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* JewishAmericanPrincess: Judy Benjamin is one of these [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid getting suckered into joining the Army]], with the expected FishOutOfWater results.
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Judy joins the Army thinking it's all travel and fun, like in the adverts (an image reinforced by an unscrupulous recruiter).
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Judy joins the Army thinking it's all travel and fun, like in the adverts (an image reinforced by an unscrupulous recruiter).
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* JewishAmericanPrincess: Judy Benjamin is one of these [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid [[RecruitersAlwaysLie getting suckered into joining the Army]], with the expected FishOutOfWater results.
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Judy joins the Army thinking it's all travel and fun, like in the adverts (an image reinforced by an unscrupulous recruiter).results.
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Judy joins the Army thinking it's all travel and fun, like in the adverts (an image reinforced by an unscrupulous recruiter).
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* FuneralCut: Yael and Judy are making love on their wedding night when he suddenly goes silent. Judy calls out to him with increasing alarm in her voice. "Yael. Yael? YAEL??" Cut to the rabbi officiating Yael's funeral. He'd had a heart attack.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Examples galore. One that stands our is one of Judy's friends being sent to Officer Training School after graduating boot camp. Completely wrong, doesn't happen. If she was qualified to be an officer, the Army wouldn't have wasted time sending her to enlisted boot camp.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Examples galore. One that stands our out is one of Judy's friends being sent to Officer Training School after graduating boot camp. Completely wrong, doesn't happen. If she was qualified to be an officer, the Army wouldn't have wasted time sending her to enlisted boot camp.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Examples galore. One that stands our is one of Judy's friends being sent to Officer Training School after graduating boot camp. Completely wrong, doesn't happen. If she was qualified to be an officer, the Army wouldn't have wasted time sending her to enlisted boot camp.
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''Private Benjamin'' is a 1980 American comedy film starring Creator/GoldieHawn. The film was one of the biggest box office hits of 1980, and also spawned a short-lived television series
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''Private Benjamin'' is a 1980 American comedy film starring Creator/GoldieHawn. The film was one of the biggest box office hits of 1980, and also spawned a [[Series/PrivateBenjamin1981 short-lived television series
series]].
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* DirtyCommunist: Lewis and the Army warn Judy that Henri is one of these. His political affiliation isn't her concern -- she leaves him because he turns out to be misogynistic.
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* IChooseToStay: When her parents come to get her out of the Army -- something Captain Lewis is eager to do -- Judy decides that she's not going to let her parents run her life anymore, and stays.
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* FrenchAccordion: The titular character is asked where she wants to be stationed, as they have bases all over the world. The next scene is an establishing shot of Paris, complete with accordion music.
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* FrenchAccordion: The titular title character is asked where she wants to be stationed, as they have bases all over the world. The next scene is an establishing shot of Paris, complete with accordion music.
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* TradingBarsForStripes: one of the other trainees in boot camp was apparently this trope. After she flipped off the drill sergeant behind her back (during the typical "first day at training" scene), Sarge says that she'll soon wish she'd chosen Attica.
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* TradingBarsForStripes: one One of the other trainees in boot camp was apparently this trope. After she flipped off the drill sergeant behind her back (during the typical "first day at training" scene), Sarge says that she'll soon wish she'd chosen Attica.
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* FrenchAccordion: The titular character is asked where she wants to be stationed, as they have bases all over the world. The next scene is an establishing shot of Paris, complete with accordion music.
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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Judy the Army thinking it's all travel and fun, like in the adverts (an image reinforced by an unscrupulous recruiter).
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* ReassignedToRiviera: Judy's commanding officer in the Thornbirds attempts to sexually assault her. When she refuses to comply, he attempts to have her transferred as far away from Biloxi as soon as possible. Rather than accept what she sees as an undesirable post in Greenland or Guam, she negotiates a much better assignment to SHAPE in Belgium.
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* ReassignedToRiviera: ReassignedToAntarctica: Judy's commanding officer in the Thornbirds attempts to sexually assault her. When she refuses to comply, he attempts to have her transferred as far away from Biloxi as soon as possible. Rather than accept what she sees as an undesirable post in Greenland or Guam, she negotiates a much better assignment to SHAPE in Belgium.
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: ReassignedToRiviera: Judy's commanding officer in the Thornbirds attempts to sexually assault her. When she refuses to comply, he attempts to have her transferred as far away from Biloxi as soon as possible. Rather than accept what she sees as an undesirable post in Greenland or Guam, she negotiates a much better assignment to SHAPE in Belgium.
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* RunawayBride: The film ends with Judy deciding that she doesn't want to marry Henri and storming out of their wedding, still clad in her wedding dress.
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* PrenupBlowUp: Henri tries to "remake" Judy, and also insists she sign a prenuptial agreement (in French) to protect his family home held for centuries.
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A JewishAmericanPrincess, Judy Benjamin (Hawn), is devastated when her husband (Albert Brooks) drops dead on their wedding night. While she grieves a duplicitous recruiter for the Women's Army Corps convinces her to enlist. Judy thinks her enlistment is like a vacation but Captain Lewis (Eileen Brennan) quickly dashes her hopes of an easy time. As Judy goes through basic training like any other grunt, she becomes a good soldier and develops a sense of self-esteem.
