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* DiscoDan: Stanley when it comes to music. He prefers vinyl to [[UsefulNotes/CompactDisc CDs]].
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* DiscoDan: Stanley when it comes to music. He prefers vinyl to [[UsefulNotes/CompactDisc [[Platform/CompactDisc CDs]].
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* UsefulNotes/NavySeals: Several real [=SEALs=] were brought in to perform the underwater and infiltration scenes, and were given bit parts in the movie.
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* AntiVillain: Hummel ([[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type III -> Type I, with some Type II thrown in]]). He just wants compensation for the families of dead soldiers, and though he is using extreme methods, he specifically demands money from a source that will not harm anyone (a Pentagon slush fund for arms sales), he sends the children away before taking over Alcatraz, he very much regrets his men killing the [=SEALs=], and in the end [[spoiler: he was bluffing the entire time. Pity his men weren't.]]
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* AntiVillain: Hummel ([[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type III -> Type I, with some Type II thrown in]]). He just wants compensation for the families of dead soldiers, and though he is using extreme methods, he specifically demands money from a source that will not harm anyone (a Pentagon slush fund for illegal arms sales), he sends the children away before taking over Alcatraz, he very much regrets his men killing the [=SEALs=], and in the end [[spoiler: he was bluffing the entire time. Pity his men weren't.]]
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** Although quite possibly ultimately subverted, given that [[spoiler:by the end of the film, Goodspeed has a microfilm full of government secrets -- including the killer of JFK! -- which he could most likely use to, ahem, "encourage" the government into coughing up the money anyway.]]
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Mason was perfectly content to escape Alcatraz after the SEALs get wiped out and abandon Goodspeed. But after Hummel's men try to kill him with explosives, he reluctantly agrees to help Goodspeed in stopping them.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Mason was perfectly content to escape Alcatraz after the SEALs [=SEALs=] get wiped out and abandon Goodspeed. But after Hummel's men try to kill him with explosives, he reluctantly agrees to help Goodspeed in stopping them.
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-->'''Goodspeed''': You wanna play tough with me? Okay, FBI! Freeze sucker! I'll fire.
-->'''Mason''': No you won't.
-->'''Goodspeed''': Throw down.
-->'''Mason''': You're not the sort.
-->'''Goodspeed''': Let's find out.
-->'''Mason''': I could; you, no. Besides your safety's on.
-->[Mason snatches the gun]
-->'''Mason''': No you won't.
-->'''Goodspeed''': Throw down.
-->'''Mason''': You're not the sort.
-->'''Goodspeed''': Let's find out.
-->'''Mason''': I could; you, no. Besides your safety's on.
-->[Mason snatches the gun]
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-->'''Goodspeed''': You wanna play tough with me? Okay, FBI! Freeze sucker! I'll fire.
-->'''Mason''':fire.\\
'''Mason''': No youwon't.
-->'''Goodspeed''':won't.\\
'''Goodspeed''': Throwdown.
-->'''Mason''':down.\\
'''Mason''': You're not thesort.
-->'''Goodspeed''':sort.\\
'''Goodspeed''': Let's findout.
-->'''Mason''':out.\\
'''Mason''': I could; you, no. Besides your safety'son.
-->[Masonon.\\
''[Goodspeed tilts his gun to look, Mason snatchesthe gun]it away.]''
-->'''Mason''':
'''Mason''': No you
-->'''Goodspeed''':
'''Goodspeed''': Throw
-->'''Mason''':
'''Mason''': You're not the
-->'''Goodspeed''':
'''Goodspeed''': Let's find
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'''Mason''': I could; you, no. Besides your safety's
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-->'''Crisp''': Killing Marines is one thing. Is this for real?
-->'''Frye''': Hey, it's just business.
-->'''Frye''': Hey, it's just business.
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-->'''Crisp''': Killing Marines Man, killing Navy [=SEALs=] is one thing. Is this for real?
-->'''Frye''':real?\\
'''Frye''': Hey, it'sjust business.
