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''War Machine'' is a 2017 war drama, produced by by Netflix. Directed by David Michod (Film/AnimalKingdom and Film/TheRover), it is an adaptation of journalist Michael Hastings' book The Operators, itself an expansion of his Rolling Stone feature "The Runaway General" about General Stanley [=McChrystal=] and the War in Afghanistan. The article, which profiled drunkenness and backtalk toward the administration, led to [=McChrystal=]'s firing by President Obama. Brad Pitt stars as General [=McMahon=], tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan in 2009 but trying to win it instead.
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''War Machine'' is a 2017 war drama, produced by by Netflix. Directed by David Michod (Film/AnimalKingdom (''Film/AnimalKingdom'' and Film/TheRover), ''Film/TheRover''), it is an adaptation of journalist Michael Hastings' book The Operators, ''The Operators'', itself an expansion of his Rolling Stone ''Magazine/RollingStone'' feature "The Runaway General" about General Stanley [=McChrystal=] and the War in Afghanistan. The article, which profiled drunkenness and backtalk toward the administration, led to [=McChrystal=]'s firing by President Obama. Brad Pitt stars as General [=McMahon=], tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan in 2009 but trying to win it instead.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Austria is stated to have two soldiers in Afghanistan. Austria did not participate in the coalition, though they temporarily deployed 75 soldiers in 2002 and 100 in 2005.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Austria is stated to have two soldiers in Afghanistan. Afghanistan in 2010. Austria did not participate in the coalition, though they temporarily deployed 75 soldiers to Kabul in 2002 and 100 in 2005.2005, but otherwise did not participate in the coalition.
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* PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie: Focused on the War in Afghanistan.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: ''Rolling Stone'' reporter Sean Cullen (a stand-in for Michael Hastings) only accompanies [=McMahon=]'s crew for part of their European tour, and does little on-screen other than observing them and asking questions. [[spoiler:His reporting eventually leaks out their trash-talking of the Obama White House, which leads to [=McMahon=]'s swift dismissal from his post.]]
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* TheCameo: Creator/RussellCrowe as General Bob White, an {{Expy}} of David Petraeus.
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** Creator/TildaSwinton as an unnamed German politician.
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* MultinationalTeam: {{Deconstructed}}. While the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is an impressive coalition of like-minded nations on paper, the contributing countries [[RightHandVsLeftHand struggle to figure out what they each actually want]] out of their involvement in Afghanistan. Most of them are in it to earn brownie points with the US, and their contribution is [[WeAreStrugglingTogether subject to their political whims.]] Much of the movie is spent on [=McMahon=] touring Europe to convince allied nations to send more troops for his surge strategy in Afghanistan.
--> '''[=McMahon:=]''' Everybody has a reason not to be out there with everybody else. Austria only has two guys here.[[labelnote:*]]Austria [[ArtisticLicenseHistory did not,]] in fact, send troops to Afghanistan.[[/labelnote]] Iceland has seven guys. This country won't fight at night. That country won't fight in the snow. This country wants to do counter-narcotics. That country ''won't'' do counter-narcotics. But if we're in the same room...
--> '''[=McMahon:=]''' Everybody has a reason not to be out there with everybody else. Austria only has two guys here.[[labelnote:*]]Austria [[ArtisticLicenseHistory did not,]] in fact, send troops to Afghanistan.[[/labelnote]] Iceland has seven guys. This country won't fight at night. That country won't fight in the snow. This country wants to do counter-narcotics. That country ''won't'' do counter-narcotics. But if we're in the same room...
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** Secretary of State Cunningham is Hillary Clinton.
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** Secretary of State Cunningham Edith May is Hillary Clinton.
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* FormulaForTheUnformulable: How [=McMahon=] tries to explain the US counter-insurgency in Afghanistan to a conference audience in Berlin. The hilariously convoluted [=PowerPoint=] slide he uses is also [[https://www.wired.com/2010/09/revealed-pentagons-craziest-powerpoint-slide-ever/ rather typical]] of the US Department of Defense.
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* BusesAreForFreaks: Halfway through the film, [=McMahon=]'s entourage is denied the permission to fly from Paris to Berlin due to the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. They narrowly manage to catch their appointment by chartering (and getting drunk on) a tourist bus, draped in StylishSuck livery.
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* BusesAreForFreaks: Halfway through the film, [=McMahon=]'s entourage is denied the permission to fly from Paris to Berlin due to the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. They narrowly manage to catch their appointment by chartering (and getting drunk on) a tourist bus, draped in StylishSuck [[StylisticSuck some tacky livery.]]
