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Stewart’s experience; medals; actor isolation; training; fight double; locations; motorcycle; ending; ring; Winger contract
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- The screenplay reportedly draws on Douglas Day Stewart's officer-candidate experience, including a real Paula he dated but did not marry; this is credited for the setting's specificity.
- Foley’s decorations are listed as the Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Gallantry Cross unit citation, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation, and a final item transcribed as “Combat Actionary” (unresolved). Their extensive detail is appreciated without requiring the film to explain each one.
- Hackford reportedly housed Gossett twenty miles away to keep him apart from the other actors.
- Lisa Eilbacher reportedly found it frustrating to pretend to struggle on the obstacle course because she was in excellent physical condition.
- Gere reportedly mastered the karate while Gossett struggled, accidentally kicked him in the groin, and a trained stand-in was used during Gossett's two-day absence.
- Foley putting Mayo's dollar in the right rather than prescribed left pocket is interpreted as a small deliberate rebuke.
- The Tides Inn is identified as the motel location.
- The hangar is reportedly now the 1,200-seat McCurdy Pavilion.
- Mayo’s motorcycle is identified as a Triumph Bonneville.
- Gere reportedly disliked the ending until factory workers became emotional during rehearsal.
- Stewart’s listed credits include The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, The Blue Lagoon, this film, Thief of Hearts, and Listen to Me. Thief of Hearts is praised for a burglar using a stolen diary to become a woman’s dream man; Listen to Me is recalled as a debate movie with Kirk Cameron, Jami Gertz, Roy Scheider, and Amanda Peterson.
- Keith reportedly swallowed a ring attached to string so it could be retrieved.
- Winger reportedly negotiated without an agent and omitted a nudity clause, leaving her surprised by a more explicit rewritten sex scene.