Ok, anons. I gook one for the team. I watched White Squall in its entirety.
Why? This movie has a saying of "Where we go one, we go all." Q has used this repeatedly. Brilliant or sadistic? you decide.
1:22 - bay of pigs reference
1:29 - anonymous (this will hurt your heart)
1:32 - lightning strikes
1:33 - wall of water
[later] - ship chaos / sinks
[later] - trial scene
Brief synopsis:
1961: Boys go on school ship (Albatross) for an entire school year. Boys becoming men type of thing. They get boarded by Cubans. Bay of pigs reference.
Key rich kid character (Howard Hughes' son?) shoots dolphin (like a douche) and captain boots him off the ship.
Main character refers to being anonymous in a way that will hurt your soul after being involved with this shit. (Q: Heavy shit. Brilliant but dark.)
On the way back to the mainland, ship encoungers 'white squal' - HUGE storm with ample lightning and enormous waves that roll the ship several times. captain's wife and 3 others die. Very sad shit.
There's speculation that the rich asshole father of the rich kid has it out for the captain and sets up the trial to take the captain's master sailor certificate. Rich kid stands up in court and demonstrates unity with crew. Captain doesn't lose his cert.
My thoughts:
Possible this movie is completely unrelated and the WRWY reference is coincidences. (Not sure I want to not believe in a coincidence with this one.)
This could be just a motivational reminder of what it means to go as a group. Even if just this, it is worth the watch if you're not totally strapped for time. I cried twice but that's because I've been through a lot with all of this and certain things about this movie hit home HARD.
This could be a hint to dig on the dickhead father of the rich kid. There was a reference to Howard Huges but I don't know if that's who it was in the movie. (Trivial research should be able to reveal this but I'm not up to it tonight.)
The storm in the movie's timeline would have been right around the time of the Bay of Pigs invation. Weather modification in use at the time? Is there some scary cabal fuckery we're not aware of?
I've included a screen grab (←) from the end of the movie (will add another one following.) Not sure if this info is relevant. Q has a nasty habit of throwing us a 2 second crumb in the middle of a 2 hour movie.
So there's that. Have a nice day. Do with this what you will.