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The Wild Geese

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The Wild Geese	comment	A 1978 war movie produced by Euan Lloyd and directed by Andrew V. MacLaglen, based on an unpublished novel titled The Thin White Line by Daniel Carney, later published as The Wild Geese itself after the film's success.Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton) is a retired British Army colonel now making his trade as a mercenary. He is recruited by the magnate Sir Edward Matheson (Stewart Granger) to lead an operation into the fictional African nation of Zembala to rescue President Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona), a good leader - all too rare in postcolonial Africa - who has been overthrown by a military coup d'etat. Limbani is still highly regarded by the people of Zembala and Matheson aims to use the threat of his return as a bargaining chip to negotiate favourable mining contracts with the new regime. Chief of the minerals is copper, the taste of blood...Faulkner assembles a company of fifty mercenaries, led by former comrades Sean Fynn (Roger Moore) and Rafer Janders (Richard Harris), accompanied by Pieter Coetzee (Hardy Kruger) a Boer familiar with the African bush. Parachuting into Zembala after a period training in Swaziland, the mercenaries successfully retrieve Limbani from the prison where he is due to be executed by the dictator in a slick operation that goes off without a hitch - but in the meantime, the wheels of greater machinations are preparing to grind up the mercenaries. Sir Edward Matheson concludes his mining contract with the Zembalan military regime - he now no longer needs Limbani, and if the mercenaries return there is also that distasteful task of paying them that he'd rather not stoop to. He promptly recalls the escape plane, leaving Faulkner and his men stranded hundreds of miles from safety in the depths of Africa, with the Simbas, the deadliest shock troops of the regime's army, closing in... they came for gold, but the Wild Geese now have to struggle for their very survival. There are no pockets in a shroud - but revenge can come from beyond the grave.The Wild Geese attracted controversy for being filmed in apartheid-era South Africa, with sizeable demonstrations accompanying its London premiere accusing it of racism - this is despite the fact that the film was very popular amongst black South Africans (producer Euan Lloyd even distributed copies of the Soweto Times detailing packed-out cinemas to protestors in an attempt to calm them) and the film bore an even-handed message of reconciliation acknowledging the crimes perpetrated by both whites and blacks in Africa (Limbani says to Coetzee at one point "we have to forgive you for the past, just as you have to forgive us for the present").This film was also reheated for a 1984 Italian knock-off, Code Name: Wild Geese (copying the plot of the film and relocating England and Africa to Hong Kong and the Philippines) and led to an official 1985 sequel, Wild Geese II. Richard Burton was to reprise his role as Allen Faulkner in the sequel but died before shooting began; instead the actor Edward Fox took the role of "Alex Faulkner", Allen's brother. The sequel was derived from another Daniel Carney novel, The Square Circle, and is notable for being directed by Peter Hunt of On Her Majesty's Secret Service and including a late role for Laurence Olivier as Rudolf Hess... and for being such an unmitigated disastrous flop that it killed Euan Lloyd's producing career.Spawned an unofficial Foreign Remake by Shaw Brothers, Mercenaries from Hong Kong.
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The Wild Geese / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
The Wild Geese / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: Alex Faulkner (played by Edward Fox).
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The Wild Geese / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Wild Geese / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The film's UK trailer gives away the fate of Sandy Young.
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The Wild Geese / int_15adb9a8	type	Never Split the Party
The Wild Geese / int_15adb9a8	comment	Never Split the Party: But the party is forced to split when a bridge is napalmed, with personnel on either side of it.
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The Wild Geese / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
The Wild Geese / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: A former warden of Spandau prison, RSM Murphy, is used to help the mercenaries impersonate British military police.
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The Wild Geese / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Wild Geese / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Faulkner. While his personality is rather acerbic, many of the mercenaries join him out of old ties of friendship or loyalty; also, when he returns to England to exact revenge on Matheson he robs him to pay those who fought with him - "I can't even begin to count all the widows and orphans."
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The Wild Geese / int_1b65eaf3	type	The Caper
The Wild Geese / int_1b65eaf3	comment	The Caper: It's an escape plan but plays out the same way.
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The Wild Geese / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
The Wild Geese / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: Subverted. Despite the fact that he's a rather faaaaaaaaabulous queen, the mercenaries' medic has few qualms with getting stuck into the thick of it, and his self-sacrifice fighting the Simbas helps Limbani to escape recapture at one point. And he is faaaaaaaaaabulous to the end.
