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North Sea Hijack
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North Sea Hijack is a 1979 British action thriller film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. It is based on the novel Esther, Ruth and Jennifer by Jack Davies. The film has been re-issued under several other titles: North Sea Hijack was the original British title, but the film was issued internationally as ffolkes and later shown on TV as Assault Force. Trailers for the original U.S. theatrical release included the tagline "He doesn't need a licence to kill", referring to Roger Moore's most famous role, though the role he plays here is vastly different.Roger Moore portrays Rufus Excalibur ffolkes (yes, with two lower case f's; it's still pronounced "folks"), an eccentric veteran of the Royal Navy turned freelance counter-terrorism consultant who specializes in amphibious missions and trains a commando of frogmen. When terrorists seize two oil platforms and a cargo in the North Sea, ffolkes and his team are recruited by Royal Navy Admiral Brindsen (James Mason) to come up with an anti-terrorist assault plan. The terrorist group is led by a man calling himself Lou Kramer (Anthony Perkins), who demands a ransom in exchange for not blowing up the platforms and the cargo within 24 hours. The rest of the film follows ffolkes's plan coming into fruition step by step. | |
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Retired Badass | |
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Retired Badass: ffolkes was a Royal Navy commando being going freelance and becoming more of a consultant, although still very much involved in the field. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Prime Minister is a woman. Not surprising, given who was Prime Minister at the time. | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect: A shot of the Victoria Tower, one of the Palace of Westminster's Clock Tower with its trademark chime then one of 10 Downing Street is all the viewer needs to figure the crisis cabinet of the Prime Minister takes place in London. | |
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all lowercase letters: "ffolkes" doesn't start with a capital letter. | |
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Cute Kitten | |
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Cute Kitten: The UK government knows that medals don't impress ffolkes, so they award him with three kittens (named Ruth, Esther and Jennifer to commemorate the mission) instead. They give the desired impression. | |
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Tampering with Food and Drink | |
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Tampering with Food and Drink: The crew of Esther attempts to poison the terrorists with tampered food and coffee using colchicine. Unfortunately, Kramer catches wise and force-pours the whole kettle of tainted coffee down the cook's throat then throws him overboard. Sanna manages to stay alive by feigning to fall overboard and hiding in a lifeboat. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Kramer. He seems to spend most of his time insulting people, killing them, or screaming. | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: After the battle is over, ffolkes orders his men to get rid of the last surviving hijacker. Given his "leave no survivors" approach, one can imagine what this means for the mook. | |
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Harpoon Gun | |
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Unfortunately the gear included a bright vermilion diving suit, which results in one of ffolkes' own men mistaking him for an enemy. In order to save his own life, ffolkes has to throw the man overboard. Unfortunately, he was the one who was supposed to set off stun grenades at the last moment, so ffolkes has to shoot Kramer himself with a Harpoon Gun. | |
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Impeded Communication | |
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Impeded Communication: ffolkes' plan relies (in part) on carefully-timed radio communications with the hijackers. However, at one point the radio just doesn't work for several moments, temporarily throwing yet another wrench into the rescue plan. | |
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Demolitions Expert | |
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Demolitions Expert: Kramer's Number Two, Harold Shulman, conceived the bombs they attached to Ruth and Jennifer. | |
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Kindhearted Cat Lover | |
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Kindhearted Cat Lover: ffolkes, minus the "Kindhearted" part. | |
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"Die Hard" on an X | |
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"Die Hard" on an X: Seemingly a precursor to the genre, with terrorists hijacking an oil platform, beating Die Hard by nearly a decade. A variation in that a lot of the plot's run time goes into all sides trying to outsmart each other. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: One of the steps of ffolkes' strategy to buy more time is to have a gigantic gasoline explosion go off and pretend the Ruth rig was destroyed by a failure to defuse the bombs attached to it (the rig is so far away and past the horizon that it can't be seen from the Esther) and thus Kramer won't blow it up. Kramer buys the destruction but he still reaches for the detonator at the appointed time (he explicitly says "at this time I would have been doing this anyway") and it's only other things happening and drawing his attention that prevents things from becoming much worse. | |
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Preppy Name | |
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Preppy Name: Rufus Excalibur ffolkes, not to mention badass. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Even though ffolkes dislikes women, he still has some more polite moments towards them. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Harris, ffolkes' second-in-command, is the target of endless critisism and sarcastic comments throughout the film, and during the final confrontation gets tossed over the side of the boat. | |
