Follow TV Tropes

Following

Context Film / KnightAndDay

Go To

1%%
2%%
3%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.
4%%
5%%
6
7[[quoteright:315:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/knight_and_day_poster1_8364.jpg]]
8
9''Knight and Day'' is a 2010 action/comedy film directed by Creator/JamesMangold and starring Creator/TomCruise as secret agent Roy Miller, who might be trying to clear his name or who might be trying to cover up a horrific multiple-murder and theft of a potent free energy MacGuffin, and Creator/CameronDiaz as June Havens, a WrenchWench ActionGirl sidekick embroiled in spy games that go way over her head. Not to be confused with ''Series/NightAndDay''.
10
11----
12!!''Knight and Day'' provides examples of:
13
14%%* ActionGirl: [[spoiler: June, by the end of the movie]].
15%%* ActionHero: Played by Creator/TomCruise, of course.
16%%* ActionSurvivor: June, for most of the movie.
17* AdrenalineMakeover: Played straight and subverted; June Havens certainly TookALevelInBadass after significant bits of the plot, but up until the halfway point of the movie she got progressively more worn down as the action progressed.
18* AffectionateParody: Cruise plays Roy Miller as basically the loonier side of Film/JerryMaguire (think "help me help you!") crossed with the tireless secret agent [[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Ethan Hunt]].
19* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: [[spoiler: Roy Miller's private island in the Azores is attacked ''and blown up'']].
20* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Subverted: [[spoiler: June deliberately gets herself kidnapped so that she can get back together with Roy, assuming that he'll save her. He does, but he has no idea that she's there at the time, as he's around for a completely different reason.]] He does take a moment in the middle of a firefight to step out from cover and kiss her when she guilt talks him into it, though.
21* AmbiguousDisorder: Simon is highly intelligent and has poor social skills, obsessive interests and compulsive behaviour.
22%%* {{Angrish}}: June's reactions in much of the first half of the movie.
23* AntiHero: Roy Miller ''may'' have killed dozens of innocents in cold blood and stolen the [[MacGuffin perpetual energy battery]]; he ''definitely'' kills dozens of agents in cold(ish) blood and drags an [[ActionGirl unknown innocent]] into the fight with him, though it's fairly obvious that he has little to no choice about the matter.
24* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The movie ends with [[spoiler: June apparently having driven Roy from the US to somewhere in South America, with them continuing on to Cape Horn]]. It is infamously impossible to drive from North America to South America, due to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darién_Gap Darién Gap]].
25* ArtisticLicensePhysics:
26** {{Subverted|Trope}}, but not at first. The Zephyr is presented as a true perpetual motion machine: it will ''never'' run out of energy, ever. However, over the course of the film, the battery slowly builds up heat and [[spoiler:eventually explodes, taking out the villain in his moment of triumph]].
27** Spanish bulls from the Sanfermines would not send a car rolling like crazy as the film shows. Despite the admittedly humongous power and momentum a charging bull can generate, a car is too heavy of an obstacle and has a too low center of gravity, even if hit by an entire encierro (that is, around five bulls released at the same time). The bulls could believably flip the car over and/or push it into sliding a long distance, but not make it roll multiple times with the momentum of a single tackle as portrayed in the film.
28* BadassDriver: Both Roy ''and'' June. June manages to pull off some amazing moves going the wrong way on the highway while controlling a runaway car from the back seat reaching over the corpse of the former driver: Roy calls her a "natural."
29* BelligerentSexualTension: Lampshaded by June after she's had a truth serum injected into her body and admits to Roy that all their crazy adventures make her want to have sex with him. His reaction is priceless.
30%%* BigDamnHeroes: Roy, in Seville.
31* BodybagTrick: Done backwards; a supposed corpse is wheeled ''out'' of the hospital.
