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The Bridge on the River Kwai

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The Bridge on the River Kwai	comment	The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 World War II POW film directed by David Lean, about the construction of the bridges over the River Kwai, although it's heavily fictionalised. It's based on the French novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, of Planet of the Apes fame; Boulle, who could neither read nor write English, was also credited for the screenplay adaptation due to actual screenwriters Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson being blacklisted.The story: a British battalion is captured in Thailand and sent to a Japanese prison camp run by Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). Notable among the prisoners are Lt. Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), the battalion's commander, and Major Clipton (James Donald), a medical officer.The prisoners of war are being forced to build the bridge over the River Kwai, which when finished is supposed to help Japanese expansion. Saito tries to demoralize the British troops, but fails because of Values Dissonance. Nicholson decides to keep everyone's morale up by making sure everyone does as good a job on the bridge as possible, making it the best bridge they can.Meanwhile, the British government is planning a covert mission to blow that bridge up, since its existence will help the Japanese. They draft an American, Shears (William Holden), into their effort (he has two valid excuses which, together, the Brits had already used to get him transferred to them). Shears, along with Major Warden (Jack Hawkins) and Lieutenant Joyce (Geoffrey Horne), parachute into the jungle and find their way to the bridge. They secure plastic explosives, but things go wrong quickly.It's best known for its theme tune, the pre-existing "Colonel Bogey March" (which is far better known to nearly every Brit—including those at the time—for a set of lyrics to the tune about the lack of genitalia of certain senior Nazis).note Director Lean wanted the film to open with the soldiers singing the vulgar version, but producer Sam Spiegel objected. But the film itself is a classic; it earned its seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Guinness), Best Director (Lean), and Best Picture.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1207d30	type	Villain's Dying Grace
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1207d30	comment	Villain's Dying Grace: Collaborator Nicholson manages one by default. As an English POW in a Japanese camp by Kwai River, Nicholson, having ultimately succeeded in breaking his captor's will, subsequently causes both he and his men to improve their enemy's situation by building the eponymous bridge across the river. After the Allies learn of the bridge's construction and successfully transports a former POW of said camp to that bridge to destroy it, Nicholson naively ensures the bridge's safety and consequentially kills the man sent to destroy it. It is at this moment that Nicholson sees the fallacy in his endeavour. He decides to destroy the bridge himself a moment before the shelling from an Allied mortar knocks him over and fatally wounds him. He stands up (clearly dying), dusts off his hat, takes a few steps forward - wobbling, teetering all the way - and, as he can not take another step forward, falls on the detonator, successfully destroying the bridge before he dies.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Warden and Clipton are the only main characters who survives the incident.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The DVD cover shows the bridge getting blown up.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: The demolition team is composed of one British, one Canadian, and one American officer, plus some help from the locals. Meanwhile the bridge-building team is made up of British and Japanese officers, commanding British and Australian soldiers (Shears specifically mentions the Aussies in his first conversation with Nicholson).
