Blue Thunder: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"This ship is equipped with a forward-mounted, twenty-millimeter electric cannon. Its six barrels are capable of firing four thousand rounds of ammunition per minute. And that, gentlemen, is one hell of a shit-storm in anybody's language!"}}

* [[Evil Brit]]: Colonel Cochrane.

* [[Fake Static]]: "Cannot read you, Special Base. Still garbled." Murphy is later called out on this by Captain Braddock.

{{quote|"Who are you fooling with that phony radio bullshit? Jesus Christ, Frank, that went out three days after Marconi invented the fucking thing!"}}

* [[Gunship Rescue]]: When Murphy's girlfriend is being pursued by the police, he rescues her with Blue Thunder.

** Although the movie subverts it with a somewhat more realistic sequence of events than 'stole a helicopter to go save his girlfriend'. Murphy (after he's already a fugitive from the police) had broken into Blue Thunder's hangar to retrieve the copy of the evidence tape Lymangood had stored onboard, and was caught there by the police. His only way ''out'' of the hangar was to steal the helicopter he was already sitting in. Shortly after he'd got it airborne, he finds out that the message Lymangood had left onboard was not the evidence but instead the map to where he'd stashed the evidence. Since Murphy can't land the helicopter to go fetch it, he calls her and asks her to go pick it up and take it to the TV station... and then, knowing the crooked cops will try to stop her, flies gunship cover for her car on the way there.

* [[Hot Pursuit]]: Murphy's girlfriend attempts to outrun the cops while carrying the [[Plot Coupon|tape with the evidence]] to uncover the conspiracy. Murphy has to rescue her with Blue Thunder.

* [[Immune to Bullets]]: Blue Thunder itself, at least to normal ammunition, although it has a few weak spots, particularly when military-issue armor-piercing rounds are involved.

* [[The Peeping Tom]]: One [[Everybody Remembers the Stripper|memorable scene]] involves the Blue Thunder's crew hovering outside a young lady's picture window to watch her practice nude yoga.

* [[Plot Coupon]]: The tape containing the evidence to unmask the [[Government Conspiracy]].

* [[Repeat Cut]]: Used twice, first in the climactic helicopter duel with {{spoiler|Cochrane}}, and then at the end when {{spoiler|Blue Thunder is destroyed by a train}}.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Murphy's [[Flash Back|flashbacks]] are triggered by his Vietnam War experiences.

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