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The Wild Geese / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Wild Geese / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: A flashback shows Limbani's bodyguard being stabbed by a spike shoved through his airplane seat. Later when Jesse takes out a guard he reaches over to stab him in the front, perhaps to avert this trope in the audience's mind.
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The Wild Geese / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Wild Geese / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Flynn forces a drug dealer to eat his own heroin...laced with strychnine. He predicts it might take 20 minutes to kill him. Witty is hacked to death by panga knives.
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The Wild Geese / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Wild Geese / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Matheson is much worse than his book counterpart, selling out Limbani and the mercenaries and leaving them to die in Zembala.
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The Wild Geese / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
The Wild Geese / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: The Simbas are the bodyguard regiment of the President.
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The Wild Geese / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
The Wild Geese / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Rafer Janders became a mercenary because he wanted to choose the wars he believed in - however, after fighting for so many "freedom fighters" who mutated into dictators just as tyrannical as the oppressors they deposed the moment they sat in the president's chair, he's become dissatisfied. However, the opportunity to help Limbani, an acknowledged good man, allows Janders to rekindle a little of his doused idealism.
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The Wild Geese / int_31fcc258	type	Training Montage
The Wild Geese / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: The first act ends with the mercenaries being put through their paces in a lighthearted montage that show middle-aged men discovering they're not as limber as they used to be.
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The Wild Geese / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
The Wild Geese / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Sandy does this to Pieter.
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The Wild Geese / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Wild Geese / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Lieutenant Jeremy Chandos, a main character in the book, doesn't appear in the film. A younger officer of Faulkner's team, he's an Irishman, 29 years old, single with no attachments and is a mercenary for the money and the action. Sean Fynn had a Love Interest in the book named Gabriella, or "Gabby". She was going to appear, but it was deemed unnecessary and dropped.
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The Wild Geese / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Wild Geese / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Hourigan substitutes Faulkner's malaria pills for LSD, then talks him into a bad trip so he could report back to Stroebling as Haddad gets distracted by tending to Alex.
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The Wild Geese / int_384986f4	type	We Will Meet Again
The Wild Geese / int_384986f4	comment	We Will Meet Again: An IRA terrorist says this to RSM Murphy, who responds by killing him in an And This Is for... moment.
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The Wild Geese / int_3ac2a3e3	type	Deadly Gas
The Wild Geese / int_3ac2a3e3	comment	Deadly Gas: As they're fighting a war with no Hague Convention, cyanide gas is used to silently kill guards in their sleeping quarters.
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The Wild Geese / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
The Wild Geese / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Witty fends off the Simbas with an Uzi and a knife so Faulkner and others can escape. His final words have plenty of Homoerotic Subtext.
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The Wild Geese / int_3cf29583	type	Trojan Prisoner
The Wild Geese / int_3cf29583	comment	Trojan Prisoner: After Hourigan is killed, Kathy's brother Michael is offered as an additional hostage to placate Stroebling. However this is just part of a plan to rescue Kathy.
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The Wild Geese / int_3d2d0d5c	type	Feeling Their Age
The Wild Geese / int_3d2d0d5c	comment	Feeling Their Age: None of the mercenaries are the spry spring chickens they used to be. Even the youngest has been out of the forces for several years and is out of shape. Everyone hired has to endure a whirlwind training regimen to be considered for the actual mission and all struggle from the first lap they take around the exercise field.
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The Wild Geese / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Wild Geese / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: The mercenaries plan to stage a car accident with the Vulnerable Convoy carrying Rudolf Hess, then carry him off in a fake ambulance. The driver they hire to fake the crash says he can use a specially reinforced car, but they insist it has to look real, so he uses an ordinary vehicle and gets killed.
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The Wild Geese / int_40207000	type	Never Going Back to Prison
The Wild Geese / int_40207000	comment	Never Going Back to Prison: Pieter claims he's already been in jail and doesn't fancy going back.
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The Wild Geese / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Wild Geese / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The villainous Matheson is killed in the denouement, but it's less a rousing final cheer than a last bitter gasp. Limbani is dead, and so are most of the Wild Geese, including many of Faulkner's friends - their mission achieving nothing. The final scene of the film involves Faulkner meeting Emile; Faulkner promised his father Janders that he would adopt the boy if the latter was killed (as he is, by Faulkner himself - see Mercy Kill below). Slightly Averted in the Book. Many of the mercenaries still die (including Faulkner and Janders), but Limbani survives and it's strongly hinted he'll be back with an army to liberate his country.
