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* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: The plot of the film is driven by a corrupt defense contractor trying to knowingly fob off substandard rifles on the US Army. A soldier is badly wounded firing one on the range early on.
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* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity: As a training exercise, Chiun once requires Remo to climb down the scaffolding from the renovation of the Statue of Liberty. He is then attacked by assassins in the middle of it and has to fight them off as he descends.
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* SquirrelInMyPants: After breaking through a window, Remo ends up with three rodents in his pants.
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* AngryGuardDog: Remo encounters a trio of smarter than usual Doberman dogs chasing him at the factory.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Critically wounded and on life support in enemy custody, Conn cuts the tubes keeping him breathing before he can be interrogated.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: This is CURE's Modus Operandi when eliminating a VillainWithGoodPublicity.
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* DeadlyEuphemism:
-->'''Harold:''' And that's why we got you here, Mr. Williams. You're going to help remove some of the filth in there.
-->'''Remo:''' Oh, I like that. That's nice. It's a whole lot nicer than "kill," or "destroy," or "terminate with extreme prejudice." I mean, that's what you're really talking about now, isn't it?
-->'''Conn:''' I think he's got it, Mr. Smith.
-->'''Harold:''' That's exactly what we're talking about, Mr. Williams.
-->'''Harold:''' And that's why we got you here, Mr. Williams. You're going to help remove some of the filth in there.
-->'''Remo:''' Oh, I like that. That's nice. It's a whole lot nicer than "kill," or "destroy," or "terminate with extreme prejudice." I mean, that's what you're really talking about now, isn't it?
-->'''Conn:''' I think he's got it, Mr. Smith.
-->'''Harold:''' That's exactly what we're talking about, Mr. Williams.
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* CyanidePill: Harold Smith reveals to Remo that he keeps a pill in his pocket that will make him die of a heart attack in the event of CURE being compromised.
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* FaceYourFears: Chiun notes early on in Remo's training that he is afraid of heights, so he takes him to the top of the scaffolding around the Statue of Liberty.
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* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Chiun and Remo settle into this kind of relationship while Remo is training:
-->'''Chiun''': (reading the back of a can of beans) It would be better for you to eat this can than what is in it. Why must everything in this country be covered in Mono...Monoso-
-->'''Remo''': Monosodium glutamate. You can't even say it!
-->'''Chiun''': I can say "rat droppings!" (drops the can) That does not mean I want to eat them!
-->'''Chiun''': (reading the back of a can of beans) It would be better for you to eat this can than what is in it. Why must everything in this country be covered in Mono...Monoso-
-->'''Remo''': Monosodium glutamate. You can't even say it!
-->'''Chiun''': I can say "rat droppings!" (drops the can) That does not mean I want to eat them!
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* BlatantLies: The amount of thought that went into our hero's [[LineOfSightName new name]].
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* CountingBullets: Remo tries this after dodging two of Chiun's bullets:
-->'''Remo:''' You used the other four yesterday.
--> *Chiun shoots above his head*
-->'''Chiun:''' I reloaded.
-->'''Remo:''' You used the other four yesterday.
--> *Chiun shoots above his head*
-->'''Chiun:''' I reloaded.
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New York city beat cop Sam Makin is ambushed one night and awakens to discover that he has had MagicPlasticSurgery to drastically change his looks. Oh, and he's LegallyDead, too, and is given the new identity Remo Williams, [[LineOfSightName after the name and location of the manufacturer of the bedpan in his hospital room]]. Convinced to become an agent for the United States government, Williams is sent to train in the FantasticFightingStyle of Sinanju from an OldMaster named Chiun (Creator/JoelGrey), while the organization running him, CURE, investigates corruption in a US Army weapons procurement program flagged by a disrespected female major (Creator/KateMulgrew).
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New York city beat cop Sam Makin is ambushed one night and awakens to discover that he has had MagicPlasticSurgery to drastically change his looks. Oh, and he's LegallyDead, too, and is given the new identity Remo Williams, [[LineOfSightName after the name and location of the manufacturer of the bedpan in his hospital room]]. Convinced to become an agent for the United States government, Williams is sent to train in the FantasticFightingStyle of Sinanju from an OldMaster named Chiun (Creator/JoelGrey), while the organization running him, CURE, investigates corruption in a US Army weapons procurement program flagged by a disrespected female major staff officer Major Rayner Fleming (Creator/KateMulgrew).
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New York city beat cop Sam Makin is ambushed one night and awakens to discover that he has had MagicPlasticSurgery to drastically change his looks. Oh, and he's LegallyDead, too, and is given the new identity Remo Williams, [[LineOfSightName after the name and location of the manufacturer of the bedpan in his hospital room]]. Convinced to become an agent for the United States government, Williams is sent to train in the FantasticFightingStyle of Sinanju from an OldMaster named Chiun (Creator/JoelGrey), while the organization running him, CURE, investigates corruption in a US Army weapons procurement program.