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_15b09af9	comment	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam: Nicholson has a Heel Realization after recognizing a dying Shears, but Warden fatally wounds him with the mortar literally seconds after this. It's not clear whether or not Nicholson blows up the bridge with his dying breath entirely on purpose.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_165d6f53	type	Punishment Box
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_165d6f53	comment	Punishment Box: The camp has a metal punishment box, or rather "punishment hut" as it's referred to in the film, that stands outside in the sun.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_16e17035	type	Patrick Stewart Speech
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_16e17035	comment	Patrick Stewart Speech: Shears delivers one of these to Warden when he insists on being left behind.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_185ea595	type	The Trickster
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_185ea595	comment	The Trickster: Initially the British provoke all sorts of accidents to hinder the progress of the construction.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: Clipton.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Grogan and Baker, the two snarky enlisted men.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Joyce kills Saito by stabbing him in the back.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1dae374	type	POW Camp
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_1dae374	comment	POW Camp: Captured British soldiers are forced to build a railroad bridge by a Japanese officer.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Once he starts working on the bridge, Nicholson convinces himself that he's working an infrastructure project so that the Mighty Whitey Brits can uplift the poor, underprivileged locals, a routine assignment his battalion had performed at least half a dozen times in India before the war. He does such a good job convincing himself and all the other prisoners of this that Clipton is the only one who remembers that the poor, underprivileged locals in question are the enemy.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Clipton, in the end. And Shears, who is more interested in staying alive, and mocks Nicholson and others for looking to die in glory.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_246989a4	type	Circling Vultures
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_246989a4	comment	Circling Vultures: During his escape through the jungle, Shears notices a couple of vultures waiting for him to die.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The calendar on Colonel Saito's office is correct for February 1943. However the pinup on that calendar was not drawn until 1955 by Gil Elvgren entitled "Waiting for You". When a Burmese woman spreads a masking paint on Major Shears' legs, before they are to set charges onto the bridge, it's clearly seen that William Holden is wearing 50's style loafers, that not only do not fit the time, but don't fit the situation at all. The film is set in 1943, yet a 1946 Chrysler is shown as a military staff car. The roofs of some of the buildings in the hospital scene have television aerials on them. Since the film was set during WWII, the only countries which had television in any significant capacity were either in North America or Europe. There shouldn't have been any television aerials as there was no need for them. The Japanese soldiers are never seen using anything except British weapons throughout the movie. The Japanese soldier on the train in the opening sequence has a variant of the Vickers machine gun, as do the soldiers in the back of the truck. All infantry are carrying either Lee Enfield (Mk III or IV) rifles or Thompson submachine guns. There is no Japanese weapon at all in the film except for the officer's personal katana.note It wasn't unheard of for Japanese soldiers to carry British weapons. After the fall of Singapore in the spring of 1942 there was an abundance of British equipment that the Japanese forces confiscated, and P.O.W. personnel where usually given secondhand equipment, since it was difficult enough keeping their front line troops equipped so far away from Japan. So some thrifty Japanese commanding officer decided to equip the guards with British equipment.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_25d95a37	type	Principles Zealot
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_25d95a37	comment	Principles Zealot: Col. Nicholson is so proud of the prowess and buildmanship of the British soldiers that he misses the view on the collaborating with the enemy picture.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Nicholson insists on having his men build a better bridge than the Japanese would have built themselves as a way of preserving a sense of order and discipline among the troops, even though it amounts to collaborating with the enemy. In the film's climax, Warden kills Nicholson, a fellow Allied soldier, with mortar fire as he tries to save the mission to blow up the bridge... a mission which Nicholson then completes for him as he dies.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_28bf2393	type	Prisoner Performance
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_28bf2393	comment	Prisoner Performance: After the British POWs have finished building the bridge, that night, they put on a burlesque show for each other and for the officers, which Col. Nicholson is entertained by.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Colonel Nicholson, and it takes more than the Punishment Hut to do it.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: A variation with Col. Nicholson. One of the main sources of conflict between Nicholson and Saito at the start of the film is Saito's insistence that the officers do hard labour. He also threatens to put the patients in the sick bay to work, neither of which Nicholson will agree to. Once Nicholson's pride in the bridge takes over, he makes both these demands himself.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2ceee1dc	type	Head-Turning Beauty
