all, saying to an astonished Howell, "I sleep pretty hard".
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Hacksaw Ridge / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Desmond gets his strong faith from his mother. The reason he starts his belief on never holding a gun is because of his actions trying to protect her mother from his father.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Hacksaw Ridge / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The American reaction to the Japanese launching a massive counterattack.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Hacksaw Ridge / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Andy "Ghoul" Walker. In the first assault on Hacksaw, he gets blown away by a mortar round and comes off with a head bump. Later, he gets wounded again in the Japanese counter-attack. Despite that, he still is present in the final assault on Hacksaw at the end of the film.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Hacksaw Ridge / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Several of Desmond's fellow soldiers, as the battle rages on, but Sergeant Howell and Smitty stand out. Desmond also qualifies in his own way, rescuing dozens of soldiers on his own.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_a0bfddf0	type	Real Men Eat Meat
Hacksaw Ridge / int_a0bfddf0	comment	Real Men Eat Meat: Averted. Doss is a vegetarian. Smitty only responds that "of course he is".
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Hacksaw Ridge / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Sergeant Howell is clearly shocked when seeing the beating Doss received from the other men in his unit, and knows a lot of the blame is on him since he'd been repeatedly telling the men they couldn't rely on Doss to help them in combat, and punishing the entire unit for Doss refusing to pick up a rifle or work on Saturdays. Situations like this are the very reason why it is now strictly forbidden to punish an entire unit for the actions of one member. In flashback, Desmond has a genuine look of horror on his face when he points a gun at his father and Thomas Doss breaks down in self-loathing tears.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_a6a6de9a	type	Humble Hero
Hacksaw Ridge / int_a6a6de9a	comment	Humble Hero: Doss never thinks of himself as anything more than a regular soldier and medic just trying to do his duty. As the epilogue shows, this was very much truth in television as the real Doss would dismiss any claims that he was a hero by saying the real heroes were the ones who didn't make it back and claiming the feeling of helping a soldier who thought he'd been blinded would've been more than enough.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Hacksaw Ridge / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Desmond falls for Dorothy the first moment he sees her.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_a90eaeaa	type	Shell-Shock Silence
Hacksaw Ridge / int_a90eaeaa	comment	Shell-Shock Silence: Desmond has such a moment at his first visit to the hospital when all voices around him drown out as he is looking around the busy emergency room.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Hacksaw Ridge / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: After Doss' first date with Dorothy, he kisses her without consent, resulting in a smack. While it does show that even she found it creepy and unsettling and was ultimately quick to dismiss it, his actions do show how differently they treated things like this back in the 1940s. Given the time period, the racial slur for Japanese people, "Japs", is used quite frequently.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_aaf19fae	type	Doesn't Like Guns
Hacksaw Ridge / int_aaf19fae	comment	Doesn't Like Guns: Desmond's become basically allergic to guns as a result of his traumatic confrontation with his dad when trying to protect his mom.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_ab3c178e	type	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer
Hacksaw Ridge / int_ab3c178e	comment	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer: Played literally when a private calls Captain Glover to make him aware of 'Hollywood' and other injured having returned from the battlefield via Doss' hands.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Hacksaw Ridge / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: During his excursion in the Japanese tunnel system, Doss ends up face to face with a wounded Japanese soldier. After a moment of registration, Doss simply applies first-aid onto the enemy soldier despite knowing full well what the Japanese could do if they found him. Also noted is that the Americans picking up the wounded that were lowered down from Hacksaw Ridge mentioned that Doss not only lowered down their fellow soldiers, but wounded Japanese as well.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Hacksaw Ridge / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Sergeant Howell makes fun of Doss's double-loop knot, but Doss later uses this knot to help lower wounded soldiers off Hacksaw Ridge... including Sergeant Howell.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Hacksaw Ridge / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Doss has this moment while he's pulling wounded off the battlefield after the other troops have pulled back. The Navy ends its bombardment because there are still soldiers on the ridge, but for Doss, the explosions were the primary things forcing the Japanese soldiers to keep their heads down and the dust and smoke raised by them kept him from being seen.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_ae254ead	type	Narrating the Obvious
Hacksaw Ridge / int_ae254ead	comment	Narrating the Obvious: Just so the audience knows what going on, Desmond says out loud "We just lost our cover." when the Navy ends its bombardment of the battlefield.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Hacksaw Ridge / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: When he isn't shouting, Howell is very fond of directing stinging insults at his men. Captain Glover is similarly dry and witty.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Hacksaw Ridge / int_b11ac9f5	comment	And while it may not have completely cleaned him of his sins, Doss' father coming to his defense with a letter exonerating Doss from the court-martial.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_b26477dc	type	Reactive Continuous Scream
Hacksaw Ridge / int_b26477dc	comment	Reactive Continuous Scream: The first day on the ridge, the unit's cover is blown when a "corpse" sits up and screams, causing the soldier facing him to scream as well. This goes on for a couple of seconds until both are killed by enemy gunfire.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Hacksaw Ridge / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Some scenes have soldiers firing their guns a lot longer than typical. Most notably with Smitty and his BAR and Sergeant Howell with his M3 "Grease Gun".