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The Wild Geese / int_4230e681	type	Vader Breath
The Wild Geese / int_4230e681	comment	Vader Breath: The mercenaries use cyanide gas to kill a room full of sleeping guards. Unfortunately their Vader Breath starts before the mercenaries have put on their gas masks. Nevertheless the laboured breathing of the sleepers suddenly coming to a stop as each dies has a sinister effect.
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The Wild Geese / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Wild Geese / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: When Murphy smudges Hourigan's shoes during training, the look on the latter's face is clearly teeth gritting even though Hourigan never lashes out.
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The Wild Geese / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
The Wild Geese / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: Two of the three sentries in the guardtowers are asleep.
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The Wild Geese / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
The Wild Geese / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Reed-Henry (revealed to be a Double Agent) is shot by the Soviets with his own pistol after he reveals that he accidentally killed one of their own agents instead of Hess.
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The Wild Geese / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Wild Geese / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Sir Edward Matheson, Julius Limbani.
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The Wild Geese / int_48cbd223	type	Machete Mayhem
The Wild Geese / int_48cbd223	comment	Machete Mayhem: The Simbas hack up Witty with them.
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The Wild Geese / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Wild Geese / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Cyanide gas and poison-tipped crossbows are used.
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The Wild Geese / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
The Wild Geese / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: The book ends with the mercenaries landing safely in another country and wondering what to do next. The film concludes with Faulkner extracting revenge on Matheson and meeting Janders' son.
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The Wild Geese / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
The Wild Geese / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: A Boy's Own adventure story with Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Roger Moore as old-school British mercenaries.
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The Wild Geese / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
The Wild Geese / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Just because Fynn works for you doesn't mean you can use him as a drug courier. When he arrives at a delivery address and finds a young girl dying of heroin addiction, he opens the package he was delivering and finds drugs. He does what he can for the girl, then goes back and kills the person he was working for. Before killing him, he does make it clear that "no drugs" was a condition of his employment...
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The Wild Geese / int_4eddbc06	type	Animated Credits Opening
The Wild Geese / int_4eddbc06	comment	Animated Credits Opening: One fly in the film's ointment, a badly-misjudged attempt to ape the Bond movies with a interminable theme tune from Joan Armatrading.
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The Wild Geese / int_4f828b45	type	Post-Climax Confrontation
The Wild Geese / int_4f828b45	comment	Post-Climax Confrontation: After escaping from Zembala and touching down to cheering crowds in Rhodesia with the score swelling in the background, you might expect the credits to start to roll: but there's a further reel where Faulkner returns to England to exact revenge on the traitorous Matheson.
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The Wild Geese / int_50b1855d	type	Spy Fiction
The Wild Geese / int_50b1855d	comment	Spy Fiction: The mercenaries' plan has to be approved by a terse intelligence agent, who is there to ensure that Matheson's operation will turn a profit for U.K. plc.
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The Wild Geese / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
The Wild Geese / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Pieter is racist against blacks, which initially puts him at odds with Limbani.
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The Wild Geese / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Wild Geese / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: Despite being described as elite troops, the Simbas are a seemingly limitless horde - and are similarly gunned down in great numbers by the mercenaries. Slightly subverted in that they do wear down the mercenaries - of the fifty who fly out to rescue Limbani, only eleven escape.
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The Wild Geese / int_57ca867e	type	Force Feeding
The Wild Geese / int_57ca867e	comment	Force Feeding: Fynn makes a gangster's nephew eat poisoned heroin.
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The Wild Geese / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
The Wild Geese / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Fynn, the suave and handsome mercenary (and who also has the film's only female principal as a girlfriend - there is one other female character, but she's a bit-part with only one line), chomps cigars.
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The Wild Geese / int_5c99b642	type	War for Fun and Profit
The Wild Geese / int_5c99b642	comment	War for Fun and Profit: A different version from the usual, but still a lot of people end up dying because a news network wanted to increase its ratings.
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The Wild Geese / int_5d4359fe	type	No Blood for Phlebotinum
The Wild Geese / int_5d4359fe	comment	No Blood for Phlebotinum: In this case, copper.
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The Wild Geese / int_5dbf364d	type	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?
The Wild Geese / int_5dbf364d	comment	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: With his laid-back tone, Hourigan taunts Murphy about the body count he made on behalf of the IRA during The Troubles in detail.