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2ceee1dc	comment	Head-Turning Beauty: Played Straight with the blond nurse who befriends Shears at the hospital. When she walks across the campus, all of the soldiers interrupt their combat training to follow her with their eyes.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2f1bd3e7	type	Prisoner's Work
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2f1bd3e7	comment	Prisoner's Work: Captured British soldiers are forced to build a railroad bridge.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2f30a078	type	Binocular Shot
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2f30a078	comment	Binocular Shot: The team of saboteurs use field glasses to check out details at the bridge. Interestingly, the shot uses only one hole instead of the typical two-hole matte to emulate binocular vision.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2f948e12	type	Throwing the Distraction
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_2f948e12	comment	Throwing the Distraction: Warden throws a hand grenade past the Japanese soldiers to disorientate them before opening fire. Apparently it worked.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: In the build up to Col. Saito giving the order to have Col. Nicholson and his officers executed you can see a visibly-worried look on Lt Miura's face.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The bridge.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_351e7cf9	type	Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_351e7cf9	comment	Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: The film features this clash, although it is thoroughly subverted: Colonel Nicholson of Team Enlightenment believes so passionately in law and order that he ends up turning to Honor Before Reason, and collaborating with his Japanese captors in order to stay in command of his men. The wild, defiant Warden, representing Romanticism, ultimately behaves more rationally. At least compared to the Colonel. But the other contrast in the movie is between Nicholson and Shears. In this contrast, Shears represents the Enlightenment as he pursues his goals of survival and defeating the enemy by whatever rational means are effective. Nicholson, on the other hand, is the Romantic who puts the concept of honor ahead of those other goals.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Warden is shot in the ankle. The wound isn't serious, but it does slow him down.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_3ae5f176	type	Flyaway Shot
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_3ae5f176	comment	Flyaway Shot: The movie ends with a zoom-out shot, providing a birds-eye view of the river with the destroyed bridge.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4128bc77	type	Broken Tears
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4128bc77	comment	Broken Tears: Colonel Saito, after giving in to Nicholson's demands that officers do not do hard labour.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Nicholson and the officers almost let the Japanese kill them rather than violate their ethics by working on the bridge. Clipton intervenes and manages to spare them from committing a rather Senseless Sacrifice. This trope is essentially the driving force behind the film; while Nicholson does say that it is to maintain morale, it becomes rather clear that to him it is more about showing up the Japanese officer overseeing him by building a superior bridge, nevermind the fact that the bridge in construction would only help the enemy's war effort.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Saito and Nicholson come to see each other as this.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4691c64f	type	Mission Briefing
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4691c64f	comment	Mission Briefing: Several, especially Shears' initial encounters with Major Warden.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_47741ade	type	Parachute in a Tree
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_47741ade	comment	Parachute in a Tree: A fatal example occurs when Chapman lands in a forest where he hangs himself.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4c2e7c11	type	Staff of Authority
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4c2e7c11	comment	Staff of Authority: Colonel Nicholson is shown carrying a swagger stick in the early scene in the movie when he informs the Japanese commandant that according to the Geneva Conventions, officers cannot be required to perform manual labor. Colonel Saito snaps the stick in half in a fury, while informing him that he is not in command. After the scene where Colonel Saito gives the Colonel permission to assume command of the prisoners and get the bridge built his way, he replaces the original with a regular tree branch of about the same length. After the bridge is completed, he drops it into the river while talking to Colonel Saito. Saito also carries a staff in a few scenes; another notable similarity he has with Nicholson.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: The cruelty of the prisoner camp, the harshness of trekking through the jungle and the madness of war, all present and accounted for in a tale about trying to find a way to continue to feel like a man in war... even if it is a stupid decision.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Though it does have a certain amount of irony to it. Joyce and Shears are intentionally killed by friendly fire so they won't be captured, while Nicholson is fatally wounded by Warden's mortar fire seconds after his My God, What Have I Done? moment and falls onto the detonator, blowing up the bridge he worked so hard to build.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In-Universe. Saito makes a serious blunder when he reveals to Nicholson that, if the bridge is not finished on time, "I will have to kill myself." The instant he says that, Saito has lost the fight. For the rest of the film, Nicholson is in charge of building the bridge.