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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Tom Hanks does a pretty good Massachusetts accent throughout the film, but it noticeably disappears when he [[spoiler: starts screaming in panic at the climax of the film.]]
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Deliberately invoked, in-universe. When the negotiators come out the the lifeboat, they also bring a "clean uniform" for Captain Phillips. This consists of a bright yellow shirt with "NAVY" printed on the front and back, the better to distinguish him from his captors in the low-light conditions.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The Navy manages to remove Muse from the lifeboat under pretense of 'Negotiations', who also happened to be the one keeping any semblance of stability on the lifeboat. It doesn't make much of a difference though, as the SEALs are already lining up their shots at that point.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The Navy manages to remove Muse from the lifeboat under pretense of 'Negotiations', who 'Negotiations' ...but he is also happened to be the one keeping any semblance of stability on the lifeboat. It doesn't make much of a difference though, as However, the SEALs SEAL snipers are already lining up their shots at that point.shots, so it winds up not making much of a difference.
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** Near the end, Captain Phillips sees a pen and begins covertly writing a letter to his family in despair...which only makes thing much more unstable when Najee catches him and flips out on him, resulting in Phillips getting hogtied and scared out of his remaining wits during the final shouting match.
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** Near the end, Captain Phillips sees a pen and begins covertly writing a letter to his family in despair...which only makes thing much more unstable when Najee catches him and flips out on him, resulting in Phillips getting hogtied and scared out of his remaining wits during the final shouting match.match (very nearly getting himself shot right then and there).
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** Near the end, Captain Phillips sees a pen and begins covertly writing a letter to his family in despair...which only makes thing much more unstable when Najee catches him and flips out on him, resulting in Phillips getting hogtied and scared out of his remaining wits during the final shouting match.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The Navy manages to remove Muse from the lifeboat under pretense of 'Negotiations', who also happened to be the one keeping any semblance of stability on the lifeboat. It doesn't make much of a difference though, as the SEALs are already lining up their shots at that point.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Upon learning that one of the pirates is barefoot, the crew of the ''Maersk Alabama'' strew broken glass by the door to the engine room. Bilal steps right into it.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Najee. Being in a stressful situation and being fucked up on ''khat'' probably doesn't help.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Muse and Bilal veer into this territory during the third act.
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* BerserkButton: Literally! After spending two-thirds of the movie being abused by the pirates in one way or another, Captain Phillips finally snaps [[spoiler: and physically attacks Najee after he snatches away the farewell letter Phillips was writing to his family.]]
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* DeTerminator: Muse is going to carry out his plan, no matter what.
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* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: During the pirates' first attempt to capture the ''Maersk Alabama'', Captain Phillips bluffs them by pretending to talk to a nonexistant naval vessel, providing the Navy's responses himself. When he says that a helicopter will be showing up in five minutes, most of them take off. [[spoiler: Muse isn't fooled, but the engine on his skiff craps out.]]
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* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: During the pirates' first attempt to capture the ''Maersk Alabama'', Captain Phillips bluffs them by pretending to talk to a nonexistant naval vessel, providing the Navy's responses himself. When he says that a helicopter will be showing up in five minutes, most of them the pirates take off. [[spoiler: Muse isn't fooled, but the engine on his skiff craps out.]]
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Muse and Bilal veer into this territory during the third act.
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* ActorAllusion: This is not the [[ToyStory first time]] that TomHanks has [[HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation held both sides of the conversation.]] This time goes rather better than the first time.
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* RuthlessModernPirates: What the ship is raided by.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Between attempts on the ''Maersk Alabama'', Muse orders another pirate to give him another engine for his skiff. The other guy doesn't take it so well; he starts yelling at Muse and threatens to shoot him. Muse gives him a wrench upside the head. No one gives him a problem after that. [[spoiler: Until the situation starts going to hell when they're in the ''Maersk's'' lifeboat.]]
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* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: During the pirates' first attempt to capture the ''Maersk Alabama'', Captain Phillips bluffs them by pretending to talk to a nonexistant naval vessel, providing the Navy's responses himself. When he says that a helicopter will be showing up in five minutes, most of them take off. [[spoiler: Muse isn't fooled, but the engine on his skiff craps out.]]
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* ForegoneConclusion: Considering that the movie is based off of a memoir by the real Captain Phillips, you know he is going to come out ok.
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* ArcWords: "Don't worry, everything gone be ok."
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* TooDumbToLive: The pirates, quite literally, once the U.S. Navy showed up.
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* GuileHero: Captain Phillips and his crew outwit the pirates due to their superior knowledge of the ship.
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'''''Captain Phillips''''' is an American drama film to be released in October 2013 about the RealLife ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Alabama_hijacking Maersk Alabama]]'' hostage situation, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Creator/TomHanks as the eponymous Captain Richard Phillips.Phillips.
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'''''Captain Phillips''''' is an American drama film to be released in October 2013 about the RealLife ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Alabama_hijacking Maersk Alabama]]'' hostage situation, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Creator/TomHanks as the eponymous Captain Richard Phillips.
