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Dalton Miller

10:00 I think this scene could be a reference to a NUMBER of movies, honestly. You spotted the Star Wars references, but the actual paintball segment seems to be a string of references to war movies from the "War is Hell" school. Darwin's the cute, lovable young Private who breaks down almost immediately when faced with the stresses and terrors of actual combat, and this is his dramatic, heartbreaking "stepped on a landmine" scene. Landmines were/are popular for this sort of thing, because you get the virtual certainty of death, but the mine only goes off when he LIFTS his foot, so everyone gets the chance to say their goodbyes and carefully explain how war has changed or enforced their personal philosophies, before they all clear out to sob after hearing the single, distant explosion (and get the camera out of the gore radius).

Fusionater

Makes sense, I actually haven't seen that many war movies, most significant landmine stuff I know of is from M*A*S*H