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Colonel Saito, at first; he proudly tells the prisoners that the camp has no fence to prevent escape because, if the soldiers don't kill them, the jungle will. When Nicholson wins their initial war of nerves, Saito becomes much more subdued, and it is Nicholson who takes up this role instead.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: The filmmakers spent months and hundreds of man-hours engineering and building the eponymous bridge. Needless to say, the final scene required perfect acting and camera work.note The producers nearly suffered a catastrophe following the filming of the bridge explosion. To ensure they captured the one-time event, multiple cameras from several angles were used. Ordinarily, the film would have been taken by boat to London, but due to the Suez crisis this was impossible; therefore the film was taken by air freight. When the shipment failed to arrive in London, a worldwide search was undertaken. To the producers' horror the film containers were found a week later on an airport tarmac in Cairo, sitting in the hot sun. Although it was not exposed to sunlight, the heat-sensitive colour film stock should have been hopelessly ruined; however, when processed the shots were perfect and appeared in the film.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: A shot of a buzzard soaring in the air opens and closes the film. The first one is circling over the camp's graveyard, the other over the now "dead" bridge.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_59103508	type	Deadly Environment Prison
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_59103508	comment	Deadly Environment Prison: The film is set at a POW Camp deep into the Burmese jungle. The camp has no fence to prevent escape because, as the Japanese commander puts it: "If the wardens don't kill you, the jungle will." Of course, he is proven wrong.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Shears, it seems.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: A few hours after the charges are planted on the bridge, the water level of the river drops considerably, causing the detonation wire to become visible instead of hidden underwater. This causes the commando team to be spotted and would have ruined the mission were it not for Nicholson's dying Heel Realization.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Chapman, who dies shortly after his introduction.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: Col. Green equips Shears with an L (lethal pill) to be used in the event of capture.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_663ffef6	type	Majored in Western Hypocrisy
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_663ffef6	comment	Majored in Western Hypocrisy: Saito studied at London Polytechnic before the war. He notes that he originally wanted to be an artist, but after finding his artistic skills lacking switched to engineering instead while also hoping to help Japan's military endeavors with the latter in the future. He brings up this bit of his personal history while preparing a meal of corned beef and scotch (the latter of which he claims to prefer to sake), implying that he developed his taste for these staples of British cuisine there.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_66907f54	type	Hourglass Plot
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_66907f54	comment	Hourglass Plot: Saito and Nicholson switch their power position during the film.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_6c0e5342	type	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_6c0e5342	comment	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: After Nicholson is released from the sweatbox, Saito invites him to dinner to try and reason with him.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Shears is actually an enlisted seaman who switched uniforms with a dead officer to get better treatment. It doesn't work, as Saito treats all prisoners the same. Then, the British Army checks into "Commander Shears" after finding him and bringing him to Ceylon, and use this to blackmail him into "volunteering" for the commando raid.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: Col. Nicholson does not realize that he has become this until the end of the film. Maj. Clipton, on the other hand, knows that Nicholson could be perceived as aiding the enemy, but cannot persuade Nicholson of this.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Shears does not leave Warden behind when the latter gets injured, which Warden would do if their roles were reversed.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_7cb9e33	type	Dying Declaration of Hate
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_7cb9e33	comment	Dying Declaration of Hate: Right before Shears dies, he addresses Nicholson:
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_7d49d74a	type	Cultural Translation
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_7d49d74a	comment	Cultural Translation: In the book, Major Shears is British. In the movie, he was made into an American.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_836a968e	type	Plunger Detonator