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''Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins'' is a 1985 action movie [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] ''Literature/TheDestroyer'' novel series and starring Creator/FredWard as the title character.
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''Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins'' is a 1985 action movie directed by Creator/GuyHamilton, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] ''Literature/TheDestroyer'' novel series and starring Creator/FredWard as the title character.
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* TestesTest: When the main character wakes in the hospital, after officially being listed dead, one of the CURE operatives says they did some work on him. He checks 'down-there', and is told "Just your face."
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* {{Yellowface}}: Chiun is played by Caucasian Joel Grey in yellowface. Notably, the sheer amount of effort put into this earned the film an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Makeup, although it lost the award to ''Film/{{Mask}}''.
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* {{Yellowface}}: Chiun is played by Caucasian Joel Grey in yellowface. Notably, the sheer amount of effort put into this earned the film an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Makeup, although it lost the award to ''Film/{{Mask}}''.''Film/{{Mask|1985}}''.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The BigBad of the film is a defense contracting executive conspiring with a general to cover up that the assault rifles he's building for the Army are prone to bursting when fired.
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* DisabilitySuperpower: Conn cuts an electrified fence with a pair of wire cutters without flinching. When Remo asks him if Chiun taught him that, Conn reveals his [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic arm]], replacing a flesh-and-blood limb lost in Korea.
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* SilenceYouFool
-->''Chiun:''' Silence! The fool chatters, but it is the wise man that listens.
-->''Chiun:''' Silence! The fool chatters, but it is the wise man that listens.
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*{{Novelization}}: By Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, the authors of [[Literature/TheDestroyer the movie's source novels]].
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* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Remo's first assassination target is Master Chiun himself, who just goes about his daily routines as Remo repeatedly tries to kill him, the goal being to show Remo how little he really knows.
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* ThePornomancer: Chiun can reduce a woman to an orgasmic heap by tapping on her wrist in time with her pulse.
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* LineOfSightName: Sam Makin's new name Remo Williams comes from the name and location of the manufacturer of the bedpan in his hospital room after he's recovering from plastic surgery.
* MonumentalBattle: A big fight sequence when Remo is attacked by assassins while climbing down from the renovation work on the Statue of Liberty.
* NonchalantDodge:
** Our introduction to the title character's future master comes when Remo shoots at him. The man does a Type 1, later explained as him watching Remo's muscle movements to tell when he was about to fire.
** Remo later does the same trick, but it doesn't look nearly as badass as when Chiun does it.
* OddlySmallOrganization: A former cop is forcibly recruited by a secret government organization called the CURE, founded by President Kennedy to safeguard the country from all threats by any means necessary. The entire organization consists of only three people (including the new recruit) and a powerful computer (for its time). There is also an OldMaster who trains Remo, but he's not officially a member.
* OldMaster: An unusual example in Chiun, an old Korean mentor capable of assorted miraculous feats but also a blatant racist and sexist. He is from a different generation. Incidentally, his racism consists entirely of Korean chauvinism, which makes him a neat parody of the kinds of racists Western audiences are more likely to encounter.
* ThePornomancer: Chiun can reduce a woman to an orgasmic heap by tapping on her wrist in time with her pulse. (Remo attempts this but can't pull it off.)
* TheSpook: The bad guys refer to Remo as "The Faceless Wonder" because they can find absolutely no information on him at all other than a picture and the fact that he's interfering with their nefarious scheme (an artifact of his new identity).
* SuperPersistentPredator: That one guard dog that Remo could not lose no matter what he tried, such as ''following him across a cable between two buildings''.
* TryAndFollow: At one point Remo is being chased by a relentless trio of doberman pinschers. He climbs to the roof of a building to escape, but they follow somehow, at which point he [[ItMakesSenseInContext runs across a cable connecting the building he's on to another building]]. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the situation by uttering a sarcastic, "Try and follow me now, you bastards!" Two of the dogs leave the roof to find other avenues of approach. But the third dog ''follows him across the cable''.
* UnflinchingWalk: Remo after [[spoiler:killing a corrupt general and defense contractor by blowing up their jeep. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHsT41_ir2I Here's a clip.]]]]
* WalkOnWater: Remo's [[OldMaster mentor]] Chiun doing this to escape some villains and to show Remo he's still got a lot to learn. (The trick, it seems, is to run ''really'' fast.) Remo himself earlier runs across ''wet cement'', while the {{Mook}} following him falls in and [[NightmareFuel drowns]]. This is shown as being a kind of mind-over-matter trick of becoming lighter, not really faster.
* {{Yellowface}}: Chiun is played by Caucasian Joel Grey in yellowface. Notably, the sheer amount of effort put into this earned the film an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Makeup, although it lost the award to ''Film/{{Mask}}''.
* MonumentalBattle: A big fight sequence when Remo is attacked by assassins while climbing down from the renovation work on the Statue of Liberty.
