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Sisu
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Sisu is a Finnish action war movie written and directed by Jalmari Helander and starring Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, and Jack Doolan, released in January 2023 by Nordisk Film after a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022.In the fall of 1944, after three years of fighting alongside Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, Finland has finally signed an armistice with the latter. As part of the terms, Finnish forces have agreed to expel all the German troops stationed in Lapland, who are now retreating towards Norway while implementing a scorched earth policy on the villages and towns.In the northern wilderness of Lapland, Finnish veteran Aatami Korpi is digging for gold while the war rages around him. Eventually, he hits a huge lode and starts journeying south with his riches. However, he quickly runs into a platoon of Nazis led by an SS officer Bruno Helldorf, who realize what he's carrying and try to take the gold for themselves. What follows is a brutal struggle and chase across the Lapland wilderness as Aatami, himself an established commando, uses every trick he knows to keep hold of the fortune he has earned. | |
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Retired Badass | |
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Retired Badass: Aatami is an Old Soldier who fought in the Winter War against the USSR (it's unclear if he also fought in the 41-44 Continuation War), scoring a body count of 300+ Russians. He has since left the war behind and has become a gold digger in Lapland, but as the Nazis find out the hard way, his skills haven't diminished one bit. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Most of the characters aren't named in the film. Of the Germans, only Müller's (one of the two pilots) and Jens' (one of the soldiers on the truck) names are said out loud. | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black: Schultze never protests any of Helldorf's brutal actions, but he never does anything sadistic either, and he takes off his hat when Aatami seems to have died. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: The Nazi general that converses with the main Nazi foes in the film never shows up in the film (either visually or vocally). His role in the film consists mostly of relaying the main Nazis the backstory of Aatami and that they should not fuck with him. | |
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The Quiet One | |
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The Quiet One: Aatami doesn't talk at all, only speaking in grunts and making gestures when interacting with the Nazis and their Finnish prisoners. He has exactly one line of dialogue at the very end when he's cashing his gold at a bank in Helsinki: "Give me bills, and big ones. They're less fucking heavy." | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: During the final fight, Helldorf bludgeons Aatami with a static line. It's still not enough to take Aatami down. | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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Bald of Evil: Whenever Helldorf removes his Commissar Cap, it's shown he has as many hairs on his head as he does moral scruples (none). | |
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Plot Armor | |
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Plot Armor: In spite of his many impressive gambits and physical resiliancy, Aatami's survival through the film owes quite a bit to simple luck and bad aim. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Helldorf and Aino each have a monologue talking about what a legendary badass Aatami is. | |
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More Dakka | |
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More Dakka: When Wolf can't hit Aatami with his regular rifle (and shots that do land are ineffective), he simply says "fuck this" and mounts the platoon's tank's machine gun instead. It still doesn't work because of the Bulletproof Human Shield Aatami uses. | |
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Vertical Kidnapping | |
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Vertical Kidnapping: Wolf gets yanked out the tank's hatch when he opens it to attack Aatami, who's on the tank's roof. | |
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The Man They Couldn't Hang | |
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The Man They Couldn't Hang: About halfway through the film, Aatami gets caught and Helldorf decides to kill him by hanging. Aatami survives, then leaves a body of another Nazi in a wrecked plane with the same noose around his neck, just to let the rest know he's still alive. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: If you hadn't guessed by the fact that they're Nazis, the first indication that Helldorf's crew are evil customers is the revelation that they have a truckload of Finnish women that they're raping. Helldorf later forces two of them to march ahead of their convoy as they cross a minefield (mercifully, both women survive the ordeal). | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Helldorf shoots one of his own men for deserting when the man refuses to continue to pursue Aatami and later murders the tank driver when they arrive at their escape airplane. | |
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Cold Sniper | |
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Cold Sniper: Wolf, the sadistic second-in-command to the Nazi squad, is always seen wielding a bolt-action rifle to snipe opponents from afar (although his aim leaves something to be desired). | |
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Commissar Cap | |
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Commissar Cap: Helldorf wears one, fitting for an SS Obersturmführer. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: At the start of the film we get to see some breathtaking shots of the wilderness of Lapland during the fall of 1944. Turns into Scenery Gorn when Aatami arrives at Rovaniemi. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Aatami uses every trick possible to get an advantage over the Nazis, who have numbers and firepower over him. | |
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Rated M for Manly | |