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_836a968e	comment	Plunger Detonator: The detonator used by the demo squad has a plunger, onto which Nicholson falls as he dies.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Yes, the Geneva Convention does permit that enlisted POWs can be compelled to work, but only work in specific industries that do not help the enemy's war effort, otherwise they are exempted. Such exemptions include public works projects that are military in nature, which the bridge definitely fits. Colonel Nicholson should really have realized thatnote And when you get down to it, you really don't want POWs working on your military projects; the potential risk for them sabotaging the work they're doing is fairly high, even with oversight.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_83a8d697	comment	Oblivious Guilt Slinging: When the medic brings some meat to Nicholson in his Punishment Box, he explains that if the Colonel wouldn't give in to Saito, the prisoners from sickbay would be forced to work and probably die in the process. Nicholson stays stubborn but thanks those contributing for the food. The medic reveals that it came from patients from sickbay. Nicholson is visibly shaken by that thought.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: As has been noted, in Real Life conditions on the Burma railway were actually even worse than depicted in the film. Which isn't that hard to believe since the audience is only told that conditions are bad through exposition without actually being shown anything too graphic.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Nicholson becomes a hero in the camp for his successfully making Saito back down on making officers perform manual labor, and maintains that reputation throughout his active collaboration with the Japanese to build the bridge - to the point where he can get men on the sick list to volunteer to handle light duties to free more workers for the heavier tasks.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: The demolition team.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: A major theme of the film. Lampshaded by Saito, who goes on a rant about how much he hates the British for their stubborn resolve.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_8bd2ee20	type	Native Guide
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_8bd2ee20	comment	Native Guide: Yai, the friendly villager, becomes a scout for the commando team.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_8d463bfd	type	Parenthetical Swearing
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_8d463bfd	comment	Parenthetical Swearing: This movie manages to do this with just the word "You" spoken by itself as a complete sentence.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_939bf44a	type	Personal Effects Reveal
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_939bf44a	comment	Personal Effects Reveal: The Japanese soldier that Warden kills with his knife is shown lying dead on the ground with a photo of a young woman beside him.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_94edf56d	type
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_94edf56d	comment	"You!" Squared: As the climactic firefight breaks out between Warden's commandos and the Japanese soldiers guarding the bridge, Shears swims to the bank to confront Nicholson over revealing the explosive charges to the Japanese. However, he is mortally wounded before he gets there, and the exchange consists of just two words:
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Nicholson right at the end.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: When the native girls are frolicking at the waterfall, one of them backs into a Japanese soldier. Even if she was unaware of him, the other girls, facing her, should certainly have seen him. When Shears is attacked by a kite, he is actually in eyeshot of the village but he doesn't seem to notice until the camera pans down to reveal his surroundings.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Saito is an unusually sympathetic one considering who and what he represents. By the end, it's Nicholson.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Used twice - once by Warden when briefing Shears and once during Nicholson's final speech to his men.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Nicholson and Saito come to realize that they are both similar in regards to being obsessed with following the rules of their respective codes regardless of the consequences they might have for others. During their standoff with each other, both state that the other is responsible for the stalemate and any damage arising from it is the fault of the other. And both ultimately resort to completing the bridge at all costs: Saito out of a sense of duty, Nicholson out of a misplaced sense of pride.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_9aebded4	type	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_9aebded4	comment	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: All three members of The Squad exchange Longing Looks with the attractive women bearers from the village.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: Nicholson takes a moment when the bridge is complete to reflect on his career as a military man.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?. In the climactic scene, Colonel Nicholson realizes that he has been collaborating with the enemy to build a bridge out of sheer egotism. His final words as he dies and the bridge blows up are "What have I done?" The fact that he says it in a shell-shocked murmur only makes it all the more poignant. The last line of the film, by the only surviving major character, answers the question: "Madness!!! Madness!!!"
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a2ba7393	type	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a2ba7393	comment	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: Nicholson is visibly irritated by the sunlight when Clipton comes to visit him in his Punishment Box.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a6049c20	type	Disturbed Doves
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a6049c20	comment	Disturbed Doves: When the Japanese discover the British commandos bathing, the first shot is followed by a cut to the bats woken up by the shot flying around above the canopy.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: The first prisoner who gets shot during his escape attempt falls down and is dead on the spot.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a8559a9f	comment	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.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a9f86a47	type	What a Senseless Waste of Human Life
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_a9f86a47	comment	What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: Major Clipton embodies this trope when looking out over the dead soldiers from both sides in the end, exclaiming: "Madness... Madness!"
