I saw this movie the first year that I was in the Navy at the theatre on base, & close to the beginning where Costner went out to rescue that sailor on the forecastle elicited a huge roar of laughter in the theatre. No officer would even set down his coffee mug to help someone that he outranked. Also, there aren't any phones in the bars in the PI, & even if there were, it's so loud in there you couldn't
Hear anything.
If I recall the scene correctly he was on an exchange with the Royal New Zealand Navy so perhaps normal behaviour was not to be expected?
But with respect to the USN and your service in it (I am British) are you really saying that no USN officer has ever rescued anybody of a lower rank?
I know a couple of churches that have moving memorial plaques to officers and men who risked and sometimes lost their lives saving lives at sea back in the day when we had an empire and a nice big navy.
I was in the USN and I know a lot of officers that would have done the same.
As far as Costner's character being on loan to the RNZN I think you may have been mistaken, they were all wearing ball caps on the bridge that say USS Billings. And the lettering on the side of the ship is of a U.S ship, of course they got lazy and didn't have the numbers match up between the caps and ship number, and it was a destroyer not a battleship like it shows on their caps. Guess they figured who'd notice.
Do not forget that Tom Farrell was not an American he was Russian. he was there to promote himself for an agenda to get close to whoever in govt his handlers told him to get close to.
I always thought that he did it not only to help the guy but to become famous for it.
Good grief OP, stop and think before you post. Not all officers are creeps and don't forget you are watching a MOVIE it is not real life.
I disagree - I think that scene was there to establish something fundamental about Costner's character.
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