History Film / GIJane

** The all-black office uniform with black slacks and long-sleeved shirts worn by Lt. O'Neil and the Captain when she arrives at the training center, while technically a proper uniform for the time period, is ''extremely'' rare in everyday use. Most officers would use a khaki version of that uniform with short sleeves.

* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: The whole movie is about the first woman to join the the U.S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Teamnote . It's part of a program to test the viability of allowing more, but plenty of people don't want her to succeed. Besides the brutal nature of the training itself, she has to deal with things such as accusations of being a lesbian (this being in the days when you weren't allowed to openly be so in the US military). Even things which seem like support are not actually support - she receives preferential treatment in her physical training until she rejects it on the grounds that it undermines the point she's there to prove (and also that it makes everyone resent her).

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Urgayle is a hardass, but he is shown to care about Jordan the same as any of his other trainees after she proves herself, and is shown to be a polite, refined gentleman in his off-duty hours. He is one of the few characters who Jordan's gender never seems to be an issue for, one way or another.

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''G. I. Jane'' is a 1997 action film directed by Creator/RidleyScott, starring Creator/DemiMoore and Creator/ViggoMortensen.

* MetaphoricallyTrue: [[spoiler:Jordan cannot pick up Urgayle by herself, but her heroism inspires her squaddies to help get him to safety. This is enough for Urgayle to give his medal.]]

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. When Jordan moves into the male barracks, Cortez is disgusted when he finds a box of tampons.

* GenderIsNoObject: The film's [[AnAesop aesop]] is that militaries should be this way.

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''G. I. Jane'' is a 1997 action film, directed by Creator/RidleyScott, starring Creator/DemiMoore and Creator/ViggoMortensen.

Senator Lillian De Haven of Texas (Creator/AnneBancroft) publicly criticizes the United States Navy for its failure to integrate both male and female recruits to all its services. She strikes a deal, arranging for a series of test cases. A single woman will join each branch currently fully-staffed by males service and try to perform as well as her male colleagues. The first test case has Lieutenant Jordan O' Neil (Moore) joining the U.S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Team.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "SUCK... MY... DICK!" Made into a CrowningMomentOfAwesome by the fact that a shorn-haired and yet STILL uber-beddable Creator/DemiMoore (yes, a woman) is shouting it -- and into the face of a SuperSoldier of a NAVY SEAL who's acting as the mentor and had spent the last few minutes [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown kicking the crap]] [[WouldHitAGirl out of her]].

G. I. Jane is a 1997 action film, directed by Creator/RidleyScott, starring Creator/DemiMoore and Creator/ViggoMortensen.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The all-black office uniform with black slacks and long-sleeved shirts worn by Lt. O'Neil and the Captain when she arrives at the training center, while technically a proper uniform for the time period, is ''extremely'' rare in everyday use. Most officers would use a khaki version of that uniform with short sleeves.

* TheDeterminator: Jordan

** When Lt. Blondell, Jordan's physician, asks her why she's going through the training, Jordan asks if Blondell asks the men the same thing. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], Blondell replies that she does ask the men the same question.

* ThingsGetReal

* WouldHitAGirl / WouldntHitAGirl: During the POW training the interrogation instructor doesn't want to harm Jordan, but Urgayle, understanding the necessity, has no such reservations and proceeds to beat her mercilessly.

* TrainingFromHell: Jordan experiences Navy SEAL training, which is generally considered among the toughest, if not the toughest, training in the US military, including actual tortures like waterboarding (so they can learn to withstand torture if they fall into enemy hands).
** TruthInTelevision: SERE[[note]]Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape[[/note]] school is universally reviled by everyone that goes through it ''and'' everyone that runs it, specifically because normal, reasonable circumstances are thrown out. The only rules are: nothing sexual, and the trainee can't be ''killed''. Everything else is fair game. It messes with the trainees' heads (the thought that "They can't be allowed to do this" takes a while to go away), and the trainers' heads.

** The command master chiefs of any given command rarely involves himself with direct work in the same way Urgayle does with his instructors. The command master chief's job is to be the liason to the commanding officer in regards to matters and concerns involving enlisted personnel at the command. In a training command, he would have a say regarding the training cirriculum and preparation and in the guidelines as to how the instructors go about fulfilling such, but he personally would not be involved in the training evolutions himself.

* RapeAsDrama[=/=]RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: During the POW training, when Urgayle is brutally beating Jordan in front of the male trainees, he starts to cut off her pants as if he's about to rape her, simulating what would most likely happen if they were captured for real.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "SUCK... MY... DICK!" Made into a CrowningMomentOfAwesome by the fact that a shorn-haired and yet STILL uber-beddable Creator/DemiMoore (yes, a woman) is shouting it -- and into the face of a BadAss, SuperSoldier of a NAVY SEAL who's acting as TheObiWan and had spent the last few minutes [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown kicking the crap]] [[WouldHitAGirl out of her]].

* {{Anti-Villain}}: Urgayle ([[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains type IV]]) is a pretty decent guy outside of training. And even when he's making his recruits' lives hell, [[PunchClockVillain it's what they pay him to do]].

* {{AntiVillain}}: Urgayle ([[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains type IV]]) is a pretty decent guy outside of training. And even when he's making his recruits life hell, [[PunchClockVillain it's what they pay him to do]].

* ArtisticLicenseBasicTraining / ArtisticLicenseStatistics: In an attempt to see if women can serve in combat duty, the [=DoD=] lets one woman try SEAL training. The course, as stated in the movie, has a 60% failure rate, meaning you'd need a sample size of at least three to even pretend you've got a realistic bearing.
** Assuming that the point was to have the program viable. Not a good assumption.

** TruthInTelevision: SERE[[note]]Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape[[/note]] school is universally reviled by everyone that goes through it ''and'' everyone that runs it, specifically because normal, reasonable circumstances are thrown out. The only rules are: nothing sexual, and the trainee can't be ''killed''. Everything else is fair game. It messes with the trainees' heads (the thought that "They can't be allowed to do this" takes a while to go away), and the trainers' heads (much like the Stanford Prison Experiment, being given absolute control over another human being eventually results in some pretty horrendous behaviour).

--> '''Blondell''' As a matter of fact, yes, I do ask them.