M*A*S*H (film): Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"This isn't a hospital, it's an insane asylum! And it's your fault!"''

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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.

* [[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?"

* [[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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{{Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy}}

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[[Category:Films of the 1970s]]

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