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* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The end of the first act shows Joey and a fellow horse charging towards the enemy, then forced to take a leap of faith over some barbed wire quite literally into the audience.
* [[Cool Horse]]: Joey, naturally, and Topthorn as well.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Major Stewart is shown to be more than willing to fight via ambush, which irks [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen|Captain Nicholls]]. Pity they were both beaten by even stronger German [[Combat Pragmatist]], who [[Never Bring a Knife to
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Colin and Peter during the barbed wire scene which also constitutes [[Casual Danger Dialogue]], occurring (as it does) in the middle of No Man's Land during a ''very'' tentative ceasefire.
{{quote|'''Colin:''' So, how's things in yonder trench?
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* [[Manly Tears]]: All over the place--it's [[War Is Hell|a war movie, after all]]. During an interview, ''[[Love Actually]]'' director Richard Curtis commented that [[Tom Hiddleston]]'s eyes [[Fetish Fuel|are so piercing]] that Jeremy Irvine started crying in the scene where Nicholls buys Joey just to "distract people from the blueness."
* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: Ted Narracott's regimental pennant.
* [[Never Bring a Knife to
* [[Never Learned to Read]]: Albert is illiterate in the play, but not in the film.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Michael keeps his vow to protect his brother Gunther by pulling him out of line and deserting with him. {{spoiler|Of course, an officer promptly finds and executes them.}}
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* [[Single Tear]]: Emilie.
* [[Somewhere an Equestrian Is Crying]] Yeah, Joey probably wouldn't be able to plough a whole field with no experience, no training and also being a young horse who is the wrong breed for this type of work anyway, let ALONE pull with enough strength to slice through rocks.
** Partly averted in the play, where Joey is half-Thoroughbred, half-unspecified breed of draft horse.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Used to unsettling effect when Joey and fellow horse Topthorn are crossing the Channel in a troopship. As the soldiers sing a jolly little marching song, a lightning storm seems to rage around them (as suggested by the lighting and sound effects), huge waves crash, and there's ominous music and explosions. The horses whinny and stomp while the boys Just. Keep. SINGING.
** There's also Albert and his friend singing "Goodbye Dolly Gray" while they're going over the top, and they keep singing even as men around them start to fall from gunfire. They're cut off when a shell lands near them, but still.
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