The Bridge on the River Kwai: Difference between revisions
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* [[Determinator]]: The demolition team really wants to blow up the bridge, and Nicholson ''really'' wants the bridge to be a success. See [[Know When to Fold'Em]].
* [[Downer Ending]]: Though it does a certain amount of irony to it.
* [[A Father to His Men]] / [[An Officer and a Gentleman]]: Col. Nicholson. The character was based on [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|French collaborateurs]] known to the author, while the actual colonel ([[wikipedia:Philip Toosey|Philip Toosey]]) was evidently above reproach. Even the Japanese second-in-command grew to respect him.▼
* [[Face Death with Dignity]]: Nicholson and the officers almost let the Japanese kill them rather than violate their ethics by working on the bridge.
▲* [[A Father to His Men]] / [[An Officer and a Gentleman]]: Col. Nicholson. The character was based on [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|French collaborateurs]] known to the author, while the actual colonel ([[wikipedia:Philip Toosey|Philip Toosey]]) was evidently above reproach. Even the Japanese second-in-command grew to respect him.
* [[Finagle's Law]]
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: The bridge construction plan versus the demoltion plan.
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