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A JewishAmericanPrincess, Judy Benjamin (Hawn), is devastated when her husband (Albert Brooks) (Creator/AlbertBrooks) drops dead on their wedding night. While she grieves a duplicitous recruiter for the Women's Army Corps convinces her to enlist. Judy thinks her enlistment is like a vacation but Captain Lewis (Eileen Brennan) (Creator/EileenBrennan) quickly dashes her hopes of an easy time. As Judy goes through basic training like any other grunt, she becomes a good soldier and develops a sense of self-esteem.
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* RecruitersAlwaysLie:
-->'''Judy Benjamin:''' I think they sent me to the wrong place.\\
'''Capt. Lewis:''' Uh-huh.\\
'''Judy Benjamin:''' See, I did join the army, but I joined a ''different'' army. I joined the one with the condos and the private rooms.
-->'''Judy Benjamin:''' I think they sent me to the wrong place.\\
'''Capt. Lewis:''' Uh-huh.\\
'''Judy Benjamin:''' See, I did join the army, but I joined a ''different'' army. I joined the one with the condos and the private rooms.
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* DeconstructedTrope: Deconstructs the BootCampEpisode by showing that while she overcame boot camp, we also see how the army changed her life.
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* ToothbrushFloorScrubbing: During basic training, Judy Benjamin complains about the latrine being unsanitary and is ordered to clean it with her toothbrush. Her ''electric'' toothbrush.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant L.C. Ross. He fits the "gruff black man" type, being played by gruff black actor Hal Williams and all.
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''Private Benjamin'' is a 1980 American comedy film starring Creator/GoldieHawn. The film was one of the biggest box office hits of 1980, and also spawned a short-lived television series
A JewishAmericanPrincess, Judy Benjamin (Hawn), is devastated when her husband (Albert Brooks) drops dead on their wedding night. While she grieves a duplicitous recruiter for the Women's Army Corps convinces her to enlist. Judy thinks her enlistment is like a vacation but Captain Lewis (Eileen Brennan) quickly dashes her hopes of an easy time. As Judy goes through basic training like any other grunt, she becomes a good soldier and develops a sense of self-esteem.
!!Tropes used in ''Private Benjamin'' include:
* ArmedFarces
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Done during a war game. Since the two sides only differentiated by colour of arm-band, it is surprisingly easy; using one soldier's non-regulation red underwear to make the red armbands.
* ISurrenderSuckers: The Red and the Blue side are holding simulated war games. So Judy and her teammates in the Blue team go over in a truck to the Red team and tells them that the Blue team has surrendered, and they can get in the truck to go back to base. Amidst the cheering and applause, they get in, at which point they are disarmed at gunpoint; they've been tricked into allowing themselves to be captured!
* JewishAmericanPrincess: Judy Benjamin is one of these [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid getting suckered into joining the Army]], with the expected FishOutOfWater results.
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Judy the Army thinking it's all travel and fun, like in the adverts (an image reinforced by an unscrupulous recruiter).
* OutWithABang: Happens to Judy's husband at the start of the film. Leads to this exchange at the funeral:
-->"What were his last words?"\\
"I'm coming."
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Judy Benjamin, when taking her oath of loyalty after signing up for the Army, repeats, "...do solemnly swear or affirm..."
* TradingBarsForStripes: one of the other trainees in boot camp was apparently this trope. After she flipped off the drill sergeant behind her back (during the typical "first day at training" scene), Sarge says that she'll soon wish she'd chosen Attica.
* WidowedAtTheWedding: Judy's husband dies of a heart attack while they're making love on their wedding night.
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A JewishAmericanPrincess, Judy Benjamin (Hawn), is devastated when her husband (Albert Brooks) drops dead on their wedding night. While she grieves a duplicitous recruiter for the Women's Army Corps convinces her to enlist. Judy thinks her enlistment is like a vacation but Captain Lewis (Eileen Brennan) quickly dashes her hopes of an easy time. As Judy goes through basic training like any other grunt, she becomes a good soldier and develops a sense of self-esteem.
!!Tropes used in ''Private Benjamin'' include:
* ArmedFarces
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Done during a war game. Since the two sides only differentiated by colour of arm-band, it is surprisingly easy; using one soldier's non-regulation red underwear to make the red armbands.
* ISurrenderSuckers: The Red and the Blue side are holding simulated war games. So Judy and her teammates in the Blue team go over in a truck to the Red team and tells them that the Blue team has surrendered, and they can get in the truck to go back to base. Amidst the cheering and applause, they get in, at which point they are disarmed at gunpoint; they've been tricked into allowing themselves to be captured!
* JewishAmericanPrincess: Judy Benjamin is one of these [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid getting suckered into joining the Army]], with the expected FishOutOfWater results.
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Judy the Army thinking it's all travel and fun, like in the adverts (an image reinforced by an unscrupulous recruiter).
* OutWithABang: Happens to Judy's husband at the start of the film. Leads to this exchange at the funeral:
-->"What were his last words?"\\
"I'm coming."
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Judy Benjamin, when taking her oath of loyalty after signing up for the Army, repeats, "...do solemnly swear or affirm..."
* TradingBarsForStripes: one of the other trainees in boot camp was apparently this trope. After she flipped off the drill sergeant behind her back (during the typical "first day at training" scene), Sarge says that she'll soon wish she'd chosen Attica.
* WidowedAtTheWedding: Judy's husband dies of a heart attack while they're making love on their wedding night.
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