The Hunt for Red October (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[All-Star Cast]]: What else do you call this combination? [[Sean Connery]], [[Alec Baldwin]], [[Jurassic Park|Sam Neill]], [[Tim Curry]], [[Stellan Skarsgard]], [[James Earl Jones]], [[Scott Glenn]], even [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Gates McFadden]] ([[Deleted Scene|briefly]]) ...

* [[Americans Are Cowboys]]:

'''Jack Ryan:''' Ah, the Captain seems to think you're some kind of...cowboy. }}

* [[The Artifact]]: When Ryan is trying to convince his superiors that Ramius is defecting to the United States, he mentions that "today is the first anniversary of his wife's death." This has nothing to do with anything in the movie, as it happens, but is a reference to Ramius' motive for defection in the book (see [[It's Personal]] above).

** Once they arrive on the ''Red October'', Jack Ryan takes on this role, having the situation explained to him by Mancuso and Ramius.

* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: Jonesy

'''Seaman Jones''': [[Hyper Awareness|Pitch is too high]]. [[Oh Crap|The torpedo's]] ''[[Oh Crap|Russian]]''. }}

* [[Backed by the Pentagon]]: The scenes on the flight deck were shot on the actual ''Enterprise.'' Scott Glenn (Mancuso) also spent a month aboard ''USS Salt Lake City'' where he was treated as though he was the commanding officer. According to director John McTiernan he came back completely different, very soft-spoken and calm, with a manner he described as being similar to a college president.

* [[Badass Boast]]:

* [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]: Inverted. The film opens with a disclaimer to the effect that, according to American and Soviet authorities, it is ''absolutely '''not''''' [[Based on a True Story]]. The audience is left to draw their own conclusions.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:

* [[Bilingual Backfire]]: When the Americans first meet Ramius and his crew.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous Russian Chanting]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPsL2WVhFCc backing] the [http://www.justsomelyrics.com/1187123/Theme-Hunt-For-Red-October-Lyrics awesome] [[The Reveal|reveal]] of the ''Red October''.

* [[Captain Obvious]]

'''Mancuso''': No [[Precision F-Strike|shit]], buckwheat! Get the hell out of here! }}

* [[Character as Himself]]: Stanley the stuffed toy Teddy bear is listed "as himself" in the end credits.

* [[Eureka Moment]]: When Ryan figures out the last part of Ramius' plan. "How do you make a crew want to get off a ''nuclear'' subma..."

* [[Expospeak Gag]]: Teaching Beaumont to use the sonar, Seaman Jones describes the contact he's found as a "biologic":

'''Jones:''' A whale, Seaman Beaumont, a whale. A marine mammal that knows a heck of a lot more about sonar than you do. }}

* [[Fake Nationality]]: It's a Hollywood flick, so it's a given that many of the major Russian characters were played by non-Slavic actors. The most obvious is [[Sean Connery]] as Lithuanian-born Captian Ramius, as his Scottish accent almost makes it as jarring as an [[Patrick Stewart|Englishman]] [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|playing a French captain]] (or an [[Claude Rains|Englishman]] [[Casablanca|playing a French captain]]). Averted, though, with most of the Soviet extras since most had obviously Slavic features.

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Tupolev, thanks to a [[Misguided Missile]].

* [[Hyper Awareness]]: Seaman Jones, [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that veteran sonar operators in [[Real Life]] really are that good, to the point of identifying individual ships by the sound of their engines.

* [[If I Wanted You Dead...]]: Subverted in the film, after the Red October evades a torpedo launched from a Soviet anti-submarine patrol plane, one of the crew asks "Why's our own navy shooting at us?" and is told by the first officer "If they were really shooting at us, we'd be dead."

* [[I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder]]: Ryan to Ramius:

'''Ramius''': ...whatever. }}

* [[I Was Never Here]]: "Now understand, Commander: That torpedo did ''not'' self-destruct. You heard it '''hit''' the '''''hull'''''. And [[Trope Namer|I...]] ''[[Trope Namer|was never here]]''."

* [[Running Gag]]: Jack Ryan impersonating various ship captains.

** Also whenever he's doing something unpleasant or dangerous;

* [[Shown Their Work]]: The portrayal of submarine life and submarine warfare is pretty realistic.

* [[Silent Running Mode]]: Submarines are of course designed to do this from the very start. ''Red October'' is a particular example in that its caterpillar drive makes it unusually quiet even for submarines.

** The assassination of {{spoiler|[[The Political Officer]]}}. When the rest of the command crew bring this up to Ramius over dinner, Borodin defends Ramius's action, saying "Did you think he would just go away and sulk while we carried out our plans?" Only one of them objects on the basis of murder being wrong; the rest are worried the crew will find out and mutiny.

** When Ramius reveals he {{spoiler|told Russian fleet command that they're defecting.}} Even Borodin, who respects Ramius greatly and waits until the others leave to voice his own objection, is shocked.

'''Kamarov:''' You have signed our ''death warrants.'' }}

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Jack Ryan broke his back in a helicopter crash when he was a Midshipman at the Naval Academy, and spent over a year in the hospital recovering from his injuries. He is shown early in the movie being entirely unable to sleep on airplanes (before the helo crash is brought up in the film). Later, he has to ride in the back of a small airplane getting bounced around in order to get to the ''Enterprise''. And ''then'', he has to ride in a helicopter in order to link up with the ''Dallas''.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Capt. Tupolev; also {{spoiler|the Russian mole aboard the Red October as well}}.

* [[Zipping Up the Bodybag]]: Early in the film, we see Political Officer Putin being zipped up as Captain Ramius expresses his regret over the unfortunate death from [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much|slipping on some spilled tea.]]