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The Wild Geese / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
The Wild Geese / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Sean Fynn "can fly anything". He even manages to fly a plane despite being shot in the leg.
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The Wild Geese / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Wild Geese / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: When trying to track down Fynn before The Mafia does, Faulkner and Janders have to check out nine addresses of ladyfriends he might be staying with, before getting to the dealer at the casino.
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The Wild Geese / int_5f5aa5af	comment	Bulungi: Zembala.
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The Wild Geese / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
The Wild Geese / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Kathy Lukas is kidnapped by Stroebling. In exchange he offers one of his own men, IRA terrorist Hourigan, to take part in the mission and make sure it's going the way Stroebling wants. Kathy is saved but her brother Michael is killed during the rescue.
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The Wild Geese / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
The Wild Geese / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: All of the main cast, to an extent - the mercenary force is composed of Army veterans.
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The Wild Geese / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
The Wild Geese / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Regimental Sergeant-Major Sandy Young, who, as he is training mercenaries, is not tied down by regulation. In the middle of a demanding training session, he kicks the medic and yells, "You screaming faggot, move it before I sew up your arsehole!"
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The Wild Geese / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Wild Geese / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Hess is suggested to be still in prison because he knows scandalous political secrets that could shake the modern world, though it's a bit vague what they are. Whether for this—or just on principle because he's a former top Nazi—the Dirty Communists would rather have him dead.
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The Wild Geese / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Wild Geese / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Janders turns down the idea of One Last Job. Faulkner claims to accept this, but asks Janders the favour of showing him how he would plan the attack on the prison compound... Cut to Faulkner saying that Janders has come on board.
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The Wild Geese / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Wild Geese / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Irish mercenary soldiers fighting in European armies throughout the late medieval and early modern periods were referred to as "Wild Geese", the most well-known being an force of Irish Jacobites who became part of the French army following their defeat in the Glorious Revolution and the resultant Treaty of Limerick in 1691. This makes the name doubly appropriate, for just as the original Wild Geese were landless and dispossessed, so is Faulkner - the nature of his work means that he cannot return to Britain and at the start of the film Matheson has to pull some strings to smuggle him through passport control. This was also the name occasionally used for his men by mercenary Colonel "Mad" Mike Hoare, who battled communist rebels in the Congo and attempted to overthrow the government of the Seychelles, among other exploits. He was a fervent admirer of the original "Wild Geese" who served in France. He also worked as a technical advisor on the film.
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The Wild Geese / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
The Wild Geese / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: A truck breaks down in the middle of the bridge, leaving them vulnerable to an attacking aircraft. Armed with napalm.
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The Wild Geese / int_6eeba1cb	type	Shut Up, Kirk!
The Wild Geese / int_6eeba1cb	comment	Father Geoghagen starts to give one to Faulkner, but is shouted down. Faulkner admits afterwards to being shook up by it.
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The Wild Geese / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Wild Geese / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Hourigan refuses to share a room with Arabs.
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The Wild Geese / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Wild Geese / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: The film avoids making an argument about who is responsible for the African continent's woes: rather than blaming it all on the West, no-one is entirely without fault in this situation.
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The Wild Geese / int_73641290	type	The Strategist
The Wild Geese / int_73641290	comment	The Strategist: Janders is recruited precisely because he is an expert planner. Even when he declines Faulkner's offer of employment, once Faulkner spreads out a map over the table, he just can't say no...
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The Wild Geese / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Wild Geese / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Faulkner.
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The Wild Geese / int_74b49e17	type	Price on Their Head
The Wild Geese / int_74b49e17	comment	Price on Their Head: Haddad has a contract on his head from a Palestinian terrorist group.
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The Wild Geese / int_7831c048	type	So Much for Stealth
The Wild Geese / int_7831c048	comment	So Much for Stealth: A crossbow is used to kill the guards in the watchtowers but the second guard falls out of the tower after being shot, alerting the third guard. Fortunately he catches a bolt before he can fire. The shooting starts when a Cuban prisoner reaches for a gun.
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The Wild Geese / int_79fa704c	type	Training the Peaceful Villagers
The Wild Geese / int_79fa704c	comment	Training the Peaceful Villagers: Subverted; Janders thinks their only chance of survival is rising Limbani's tribesmen against the government. The others think he's nuts but go along, however the idea turns out to be unworkable — the tribesmen don't have the weapons, and with a Simba regiment coming down on them it would be a slaughter. Fortunately the priest (who just wants them off his hands so his parish isn't slaughtered) knows of a Dakota airplane nearby.