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The Downer Ending is contrasted by a cheerful military march tune during the Flyaway Shot at the end.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: The bridge is destroyed, but almost everybody dies to make it happen and, in the end, simply nobody cares anymore. It's in fitting with the film's themes. While militarily a victory, the audience and the surviving characters are all quite aware of how little the bridge's destruction actually matters, to the point of being an unambiguous Downer Ending.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Shears. Warden also has a rather dry wit.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_b14836af	type	JustAFleshWound
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_b14836af	comment	Just a Flesh Wound: Warden gets shot in the ankle, but he brushes it off as nothing serious.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Warden after shooting his comrades.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_b2d3a774	type	Captain Morgan Pose
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_b2d3a774	comment	Captain Morgan Pose: Colonel Nicholson casually rests his right leg on his chair during the project meeting with Saito, signaling the power switch between the two leaders.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_b3f0fc91	type	Track Trouble
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_b3f0fc91	comment	Track Trouble: The bridge is destroyed by demolition charges, causing the Japanese military train trying to cross it to fall to its doom.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_b905c10c	type	The Alcatraz
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: The prison camp was allegedly inescapable due to its remote location deep in the Burmese jungle. Naturally, this was proved incorrect.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Saito and Warden are too concerned with doing their job to the point of hurting their comrades, though Saito at least has the excuse that he would have to commit ritual suicide if he failed.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_becbd1d4	type	Jungle Warfare
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_becbd1d4	comment	Jungle Warfare: This film is set in the vast China-Burma-India Theater, one of the biggest examples of this kind of fighting. As shown here, aside from the Japanese, the jungle itself is as much of a hazard for the Allied troops assigned to fighting here.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_c2c28e90	type	Tokyo Rose
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_c2c28e90	comment	Tokyo Rose: After Shears performs Percussive Maintenance on the radio and get it working, this kind of personality is heard on it, broadcasting from Radio Tokyo, urging the soldiers to give up the war and go home. The team promptly turns the radio off.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: For Nicholson, it is both his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: And introducing Geoffrey Horne.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: The translator, who is said to have taught South-East Asian languages in Oxford(?) before the war seems at ease in the jungle, and seems to be more at home there than the other commandos.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_c78d3e08	type	Seppuku
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_c78d3e08	comment	Seppuku: Saito nearly does this after losing face to Nicholson. He changes his mind—but he might just be waiting until after the completion of the bridge, and he seems to be preparing to commit seppuku the night before the bridge is destroyed.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Joyce is said to be the best swimmer in his class. He doesn't get a chance to display this.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: The nightly scenes were clearly shot during day hours.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_cb5a0181	type	Where's the Kaboom?
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_cb5a0181	comment	Where's the Kaboom?: Subverted in the ending; the detonator works just fine, the problem is that Colonel Nicholson betrays the Allied troops trying to blow up the bridge, causing them to be killed before they can activate it. After he finally realizes his treason he sets it off as he dies... although it's deliberately ambiguous as to whether Nicholson is trying to reach the detonator or just falls on it accidentally. Played perfectly straight in the novel, however.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_cf331024	type	Camp Follower
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_cf331024	comment	Camp Follower: The Thai women who accompany the team of Shears and Warden. They do their laundry and maintain their equipment. One of them even falls for Joyce.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Clipton tells Nicholson that no one will know/care about the prisoners being ill-treated, and later on that working on the bridge can be seen as treasonous activity. Nicholson doesn't listen, both times.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_cfeb01b3	type	Title Confusion
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_cfeb01b3	comment	Title Confusion: The film is based on the book Le Pont de la RiviÃ¨re Kwai, translated into English as The Bridge Over The River Kwai. Many people refer to the film by the English title of the book.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_cffafc80	type	You, Get Me Coffee
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_cffafc80	comment	You, Get Me Coffee: Nicholson has Saito order tea, and later a full meal, for him and his officers during the bridge planning meeting as a successful power play.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_d3ac5496	type	Colonel Bogey March
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_d3ac5496	comment	Colonel Bogey March: The film made at least one post-war generation familiar with this.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Nicholson believes that since he was ordered to surrender his battalion instead of being forced to, the general principle that a captured soldier should still do whatever he can to impede the enemy war effort doesn't apply to him. This causes him to nix the formation of an escape committee, and, once he is convinced to participate in the bridge construction, to do whatever it takes to create a first-rate bridge by the expected completion date rather than a poor bridge as slowly as he could get away with.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: The bridge construction plan versus the demolition plan.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_df858e81	type	Shoot the Medic First
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_df858e81	comment	Shoot the Medic First: Inverted - Clipton the medic is the only named character to make it out of the film in one piece (all except one other person is killed, and the only other survivor already has a serious wound in the foot).
