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** The Prince of Wales did visit a soldier who lost his limbs in a Canadian veterans hospital, and the same soldier did appear in at least one newspaper article which referenced the meeting. [[http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/how-this-wwi-veteran-became-metallicas-one]] The rest appears to be Trumbo's own invention.
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** The Prince of Wales did visit a soldier who lost his limbs in a Canadian veterans hospital, and the same soldier did appear in at least one newspaper article which referenced the meeting. [[http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/how-this-wwi-veteran-became-metallicas-one]] com/articles/how-this-wwi-veteran-became-metallicas-one one newspaper article]] which referenced the meeting. The rest appears to be Trumbo's own invention.
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* AltumVidetur: A title card before the film's closing credit reads "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" which means "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country".
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* AltumVidetur: A title card before the film's closing credit reads "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" which means "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country". Wilfred Owen wrote a rather famous anti-war poem by the same name.
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* MindScrew: Due to his horrendous impairment, Joe can't discern dream and reality. He sees crazy imagery such as Jesus Christ and other strange mish mash between his memories and imagination. The movie expands of those. The novel implies a lot of Joe's MindScrew is caused by [[MushroomSamba the copious injection of tranquilizers]].
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* MindScrew: Due to his horrendous impairment, Joe can't discern dream and reality. He sees crazy imagery such as Jesus Christ and other strange mish mash between his memories and imagination. The movie expands of on those. The novel implies a lot of Joe's MindScrew is caused by [[MushroomSamba the copious injection of tranquilizers]].
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A 1938 novel by DaltonTrumbo that became a rallying point for the political left during after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. It follows a young man named Joe Bonham, who, after becoming grievously injured during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, is left deaf, blind, dumb, and without any limbs. Throughout the book, Joe reminisces about the life he lost, waxes philosophical on war and conscription, and tries desperately to communicate with the doctors keeping him alive.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: Trumbo claims he came up with the idea for ''Johnny Got His Gun'' after reading an article about the Prince of Wales's visit to a soldier who had lost all of his limbs and senses in a Canadian veterans' hospital.
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** Trumbo claims he came up with the idea for ''Johnny Got His Gun'' after reading an article about the Prince of Wales's visit to a soldier who had lost all of his limbs and senses in a Canadian veterans' hospital.
** Trumbo claims he came up with the idea for ''Johnny Got His Gun'' after reading an article about the Prince of Wales's visit to a soldier who had lost all of his limbs and senses in a Canadian veterans' hospital.
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:Just before fading to black, "S.O.S. Help me"]].
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* MindScrew: Due to his horrendous impairment, Joe can't discern dream and reality. He sees crazy imagery such as Jesus Christ and other strange mish mash between his memories and imagination. The movie expands of those.
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* [[StillFightingTheCivilWar Still Fighting The Forty-Five]]: During one of his reveries, Joe remembers a Scottish soldier who refused to fight against a Bavarian regiment because they were led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupprecht,_Crown_Prince_of_Bavaria Crown Prince Rupert]], [[HanoverStuartWars who held the Jacobite claim to the throne of England]]. Joe was amazed the soldier's superiors didn't just shoot him for treason; instead, they rotated him to the back of the trenches until the Bavarians themselves were rotated out.
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* [[StillFightingTheCivilWar Still Fighting The Forty-Five]]: During one of his reveries, Joe remembers a Scottish soldier who refused to fight against a Bavarian regiment because they were led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupprecht,_Crown_Prince_of_Bavaria Crown Prince Rupert]], [[HanoverStuartWars [[UsefulNotes/HanoverStuartWars who held the Jacobite claim to the throne of England]]. Joe was amazed the soldier's superiors didn't just shoot him for treason; instead, they rotated him to the back of the trenches until the Bavarians themselves were rotated out.
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* ICannotSelfTerminate: Joe begs to be killed. In the movie a nurse tries to give end his life, but is stopped.
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* DramaticIrony: In the film Joe is raised a Christian Scientist, whose belief entails that the material world doesn't exist, including disease and injury. Realizing this will heal you. Joe is seen desperately trying to tell himself "Nothing exists but mind" without success.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: A nurse realizes that Joe is banging his head against the headstand in Morse Code. But she doesn't know Morse. So she brings in an officer to translate. When the officer realizes that Joe is asking to be either displayed as a monument to the horrors of war or permitted to die, all his response is "What you ask is against regulations."
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* ArmiesAreEvil: A nurse realizes that Joe is banging his head against the headstand in Morse Code. But she doesn't know Morse. So she brings in an officer to translate. When the officer realizes that Joe is asking to be either displayed as a monument to the horrors of war or permitted to die, all his response is simply "What you ask is against regulations."
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* BodyHorror: Joe is reduced to the minimum necessary to sustain life. Even his limbs have been completely disarticulated so he doesn't have so much as a stump.
