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| 2 | * AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: When Doc is having his WhiteGuilt rant toward the [=FNGs=], there are two equally likely takes on it: either he's sincere and when called out by Beletsky he realizes he's in the wrong... ''or'' it was a SecretTestOfCharacter and he ultimately bonded with Beletsky because the latter passed the test. Or maybe even [[TakeAThirdOption both]]. |
| 3 | * CultClassic: Not particularly well-received, didn't made a killing in the box office and basically chalked up as "yet another Vietnam war movie" that oversaturated the market back in the day... but ''Hamburger Hill'' still found its own audience thanks to distinctive characters and memorable dialogues, chiefly thanks to home media releases and [[VindicatedByCable countless reruns in the TV]]. |
| 4 | * EnsembleDarkhorse: Pretty much every review of the film cites Creator/CourtneyBVance's performance as Doc as a highlight. |
| 5 | * MemeticMutation: The iconic teeth-brushing scene is often used for various "PTSD flashback" montages, always in a humorous way. |
| 6 | * SpiritualAdaptation: Of ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''. It not even trying to hide strong anti-war message, while very strictly following the themes of [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand alienation of soldiers in civilian life]], TooDumbToLive tendencies of NewMeat, how useless the training is (and [[TaughtByExperience what kind of quirky things veterans do to survive]]) and how tightly knit the older soldiers became despite having nothing in common beyond staying alive together for so long. And obviously, almost every character ends up dead, maimed or at least completely broken by the end of it. |
| 7 | * TearJerker: |
| 8 | ** A soldier savouring a letter from his girlfriend, only for it to say that she won't be writing him anymore as she has been told his service is immoral. |
| 9 | ** Frantz and Motown comforting [[spoiler:Doc]] as he's dying. |
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