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Thanks for the Mammary | |
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Thanks for the Mammary: ffolkes mistakes Sanna for a boy when they initially meet. He later realizes that Sanna really is a woman when he grabs her chest while he is making her warm. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Lloyds of London, which insures the North Sea oil platforms, hires ffolkes and his team to prepare a contingency plan just in case some one hijacks an oil rig. And sure enough... | |
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Suddenly Shouting | |
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Suddenly Shouting: Kramer lapses into this more and more as the film progresses. An especially noteworthy example occurs when he figures out that the sailors on the Esther were trying to poison him and his gang. | |
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Spanner in the Works | |
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Spanner in the Works: The plan to take out the terrorists originally included ffolkes being on board the Esther (disguised as an aide of the negotiating Admiral) with a concealed pistol (they would ask to use the ship's radio at a certain time, which would put ffolkes right on the ship's cabin at the time of the raid). The problem then became that Kramer caught Hate at First Sight of ffolkes and ordered him off the boat immediately, necessitating ffolkes' swim back to the Esther with gear facilitated from the rig so he could be part of his team's assault. Unfortunately the gear included a bright vermilion diving suit, which results in one of ffolkes' own men mistaking him for an enemy. In order to save his own life, ffolkes has to throw the man overboard. Unfortunately, he was the one who was supposed to set off stun grenades at the last moment, so ffolkes has to shoot Kramer himself with a Harpoon Gun. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Rufus Excalibur ffolkes is probably the most misogynist man alive in the whole of Great Britain (or pretty damn close) and full of Brutal Honesty, but he is a masterful strategist that has trained the best amphibious tactical assault team in the United Kingdom, if not the world. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: When ffolkes comes aboard Esther as Admiral Brinsden's Flag Lieutenant, he just cannot control himself in this regard; Kramer's reaction is to send him back to the Jennifer drilling platform, temporarily thwarting ffolkes' plans, and later (over the phone) telling him "That look in your eyes is still bothering me..." | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty: ffolkes' Establishing Character Moment in the film is him giving his team a harsh dress-down for being inefficient on their training... and then making them run the same underwater course again while he's dropping grenades in the water to encourage them into swimming faster. | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Kramer easily snaps and screams at people. | |
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Thrown from the Zeppelin | |
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Thrown from the Zeppelin: Herring is killed after he decides to not to go with Kramer's plan. | |
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Private Military Contractors | |
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Admiral Brindsen follows every single advice of ffolkes in his handling of the crisis despite not being very keen on using "civilians" (rather Private Military Contractors — and ex-Navy all of them) as commando to put a stop to Kramer's blackmail. | |
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Godzilla Threshold | |
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ffolkes also begrudgingly expresses a little respect for the (female) prime minister. On her end there is also no love lost with ffolkes and his rudeness, but when she is told that ffolks' Godzilla Threshold plan for taking out the terrorists if all else fails is to blow the whole ship up with him still on it, she wishes him Godspeed and admits that is a very brave act. | |
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The Strategist | |
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The Strategist: ffolkes is an expert in counter-terrorism and knows exactly what kind of plan must be elaborated to stop Lou Kramer's blackmail operation. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: When ffolkes attempts to infiltrate the ship, Kramer sees him, tells him "I don't like your face," and orders him off. At the end, after ffolkes has thwarted his plan and mortally wounded Kramer he repeats the sentence almost verbatim to ffolkes. | |
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Hate at First Sight | |
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The plan to take out the terrorists originally included ffolkes being on board the Esther (disguised as an aide of the negotiating Admiral) with a concealed pistol (they would ask to use the ship's radio at a certain time, which would put ffolkes right on the ship's cabin at the time of the raid). The problem then became that Kramer caught Hate at First Sight of ffolkes and ordered him off the boat immediately, necessitating ffolkes' swim back to the Esther with gear facilitated from the rig so he could be part of his team's assault. | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity: Surprisingly averted. ffolkes plans to infiltrate the hijackers commandeered ship and attack them within by flying over with Admiral Brindsen and posing as his aide. The instant Kramer sees ffolkes, he distrusts him and orders him off the ship, leaving ffolkes having to scramble for an alternate plan. | |
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Real Men Wear Pink | |
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Real Men Wear Pink: ffolkes does does needlepoint embroidery to pass away time. It has kittens on it, unsurprisingly. Nearly invoked via the red scuba suit ffolkes dons for the final assault. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: ffolkes always has a bottle of scotch at hand and says it should only ever be drank "neat". | |