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Rated M for Manly: This is a movie about a John Wick or Rambo-inspired Retired Badass who singlehandedly takes on an entire platoon of Those Wacky Nazis and kills them in brutal, gruesome, and satisfying ways. | |
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Self-Surgery | |
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Self-Surgery: After being shot and having received multiple other injuries, Aatami fixes most of them all by himself, shown in gruesome detail. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
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Improvised Weapon: Aatami uses his digging tools as weapons several times when fighting the Nazis. This extends to defensiveness as well, as at one point he deflects bullet fire with his pan. | |
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Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me | |
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Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: When the Nazis unload fully automatic blind fire into the smoke that Aatami is hiding in, he holds up a shield-shaped circle of metal that stops quite a few bullets. Luckily for him, no bullets hit his unprotected legs. | |
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Riding the Bomb | |
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Riding the Bomb: How Helldorf goes out. Aatami hooks him to a bomb and drops him out of an airplane. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Wolf, Helldorf's primary subordinate. He's one of the only Nazis to survive, but he is captured by the female prisoners and delivered to the Finnish Army, which means he'll probably be executed for war crimes. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: Surely a long list of examples, but one particularly loud, theatrical example stands out, coinciding with Artistic License – Military—the SS platoon's use of a barely-disguised T-55 postwar medium tank, which was only adopted by the USSR, at earliest, in 1948. The example itself is Polish (the T-54/55 models were the most widely manufactured tanks in history, and it and its derivatives served extensively in Africa, Asia and Europe, including Finland) and features prominently in the trailers. Strangely, the film doesn't do the usual measure of dressing it up to at least superficially resemble one of the famed Tiger, Panther, or even contemporaneous Red Army tanks captured by the Germans (they even use the 12.7-mm DShK heavy machinegun against Aatami, no equivalent of which existed in Wehrmacht service), but it does get an iron cross painted on the turret (a normal treatment of Soviet armour repurposed by Germany). The T-55 was likely just an easier and more convenient vehicle for filming than a more period-accurate halftrack or German Sturmgeschutz. | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
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Disney Villain Death: Aatami finishes off Helldorf by dropping him off the plane to his death. While he's strapped to a bomb. | |
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Implacable Man | |
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Implacable Man: Aatami being functionally unkillable and relentless in his rampages is what lead to the Soviets nicknaming him "Koschei the Immortal" (also known as Koschei the Deathless). | |
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Mook Horror Show | |
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Mook Horror Show: Pretty much the entire movie, as Aatami keeps coming no matter what the Nazis throw at him and every clash just results in more of them dead. They start out cocky and boisterous but gradually become paranoid and fearful by the seemingly inhuman foe. | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
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Those Wacky Nazis: The villains of the film are a squad of raping and pillaging Nazis during the Lapland War, a villain any audience will enjoy seeing get their asses kicked. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: The Nazis thought it would be easy to rob an old gold miner who was by himself out on the Lapland tundra. They were dead wrong. | |
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Hats Off to the Dead | |
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Hats Off to the Dead: Done somewhat mockingly by Helldorf, Wolf and Schütze to Aatami after they (unsuccessfully) hang him, although there might be some genuine respect involved, at least by Schütze. | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity: Twice over, Helldorf squanders a golden opportunity to kill Aatami. First, he delays in shooting him until Aatami gathers all of the dropped gold, allowing him to use a mine to escape. Second, when he captures him and has him completely at his mercy, he elects to have Aatami hung from a pole to either asphyxiate or starve to death rather than just shooting him. Sure enough, Aatami escapes and is able to exact bloody revenge on him. | |
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Manly Facial Hair | |
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Manly Facial Hair: Aatami has a thick beard befitting a Retired Badass living out in the wilderness who is more than capable of wiping out an entire Nazi company single-handedly. | |
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Canine Companion | |
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Canine Companion: Aatami has a trusted blue Bedlington Terrier who follows him everywhere. Unfortunately it also leads the Germans to him after he escapes them the first time. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Chapter 6 is titled "Kill 'em All", and features Aatami doing exactly that. | |
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Show, Don't Tell | |
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Show, Don't Tell: Used extensively throughout the film. A huge portion of the film has no dialogue, and the first line almost 15 minutes into the film. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Helldorf tells Schütze and Wolf that they are simply going to leave the rest of the unit behind once they get to the plane because it will make the escape easier. Later on, Helldorf murders Schütze when they reach their evacuation plane so he can have more of the gold for himself. | |
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Defiant to the End | |
