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Plane

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Plane	label	Plane
Plane	page	Plane
Plane	comment	Plane is a 2023 action thriller movie directed by Jean-François Richet and starring Gerard Butler and Mike Colter.On New Year's Eve, a passenger plane piloted by Brodie Torrance (Butler) makes an emergency landing after sustaining critical damage in a storm. It's later revealed that the island they landed on is Jolo, a remote area in the Philippines ruled by anti-government militias. The passengers are quickly taken hostage by a local militia leader, with the intent of securing ransom from the passengers' families. While a rescue team struggles to close in on the passengers' location, Brodie must now team up with convicted murderer Louis Gaspare (Colter), one of the passengers he was tasked with transporting, to save the passengers and escape the island.No relation to Planes.Previews: Official Trailer, Final Trailer
Plane	fetched	2023-11-06T15:31:41Z
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Plane / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Plane / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Junmar and his militants are likely inspired by Abu Sayyaf, a Jihadist terrorist and pirate group operating on Jolo who kidnapped foreign tourists through the 2010s and held them for ransom.
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Plane / int_1762455b	type	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing
Plane / int_1762455b	comment	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: At the start of the film, Brodie meets his first-time copilot, who's a newbie Brodie's never heard of. Despite the Genre Savvy implications of a new unknown copilot on the same flight as an international fugitive, nothing comes of it: copilot Dele is always helpful to Brodie and protective of the passengers.
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Plane / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Plane / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: When landing the plane in the forest, Brodie is not able to dump one of the fuel tanks due to equipment failure. Brodie and the passengers are only able to escape the island later because that tank still had fuel.
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Plane / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Plane / int_2a090d00	comment	Despite the complete power failure, the pilots hear the Ground Proximity Warning System announcement. This gets a Lampshade Hanging from Captain Torrance but makes no sense given the other problems the plane apparently has.
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Plane / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Plane / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Trailblazer Airlines. Given the subject matter, not a surprise.
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Plane / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Plane / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: It's never clarified what the circumstances are behind Gaspare's homicide. He claims to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Brodie briefly wonders how Gaspare got caught, but he never clarifies.
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Plane / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Plane / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: When Junmar arrives at the plane a second time, he's met by Gaspare and a team of Scardale's mercenaries, who easily disable their vehicles with sniper fire and then start picking off rebel after rebel, often by shooting through the very vehicles they are using for cover. This prompts one terrified rebel to audibly wonder "Who are these guys?"
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Plane / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Plane / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Brodie decides to relaunch his crippled plane because he knows Junmar is going to send wave after wave of soldiers at him, the passengers, and Shellback's mercenaries. Despite the obvious competence of Louis, Shellback and the mercenaries, they simply do not have the firepower to repel Junmar's army.
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Plane / int_53bc5d26	type	Legion of Lost Souls
Plane / int_53bc5d26	comment	Legion of Lost Souls: Louis explicitly tells Brodie he spent several years with the French Foreign Legion before being captured and extradited back to the USA.
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Plane / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Plane / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Hajan, Junmar's right-hand man. After his death at the hands of Scarsdale's mercenaries, all bets are off for Junmar.
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Plane / int_54616909	type	Cavalry Betrayal
Plane / int_54616909	comment	Cavalry Betrayal: When several cars arrive at the crash site, the passengers assume it's a rescue. Unfortunately, it turns out to be violent rebels looking for hostages.
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Plane / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Plane / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: When Scarsdale questions why Brodie is flying third-tier flights when he's qualified for more, a video is shown where Brodie assaulted a passenger after the passenger punched another member of the flight crew.
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Plane / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Plane / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Brodie admits he expected Gaspare to bolt at the first opportunity. Gaspare responds that he's in handcuffs in the middle of a completely unknown jungle, and splitting off without a plan would be suicide.
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Plane / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Plane / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Brodie begins the film by successfully managing to fly the plane through a vicious storm and pulling off a difficult landing in the middle of the jungle. He ends the film by managing a takeoff on a makeshift runway under heavy gunfire and bringing the plane to safety without incurring any casualties, ramming the front landing gear into Junmar in the process when he tries to shoot it down with an RPG.
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Plane / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Plane / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Brodie surrenders to the rebels to provide a distraction so Gaspare can escape with the passengers. Fortunately, The Cavalry shows up before they can kill him.
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Plane / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Plane / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: Since the Philippine government won't go anywhere near Jolo, Scarsdale hires some mercenaries to rescue Brodie and his passengers. It's also a bit of a subversion. In most media, corporate mercs are rarely on the side of the angels, but here, Shellback's men are instrumental in saving the day. They save Brodie's life and back Brodie's crazy plan to fly the plane off the island, all while dispatching lots of rebels in the process.
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Plane / int_76ecc890	type	Brave Scot
Plane / int_76ecc890	comment	Brave Scot: Brodie brings attention to his Scottish heritage while introducing himself to his co-pilot. When everything goes wrong, he displays great personal valor in rescuing the passengers.