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* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Joe mentions that he learned the morse code [[ChekhovsHobby in his childhood]] when he used it to communicate with a neighbor boy.
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* DramaticIrony: In the film Joe is raised a Christian Scientist, whose belief entails that the material world doesn't exist, including disease and injury. Realizing this will heal you. Joe is seen desperately trying to tell himself "Nothing exists but mind" without success.
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* HelpfulHallucination: In one of his fantasy sequences, Joe's father reminds him to use the morse code for communication.
* HopeSpot: When Joe [[spoiler: finally manages to get his anti-draft message across to the people]].
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Joe begs to be killed. In the movie a nurse tries to give him one, but is stopped.
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* HelpfulHallucination: In one of his fantasy sequences, Joe's father reminds him to use the morse Morse code for communication.
* HopeSpot: When Joe [[spoiler: finally manages to get hisanti-draft anti-war message across to the people]].
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* SenseLossSadness: Johnny is crying bitterly when realizing he lost his sight, hearing, limbs and face.
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* TheLonelyDoor: In the film, during Joe's halucinations he steps out of the bakery door and into a forest scene with the door still standing amidst the trees.
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* [[StillFightingTheCivilWar Still Fighting The Forty-Five]]: During one of his reveries, Joe remembers a Scottish soldier who refused to fight against a Bavarian regiment because they were led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupprecht,_Crown_Prince_of_Bavaria Crown Prince Rupert]], [[HanoverStuartWars who held the Jacobite claim to the throne of England]]. Joe was amazed the soldier's superiors didn't just shoot him for treason; instead, they rotated him to the back of the trenches until the Bavarians themseleves were rotated out.
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* [[StillFightingTheCivilWar Still Fighting The Forty-Five]]: During one of his reveries, Joe remembers a Scottish soldier who refused to fight against a Bavarian regiment because they were led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupprecht,_Crown_Prince_of_Bavaria Crown Prince Rupert]], [[HanoverStuartWars who held the Jacobite claim to the throne of England]]. Joe was amazed the soldier's superiors didn't just shoot him for treason; instead, they rotated him to the back of the trenches until the Bavarians themseleves themselves were rotated out.
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* AltumVidetur: A title card before the film's closing credit reads "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" which means "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country".
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* DownerEndingDownerEnding: Joe resumes going insane, something which was [[HopeSpot temporarily halted]] when he learned he could communicate in some way. It is more or less explicitly said that this is how he will live out the rest of his life. Then, to stop him from freaking out the nurses, they drug him with pain-killers. It ends as he slowly sinks into a haze.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Joe mentions that he learned the morse code [[ChekhovsHobby in his childhood]] when he used it to communicate with a neighbor boy.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Joe mentions that he learned the morse code [[ChekhovsHobby in his childhood]] when he used it to communicate with a neighbor boy.
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* MercyKill: Joe begs for one. In the movie a nurse tries to give him one, but is stopped.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title refers to "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_There Over There]]", a 1917 hit song written by George M. Cohan that was popular with United States military and public during both world wars.
* TheLonelyDoor: In the film, during Joe's halucinations he steps out of the bakery door and into a forest scene with the door still standing amidst the trees.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title refers to "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_There Over There]]", a 1917 hit song written by George M. Cohan that was popular with United States military and public during both world wars.
* TheLonelyDoor: In the film, during Joe's halucinations he steps out of the bakery door and into a forest scene with the door still standing amidst the trees.
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* SarcasticTitle: The book is fiercely anti-war, but the title comes from the American UsefulNotes/WorldWarI rallying slogan 'Johnny get your gun'.
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A 1938 novel by DaltonTrumbo that became a rallying point for the political left during WorldWarII. It follows a young man named Joe Bonham, who, after becoming grievously injured during WorldWarOne, is left deaf, blind, dumb, and without any limbs. Throughout the book, Joe reminisces about the life he lost, waxes philosophical on war and conscription, and tries desperately to communicate with the doctors keeping him alive.
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A 1938 novel by DaltonTrumbo that became a rallying point for the political left during WorldWarII. UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. It follows a young man named Joe Bonham, who, after becoming grievously injured during WorldWarOne, UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, is left deaf, blind, dumb, and without any limbs. Throughout the book, Joe reminisces about the life he lost, waxes philosophical on war and conscription, and tries desperately to communicate with the doctors keeping him alive.
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** MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: just before fading to black, "S.O.S. Help me"]].
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* ArmiesAreEvil: A nurse realizes that Joe is banging his head against the headstand in Morse Code. But she doesn't know Morse. So she brings in an officer to translate. When the officer realizes that Joe is asking to be either displayed as a monument to the horrors of war or permitted to die, all his response is ''What you ask is against regulations.''