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* BusesAreForFreaks: Halfway through the film, [=McMahon=]'s entourage is denied the permission to fly from Paris to Berlin due to the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. They narrowly manage to catch their appointment by chartering (and getting drunk on) a tourist bus, draped in StylishSuck livery.
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* TheFaceless: In his brief appearance, President Obama is only seen from behind or from a distance with his face out of focus.
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** Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is mentioned, but not seen.
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False. Officers going through Officer Training School are trained by Drill Sergeants. Ask anyone who's actually been through it.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The narrator claims General [=McMahon=] stuck a cherry bomb up his DrillSergeantNasty's ass. General [=McMahon=] went through officer training which does not involve basic training by drill sergeants.
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''War Machine'' is a 2017 war drama, produced by by Netflix. Directed by David Michod (Film/AnimalKingdom and Film/TheRover), it is an adaptation of journalist Michael Hastings' book The Operators, itself an expansion of his Rolling Stone feature "The Runaway General" about General Stanley [=McChrystal=] and the War in Afghanistan. The article, which profiled drunkenness and backtalk toward the administration, led to [=McChrystal=]'s firing by President Obama. Brad Pitt stars as [[{{Expy}} General McMahon]], tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan in 2009 but trying to win it instead.
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''War Machine'' is a 2017 war drama, produced by by Netflix. Directed by David Michod (Film/AnimalKingdom and Film/TheRover), it is an adaptation of journalist Michael Hastings' book The Operators, itself an expansion of his Rolling Stone feature "The Runaway General" about General Stanley [=McChrystal=] and the War in Afghanistan. The article, which profiled drunkenness and backtalk toward the administration, led to [=McChrystal=]'s firing by President Obama. Brad Pitt stars as [[{{Expy}} General McMahon]], [=McMahon=], tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan in 2009 but trying to win it instead.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The narrator claims General [=McMahon=] stuck a cherry bomb up his DrillSergeantNasty's ass. General [=McMahon=] went through officer training which does not involve basic training by drill sergeants.
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It was a real idea, nothing more? : http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/restraint.asp
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* TruthInTelevision: The medal for restraint on the battlefield? It's real.
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* ButtMonkey: Pete Duckman is constantly given grief by the rest of the team for his weight, sloppiness, and drunkenness (his real-life counterpart was less sloppy and kept in shape, as a Navy SEAL).
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* TruthInTelevision: The medal for restraint on the battlefield? It's real.real.
* TheQuietOne: Cullen. It unsettles Pete.
* TheQuietOne: Cullen. It unsettles Pete.
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'''War Machine''' is a 2017 war drama, produced by by Netflix. Directed by David Michod (Film/AnimalKingdom and Flim/TheRover), Film/TheRover), it is an adaptation of journalist Michael Hastings' book The Operators, itself an expansion of his Rolling Stone feature "The Runaway General" about General Stanley [=McChrystal=] and the War in Afghanistan. The article, which profiled drunkenness and backtalk toward the administration, led to [=McChrystal=]'s firing by President Obama. Brad Pitt stars as [[{{Expy}} General McMahon]], tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan in 2009 but trying to win it instead.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Inverted. [=McChrystal=]'s top intelligence officer and chief of staff, Mike and Charlie Flynn, are brothers. Their fictional counterparts, General Pulver and Cory Staggart, show no sign of being related.1
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War Machine
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* AFatherToHisMen: McMahon has this status with his staff.
Movie 2017, by Netflix. Directed by David Michod ([[Film/AnimalKingdom]] and [[Flim/TheRover]]), it is an adaptation of journalist Michael Hastings' book The Operators, itself an expansion of his Rolling Stone feature "The Runaway General" about General Stanley McChrystal and the War in Afghanistan. The article, which profiled drunkenness and backtalk toward the administration, led to McChrystal's firing by President Obama. Brad Pitt stars as [[Expy General McMahon]], tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan in 2009 but trying to win it instead.
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* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler: With McMahon fired, the job passes to General Bob White...who gets the same thumping introduction McMahon got.]]
* InterserviceRivalry: The military is at odds with the diplomatic staff, with McMahon and McKinnon constantly trading passive aggressive comments.
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* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler: With McMahon [=McMahon=] fired, the job passes to General Bob White...who gets the same thumping introduction McMahon [=McMahon=] got.]]
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* RedOniBlueOni: Pulver is the red to McMahon's blue.
