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Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Hunt for Red October |
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Caption Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) of the Soviet Red Fleet is ordered to test the new Soviet submarine 'Red October'. This sub has a propultion system that can hardly be detected with sonar, and if that isn't enough... It has about 100 nuclear warheads aboard. (Cuba Crisis Part II)
A CIA-analyzer (Alec Baldwin) has a theory about Ramius. He might be defecting. From then it's a race against the clock. With the entire Red Fleet behind him, Ramius is about to start a national crisis in the North-Atlanic.
--Bjorn Bakker, Resident Scholar
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The Soviet Union has developed a nearly silent submarine that is a possible first strike weapon against the U.S.
The Soviet captain put in charge of this sub decides to defect to the U.S. with a few "hand picked" officers with the same feelings as him. They also decide to bring the "gift" of this new sub along with them. Problem is... A Soviet missle sub just doesn't walk into a U.S port. Enter Jack Ryan, CIA analyst who figures out what the Soviets sub crew are up to. The rest is an action packed movie about how they work together to bring about this end game.
--, Resident Scholar
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A Russian Sub Skipper tries to defect to the US but the Soviet Navy has started a massive mission to find the sub, the Red October, on the cover story as a rescue mission, but the Americans don't belive it. The Hunt for Red October is one of Clancy's best books and I would recomend it to anyone who has intrest in the Military.
--John, Resident Scholar
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Sean Connery, the captain of a new kind of Soviet ballistic submarine, decides to defect, bringing his ship with him. The feminine Alec Baldwin plays a CIA analyst who figures out what Connery is up to.
--steve, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Hunt for Red October |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Navy
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- special ship
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- white
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Russian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard wavy
Body type
- average build (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Russian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an entire race
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Specific kind of enemies?
- communism
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Russian
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
- Northeast
- Deep South
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Russia
Water?
Yes
Water:
- warship
- swimming on
- submarining
- lifeboat
- river
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- air battles
- mission to rescue
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- guns
- ocean ship battles
Unusual forms of death
- drowned
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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