History Film / LoneSurvivor

* BadassBeard: Again, the [=SEALs=]. In the film adaptation, at least. This is TruthinTelevision: Most of the pictures of [=SEALs=] who participated in Operation Red Wings show them with beards.

** In the book, the team takes a vote to decide the fate of the goatherders, and Luttrel casts the deciding vote after Murphy states he would go along with what Luttrel chose. This sparked a considerable controversy after the book was published, and prompted a statement from Lt. Murphy's father denying his son would allow a vote to determine his action. In the film, the team debates, bickers, begins to vote... and Lt. Murphy steps out from behind a tree and announces in ringing tones that ''he'' is in command and will make the decision. Theoretically, the only living person who knows the actual sequence of events is Luttrel. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement And that's all that can be said on that]].

* BadassBeard: Again, the [=SEALs=]. In the film adaptation, at least.
** TruthinTelevision: Most of the pictures of [=SEALs=] who participated in Operation Red Wings, show them with beards.

* HowWeGotHere

* {{Badass}}: It's the Navy [=SEALs=]. Nuff said.

** The film leaves out the extended period of time Luttrel spent with the villagers, and all the relationships he built therein. There is, however, a brief nod to it when he hugs a kid who helped him and says "thank you" right before leaving.

* TrainingMontage: The film's opening is a montage of real-life [=SEALs=] training; despite it being only a few minutes long, it's more than enough to show how [=SEALs=] get to be such badasses.

* MadeOfIron: Luttrel, Murphy, Dietz, and Axelson are all wounded literally ''dozens'' of times before going down. TruthInTelevision, as [=BUD/S=] training, especially Hell Week, is designed to weed out everybody except men who are both superhumanly physically tough and mentally ''will not'' quit.
--> '''PO2 Matt Axelson (with a bullet wound in the back of his head):''' Marcus, did they really shoot me in the fuckin' head?
--> '''PO2 Marcus Luttrel:''' Uh...shit, yeah.
--> '''PO2 Matt Axelson (reloading his sidearm):''' Damn it.

* CreatorCameo: Director Peter Berg is briefly seen as one of the [=SEALs=] jeering during at Shane Patton's dance sequence. Marcus Luttrell himself also appears in several scenes as the big unnamed [=SEAL=] with the full beard.

* MadeOfIron: Luttrell, Murphy, Dietz, and Axelson are all wounded literally ''dozens'' of times before going down. TruthInTelevision, as [=BUD/S=] training, especially Hell Week, is designed to weed out everybody except men who are both superhumanly physically tough and mentally ''will not'' quit.

--> '''PO2 Marcus Luttrell:''' Uh...shit, yeah.

* LanguageBarrier: Naturally between Luttrel and his Pashtan hosts, leading to somewhat humorous exchanges.

* CreatorCameo: Director Peter Berg is briefly seen as one of the soldiers jeering during the sequence with the young recruit.

** SenselessSacrifice: The aircrafts he dies calling in can't help them any.
* HopeSpot: Thanks to Lt. Murphy's sacrifice, support aircrafts are eventually called in for the surviving [=SEAL=]s, but one is quickly shot down, killing all onboard, and forcing the other to withdraw immediately.

The FilmOfTheBook by the same name, Lone Survivor tells the story of Operation Red Wings and the death of SEAL team 10. Starring Creator/MarkWahlberg and featuring an extended cameo by Marcus Luttrel himself (though not ''as'' himself), the story is 8slightly changed from Luttrel's original telling, and considerably truncated.

* Creator Cameo: Director Peter Berg is briefly seen as one of the soldiers jeering during the sequence with the young recruit.

The FilmOfTheBook by the same name, Lone Survivor tells the story of Operation Red Wings and the death of SEAL team 10. Starring Creator/MarkWahlberg and featuring an extended cameo by Marcus Luttrel himself (though not ''as'' himself), the story is slightly changed from Luttrel's original telling, and considerably truncated.

* RuleOfDrama: Most of the Arabic is untranslated, as Luttrel didn't know it. However, when he's about to be executed by the Taliban and one of the Pashtun invokes SacredHospitality to keep him alive, we're briefly given subtitles so that the Taliban not executing him would be reasonable and not seem like a DeusExMachina.

** The film leaves out the extended period of time Luttrel spent with the villagers, and all the relationships he built therein.
** In the book, the team takes a vote to decide the fate of the goatherders, and Luttrel casts the deciding vote after Murphy states he would go along with what Luttrel chose. This sparked a considerable controversy after the book was published, and prompted a statement from Lt. Murphy's father denying his son would allow a vote to determine his action. In the film, the team debates, bickers, begins to vote...and Lt. Murphy steps out from behind a tree and announces in ringing tones that ''he'' is in command and will make the decision. Theoretically, the only living person who knows the actual sequence of events is Luttrel. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement And that's all that can be said on that]].

* DeskJockey: [=SEAL=] newbie, Shane, resents being relegated to this position, wishing to join the battlefield.

* AdaptationDistillation:
** The film leaves out the extended period of time Luttrel