-->'''Frye''':
'''Frye''': Hey, it's
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* OverrankedSoldier: Hummel introduces Crisp as a ''Gunnery'' Sergeant, a rank that usually requires a minimum of 13-15 years of service in the Marine Corps, and the average age of a "Gunny" is 35 (Creator/BokeemWoodbine was 22 at the time the film was released). Even allowing for a BattlefieldPromotion and Crisp's outstanding performance during Desert Storm, his actor is still ridiculously young to be holding such a rank.
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* BritainIsOnlyEngland: Creator/SeanConnery's character is referred to (correctly) as British throughout the movie by the US officials, and said to be from Great Britain, with his place of birth being Glasgow (to match Connery's identity, although he himself was from Edinburgh). However, later in the film, one of the terrorists calls him an 'English pig' during a fight, regardless of the fact that both Connery and his character are so evidently Scottish (Connery himself was a supporter of Scottish nationalism). In spite of this, this is never corrected by Connery's character.
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* HollywoodToneDeaf: Mason's singing to Scott [=McKenzie's=] If You're Going To San Francisco in the shower at the Fairmont Hotel. We see one of his guards shaking his head in exasperation at how utterly off-beat and toneless Mason is. In fact, it's so out of rhythm that nobody notices him calling room service to distract them with a feast.
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* ActionDuo: Goodspeed and Mason.
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* ActionDuo: Goodspeed and Mason. The former is the ActionSurvivor, making it through on sheer luck and esoteric skills (bravery he's got, it just takes him a while to expand it to "being in a gunfight") while Mason is the ([[RetiredBadass elderly]]) action hero who does the majority of the kills by various means, including thrown knife to the throat and dropping an AC unit on their head.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: Brigadier General Francis Hummel may very well be THE most sympathetic villain in film; his plot to extort millions from the government by threatening to release a deadly nerve gas is motivated by him being AFatherToHisMen, aggrieved that too many of his soldiers died for their country without their families being compensated. His plan involves using non-lethal force to steal the bioweapon, he ensures no children are among the civilian hostages he takes, and he ultimately admits that the entire operation is a bluff and refuses to go through with it. By contrast, his underling Capt. Darrow (and his partner Capt Frye) is cruel and cold-hearted, his only motivation being money, and will kill anyone who stands in his way of it, including other soldiers.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: Brigadier General Francis Hummel may very well be THE most sympathetic villain in film; his plot to extort millions from the government by threatening to release a deadly nerve gas is motivated by him being AFatherToHisMen, aggrieved that too many of his soldiers died for their country without their families being compensated.compensated or even given the straight story why they died (because of the black-ops nature of many of Hummel's missions). His plan involves using non-lethal force to steal the bioweapon, he ensures no children are among the civilian hostages he takes, and he ultimately admits that the entire operation is a bluff and refuses to go through with it. By contrast, his underling Capt. Darrow (and his partner Capt Frye) is cruel and cold-hearted, his only motivation being money, and will kill anyone who stands in his way of it, including other soldiers.soldiers [[spoiler:and [[DragonAscendant Hummel himself]].]]
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* NerdHoard: Stanley Goodspeed is a proud Beatlemaniac, going so far as to spend $600 on the original ''Meet The Beatles'' LP to add to his collection.
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* VillainsDyingGrace: While dying from getting shot by Frye and Darrow, [[spoiler:General Hummel reveals the location of the last rocket so Goodspeed can disable it and end their threat.]]
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* MortonsFork: This is part of why Mason changes his mind and comes back to aid Goodspeed in the Third Act (in addition to not wanting Goodspeed's child to grow up without a father like Jade did). Mason knows he and Goodspeed are outnumbered and outgunned by Hummel's surviving men. But Mason also knows that trying to swim the channel to the San Francisco mainland at his old age is pretty much out (and even if he does make it, he'll probably still die if Hummel launches the rockets). As Mason puts it, "...I'm fucked either way."
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: This is part of why Mason never cut a deal with the Feds. He knew withholding the location of the microfilm was ironically the ''only'' thing keeping him alive. Mason knew the moment the Feds got their hands on the microfilmn, they'd "suicide" him.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: This is part of why Mason never cut a deal with the Feds. Feds after being originally captured. He knew withholding the now-hidden microfilm's location of the microfilm was ironically the ''only'' thing keeping him alive. Mason knew that the moment the Feds finally got their hands on the microfilmn, microfilm, they'd "suicide" him.