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The Wild Geese / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Wild Geese / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Matherson has a chess set in the room where Faulner finally confronts him. He tells Matherson to go ahead and complete his move.
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The Wild Geese / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
The Wild Geese / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Notably averted. When discussing taking the prison where Limbani is kept, suppressed weapons are not suggested as a means of eliminating tower sentries or the guards' barracks, acknowledging their limits (actual silent methods are discussed and used). When they are used, they are used for the job they're intended for: eliminating lone sentries away from other people.
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The Wild Geese / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Wild Geese / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Patrick Stewart's cameo as a boisterous Soviet general is a surprise to those used to him as the staid Captain Picard and that was before his later two equally boisterous roles as Adventure and King Goobot V.
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The Wild Geese / int_86025d8f	type	Irish Priest
The Wild Geese / int_86025d8f	comment	Irish Priest: In the depths of the African interior you can find Father Geoghagen attending to his parishioners. He makes his disdain for the mercenaries quite clear.
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The Wild Geese / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
The Wild Geese / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: Faulkner, Fynn, Janders and Coetzee.
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The Wild Geese / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
The Wild Geese / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Faulkner & Co.'s general attitude.
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The Wild Geese / int_8c431fe4	type	Band of Brothers
The Wild Geese / int_8c431fe4	comment	Band of Brothers: Even though they're supposedly in this for sordid coin, there is still a fraternal unity to the mercenaries. Many do it out of sheer boredom with civvy street, or a powerful sense of esprit de corps with old comrades, as much as the financial reward - at one point where Faulkner offers his Sergeant-Major an opportunity to take his money and go home, the Sergeant-Major angrily rejects it, considering not accompanying the men he's trained to be an insult. Once the mission is over, a survivor asks Faulkner, "what was it all for, sir?" - as though the money was merely incidental to taking part. The mercenaries also fight wearing the cap-badges of their old Army regiments.
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The Wild Geese / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Wild Geese / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Reed-Henry shoots RSM Murphy after the operation is over.
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The Wild Geese / int_92b20172	type	Love Interests
The Wild Geese / int_92b20172	comment	Sean Fynn had a Love Interest in the book named Gabriella, or "Gabby". She was going to appear, but it was deemed unnecessary and dropped.
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The Wild Geese / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Wild Geese / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Hourigan is described by Alex as charming and has a constant laid-back and mostly polite demeanor who never seemed to raised his voice, but is still a slimy IRA hitman responsible for the countless deaths of British soldiers, is racist against Arabs and would drug Alex with LSD.
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The Wild Geese / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Wild Geese / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Averted. Sgt. Jesse Blake (John Kani) actually survives the mission.
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The Wild Geese / int_9823c800	type	PrivateMilitaryContractor
The Wild Geese / int_9823c800	comment	Private Military Contractor: The mercenaries in the film are "soldiers of fortune" rather than a "corporate army". All of them join the venture as individuals, and give the impression of being adventurers more than employees.
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The Wild Geese / int_98770aab	type	Coup de GrÃ¢ce
The Wild Geese / int_98770aab	comment	Coup de GrÃ¢ce: When the guard in Limbani's cell realises someone has come to break out his prisoner, he turns and fires a bullet at Limbani's head. Fortunately the shot misses.
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The Wild Geese / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Wild Geese / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: As the Dakota is taxing down the runway, Janders runs to get on but is shot in the leg. Fynn can't stop the plane to let him get on board and the Simbas are rushing towards them, so Janders begs Faulkner to kill him. He does.
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The Wild Geese / int_a0a838fe	type	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
The Wild Geese / int_a0a838fe	comment	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: Haddad is walking through the forest with Kathy while a man with a scoped rifle takes aim...and shoots a boar. This Cat Scare gives a plot excuse for the subsequent sex scene.
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The Wild Geese / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
The Wild Geese / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Faulkner's final confrontation with Sir Edward Matheson. Sir Edward is so inflated with hauteur that he cannot conceive of there being any threat to himself - the discovery that the murderous mercenary with a gun and grudge is, yes, there to kill him completely baffles Matheson, and he's left stammering "now wait just a minuteâ€”!" before Faulkner fires.
