The Longest Day: Difference between revisions

* [[Dramatic Gun Cock]] - "Two clicks... I heard... two clicks..."

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]

* [[Field Promotion]]: When Brigadier General Norman Cota (Robert Mitchum) finds that the highest ranking Army engineer is Sergeant John H. Fuller, he promotes Fuller to lieutenant and puts him in charge of demolishing a concrete barrier.

* [[Four-Star Badass]] - He didn't have the four stars, but Brigadier General Roosevelt (Fonda) was the highest-ranking officer on the beaches that day. And it was his leadership during the early stages of confusion that kept the Americans on track.

* [[Officer and a Gentleman]] - most of the officer characters are this, on both sides.

* [[Oh Crap|Oh Scheiße]]: "Pluskat, where are those ships heading?" "STRAIGHT FOR ME!"

* [[The Oner]] - a long overhead tracking shot of the Free French forces taking Ouistreham. It follows the troops running from cover to cover, crossing pedestrian bridges, taking fire, heading upriver toward a target that the camera eventually reveals is a casino building fortified into a massive German bunker. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzd1gCc5CO8 View it here].

* [[Only Sane Man]] - Blumentritt. He's the one German officer who can see this is the critical battle and tries to get his superiors to deploy the tank reserves that could stop the Allies. No one listens to him.

* [[Parachute in a Tree]]: There's a scene ([[Based on a True Story]]) where a paratrooper becomes snagged on a French church spire.

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] - Roddy McDowall asked for a small role to spare his boredom after ''[[Cleopatra]]'' was delayed ... AGAIN.

** [[Sean Connery]], on the other hand, also has a small role because he was eager to get off to Jamaica and begin filming ''[[Dr. No]]''.