The final attack seems to take place in the wrong order for good military tactics: foot soldiers, followed by hardened and heavily armed military vehicles, followed by artillery, instead of the other way around.
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Todd's weapons training record lists the "USMC Smartgun" and "M41A pulse rifle" (references to Aliens (1986)) and the "DOOM MKIV BFG" - a reference to the computer game Doom.
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Original script by David Webb Peoples was written in 1982 or 1983, and it was originally titled The Base. Director Ted Kotcheff and Sylvester Stallone were involved in the project around that same time, right after they made First Blood (1982), but once Stallone left, and Clint Eastwood, next actor who they had in mind for main role also left, the project was cancelled, and after the script went through many different studios next 15 years, it was finally re-written and turned into Soldier (1998).
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Todd's Unit Statistics reference the Dungeons and Dragons Ability scores: STR, DEX, INT(L), WIS, and DEX. It also shows stats for his damage (DAM), hit points (HTPT), language (LNG), loyalty (LOY), and even RSR, which means "Resurrection."
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On the screen displaying Todd's achievements and rewards, you can see he earned the "Plissken Patch." A homage to Russell's portrayal of Snake Plissken in Escape from New York.
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Todd, the main character of this movie, is on-screen over 85 percent of the time, but only speaks a total of 104 words.
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The crawlers are based on mining haul trucks.
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During the sequences where Caine 607 is driving the crawler, the control he uses to fire the weapons is a Saitek X36 PC joystick.
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