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_b3ee69	type	Kiss-Kiss-Slap
Hacksaw Ridge / int_b3ee69	comment	Kiss-Kiss-Slap: Desmond kissing Dorothy without her consent—yet also without much resistance—lands him a slap afterwards.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Hacksaw Ridge / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The film ends with video and photos explaining what happened to Desmond after Hacksaw, along with clips from interviews with the real-life Desmond, his brother Hal, and Captain Jack Glover. Desmond was later awarded the Medal of Honor by Harry S. Truman for his courageous actions at Hacksaw Ridge, was married to Dorothy until her death in 1991, and passed away in 2006 at the age of 87.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
Hacksaw Ridge / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Sergeant Howell's reaction twice to Doss using a M1 rifle to make a makeshift stretcher and to Doss using a double-loop knot (which Howell had mocked during training) to lower him from the top of the ridge.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
Hacksaw Ridge / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: The Iowa-class battleship supporting the troops offshore counts, as it saves Doss from getting assaulted by the Japanese at a critical point in the battle.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
Hacksaw Ridge / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: Some events have been time-compressed. Desmond was not actually wounded and evacuated in a daylight assault at Hacksaw Ridge. He was wounded a couple of weeks later in the Okinawa Campaign. In reality, Desmond's bible went missing as he dragged himself to safety. Months after he was shipped home, he found it in the mail; his entire company, who once mocked him for his convictions, searched up and down Hacksaw until they found it.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_becbd1d4	type	Jungle Warfare
Hacksaw Ridge / int_becbd1d4	comment	Jungle Warfare: Averted. The US Navy and Army have ensured that any thick vegetation that was on the ridge was destroyed. It doesn't mean that taking the ridge is any easier though, as the Japanese simply dug fortifications underground.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Hacksaw Ridge / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: The army is not inherently wrong for being anxious about having a soldier who doesn't want to kill anyone, or even touch a weapon. But Doss, who believes that it would be wrong for him to not be a medic on the battlefield, feels that doing so would violate his religious beliefs, and it's noted that forcing him to do so would violate the same constitutional rights they are fighting for. From a practical perspective, Doss' refusal to carry a weapon does nothing to impede him in carrying out his duty as The Medic, and several scenes make it abundantly clear that if it weren't for his armed comrades he would have died on Hacksaw Ridge. His rescue of Sergeant Howell is the clearest example of this: Howell kills a sniper that nearly blew Doss' head off and kept him from getting to the sergeant, then provides essential covering fire while Doss hauls him to the cliff, killing several Japanese soldiers that would otherwise have shot Doss in the back.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: A pacifist soldier ends up saving the lives of over 75 soldiers, even after being branded as a coward and even beaten by many of them.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: A lot of people take this, and we see the results that aren't Pretty Little Headshots.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Hacksaw Ridge / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Desmond is a sweet-natured, humble and sincere young man who even hardass soldiers like Smitty come to like.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
Hacksaw Ridge / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Hero: Thomas Doss was a decorated WWI veteran who fought in Lys and Belleau Wood, but by the time of the film, he's reduced to an abusive Lower-Class Lout drunkard of a father and husband. However, Tom is still a sympathetic character as his trauma from his service is what turned him into the way he is and hates himself for his abusive behavior.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_c78d3e08	type	Seppuku
Hacksaw Ridge / int_c78d3e08	comment	Seppuku: The closing scenes of the battle on the ridge show the Japanese commanders going through this to show that, this time, they really have been defeated.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
Hacksaw Ridge / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Sergeant Howell during the start of boot camp assigns several nicknames, a few stick like 'Ghoul' and 'Hollywood'. Desmond also earns the name 'Cornstalk'.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Hacksaw Ridge / int_c9868780	comment	Playing Possum: Desmond plays dead on the battlefield in order to avoid being detected and killed by the enemy forces. Many of the other soldiers on the battlefield are also doing this, although some are caught and killed before Desmond can reach them.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
Hacksaw Ridge / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Doss's dedication to saving people comes from his religious belief, so the movie frames him as a Christ figure. This is a favorite trope of Mel Gibson's, and he employs a lot of Christological imagery. Doss is initially persecuted by those he later saves. Doss' shower after his long night on Hacksaw Ridge looks like a bucket of water baptizing him, as water and blood flow down, the same as flowed out of Jesus on the cross. After his second day at Hacksaw Ridge when he is med-evac'ed, Doss' trip down on a gurney is shot as though he was ascending into heaven.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_cf9b131f	type	Muscles Are Meaningless
