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{{quote|''{{'}}Cause suicide is painless,''
''It brings on many changes,''
''And I can take or leave it if I please
{{quote|''"This isn't a hospital, it's an insane asylum! And it's your fault!"''
|'''Hot Lips O'Houlihan'''}}
'''''M*A*S*H''''' is the 1970 film adaptation of the 1968 novel ''[[MASH (novel)|MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors]]''
In the midst of the [[Korean War]], the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is tasked with fixing up the wounded. Two Army Surgeons, "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Duke" Forrest arrive on the scene with fellow surgeon "Trapper" John McIntyre. Defying all conventions, they decide to "fix up" the mood in the hospital with their brand of black humor. The plot of the film is made up of various episodes dealing with their escapades in the Hospital.
''M*A*S*H'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 1996.
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The film took the novel's main themes, stripped out the [[Values Dissonance|uglier parts]], and came up with this.
** It also [[Composite Character|combined two characters to create Major Burns]].
* [[Attending Your Own Funeral]]: The unit dentist, "Painless Pole", {{spoiler|wanted to commit suicide, so they set up a mock funeral for him so he could take cyanide and die in a casket. The cyanide pills were fake, and the only dying he did was [[Good People Have Good Sex|in the Shakespearean sense]]}}.
* [[Berserk Button]]: "Would you say that she was a moaner, Frank?"
* [[Big Game]]{{context}}
* [[Bigger Is Better in Bed]]: "Painless Pole" is the "best-equipped" dentist in the army. After Lt. Dish spends the night with him, she is still in a daze the next morning.
* [[Blackmail]]: When Col. Merrill breaks in on Hawkeye, Trapper, and Me Lay performing unauthorized surgery on an American-Japanese infant, they anesthetize him and take compromising photos of him in bed with a prostitute to keep him from talking.
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* [[Faux Symbolism]] / [[Last Supper Steal]]: Painless's "last supper" looks very much like Da Vinci's original.
* [[Harpo Does Something Funny]]: Pretty much the whole film was improvised; the screenplay was just a template.
* [[Iconic Logo]]: The "Peace sign with woman's legs" (as seen in the page image), at least until the TV show overshadowed the movie. It even migrated back to print editions of the original novel, and remained the logo for all its sequels.
* [[Initialism Title]]
* [[Invulnerable Knuckles]]: Averted. When Trapper punches Frank Burns in the face, he appears to be in as much if not more pain than Burns.
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* [[Running Gag]]: The camp's bumbling P.A. announcer.
* [[Shoe Shine, Mister?]]: Snippets of the song "Tokyo Shoe Shine Boy" are played at various times. The song is also on the movie soundtrack. In the film it is sung in Japanese, except for the words "Tokyo Shoe Shine Boy" in English.
* [[Stock Shout-Outs]]: The funeral dinner for Painless briefly is shown in a tableau that mimics [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s "The Last Supper".
* [[Suicide Is Painless]]: The theme song is the [[Trope Namer]]. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Hawkeye and Trapper, through and through.
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{{Palme d'Or}}
{{Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy}}
{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs}}
[[Category:National Film Registry]]
[[Category:Academy Award]]
[[Category:Films of the 1970s]]
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[[Category:Cannes Film Festival]]
[[Category:Films Based on Novels]]
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