32* BondVillainStupidity: Yep. Mind you, at that point, the bad guy thought he had already won, so the survival of the good guys was reasonably irrelevant.
33* BottomlessMagazines: June fires off an [=MP7=] for a ridiculously long time when Roy surprises her during a firefight.
34* BrokenRecord: "We'll keep you safe, June."
35* BrutishBulls: Because you cannot set an action film in Spain without a San Fermín encierro causing a chase.
36* CaptainObvious: It pops up from time to time.
37-->'''Roy:''' You stay here, I'm going to go have a chat with those guys in the tunnel...actually, I'm going to go kill them. Wait right here.
38%%* CasualDangerDialogue: Roy personifies this.
39%%* ChekhovsGag: Almost everything Roy says to June, funny or not.
40* ChekhovsSkill: At one point, Roy demonstrates to June how to escape from a reverse choke hold. [[spoiler:A few scenes later, a would-be assassin puts her in, what else, a reverse choke hold.]]
41* CloudCuckooLander: ''Every'' screw in Roy's lovable head is loose, as exemplified by ''this'' line:
42--> '''Roy:''' No one follows us, or I kill myself and ''then'' her!
43%%* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive
44%%* ContractOnTheHitman
45* DeadFootLeadfoot: Causing one of the BadassDriver incidents.
46%%* DorkKnight: Roy.
47%%* EscapeConvenientBoat: An Escape Convenient Plane.
48* ExactWords: When June tells Roy not to drug her again, a few minutes later, he [[TapOnTheHead pinches her neck]]. She notes that he is, and before she blacks out, he says "You told me not to drug you again."
49* FalseReassurance: Roy tells June (after surviving the first fight scene and the plane crashing) that government agents will come to question her and that she better be careful because if they keep saying that they "keep her safe" they are ''definitely'' meaning that they will assassinate her. You can guess what the agents that abduct her three scenes later keep telling her.
50* FightMagnet: Given that [[MacGuffin the Zephyr]] is being hunted by everyone from a covert ops organization to Spanish gun runners, it's not too surprising.
51* {{Foreshadowing}}:
52** Some of Simon's writing early in the movie reads [[spoiler:"[=CuO3=] = boom!!"]]. Guess what happens to [[spoiler:the battery]].
53** When Roy and June are hiding out at his place in the Azores, Roy is coming back from a successful underwater spearfishing trip when June wakes up. [[spoiler: This is an early indication that Roy is good at holding his breath, and is likely to have survived his encounter with the CIA in Austria, even before June goes to meet his folks.]]
54* GenreSavvy. June, when being interrogated by Antonio, says something like "The Good Guy is probably round the corner."
55%%* GotVolunteered: June. Several times.
56%%* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction
57%%* GunsAkimbo
58* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Roy, taking a bullet for Simon. He survives, though]].
59* HollywoodProvincialism: UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}-based June says "the I-93."
60* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Done so much it stops being funny. The baddies are entirely worthless with guns, and [[HeroTrackingFailure can't track Tom's character]] while he ''calmly walks over to kiss the girl'': let alone while he's running. They also have trouble hitting ''still'' targets.
61%%* IncrediblyObviousTail
62%%* InstantSedation: The repeated drugging of June.
63* IronicEcho: Roy's lines to June when they were alone on the island are altered and repeated to him by June at the end of the film.
64* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: It's the festival of San Fermín when the setting goes to Spain, though they don't get the right town: they go to Seville, even though San Fermín's main location is in Pamplona.
65* LodgedBladeRecycling: June accidentally impales an assassin with a knife, followed by the assassin pulling it out of himself to attack June with.
66* MadeOfIron: The assassin on the train. ''Wow.'' Most of the stuff is just standard movie things, until he gets stabbed in the chest with a ''knife''! The assassin also {{No Sell}}s June whacking him in the head with a frying pan.
67--> '''Simon:''' [[WhyWontYouDie Oh my God! Just die!]]
68* {{Mangst}}
69-->'''Roy:''' That hurt more than I thought it would.
70* MeetCute: Faked by Roy to get an item through customs via the unwitting June.
