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It's in the novel. Essentially, he had slowly gone mad. He didn't want to be there, he was alone, was out of his element, and had no friends.
It's primarily a plot device. No one knows that Dunbar is at the fort because the one officer who knew killed himself. The soldiers that had been at the fort were starving and left on foot to try to get back to town, but were all killed (to my memory) so no one even reported that the fort was unmanned. Thus the long time without resupply or contact.
In the novelization, it makes way more sense but putting it in the movie would slow it way down and it's already a slow movie.
Did you miss the part where Kevin Bacon makes a pro-Christian speech at the town hall meeting?
It's anti-fundamentalist, but not anti-Christian.
Easy answers:
Yes
From the pantry.
In the room that wasn't on camera.
With a shovel.
There, all questions answered. That was easy.
So many buttons to count. So little time.
For the button counters... What is unrealistic specifically that stands out? What takes you out of the movie? I'm curious.
I was quite impressed by it. No shoe-horned love story. No excessive character development. No message. Just a story.
I have a "How to" textbook written by a destroyer captain just after WWII. This movie watches like that book reads. "How to fight a wolf pack, chapter 1"
If you're not into WWII destroyer vs. submarine kind of stuff, you won't like it. I wouldn't expect you to.
I thought of a line from the book when watching the movie, "If you haven't dipped a rail, you aren't a destroyer captain."
The people I have worked with or been friends with from the Soviet era were all amazed at how nice Americans were. My buddy was a sailor and he thought that all Americans were bloodthirsty decadent capitalist pig dogs.
Eventually, he moved to the States and realized that we're all just people.
The propaganda machine in Soviet Russia was just as bad as the American propaganda machine.
When using a mechanical typewriter, you use 2 spaces. When using desktop publishing software, you use a single space then replace it with an EM space. In MS Word, these days, it automatically replaces two spaces with an EM space. It's a style and typesetting guideline.
You're racist and love Nazis. We get it.
I like hats.
Don't "button count"
The war worked out the way it did. This is a movie. Accept it as it is.
He's frustrated. He's upset. He just lost a man. No, Norman likely couldn't have hit him from his position. Yes, he can operate the gun elevated.
He's upset because he's expecting to lose Norman within a day or two because Norman is inexperienced and likely to die. He's a replacement. Wardaddy knows this and is trying to take an 8 week man into a multi year war in the span of a day. It works sometimes. In this case, it does.
He's been alive for thousands of years. To him, the average person is no more than a fly after so much time. He brings up how cruel he has been over his entire life.
He didn't know if he even cared. He had to force himself to care.
When you've killed enough things, you get so numb you don't care any more. You don't want to admit that you care. Hundreds of creatures have been killed by me in a variety of ways. Some for food, some for pest control. I don't like it, but I can't let myself care for them. Otherwise, I'd go insane.
He lost it for a bit, but then got it back to care about people. I've never been in war. I'm just making a comparison to animals.
I love the voice he chose. Men that have a tough guy voice aren't dangerous. They're just playing a game.
A man who has a high pitched voice, showing mental strain. They are danger. We all like to think that we're tough guys when we drop our voice low. That's not dangerous. When your voice pitches high and broken, you're on the edge. It means you cannot be trusted.
A dog that says "Woof" is safe. A dog that cries, ears back, tail tucked; now that's dangerous.
Not normally unless you're terrible or your DIs are really mean. My buddy had to do 5-10 miles often back in the late 80's. It was a combination of his whole class constantly breaking rules and all their DIs being really hard on them. They didn't really learn any military stuff. They just PTd all day during boot. They couldn't close order drill. They had no idea what to do on parade. But they were in absurdly good shape.
Socs are people involved in the social scene so yes, like a socialite. Greaser was a standard term that was used back then. Just like having a DA haircut was all the rage with that scene.
They have silly names because their parent's were weird proto-hippy types. I don't recall if they were beatniks or not.
The book makes way more sense if you identify with the greasers. The book spoke to me very well. Through the 80's and 90's, I ran with a group like that. You have friends and none of you fit into any particular group so you make your own. Yes, the preps (read socs) would constantly go out of their way to pick on us. Also the jocks would pick on us. Also, the criminal kids would pick on us. Heck, even the nerds would pick on us.
Works fine when added to something else. Wild Rice, Beans, pasta, etc. It almost disappears. No texture, but it adds the same flavor. The fact is, when you boil down fat, it doesn't matter any more.
Eating a whole piece of boiled bacon, no, I haven't done that. I will eat the piece of belly that you use for making beans though. It almost dissolves in your mouth at that point.
Sister Mary Robert is a novice. She is still a lay person. She hasn't taken her vows yet.
Deloris is pretending to be a nun so she's dressed in a habit.
In general, nuns don't wear the habit any more. They are welcome to, but, because they spend so much time in community outreach, they fit in better with the public in street clothes.
Not even close to the ending.
It's a "And then my troubles began" ending. Not sure why the Spanish are the saviors in people eyes. The ending is just the start of the troubles.
If you got cold enough, some pieces of you might break off, but you won't shatter like that. It would definitely take longer for you to freeze solid either way.
Still, it's a creative scene for a slasher movie.
There is at least one black guy in the cast. Women weren't allowed on ships. I was super excited that the movie doesn't have some stupid side story about a love interest. The books have them. This story does not. It's all at sea.