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Plane / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Plane / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: When the passengers are captured by the rebels, one of them is beheaded by Junmar after witnessing his fleeing wife getting shot.
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Plane / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
Plane / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: Brodie takes off from Singapore on New Year's Eve.
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Plane / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Plane / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Datu Junmar, the local militia leader who kidnaps the passengers and intends to hold them for ransom.
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Plane / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
Plane / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: Anyone hit by rounds from the Barrett M82 anti-materiel rifle used by the mercenaries gets this treatment, whether they're behind a vehicle or not.
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Plane / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Plane / int_a7313018	comment	Cellphones Are Useless: It's justified that there is no cell reception on the island so contacting help is impossible, but it edges into Idiot Ball territory when absolutely no one thinks of or knows how to get a GPS coordinate reading from their phone to pinpoint their exact location. Unlike voice calls or data, GPS signals exist nearly everywhere on Earth and can be read as long as the sky is reasonably clear, and every modern smartphone has a GPS receiver.
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Plane / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Plane / int_a8559a9f	comment	The plane's troubles start with a lightning strike killing all avionics on board (exceedingly unlikely but conceivable) and damaging the electrical system such that only battery power remains even though the engines are still running (very unlikely but possible, and in fact this has occurred in Real Life). From this point on, the movie doesn't even try to justify the plane's behavior.
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Plane / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Plane / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Gaspare explicitly tells Brodie that he's not getting back on the plane as there's nothing for him back in the wider world, remaining on the island with a bag full of money that was brought for the hostages.
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Plane / int_bc5d7025	type	DecoyAntagonist
Plane / int_bc5d7025	comment	Decoy Antagonist: Much is made at the beginning of the film about Louis being extremely dangerous and violent. But other than raising his voice out of frustration a few times, Louis is never hostile towards Brodie or his fellow passengers.
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Plane / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Plane / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Gaspare does not like being photographed or filmed. The first time it happens, since he's still in custody he simply asks the offenders not to do it. The second time, he turns physically violent.
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Plane / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Plane / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Brodie kills Junmar by ramming at him with the plane's landing gear. At full throttle.
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Plane / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Plane / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Hajan is killed this way when The Cavalry rescues Brodie. Junmar does not take this well, and rallies the entire island to go after the plane as a result.
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Plane / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Plane / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: The plane's troubles start with a lightning strike killing all avionics on board (exceedingly unlikely but conceivable) and damaging the electrical system such that only battery power remains even though the engines are still running (very unlikely but possible, and in fact this has occurred in Real Life). From this point on, the movie doesn't even try to justify the plane's behavior. Captain Torrance says they will lose control of the airplane after the batteries deplete, which will be in 10 minutes. On passenger aircraft where batteries are expected to power vital systems, they must be certified to operate for 30 minutes at minimum. On a plane like the one shown (which appears to be a variant of the MD-80 or at least similar design and age) a complete power failure would not make the plane uncontrollable. The hydraulic assist would fail, but manual linkages to the flight controls exist and both pilots working together would have the strength to fly it manually. The plane somehow suffers a failure of even the most basic standby instruments, which can't be explained by any kind of lightning strike or power failure. Despite the complete power failure, the pilots hear the Ground Proximity Warning System announcement. This gets a Lampshade Hanging from Captain Torrance but makes no sense given the other problems the plane apparently has.
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Plane / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Plane / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Hajan is shot in the head by Scarsdale's mercenaries, Junmar rallies the entire island to go after the plane.
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Plane / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Plane / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: When Brodie tries to call his superiors, the lady on the other end tells him that they have been receiving prank calls to that effect and he needs to provide his badge number, which he left behind at the crash site. However she does forward the recording of the call up the chain of command to said superiors.
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Plane / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Plane / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Scarsdale's mercenaries show up just in time to save Brodie from being executed.
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Plane / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
Plane / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: When Junmar gets run over by the plane's landing gear at the end.
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Plane / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Plane / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The film is set on the island of Jolo in the province of Sulu, within the southern Philippines and part of the Mindanao region or area, where much of the country's Muslim minority population is concentrated - in contrast to the Luzon and Visayas regions encompassing the northern and central Philippines respectively, where the Christian majority due to centuries of Spanish colonial rule is more pronounced. So the villains are supposed to be extremist Muslim Filipinos and likely part of ethnic groups who are less Hispanized compared to the rest. The latter part is reflected by the Big Bad having the noble honorific "Datu", akin to "Chief". Yet he has an uncommon but clearly Christian-derived name unique to Christian Filipino culture, since "Junmar", or sometimes "Junemar", is a nickname turned given name derived from "Juan Maria" - thus named after John and Mary - and akin to "Jejomar", from Jesus, Joseph and Mary. And he speaks Tagalog/Filipino which is from Luzon instead of a more appropriate language for the setting, with a pronounced American accent on top of that.
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Plane / int_ea92aeb0	type	Concealment Equals Cover
Plane / int_ea92aeb0	comment	Concealment Equals Cover: Subverted, the vehicles the rebels hide behind are no protection from the bullets fired by the Barrett M82 AMR one of the mercenaries uses.
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