* NonchalantDodge:
** Our introduction to the title character's future master comes when Remo shoots at him. The man does a Type 1, later explained as him watching Remo's muscle movements to tell when he was about to fire.
** Remo later does the same trick, but it doesn't look nearly as badass as when Chiun does it.
* OddlySmallOrganization: A former cop is forcibly recruited by a secret government organization called the CURE, founded by President Kennedy to safeguard the country from all threats by any means necessary. The entire organization consists of only three people (including the new recruit) and a powerful computer (for its time). There is also an OldMaster who trains Remo, but he's not officially a member.
* OldMaster: An unusual example in Chiun, an old Korean mentor capable of assorted miraculous feats but also a blatant racist and sexist. He is from a different generation. Incidentally, his racism consists entirely of Korean chauvinism, which makes him a neat parody of the kinds of racists Western audiences are more likely to encounter.
* ThePornomancer: Chiun can reduce a woman to an orgasmic heap by tapping on her wrist in time with her pulse. (Remo attempts this but can't pull it off.)
* TheSpook: The bad guys refer to Remo as "The Faceless Wonder" because they can find absolutely no information on him at all other than a picture and the fact that he's interfering with their nefarious scheme (an artifact of his new identity).
* SuperPersistentPredator: That one guard dog that Remo could not lose no matter what he tried, such as ''following him across a cable between two buildings''.
* TryAndFollow: At one point Remo is being chased by a relentless trio of doberman pinschers. He climbs to the roof of a building to escape, but they follow somehow, at which point he [[ItMakesSenseInContext runs across a cable connecting the building he's on to another building]]. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the situation by uttering a sarcastic, "Try and follow me now, you bastards!" Two of the dogs leave the roof to find other avenues of approach. But the third dog ''follows him across the cable''.
* UnflinchingWalk: Remo after [[spoiler:killing a corrupt general and defense contractor by blowing up their jeep. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHsT41_ir2I Here's a clip.]]]]
* WalkOnWater: Remo's [[OldMaster mentor]] Chiun doing this to escape some villains and to show Remo he's still got a lot to learn. (The trick, it seems, is to run ''really'' fast.) Remo himself earlier runs across ''wet cement'', while the {{Mook}} following him falls in and [[NightmareFuel drowns]]. This is shown as being a kind of mind-over-matter trick of becoming lighter, not really faster.
* {{Yellowface}}: Chiun is played by Caucasian Joel Grey in yellowface. Notably, the sheer amount of effort put into this earned the film an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Makeup, although it lost the award to ''Film/{{Mask}}''.
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* DreamCrushingHandicap: {{Conversed}}. Chiun follows a soap opera where the high school football player loses one of his legs:
-->'''Boy:''' But, I was going to be All-American!\\
'''Doctor:''' Well, now you can be All-American for courage!
-->'''Boy:''' But, I was going to be All-American!\\
'''Doctor:''' Well, now you can be All-American for courage!
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''Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins'' is a 1985 action movie [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] ''Literature/TheDestroyer'' novel series and starring Creator/FredWard as the title character.
New York city beat cop Sam Makin is ambushed one night and awakens to discover that he has had MagicPlasticSurgery to drastically change his looks. Oh, and he's LegallyDead, too, and is given the new identity Remo Williams, [[LineOfSightName after the name and location of the manufacturer of the bedpan in his hospital room]]. Convinced to become an agent for the United States government, Williams is sent to train in the FantasticFightingStyle of Sinanju from an OldMaster named Chiun (Creator/JoelGrey), while the organization running him, CURE, investigates corruption in a US Army weapons procurement program.
The film proved a colossal BoxOfficeBomb and the intended sequels never materialized.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Sinanju. Chiun is a master of Sinanju, and by virtue of this ultimate martial art is able to dodge any attack, including bullets at any range, as well as run on water near the end of the film. Remo isn't at Chiun's level yet but he's still far deadlier than most.
* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity: As a training exercise, Chiun once requires Remo to climb down the scaffolding from the renovation of the Statue of Liberty. He is then attacked by assassins in the middle of it and has to fight them off as he descends.
* DamselInDistress: Major Rayner Fleming is a competent administrative officer and is the first to realize the problems posed by the faulty assault rifles, but this being 1985 she is not combat trained and has to be rescued by Remo.
* DodgeTheBullet: Chiun demonstrates this to Remo at their introduction and later teaches it to him, complete with comments about which muscles to watch for twitching and why you shouldn't cheat by remembering how many bullets are meant to be in the gun.
* FantasticFightingStyle: Sinanju is reputedly the originator of all martial arts.
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Chiun despises literally everything about American culture... except {{soap opera}}s, which he describes as the only worthwhile thing America has ever produced.
* ThePornomancer: Chiun can reduce a woman to an orgasmic heap by tapping on her wrist in time with her pulse.