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Pistol Pose | |
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Pistol Pose: ffolkes on one of the posters. | |
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Nerd Glasses | |
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Nerd Glasses: Worn by Harold, the terrorists' bomb expert and Kramer's Number Two. | |
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This Is No Time for Knitting | |
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This Is No Time for Knitting: Said almost word for word by Ruth's secretary when she sees ffolkes is doing his embroidery to pass the time. ffolkes explains that, considering that an important part of the plan is to drive Kramer crazy by pretending to be following his demands at a painfully slow pace, then yeah, it actually is a good time for knitting. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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He was not originally part of the underwater assault team, so when plan A failed, he had to get a wetsuit from the oil platform's own stock. Vermillion was the only color available. note Truth in Television; dive suits for rescue operations or maintenance work are supposed to be highly visible for safety reasons. | |
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Badass Crew | |
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Badass Crew: ffolkes' frogmen might lack of personality, but they're perfectly trained for the job. | |
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Spell My Name with an S | |
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Spell My Name with an S: Kramer's first name is not given in the credits or on IMDB. It's "Lou" on most web pages, and "Lew" in the DVD subtitles. And at one point in the film (in-universe) his last name is incorrect on some paperwork. | |
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Team Title: One of the many market-based titles the film was released as outside the UK was Assault Force. | |
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Resentful Outnumbered Sibling: ffolkes grew up with five older sisters and had to wear their hand-me-downs. This, coupled with a marriage, contributed to his dislike of women. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Along with Thrown from the Zeppelin, and perhaps mixed with He Knows Too Much and You Have Failed Me. Herring (Kramer's mole who spied on the Esther crew and pretended to be on their side) wants to leave Esther on the same helicopter as ffolkes, both because he can't handle being seasick anymore and because he wants no more in the operation, even leaving his part of the ransom to the others. Harold shoots him for his trouble as the helicopter takes off. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Kramer degenerates from a collected (if rude and obnoxious) criminal mastermind to a shrieking maniac as the film progresses. Of course, that was part of ffolkes' strategy all along. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Lou Kramer, the obnoxious, Ax-Crazy leader of the hijackers. | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender: Inverted twice. When the crew of Esther attempt to poison the hijackers, Kramer doesn't hesitate to have a woman thrown over the side. With an opportunity to evacuate a few of the civilians from Jennifer it is suggested that they take the women off first. ffolkes disagrees, noting that they sought the same pay as the men and should share the same risks, and orders that they evacuate the youngest first, regardless of sex. | |
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He-Man Woman Hater | |
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He-Man Woman Hater: ffolkes. After he heard that the gentlemen club he is part of started taking female members, he resigned from it immediately. That being said, he recognizes the valor of some women like the Prime Minister and Sanna. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: The three named locations (the supply ship Esther, the drilling platform Jennifer, and the drilling rig Ruth) are mentioned as a trio many times during the film. | |
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Bomb Whistle | |
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Bomb Whistle: The usual inaccurate depiction, with the bomb falling towards the target but with the whistle decreasing in pitch rather than increasing. | |
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Instant Death Bullet | |
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Instant Death Bullet: The first crewman shot by the hijackers is dead before he hits the deck. ffolkes' men shoot two harpoons at Harold. He dies instantly after the second one as he was trying to push the explosives' button. Averted with Kramer, who's mortally wounded by ffolkes with a harpoon in the stomach but dies a few minutes later, attempting to activate the detonator (ffolkes spots him, pushes his hand away and disarms the detonator). | |
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Ruthless Modern Pirates | |
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Ruthless Modern Pirates: Lou Kramer and his gang who commandeer the oil platform are essentially pirates, and very ruthless. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Even Lou Kramer jumps in shock at the (faked) explosion of the Ruth oil rig and when he tries to continue talking to the officer in charge on Jennifer (who hung up, on ffolkes' orders) he says that he understands why the man did that, and frankly can't blame him. ffolkes is a pretty big misogynist, but when he finds out that the "cabin boy" that just saved his ass is actually a woman, he doesn't takes back his gratitude. ffolkes also begrudgingly expresses a little respect for the (female) prime minister. On her end there is also no love lost with ffolkes and his rudeness, but when she is told that ffolks' Godzilla Threshold plan for taking out the terrorists if all else fails is to blow the whole ship up with him still on it, she wishes him Godspeed and admits that is a very brave act. | |
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Make an Example of Them | |
