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* HeyIt'sThatGuy: Dr. Edwin Jenner from ''TheWalkingDead'', played by Noah Emmerich.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Edwin Jenner from ''TheWalkingDead'', played by Noah Emmerich.
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''Windtalkers'' is a 2002 military film directed by Creator/JohnWoo about the Navajo Code Talkers in the Pacific front of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
''Windtalkers'' is a 2002 military film directed by Creator/JohnWoo about the Navajo Code Talkers in the Pacific front of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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''Windtalkers'' is a 2002 military film directed by
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* HoldTheLine: Joe's unit in the Solomons at the beginning of the film is assigned this mission. Unfortunately, they soon become outnumbered outgunned by the Japanese, and are wiped out as a result.
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* HoldTheLine: Joe's unit in the Solomons at the beginning of the film is assigned this mission. Unfortunately, they soon become outnumbered and outgunned by the Japanese, and are wiped out as a result.
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* HoldTheLine: Joe's unit in the Solomons at the beginning of the film is assigned this mission. Unfortunately, they soon become outnumbered outgunned by the Japanese, and are wiped out as a result.
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** Joe himself starts off as a ShellShockedVeteran with AxCrazy tendencies, to slowly mellowing up towards Ben, ending with him [[spoiler: [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dying to help protect Ben and the other Marines under fire.]] ]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: Ben goes from a TechnicalPacifist radioman, to an AxCrazy [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge revenge-driven]] BloodKnight [[spoiler: following Whitehorse's death at the hands of Joe and the Japanese]], to having a HeelRealization [[spoiler: upon accidentally slashing Joe.]]
* CommunicationsOfficer: Pretty much the role of all the code-talkers such as Ben and Whitehorse.
* CommunicationsOfficer: Pretty much the role of all the code-talkers such as Ben and Whitehorse.
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* MightyWhitey: Nicolas Cage saves the day and is a hero, while the Navajo characters are relegated to the sidelines and receive barely any character development.
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* MightyWhitey: Nicolas Cage saves the day and is a hero, while the Navajo characters are relegated to the sidelines and receive barely any far less character development.
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* SittingDuck: The Marine Sherman and Stuart tanks usually end up destroyed before being able to fire back. See TanksForNothing below.
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** The Japanese tanks prove useless for the most part as well, being taken out easily with small arms and flamethrowers.
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* BayonetYa: Both the Japanese Army and US Marines are shown using bayonets on their rifles, but the former especially so.
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* TanksForNothing: The Sherman and Stuart tanks shown during the assault on Saipan end up as SittingDucks to Japanese artillery fire each time.
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** Also the numerous IJA soldiers killed by flamethrowers and incendiary grenades.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Hawaii as Saipan.
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** Also, the US Navy ships offshore in the first part of the Saipan invasion.
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* ActionPrologue: Joe's first scene in the Solomons in 1943.
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* MightyWhitey: Nicolas Cage saves the day and is a hero, while the Navajo characters are relegated to the sidelines and receive barely any character development.
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* WhiteMaleLead: Advertised as the saga of how Navajo Indians used their language to create an unbreakable code that helped win World War II in the Pacific, the entire movie ends up revolving around Nicolas Cage and demotes the Navajo windtalkers to the sidelines.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There were Navajo code talkers, and they really were instrumental in the Pacific Theater,[[note]]Adolf Hitler had served in WorldWarI and knew the Allies had used similar code talkers in that war - he sent covert agents to study Native American dialects before the United States entered the war. Knowing this, the US did not use the Navajo code talkers in Europe[[/note]] but the characters in this movie are all fictional.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There were Navajo code talkers, and they really were instrumental in the Pacific Theater,[[note]]Adolf Hitler had served in WorldWarI UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and knew the Allies had used similar code talkers in that war - he sent covert agents to study Native American dialects before the United States entered the war. Knowing this, the US did not use the Navajo code talkers in Europe[[/note]] but the characters in this movie are all fictional.
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''Windtalkers'' is a 2002 military film directed by JohnWoo about the Navajo Code Talkers in the Pacific front of WorldWarII.
Joe Enders (NicolasCage) is given the job of protecting a Navajo code talker named Ben (Creator/AdamBeach). Because the code must not be broken, Joe's orders are to kill Ben should he fall into enemy hands. The movie mostly follows the Battle of Saipan.
Joe Enders (NicolasCage) is given the job of protecting a Navajo code talker named Ben (Creator/AdamBeach). Because the code must not be broken, Joe's orders are to kill Ben should he fall into enemy hands. The movie mostly follows the Battle of Saipan.
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''Windtalkers'' is a 2002 military film directed by JohnWoo about the Navajo Code Talkers in the Pacific front of WorldWarII.
UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
Joe Enders(NicolasCage) (Creator/NicolasCage) is given the job of protecting a Navajo code talker named Ben (Creator/AdamBeach). Because the code must not be broken, Joe's orders are to kill Ben should he fall into enemy hands. The movie mostly follows the Battle of Saipan.
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* TheCavalry: Air support. [[TheCavalryArrivesLate Usually too late]].
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* TheCavalry: Air support. [=F6F=] Hellcat Fighter-bombers. Usually too early [[TheCavalryArrivesLate Usually or too late]].
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* DawsonCasting: The marines in this movie are all in their late 20's and 30's unlike most marines in WW2 who would have been aged 18 to 23,possibly justified InUniverse because they needed experienced men for this mission.
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Joe Enders (NicolasCage) is given the job of protecting a Navajo code talker named Ben.Ben (Creator/AdamBeach). Because the code must not be broken, Joe's orders are to kill Ben should he fall into enemy hands. The movie mostly follows the Battle of Saipan.
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* FlamethrowerBackfire: The film does this to the squad member carrying the flamethrower.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The mass-produced katana used to [[spoiler: behead Peter]] with a single stroke.
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The film got bad reviews and did not perform well at the box office.
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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Ben comes up with a way to take out an entrenched Japanese unit through infiltration by putting on a Japanese uniform himself and making his superior Joe look like a captured enemy. The subterfuge is made possible on account of Ben's tanner skin color as a Navajo native, which Joe had earlier noted might cause others in the field to mistake him for a Japanese soldier.
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* DawsonCasting: The marines in this movie are all in their late 20's and 30's unlike most marines in WW2 who would have been aged 18 to 23,possibly justified InUniverse because they needed experienced men for this mission.