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The Wild Geese / int_a839608e	type	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
The Wild Geese / int_a839608e	comment	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: After the mercenaries succeed in their mission, Matheson cuts a deal with the local government, cancels their transport home and abandons them to their fate.
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The Wild Geese / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
The Wild Geese / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: The film ends with these.
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The Wild Geese / int_a859f080	type	Agent Peacock
The Wild Geese / int_a859f080	comment	Agent Peacock: Witty the medic, who is as Camp Gay as they come and still is treated with respect by the rest of the mercenaries.
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The Wild Geese / int_a8660c25	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
The Wild Geese / int_a8660c25	comment	Soft-Spoken Sadist: Hourigan never raises his voice, even when he taunts about the crimes he committed against the British military towards Murphy just before his Knee-capping and later a Boom, Headshot! in return by Murphy.
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The Wild Geese / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
The Wild Geese / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: In the book, Matheson was a pleasant, mild-mannered chap. In the film, he's a rude, crooked, odious bastard, who ultimately double-crosses the mercenaries.
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The Wild Geese / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Wild Geese / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Laid-back IRA member Hourigan, even when he's a sharp-tongued Soft-Spoken Sadist.
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The Wild Geese / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Wild Geese / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Hess just wants to go back to prison, and has no interest in revealing past scandals.
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The Wild Geese / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
The Wild Geese / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Neither the Wild Geese nor the Simbas are ever seen reloading their machine pistols or assault rifles.
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The Wild Geese / int_b5ba2c2b	type	It's Raining Men
The Wild Geese / int_b5ba2c2b	comment	It's Raining Men: The mercenaries parachute from a Hercules commercial cargo plane a good deal more professionally than a group of Old Soldiers with a few weeks refresher training should, landing without so much as a sprained ankle.
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The Wild Geese / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Wild Geese / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Sergeant-Major Sandy Young. "Get on your feet, you fuckin' abortion!" Even though the opening act of the film deals with gangsters, the dialogue is very well-spoken until the training scenes begin - once the Sergeant-Major begins bawling out his men with apoplectic fury, you appreciate that playtime's over!
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The Wild Geese / int_bcba5ab	type	Sniper Pistol
The Wild Geese / int_bcba5ab	comment	Sniper Pistol: Faulkner uses a Safari Arms M1911 pistol in 'Survivor' Rifle kit (used to modify the pistol into a bolt-action carbine) with scope and suppressor.
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The Wild Geese / int_c00afbbd	type	With Due Respect
The Wild Geese / int_c00afbbd	comment	With Due Respect: Despite having a great deal of respect for his commander, RSM Sandy Young gives an awesome version when Colonel Faulkner decides to pay him off so he can go home (he was hired as a Drill Sergeant Nasty to knock them into shape before the mission).
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The Wild Geese / int_c2c15b23	type	Bait-and-Switch Comment
The Wild Geese / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: Alex Faulkner denies Haddad was planning to kill Hourigan.
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The Wild Geese / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Wild Geese / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Fynn shoots a gangster's bodyguard in the head.
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The Wild Geese / int_c57a6051	type	If I Do Not Return
The Wild Geese / int_c57a6051	comment	If I Do Not Return: The night before they go on the mission, Janders asks Faulkner to become a Parental Substitute for his son if anything happens to him. Faulkner says the idea is mad, because when not killing people for money he's an unemployed drunkard. Janders blithely replies that some responsibility might help him then. Janders not only gets killed; it's Faulkner who has to kill him, to stop him from being captured and tortured to death.
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The Wild Geese / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
The Wild Geese / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Fynn is always chomping on a cigar even as the mercenaries are infiltrating an enemy base.
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The Wild Geese / int_cafdaf4e	type	Trust Password
The Wild Geese / int_cafdaf4e	comment	Trust Password: When the Rhodesians refuse to let the mercenaries land, Faulkner reads out details of a conference that Limbani attended so the authorities will know they really do have the Not Quite Dead politician on board.
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The Wild Geese / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
The Wild Geese / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Faulkner.
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The Wild Geese / int_d2ddb362	type	ReasonYouSuckSpeech
The Wild Geese / int_d2ddb362	comment	"Reason You Suck" Speech: Subverted. At the end, after taking his money, Faulkner tells Matheson that he'd prepared such a speech to give to his treacherous employer. But, when the moment comes, Faulkner says he'd rather just kill Matheson. Which he does. Father Geoghagen starts to give one to Faulkner, but is shouted down. Faulkner admits afterwards to being shook up by it.