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Defiant to the End: When prompted for final words at the mercy of his enemies, Aatami responds with a Death Glare. Helldorf also goes down shouting obscenities at Aatami to his dying breath. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Bruno Helldorf, leader of the Nazi platoon trying to steal Aatami's gold. | |
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Skinny Dipping | |
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Skinny Dipping: Aatami bathes in the river shortly before starting his long and bloody back to civilization from his mine. It mainly serves to show off his large collection of very ugly scars, the first hint that he's more than just some old prospector. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: Before they decide to desert halfway through the film, the Nazis are brutalizing Finland under the orders of a unindentified "General" (presumably, if we're going by history, Lothar Rendulic) that they talk to on the radio (although he is neither seen nor heard). | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Nothing can keep Aatami down. He gets shot, stabbed, hanged, and takes on two explosions, but he will keep going. Even being onboard a crashing airplane isn't enough to keep him down. | |
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One-Man Army | |
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One-Man Army: Aatami is one, and is even called as such by one of the characters. During the Winter War, he has said to have killed hundreds of Russians all by himself, earning him the nickname "The Immortal". | |
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Dented Iron | |
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Dented Iron: As seen when he's washing on a river, Aatami is covered in scars from his time fighting the Russians. | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Despite Aatami's clever gambits, the Nazis get several opportunities to make clear shots at him across open ground, and the only reason he isn't killed is because they usually miss. They actually do hit him once or twice, but it's always trivial wounds. | |
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Sole Survivor | |
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Sole Survivor: Wolf is the only explicitly shown survivor of the Nazi company, captured by the women. The two motorcycle Nazis aren't shown being killed onscreen, but they're last seen retreating in the direction the vengeful female prisoners are later shown coming from. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Helldorf and the rest of the German soldiers get a collective one after Wolf discovers that the pilot in the crashed airplanes has the rope they hanged Aatami with wrapped around his neck, as they now realize that Aatami is still alive and is coming to get them. | |
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JustAFleshWound | |
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Just a Flesh Wound: Aatami gets shot and banged up quite a lot throughout the film, but none of his wounds are life threatening or stop him from fighting at virtually peak performance. | |
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Onscreen Chapter Titles | |
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Onscreen Chapter Titles: Title cards announce a total of seven chapters throughout the film. | |
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn | |
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Helldorf's company marauds their way through northern Finland, kidnapping women for sexual entertainment, stealing everything valuable they come across, and destroying what they can't take with them. | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Numerous Germans forego many opportunities to simply gun Aatami down, starting from the very first fight scene, when the man holding a gun to Aatami's head apparently he decides he wants to shoot the old man in the back of the head point blank while he's kneeling on the ground instead of simply shooting him in the back of the head point blank, giving Aatami time to go for his knife. During several fights, armed German soldiers will inexplicably rush up and grab at Aatami rather than shoot at him like you'd expect a veteran soldier to do. Helldorf has Aatami dead to rights at one point but decides to postpone shooting so that Aatami can collect his scattered gold for him. When two Germans have their machinegun pointed at Aatami, who is armed only with a pickaxe, they toss their guns away and flee. | |
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Offscreen Teleportation | |
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Offscreen Teleportation: In slasher villain-esque fashion, Aatami frequently materializes out of thin air when the Nazis (and the camera) aren't looking. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The way Aatami dispatches Helldorf is quite reminiscent of Major Kong's death in Doctor Strangelove, as he's tied to the bomb of the old Soviet bomber and falls to his death riding it after Aatami opens the hatch. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Invoked. Aatami is compared to Koschei the Deathless by the Nazis' captives because of his well-known resilience and stubbornness, but there are some hints that suggest that they may actually be right: Aatami survives incredible damage, and bears scars on his body that suggest that his heart may have been removed, and that he might already have been undergoing autopsy when people realised he wasn't dead - or are these scars simply the scars left by old war wounds? Similarly, his first action when danger threatens is to send his dog away, and the dog does not only keep finding its way back to him, but Aatami also keeps making an effort to ensure the dog is out of harm's way as much as possible - is Aatami simply fond of the dog and repaying the loyalty of the only living creature that has been with him in his lonely life, or is he truly the Koschei of mythology and has hidden his soul in the dog, and thus cannot be killed while the dog lives? | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: Helldorf wears an impressive black longcoat that goes down to his knees and highlights his intimidating and dangerous appearance. | |
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Genre Throwback | |
