The Bridge on the River Kwai: Difference between revisions

**When the British arrive the other POWs are rotten and dying of weariness, bordom and jungle disease. Nicholson's men are proud and ''marching''.

* [[Downer Ending]]: Though it does a certain amount of irony to it.

* [[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 collaborators]] 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 demolition plan.

* [[Holiday in Cambodia]]

* [[Hollywood History]]: Among survivors of the construction of the Burma-Siam railway, there is often a lot of bitterness directed towards this film, as [[Real Life]] conditions were ''much'' worse, with 13,000 POWs and 100,000 civilians dying in its construction. The filmmakers felt depicting conditions as harsh as they actually were would be too depressing for filmgoers.

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]

* [[Shoot the Dog]]

* [[Smug Snake]]: Colonel Saito.

* [[The Squad]]