Quote Originally Posted by Streetcar View Post
But I just couldn't get past how upset these soldiers were getting over dance steps....!
Rudyard Kipling wrote of soldiers, "Single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints." What he meant is very well illustrated by this movie... and I've seen it in the real world, onboard ship. A small insult is magnified many times, until it becomes the most important thing in the world. It takes calm, cool heads on top to knock the tension back down, and when they're the ones who have the tension in the first place... look out.

Besides, it wasn't really about the dance steps. It was about who was right, the old skipper, or the new one.