Line #0 YMMV/WhiteChristmas


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2	* AccidentalInnuendo: After the song and dance routine when they help the sisters make their escape, Phil suggest they go back and take a bow, but Bob replies “We’ll be taking a bow at the jailhouse.”
3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: It's from the Irving Berlin library, and sung by folks like Music/BingCrosby and Rosemary Clooney. What more needs to be said?
4	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Most of the dance numbers, as they have little to no bearing on the plot. Overall, the movie has more in common with a variety show than with a traditional movie as far as the structure goes.
5	* HarsherInHindsight: Wallace sings of how Generals face few employment prospects after they leave the service, while enlisted have many opportunities. Flash forward to the modern times, and high ranking officers have, through their education [[note]]To be an officer, a minimum of a bachelor's degree is needed while enlistment only requires high school diploma or the equivalent [[/note]] and connections, much better options for employment than enlisted persons, who often face difficulty finding stable employment due to service related health issues, minimal transferable job skills, and a lack of entry level jobs that pay a livable wage.
6	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: When Waverly walks into the floor room and the men who served under him in WWII stand up and start clapping.
7	** And that speech he makes. Hoo boy, [[ManlyTears that speech]].
8	* HilariousInHindsight: The characters make a joke about how if they brought a democrat to the very republican state of Vermont he'd probably be stoned to death. This is funny since the state is now not only known as a blue state but it is also so liberal that it was the first state to legalize same-sex marriage.
9	* HollywoodHomely: Benny Haynes, a.k.a. "Freckle-faced Haynes, the dog-faced boy".
10	* SpiritualSuccessor: To, of course, ''Film/HolidayInn''.
11	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is set in an America where nightclubs are places where people dress up, dance formally, and hear live entertainers perform what are today called standards. Those entertainers gain stardom by appearing on regular radio shows and starring in Broadway revues (variety shows). They travel from Florida to Vermont, and thence to New York, by train; once in New York, they appear on prime-time, live-broadcast, black-and-white TV, and at home the whole family gathers around to watch. And the whole plot is centered around men doing things "for an old pal from the Army" — the bond created amongst a generation by UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
12	* ValuesDissonance: Two words: Minstrel Number.
13	** What a difference sixty years makes -- Bob basically wants a wife who will stay in the kitchen and bear his children, and despite being career girls, neither Betty nor Judy has a problem with that, nor does Betty object to the implication that she'll have to give up show business to marry Bob. Although both guys admit that they can postpone their careers for family as well.
14	** Weirdly, ''White Christmas'' also shows the change in values between the release of ''Film/HolidayInn'' and it. ''Holiday Inn'' has a blatant {{Blackface}} number and a stereotypical {{Mammy}} character. Twelve years later and the same number is reduced to an instrumental, and... there is a grand total of one nonwhite characters in the movie: the man who prepares their drinks in the dining car.
15	* ValuesResonance: The plot hinges on the idea that there's no snow in Vermont. In ''December.'' Highly unusual in the 1950s, but with the advent of global warming, far more common, and it's [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/alpine-ski-resorts-could-lose-up-to-70-of-snow-cover-by-2100-experts impacting ski resorts]] just like it did in the movie.
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18	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
19	** Jo Young Jae: Is he a JerkWithAHeartOfGold whose rough exterior has a playful and more empathetic role? Or is he a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk whose rough exterior gives way to a seething hatred of those around him? Did his parents have a hand in either of these interpretations?
20	** Choi Chi Hoon's refusal to move when [[spoiler:all the others throw Kim Yo Han off the hospital building]]. Was it because his leg was broken and he didn't want to take the effort to do it? Was it because he didn't care who did the deed, because they were going to do it anyway? Or was it because the killer could never get into his head, and his inaction was him declaring victory over the murderer's own stated goal to corrupt them?

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