Hacksaw Ridge / int_cf9b131f	comment	Muscles Are Meaningless: Doss' skinny frame, which earns him the nickname "private cornstock" from Howell, doesn't stop him from lifting and hoisting grown men and running them across the battlefield. The footage at the end shows the real Doss was similarly built.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Hacksaw Ridge / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Desmond's father may be a physically abusive alcoholic, but one can't help but feel sorry for him as more of his past is seen. He served in the Great War, in which he bore witness to seeing his best friends killed and now feels he's the only one who seems to bother remembering them. He's not abusive towards his family just for the sake of it and he clearly does love them, it's just that he's in so much pain inside that he can't help being what he is.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_d563a53c	type	Batman Grabs a Gun
Hacksaw Ridge / int_d563a53c	comment	Batman Grabs a Gun: Towards the end, Doss is seen picking up a M1 rifle. It's ultimately subverted as he still stays true to his "Thou Shalt Not Kill" belief and is instead using the rifle as a grip for a makeshift stretcher to evacuate Sergeant Howell.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_d7e68c39	type	Bulletproof Human Shield
Hacksaw Ridge / int_d7e68c39	comment	Bulletproof Human Shield: Smitty uses a rather gruesomely mangled corpse of an American soldier as a shield while charging the enemy.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
Hacksaw Ridge / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: As covered under Gorn, and being in a battle as bloody as the one from Saving Private Ryan, both the struggles and post-struggle battlefields are a messy shower of dismembered bodies.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_db4b76d1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Hacksaw Ridge / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Captain Glover delivers one for his company in the final assault attempt at Hacksaw.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_dce640ce	type	Real-Person Epilogue
Hacksaw Ridge / int_dce640ce	comment	Real-Person Epilogue: The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue starts off with black & white footage of the real war hero Desmond Thomas Doss as he receives the Medal of Honor. We also get to see his wife Dorothy.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_dcf1e0e2	comment	Punch a Wall: While incarcerated at Fort Jackson, Desmond finds himself backed into a corner, being treated like a coward, a traitor and now a criminal just because he WON'T kill, pushing him close enough to the breaking point that he dukes it out with a brick wall.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Captain Glover engages in some of this while calling for artillery support while in the middle of a Japanese counter-attack.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_df858e81	comment	Shoot the Medic First: As per the environment of the Pacific War, a fellow combat medic points out to Doss that the Japanese put a premium on medics, and he advises Doss to remove all medic markings while giving Doss a helmet without a cross.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_dfbf8667	comment	Right Under Their Noses: Doss has the idea to cover an injured comrade and himself with dirt to hide from incoming Japanese soldiers. The Japanese are revealed to have the entire ridge tunneled, allowing them to show up anywhere, and overrun the American lines at an extremely close range. While dodging enemy fire, Doss hides inside a Japanese tunnel, where he must dodge more enemy soldiers. In one corridor, patrols miss him because he uses the darkness to his advantage by standing in a corner facing the wall and possibly because the Japanese never expected an American inside said tunnel.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Hacksaw Ridge / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Some of the fellow soldiers Desmond and his troop encounter during their arrival at Hacksaw Ridge have this blank look on their faces due to the horrors they have witnessed. Eventually, Desmond's unit starts to sport it too.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Hacksaw Ridge / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: A number of events were changed or left out of the movie: The event of Desmond almost shooting his father after a fight with his mother. In real life the fight was between Desmond's father and his uncle, and his mother stepped in to take away the gun, getting Desmond to hide it. Desmond also had an older sister, Audrey, who was not portrayed in the film. Desmond didn't meet Dorothy while she was a nurse at a hospital. In fact, she didn't become a nurse until after the war. They met when she came to his church selling Adventist books. He also didn't miss their wedding by being put in a holding cell, as they were already married by that point. Desmond's prior combat at the Battle of Guam and the Battle of Leyte is skipped over, making it seem as if the Battle of Okinawa was his first combat experience. The assault on Hacksaw Ridge seems to only last a few days, although Desmond's Medal of Honor citation covers events over about 3 weeks, and the Battle of Okinawa itself lasted 82 days. There are also the events covered above under Reality Is Unrealistic which were left out as Mel Gibson felt the audience wouldn't believe them as part of a true story.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_e4e80f5f	type	Greater Need Than Mine