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Make an Example of Them: Herring loses his nerve and asks to leave, giving up his share; Kramer shoots him instead. | |
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The Spartan Way | |
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The Spartan Way: The introductory scene has ffolkes using live hand grenades in a training exercise. | |
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Dangerous Windows | |
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Dangerous Windows: Kramer and Harold are shot with harpoons through windows. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: The reason why ffolkes dislikes women so much? He was forced to wear girls clothes until he was ten. Among other things (ironically, he later mistakes a female crew member, dressed in manly clothes, for a boy). | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: We never learn Lou Kramer, Harold Schulman, or the rest of the hijackers real names. Kramer tells the interested parties immediately after the hijacking that he's operating under a name that he randomly chose from a phonebook. | |
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Protagonist Title | |
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Protagonist Title: The film was released as ffolkes outside the UK. | |
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Death by Childbirth | |
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Death by Childbirth: Both ffolkes's parents died upon his birth. It is not elaborated further as to just how his father managed to die at the same time. | |
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Western Terrorists | |
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Western Terrorists: The hijackers. Their leader Lou Kramer doesn't like to be called as such, as he claims to do it for money rather than any ideology. | |
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Highly-Visible Ninja | |
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Highly-Visible Ninja: During the final assault, while the rest of his team wear black diving outfits - the better to not be seen at night, ffolkes is saddled with a bright vermillion suit instead, making him stand out like a sore thumb to any mook with functional eyes (of course, most of the mooks in this film lack this, apparently). He was not originally part of the underwater assault team, so when plan A failed, he had to get a wetsuit from the oil platform's own stock. Vermillion was the only color available. note Truth in Television; dive suits for rescue operations or maintenance work are supposed to be highly visible for safety reasons. Possibly lampshaded when one of ffolkes' own men mistakes him for an enemy. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: The Prime Minister. Even ffolkes recognizes she has guts. Admiral Brindsen follows every single advice of ffolkes in his handling of the crisis despite not being very keen on using "civilians" (rather Private Military Contractors — and ex-Navy all of them) as commando to put a stop to Kramer's blackmail. Inverted with ffolkes himself, who seems to be quite harsh with his own men. | |
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Everything's Louder with Bagpipes | |
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Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: A bagpiper is present when ffolkes is awarded for his deeds in the end. | |
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Cigarette of Anxiety | |
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Cigarette of Anxiety: King's secretary Sarah, with the adamantly non-smoking ffolkes. | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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Not Quite Dead: After he's been shot, Kramer reveals he's still alive, albeit mortally wounded. He makes one last attempt to reach the detonator but ffolkes pulls it away from his fingers and Kramer then expires. | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
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We Need a Distraction: The bomb Kramer's crew put on both oil rigs and Esther have hefty counter-tampering measures and it's pretty obvious that they can't be disarmed in time — so ffolkes' plan? Have the Royal Navy set off a massive explosion to make the terrorists believe that Ruth blew up sky-high because of some accident while trying to defuse the bomb and thus buy time for the specialists. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Herring is taken captive with the crew of Esther and imprisoned with them but he's actually one of the hijackers. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Kramer's not Affably Evil or Faux Affably Evil in the slightest. He insults the captain, mocks his Norwegian accent, makes several bad jokes about his victims, and routinely screams at people. The only time he expresses any amount of humanity is when he is shocked when one of the oil platforms appears to explode and says he understands why the admiral hung up on him. | |
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Trial by Friendly Fire | |
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Trial by Friendly Fire: As a contingency, ffolkes orders an air strike, to be cancelled by a prearranged signal, that would defeat the hijacker's plans - knowing that he (as well as a British officer and the innocent hostages) would be on site as well. Naturally, the cancellation signal appears just in the nick of time. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: One of Kramer's men attempts to rape Sanna, but is interrupted by Captain Olafsen. | |
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Name and Name | |
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Name and Name: The original novel Esther, Ruth and Jennifer. It refers to the names of the supply ship, oil rig and the oil platform. They're also the names of the kittens ffolkes is rewarded with at the end. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The generally authentic feel of the setting is the result of Jack Davies, writer of the novel and the screenplay, spending two years researching the North Sea oil industry. | |
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