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The Wild Geese / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Wild Geese / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Fynn was described as black-Irish in the script. Pieter Coetzee was originally supposed to be Rhodesian. When Hardy KrÃ¼ger was cast, the character was made a Boer to explain Kruger's German accent.
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The Wild Geese / int_dbab18ef	type	Morally Bankrupt Banker
The Wild Geese / int_dbab18ef	comment	Morally Bankrupt Banker: Matheson.
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The Wild Geese / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
The Wild Geese / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: The aircrews response to them abandoning everyone to their deaths.
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The Wild Geese / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Fynn is furious to learn that he smuggled heroin, especially upon meeting a young addict. He extracts a brutal revenge upon his employers.
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The Wild Geese / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Haddad has been hired to free Hess, but East German spy Karl Stroebling wants Hess dead (along with Faulkner, for killing some of his men), while Colonel Reed-Henry wants Hess freed but is later revealed to be a Soviet Double Agent working with Stroebling.
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The Wild Geese / int_e0222ff2	comment	Buy Them Off: When Faulkner returns to exact revenge on Matheson for his betrayal, he raids Matheson's safe for $500,000 in cash (incidentally half of the mercenaries' agreed fee, to be paid if the mission to rescue Limbani failed - Faulkner remains true to the contract he's signed to the end). Matheson offers Faulkner even more money to let him live, but Faulkner declines.
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The Wild Geese / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Limbani In-Universe. After being kidnapped and taken to Uganda, the word was put out that he was dead, but he's actually being held prisoner as a bargaining chip. The Zembala dictator has offered to sell the copper concession (which used to belong to Matherson's company) to Uganda in exchange for Limbani being handed over to be Killed Off for Real.
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The Wild Geese / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Inspired by a mysterious incident in 1968 when a plane full of mercenaries landed in Rhodesia claiming to be carrying a dying African president (speculated to be Moise Tshombe, the exiled Prime Minister of The Democratic Republic of the Congo and former president of the secessionist State of Katanga).
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The Wild Geese / int_e68b72	type	The Load
The Wild Geese / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: President Julius Limbani. He's elderly and not in great shape and one of the characters has to literally carry him on his back. Limbani is nothing but dead weight and is only useful to them if they can get him back alive. In a deliberate bit of irony, the man who is carrying him is a white South African who is (initially at least) pro-Apartheid and he actually says that white people have been carrying black people on their backs for years.
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The Wild Geese / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Even before he leaves the mercenaries in the lurch, Matheson is telegraphed as something of an odious chap: he treats Faulkner with naked contempt, even when he's trying to persuade the colonel to work for him! This is averted in the book, where Matheson is quite well-spoken when dealing with Faulkner and has nothing to do with the mercenaries being left behind.
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The Wild Geese / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Witty, Coetzee, Young and Janders are named mercenaries killed over the course of the mission, as are most of the other members of the company. Fynn also passes out from blood loss, leaving the suggestion that he died, although he is later revealed to have survived.
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The Wild Geese / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: In the book, Janders was the one who killed a gangster's nephew and hid out above a nightclub. In the film, Fynn takes that role.
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The Wild Geese / int_f110c25	comment	Self-Destructive Charge: Coetzee's Heroic Sacrifice is to charge towards a group of Simbas while carrying Limbani and blast them with his rifle... getting hit repeatedly in the chest in return.
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The Wild Geese / int_f46eebb	comment	Betrayal by Inaction: President Limbani is overthrown by a military coup. Sir Edward Matheson hires the mercenaries to rescue him in order to use him as a bargaining chip to extract concessions from the new regime. After Limbani is rescued the regime agrees to the concessions and Matheson orders the plane sent to pick up the mercenaries to leave them behind so they can be slaughtered by the regime's forces. The mercenaries spend the rest of the movie trying to escape. Averted in the book. Not only does Matheson have nothing to do with the mercenaries being left behind, but it's done more out of practicality than deliberate betrayal.
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The Wild Geese / int_fd11cb36	comment	This was also the name occasionally used for his men by mercenary Colonel "Mad" Mike Hoare, who battled communist rebels in the Congo and attempted to overthrow the government of the Seychelles, among other exploits. He was a fervent admirer of the original "Wild Geese" who served in France. He also worked as a technical advisor on the film.
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