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* MoodWhiplash:
** Chickie's humorous argument with his Dad at dinner is suddenly interrupted by his sister Christine tearfully arriving home to inform the family their neighbor Johnny Knopf was killed in Vietnam.
** The scene where Chickie drinks with Tommy Collins and his squad starts off very light-hearted and heartwarming. Then one of their superior officers barges in demanding to know what's going on and everyone except Chickie snaps to attention, making the reality that these guys are in the middle of a war apparent.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Chickie has this attitude and resents the antiwar demonstrators for their actions. [[spoiler:He changes his tune after he gets to Vietnam and sees what's really going on, causing him to realize how the government is taking advantage of working-class Americans for their political agenda.]]
** Chickie's humorous argument with his Dad at dinner is suddenly interrupted by his sister Christine tearfully arriving home to inform the family their neighbor Johnny Knopf was killed in Vietnam.
** The scene where Chickie drinks with Tommy Collins and his squad starts off very light-hearted and heartwarming. Then one of their superior officers barges in demanding to know what's going on and everyone except Chickie snaps to attention, making the reality that these guys are in the middle of a war apparent.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Chickie has this attitude and resents the antiwar demonstrators for their actions. [[spoiler:He changes his tune after he gets to Vietnam and sees what's really going on, causing him to realize how the government is taking advantage of working-class Americans for their political agenda.]]
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Chickie has this attitude and resents the antiwar demonstrators for their actions. [[spoiler:He changes his tune after he gets to Vietnam and sees what's really going on, causing him to realize how the government is taking advantage of working-class Americans for their political agenda.]]
* ThreatBackfire: In the beginning of the film, Chickie's father is exasperated with him being lazy at their home while on leave and threatens to make him get his own place. It fails because 1)Chickie is perfectly willing to move out and 2)his mother won't allow it since he's out at sea so often.
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* WhatTheHellHero: When Chickie surprises his friend Ricky Duggan with the beer, Ricky is ''pissed'' and chews him out for coming to an active war zone just to give him ''a beer''. In fact, Ricky just barely avoided gunfire to make it to the outpost and could have easily been killed.
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* WhatTheHellHero: WhatTheHellHero:
** Tommy Collins berates his squadmates for trying to help Chickie map out a route to find the other Inwood guys in the battlefields, pointing out they're likely going to get him killed.
** When Chickie surprises his friend Ricky Duggan with the beer, Ricky is ''pissed'' and chews him out for coming to an active war zone just to give him ''a beer''. In fact, Ricky just barely avoided gunfire to make it to the outpost and could have easily been killed.
** Tommy Collins berates his squadmates for trying to help Chickie map out a route to find the other Inwood guys in the battlefields, pointing out they're likely going to get him killed.
** When Chickie surprises his friend Ricky Duggan with the beer, Ricky is ''pissed'' and chews him out for coming to an active war zone just to give him ''a beer''. In fact, Ricky just barely avoided gunfire to make it to the outpost and could have easily been killed.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The film's trailers went out of their way to make it clear to viewers that the film really is BasedOnATrueStory.
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** Chickie is in Vietnam for 72 hours, and that just happens to be in the middle of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive Tet Offensive.]]
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* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: The protagonist ("Chickie") goes onto a dangerous (and illegal) trip to bring a duffel bag full of Pabst Blue Ribbon to his neighborhood chums fighting in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar as a token of support and appreciation. While he succeeds in the delivery and makes it back to New York in one piece, in the whole process he remains scarred from everything he witnessed (including a gut-wrenching scene where [[spoiler:he finds "Oklahoma" dead on the street during the Tet Offensive]]), making him lose faith in the US government.
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* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: The protagonist ("Chickie") Chickie goes onto a dangerous (and illegal) trip to bring a duffel bag full of Pabst Blue Ribbon to his neighborhood chums fighting in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar as a token of support and appreciation. While [[spoiler:While he succeeds in the delivery delivering them to those who were still alive and makes it back to New York in one piece, in the whole process he remains scarred from everything he witnessed (including a gut-wrenching scene where [[spoiler:he he finds "Oklahoma" dead on the street during the Tet Offensive]]), Offensive), making him lose faith in the US government.government]].
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* YouAreTooLate: After Chickie links up with Ricky Duggan, Ricky informs him that [[spoiler:Richie Reynolds]] was killed just a few days before Chickie's arrival, much to Chickie's dismay. Before departing, he gives Ricky the items that were meant for [[spoiler:Richie]] so that at least someone will use them.
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* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: The protagonist ("Chickie") goes onto a dangerous (and illegal) trip to bring a duffel bag full of Pabst Blue Ribbon to his neighborhood chums fighting in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar as a token of support and appreciation. While he succeeds in the delivery and makes it back to New York in one piece, in the whole process he remains scarred from everything he witnessed (including a gut-wrenching scene where [[spoiler:he finds "Oklahoma" dead on the street during the Tet Offensive]]), making him lose faith in the US government.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''My name is Chickie Donohue. And I am '''not''' supposed to be in Vietnam.'']]
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* BreakTheCutie: Happens to Chickie over the course of the film as he comes face-to-face with the reality of the Vietnam War and the politics behind it.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Although the movie runs a lot deeper, this is presented as a heroic biopic about a guy who puts himself and his friends in danger by jumping into a war zone just to deliver beers.
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* Misaimed Marketing: There's a definite contrast between the marketing department's billing it as a bonehead comedy and the actual film's dark bathos-style take on Chickie's naive idealism running face-first into a WarIsHell story.