* Regional Riff: Remember the scene of McMahon arriving in Paris, a military march playing as background? It is the Hohenfriedberger Marsch, associated with Prussia and Frederick the Great... not the most French piece of Music.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Inverted. McChrystal's top intelligence officer and chief of staff, Mike and Charlie Flynn, are brothers. Their fictional counterparts, General Pulver and Cory Staggart, show no sign of being related.1
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* RedOniBlueOni: Pulver is the red to McMahon's [=McMahon=]'s blue.
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* AFatherToHisMen: McMahon has this status with his staff.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: McMahon is an Army Ranger, and praised for being a special operator in command. His staff also includes other special operators.
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Movie 2017, by Netflix.
Staring Brad Pitt as General McMahon, tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan but trying to win it in stead.
* Regional Riff: Remember the scene of McMahon arriving in Paris, a military march playing as background? It is the Hohenfriedberger Marsch, associated with Prussia and Frederick the Great... not the most French piece of Music.
Staring Brad Pitt as General McMahon, tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan but trying to win it in stead.
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Movie 2017, by Netflix.
StaringNetflix. Directed by David Michod ([[Film/AnimalKingdom]] and [[Flim/TheRover]]), it is an adaptation of journalist Michael Hastings' book The Operators, itself an expansion of his Rolling Stone feature "The Runaway General" about General Stanley McChrystal and the War in Afghanistan. The article, which profiled drunkenness and backtalk toward the administration, led to McChrystal's firing by President Obama. Brad Pitt stars as [[Expy General McMahon, McMahon]], tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan in 2009 but trying to win it instead.
* TheCameo: Creator/RussellCrowe as General Bob White, an {{Expy}} of David Petraeus.
* HairTriggerTemper: General Pulver (also TruthInTelevision for his real-world counterpart according to the book).
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler: With McMahon fired, the job passes to General Bob White...who gets the same thumping introduction McMahon got.]]
* IntrepidReporter: Sean Cullen.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Only two people are real-world characters (Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai). The rest are stand-ins for real people. Anyone familiar with Hastings' book or the War instead.
Afghanistan at the time will be able to identify them.
** McMahon is Stanley McChrystal, Pulver is Mike Flynn, and the rest of McMahon's staff all are stand-ins for his senior staff.
** Secretary of State Cunningham is Hillary Clinton.
** Bob White is David Petraeus.
** Sean Cullen is Michael Hastings.
** Ambassador Mckinnon is Ambassador Eikenberry.
** Richard is Richard Holbrooke.
* PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie: Focused on the War in Afghanistan.
* Regional Riff: Remember the scene of McMahon arriving in Paris, a military march playing as background? It is the Hohenfriedberger Marsch, associated with Prussia and Frederick the Great... not the most French piece ofMusic.Music.
* ShownTheirWork: Key character traits, backgrounds, and whole exchanges of dialogue are direct from Hastings' ''The Operators.''
* TruthInTelevision: The medal for restraint on the battlefield? It's real.
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* TheCameo: Creator/RussellCrowe as General Bob White, an {{Expy}} of David Petraeus.
* HairTriggerTemper: General Pulver (also TruthInTelevision for his real-world counterpart according to the book).
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler: With McMahon fired, the job passes to General Bob White...who gets the same thumping introduction McMahon got.]]
* IntrepidReporter: Sean Cullen.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Only two people are real-world characters (Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai). The rest are stand-ins for real people. Anyone familiar with Hastings' book or the War in
** McMahon is Stanley McChrystal, Pulver is Mike Flynn, and the rest of McMahon's staff all are stand-ins for his senior staff.
** Secretary of State Cunningham is Hillary Clinton.
** Bob White is David Petraeus.
** Sean Cullen is Michael Hastings.
** Ambassador Mckinnon is Ambassador Eikenberry.
** Richard is Richard Holbrooke.
* PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie: Focused on the War in Afghanistan.
* Regional Riff: Remember the scene of McMahon arriving in Paris, a military march playing as background? It is the Hohenfriedberger Marsch, associated with Prussia and Frederick the Great... not the most French piece of
* ShownTheirWork: Key character traits, backgrounds, and whole exchanges of dialogue are direct from Hastings' ''The Operators.''
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Staring Brad Pitt as General McMahon, tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan but trying to win it in stead.
* Regional Riff: Remember the scene of McMahon arriving in Paris, a military march playing as background? It is the Hohenfriedberger Marsch, associated with Prussia and Frederick the Great... not the most French piece of Music.
Movie 2017, by Netflix.
Staring Brad Pitt as General McMahon, tasked with ending the war in Afghanistan but trying to win it in stead.
* Regional Riff: Remember the scene of McMahon arriving in Paris, a military march playing as background? It is the Hohenfriedberger Marsch, associated with Prussia and Frederick the Great... not the most French piece of Music.