71* MistakenForBadass: June, by the spy agency. Later on, though, [[TookALevelInBadass she gets better]].
72* NeutralFemale: June, but not during the action sequences; she's actually this during much of the ''plot'', being very decidedly on one side or the other when action breaks out.
73* NiceGuy: Roy, when he isn't brutally fighting his assailants that is. This becomes a little clearer later on when he seems to have stopped using excessive force in tough situations. He also doesn't curse or swear at all throughout the entire movie. In one of the heartwarming moments of the film, Roy has left June a note saying he was happy to have met her, and a second, reminding her to 'Eat a good breakfast, June'. He'd left her an omelette.
74* NoEscapeButDown: [[spoiler: and into the river]].
75* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler: Roy, after falling into the river. Every one assumes him to be dead despite never finding a body]].
76* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: A RunningGag involving Roy's OneManArmy antics when June is drugged, because we're following her point of view.
77%%* ThePlan: Roy's many, many plans.
78* PrecisionFStrike: June gets one in an argument with Roy about his "warning" not to get on a plane not being very effective, she then says that a better warning would've been saying something like "June, if you get on this plane, you will fucking die!"
79%%* {{Protectorate}}: Simon and the Zephyr.
80* PunBasedTitle: (K)night and Day.
81* RailEnthusiast: Simon has a passion for trains and is ecstatic about getting to ride in the engine compartment.
82%%* RasputinianDeath: Lampshaded.
83* RatedMForManly: Constant action, check; spy games, check; explosions, check; firefights, check; Cameron Diaz in a bikini...
84%%* RedundantRescue
85* RunningGag: June [[InstantSedation getting drugged by various parties]], but mainly Roy.
86%%* SlapSlapKiss: Roy and June, naturally.
87%%* ShootTheFuelTank
88%%* SicEmhi
89* SoleSurvivor: Simon, Roy, or Fitz, depending on your point of view. The massacre happens in the backstory, and most of the movie is trying to figure out exactly who did what to whom.
90* StopOrIShootMyself: "No one follows us, or I kill myself and then her!"
91* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In a rare twist given how tongue-in-cheek the film and its tone are, most of June's reactions in the first half of the movie are completely realistic to how a normal person would react to the utterly violent, crazy shenanigans that happen around Roy. Especially her being terrified enough for panic fire and screaming her head off when Roy surprises her during one of the firefights.
92* TeenGenius: Simon, who's managed to solve the energy crisis despite the fact that he's "barely out of high school".
93* ThemeNaming: June and her sister April.
94* TimeBomb: Only there's no visible counter, and the object in question isn't actually supposed to be one.
95* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: June, by the end of the film]].
96* TorosYFlamenco: The producers had the decency to shoot in the real Spain, but some undiscernible reason drove them to set a [[ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans San Fermín festival]] in [[ArtisticLicenseGeography Seville]] (it takes place in Pamplona) and to shoot their version of Seville in Cádiz. It can be noted in the film itself, where a banda can be heard playing a feria song that goes ''"A Pamplona hemos de ir"''.[[note]]To Pamplona we must go[[/note]]
97* TrailersAlwaysLie: Many of the scenes in the official trailer [[MissingTrailerScene never actually made it into the movie]] and are available only as {{Deleted Scene}}s.
98* TrainEscape: Streetcars, actually, but no less awesome.
99* UnderestimatingBadassery: Although, given that Roy's being chased by his own organization, they ''should'' know better.
100* UndressingTheUnconscious: After being [[InstantSedation sedated]] by Roy, June wakes up in a bikini on a tropical island. She confronts him about it, pointing out that he must have undressed her to do this to her at one point. At the end of the movie, June does the same to Roy.
101* WrenchWench: June, who's a car refurbisher.
102* YouAreTooLate: Literally. [[spoiler: The bad guy takes off in a plane with the highly sought after [[MacGuffin Zephyr battery]], pausing only to take a shot at Simon]].

Top