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* ArmiesAreEvil: A nurse realizes that Joe is banging his head against the headstand in Morse Code. But she doesn't know Morse. So she brings in an officer to translate. When the officer realizes that Joe is asking to be either displayed as a monument to the horrors of war or permitted to die, all his response is ''What "What you ask is against regulations.''"
* MindScrew: Due to his horrendous impairement, Joe can't discern dream and reality. He sees crazy imagery such as Jesus Christ and other strange mish mash between his memories and imagination. The movie expands of those.
** The novel implies a lot of Joe's MindScrew is caused by [[MushroomSamba the copious injection of tranquilizers]].
** The novel implies a lot of Joe's MindScrew is caused by [[MushroomSamba the copious injection of tranquilizers]].
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* [[StillFightingTheCivilWar Stll Fighting The Forty-Five]]: During one of his reveries, Joe remembers a Scottish soldier who refused to fight against a Bavarian regiment because they were led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupprecht,_Crown_Prince_of_Bavaria Crown Prince Rupert]], [[HanoverStuartWars who held the Jacobite claim to the throne of England]]. Joe was amazed the soldier's superiors didn't just shoot him for treason; instead, they rotated him to the back of the trenches until the Bavarians themseleves were rotated out.
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* SanitySlippage: Joe is fighting a losing battle to remain sane. The movie shows [[spoiler: he completely loses it at the end]].
** MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: just before fading to black, "S.O.S. Help me"]].
* [[StillFightingTheCivilWarStll Still Fighting The Forty-Five]]: During one of his reveries, Joe remembers a Scottish soldier who refused to fight against a Bavarian regiment because they were led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupprecht,_Crown_Prince_of_Bavaria Crown Prince Rupert]], [[HanoverStuartWars who held the Jacobite claim to the throne of England]]. Joe was amazed the soldier's superiors didn't just shoot him for treason; instead, they rotated him to the back of the trenches until the Bavarians themseleves were rotated out.
** MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: just before fading to black, "S.O.S. Help me"]].
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* ArmiesAreEvil: A nurse realizes that Joe is banging his head against the headstand in Morse Code. But she doesn't know Morse. So she brings in an officer to translate. When the officer realizes that Joe is asking to be either displayed as a monument to the horrors of war or permitted to die, all his response is missing is an EvilLaugh - probably because he doesn't want the nurse to interfere.
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* [[StillFightingTheCivilWar Stll Fighting The Forty-Five]]: During one of his reveries, Joe remembers a Scottish soldier who refused to fight against a Bavarian regiment because they were lead by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupprecht,_Crown_Prince_of_Bavaria Crown Prince Rupert]], [[HanoverStuartWars who held the Jacobite claim to the throne of England]]. Joe was amazed the soldier's superiors didn't just shoot him for treason; instead, they rotated him to the back of the trenches until the Bavarians themseleves were rotated out.
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* [[StillFightingTheCivilWar Stll Fighting The Forty-Five]]: During one of his reveries, Joe remembers a Scottish soldier who refused to fight against a Bavarian regiment because they were lead led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupprecht,_Crown_Prince_of_Bavaria Crown Prince Rupert]], [[HanoverStuartWars who held the Jacobite claim to the throne of England]]. Joe was amazed the soldier's superiors didn't just shoot him for treason; instead, they rotated him to the back of the trenches until the Bavarians themseleves were rotated out.
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* [[StillFightingTheCivilWar Stll Fighting The Forty-Five]]: During one of his reveries, Joe remembers a Scottish soldier who refused to fight against a Bavarian regiment because they were lead by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupprecht,_Crown_Prince_of_Bavaria Crown Prince Rupert]], [[HanoverStuartWars who held the Jacobite claim to the throne of England]]. He's Joe was amazed his the soldier's superiors don't didn't just shoot him for treason; instead, they rotate rotated him to the back of the trenches until the Bavarians themseleves were rotated out.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The film alternates between Joe in his war torn state, and flashbacks of his life before the war. The flashbacks are in vibrant color, while the present is in dreary black and white.
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A film version was written and directed by Trumbo himself in 1971, staying fairly close to the source material but with new scenes added (we see more of what's going on around Joe in the hospital, for instance). Music/{{Metallica}} later bought the rights to the movie so they could use clips of it for the music video to the song "One" (based on the book).
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* TimeDissonance: Telling time becomes an obsession for Joe, who has no idea how much time has passed since his accident. He starts to tell time by how often a nurse comes in to change his sheets and then by trying to feel the sun on his body.
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* TimeDissonance: Telling time becomes an obsession for Joe, who has no idea how much time has passed since his accident.accident, and thanks to his lack of eyesight or even eyes, can hardly tell when he's asleep and when he's awake. He starts to tell time by how often a nurse comes in to change his sheets and then by trying to feel the sun on his body.