Hacksaw Ridge / int_e4e80f5f	comment	After being injured and taken off the battlefield, Doss actually rolled off the stretcher when he noticed a man more injured than him and demanded they take him instead. While they were gone, he was shot by a sniper, shattering his left arm, and he crawled 300 yards by himself in the hellfire of battle to safety. This was omitted because Gibson feared that nobody would believe that had happened.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Hacksaw Ridge / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Smitty Ryker resembles Richard Reiben from Saving Private Ryan. Both are athletically built BAR gunners with generally abrasive personalities and initially butt heads with the protagonist of the film until finally resolving their differences during the concluding battle of their respective films. Unlike Reiben however, Ryker does not survive the story.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Hacksaw Ridge / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: It's a film about World War II directed by Mel Gibson; this is to be expected. The battle sequences are drenched in horrific, bloody, realistic violence. People have their limbs blown off, intestines spilling out of their bodies, bodies exploding in bloody fashions, exposed nerves and bones and a decapitation. The camera does not look away from any of this. Also invoked by Thomas Doss when Desmond's brother, who has just enlisted, wears his uniform to the dinner table. Their father is quite disturbed, then tells his older son that he should hope to be shot in the chest, "A nice, clean entry wound," before telling them of one of the friends he lost in the last war, a handsome fellow who attracted plenty of girls in his Army greens, only to be killed by shrapnel that entered his back and exited the front, "Spilled his insides everywhere, ruined his uniform!" The elder Doss, now sobbing uncontrollably, tells his sons to get out of his sight.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Hacksaw Ridge / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Doss is not a conscientious objector. He's a conscientious cooperator.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Hacksaw Ridge / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Desmond of course saves the lives of his fellows as a medic. More surprising is when earlier in the film, during Desmond's trial, his father arrives with a letter from the Brigadier General that exonerates Desmond, saving Desmond from being court-martialed.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Hacksaw Ridge / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	As much of a Jerkass Smitty was during boot camp, even he felt that some of the other men attacking Doss in the middle of the night while he was sleeping was taking things too far.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_ef20d7bc	type	A Minor Kidroduction
Hacksaw Ridge / int_ef20d7bc	comment	A Minor Kidroduction: After the How We Got Here scene, Desmond (with his brother, Hal) is seen as a child a scene later.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Hacksaw Ridge / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Smitty dies in battle not long after he and Doss bond and move past their initial antagonism.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Hacksaw Ridge / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The film does not shy away from any of the gore and savagery that happens between the Japanese and the Americans in the fight for Hacksaw Ridge. Doss's father invokes this when both his sons sign up for active service, as Desmond's younger brother Harold enlisted in the Navy. Having survived the Great War, he naturally doesn't want them to go into battle only to suffer as he did, and tells them that whatever they might think of war, it's infinitely worse than they can possibly imagine.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_f2b365c1	comment	Libation for the Dead: Opens with Tom Doss pouring out some whiskey at the gravesite of his fallen comrades from World War I.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_f4a3140c	type	Survival Mantra
Hacksaw Ridge / int_f4a3140c	comment	Survival Mantra: Doss carries on through the night seeking out surviving wounded men and carrying them to the ridge by repeating "Please Lord, help me get one more."
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
Hacksaw Ridge / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: Doss does his very best to avert this.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Hacksaw Ridge / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: After going through absolute hell to rescue the 75 men, Doss earns the respect and admiration of his comrades and superiors and eventually gets back to the US where he lives a long happy life with Dorothy and their son Tommy on a small farm in northwestern Georgia, despite his injuries and the lingering effect of tuberculosis he contracted during the war. Desmond and Dorothy were together for just shy of 50 years, until her death in 1991. Desmond remarried Frances Duman in 1993, and remained with her until his death in 2006 at the age of 87.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_f740a274	type	Historical Beauty Update
Hacksaw Ridge / int_f740a274	comment	Historical Beauty Update: While certainly not bad looking, the real Doss wasn't quite as boyishly handsome as Andrew Garfield.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_fcacf08e	comment	The Lady's Favour: Before heading off to Basic Training, Dorothy gives Desmond a compact Bible with a picture of her inside. He loses it after he gets hit by a grenade, but his comrades manage to recover it from the battlefield and give it to him before he is shipped to a hospital.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: Desmond's father is hinted to have this, as he lost his three closest childhood friends on the battlefields in France during the First World War.
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Hacksaw Ridge / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Sergeant Howell, whose has been one of the many military personnel to give Desmond a hard time because of his nonviolent beliefs, is visibly disturbed at the beating Desmond took by some of the other men. And, for the first time, he gently tries to persuade Desmond to just pick up a gun. As much of a Jerkass Smitty was during boot camp, even he felt that some of the other men attacking Doss in the middle of the night while he was sleeping was taking things too far. Smitty offers one of his cigarettes to one of the soldiers who has been at Hacksaw Ridge longer and is traumatized by it. He also opens up to Doss when they share a hole together and comes to respect him.
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