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Genre Throwback: Its ultra-violent, Western-ish stylings are reminiscent of the European WWII exploitation films of the 60's and 70's like The Inglorious Bastards and The Cut-Throats. | |
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Clothing-Concealed Injury | |
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Clothing-Concealed Injury: Schultze never removes his tanker's helmet except for one Hats Off to the Dead scene, and this may be because taking it off reveals some ugly third-degree burns on the side of his head and a missing ear. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The minefield that gives the Nazis so much trouble is one they recently laid themselves. | |
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Salt the Earth | |
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Salt the Earth: As in Real Life, the Nazis are scorching down Lapland's towns and villages as they're retreating north towards the Norwegian border. Aatami comes across the destroyed remains of Rovaniemi and is quite horrified by the sight. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Helldorf orders one of his men executed for fleeing after Aatami killed two other men, saying "Desertion is punishable by death". By this point, Helldorf had received a direct order from his commanding officer to leave Aatami alone, cut his losses, and resume the march to Norway, meaning that by continuing to try to hunt, kill and rob the commando turned miner, Helldorf himself was legally a deserter, as was everyone with him. | |
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Bulletproof Human Shield | |
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Bulletproof Human Shield: After he has killed the three soldiers on the rowboat (the last one indirectly) Aatami uses the last one's corpse as protection when Wolf tries to use the tank's machine gun to take him down. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Happens twice in the film: First when three soldiers are tasked with finding Aatami from a lake he has hidden in. After Aatami kills the first two, the third one starts rowing away in panic. This gets him shot by Wolf for desertion. Second is during the final battle when two soldiers come across Aatami after slowly witnessing him destroy the rest of their convoy one by one. Despite having their machine gun pointed right at him at close range while he's armed only with a pickaxe, they promptly flee and leave their cycle behind. In a broader sense, the antagonistic Nazis in the film are primarily concerned with just getting the Hell out of dodge from the oncoming Finnish and Soviet advance. | |
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Amazon Brigade | |
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Amazon Brigade: Aino and the female prisoners become this in the climax once Aatami breaks them out. | |
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Ludicrous Gibs | |
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Ludicrous Gibs: Happens early on when the Nazis chase Aatami into a minefield that they had laid out. Three of the soldiers get blown up: two of them the old-fashioned way of stepping into them, and Aatami dispatches a third one by throwing one of the mines at him; in all cases, they explode into chunks of flesh. | |
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Translation Convention | |
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Translation Convention: Despite being a Finnish production, almost all of the dialogue is in English, which stands in for German. Characters speaking Finnish actually speak Finnish. | |
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Cruel Mercy | |
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Cruel Mercy: Aatami decides not to execute Wolf. Instead, he leaves him to the tender mercies of the women he helped kidnap. He's last seen tied to a tank cannon, barely alive. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Aatami is one of both Rambo and a Real Life Winter War soldier known as Simo Häyhä, aka The White Death. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: Quite a lot. For example, in addition to guys getting blown into chunks by a minefield, Jens gets run over by a tank at the final battle and we see his mangled corpse afterward. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Aatami will hold on to his gold, and a platoon of Nazis isn't going to stop him. When the soldier Jens asks his Finnish prisoner Aino if she believes that he is actually immortal, she says no; he simply refuses to die. Essentially, he's the personification of the titular sisu, a uniquely Finnish expression signifying resilience, hardiness, and bravery. | |
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Mildly Military | |
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Mildly Military: The Nazis have seen better days, given this is late 1944. Many of them aren't properly wearing uniform (Wolf, the second-in-command of the outfit, barely wears a jacket), and their chain of command has gone to Hell by this point. They're more marauders raiding Finland while retreating than a military force when we first meet them. | |
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Dictionary Opening | |
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Dictionary Opening: The film opens with text explaining the meaning of the Finnish word "sisu." Aino later explains it in dialogue again. | |
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Suddenly Speaking | |
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Suddenly Speaking: Aatami doesn't speak a word until the very last line in the film. | |
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Dangerous Deserter | |
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Dangerous Deserter: The Nazis become actively more dangerous once they decide they want to make a clean getaway from the impending Nazi defeat stocked on (Atami's) gold. Late in the film, they're also aided by a Soviet deserter. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Aatami kills all the Nazis and gets his gold back, getting to retire as a rich man. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: Big time. Aatami arms the captive women who the SS took as sex slaves, takes out the driver of their truck, and has Aino pull up beside their troop transport so the ladies can gun all of them down in a matter of seconds. | |
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