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: By the end, Saito has essentially been reduced to this.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e099f0de	type	I Will Only Slow You Down
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e099f0de	comment	I Will Only Slow You Down: Said by Warden to Shears after he is wounded, but Shears is having none of it.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e0c3f8bf	type	Punch-Clock Hero
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e0c3f8bf	comment	Punch-Clock Hero: Shears gets roped unwillingly by Warden into the mission to destroy the bridge. All he wants to do is stay alive. He doesn't.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Colonel Saito was inspired by Major Risaburo Saito, who, unlike the character portrayed in this movie, was said by some to be one of the most reasonable and humane of all of the Japanese officers, usually willing to negotiate with the P.O.W.s in return for their labor. Such was the respect between Saito and Lieutenant Colonel Toosey (upon whom Colonel Nicholson was based), that Toosey spoke up on Saito's behalf at the war crimes tribunal after the war, saving him from the gallows. Ten years after Toosey's 1975 death, Saito made a pilgrimage to England to visit his grave. Speaking of Col. Toosey, it was claimed that he encouraged his men to collect termites in order to sabotage the bridge. He did his best to protect them while not helping the enemy. A former prisoner at the camp stated that it is unlikely that a man like the fictional Nicholson could have risen to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and if he had, due to his collaboration, he would have been "quietly eliminated" by the other prisoners.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Averted. Nicholson refuses to compromise his obedience to the letter of the Geneva Conventions (the Hague Convention also applies) and this results in two negative outcomes. First, the rations are reduced for all the prisoners. Second, he insists on building a superior bridge because of his pride and the requirement that prisoners can be forced to work.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e263ae1	type	Inscrutable Oriental
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e263ae1	comment	Inscrutable Oriental: Subverted with Saito. He gives the impression of being taciturn, but in private, he has moments of vulnerability.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: To the extent that none of the characters' first names are ever even mentioned.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: British POWs were forced to build a bridge over the River Kwai, but that's just about the only thing in the film that wasn't made up. The real bridge was in service for two years, until it was wrecked by an Allied bomber shortly before the end of the war.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e567510d	comment	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.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Shears' clothes are almost undone when he reaches the friendly villagers after his escape.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: Frustrated that the radio won't work, Shears kicks it ... and then it does.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: None of the major characters has a first name. They're simply Colonel Nicholson, Major Warden, Colonel Saito, Major Clipton, and Lieutenant Joyce. Shears also only has one name, on top of it not being his real one.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_eafe9e0e	type	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_eafe9e0e	comment	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: This happens when the Thai lady porters are caught by some Japanese soldiers. It does not end well for the soldiers.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_eb04f8d5	comment	Fascist, but Inefficient: Saito and his soldiers are good at punishment, but are awful at structural engineering. Even if they could have pushed the POWs into completing the bridge, their original design was doomed from the start because it was sinking into soft soil. Nicholson and his fellow officers are able to build a much sturdier bridge, with knowledge as much with inspiring their soldiers.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: After completing the titular bridge Col. Nicholson sees that a group of Allied troops has come to destroy it. Because of all the work put into it and what he thought the bridge represented he initially intervenes to stop them. Leading to the death of Joyce. After exclaiming in shock, "What have I done" Nicholson is injured by mortar fire but uses his last moments to try and reach the detonator that was planted and falls on top of it. Thus completing the mission.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_f329f2a2	type	Got Volunteered
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_f329f2a2	comment	Got Volunteered: Shears is roped into the mission to destroy the bridge on account of him impersonating a dead man.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Warden and his squad. Also Col. Nicholson. His goal is ultimately merely to ensure his men don't just give up now that they've been captured, and to give them all a sense of pride in what they can achieve even in captivity. It's just a shame he ultimately goes about it in the worst way possible given the circumstances.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_fd7f0823	type	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_fd7f0823	comment	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Col. Green smokes one.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ff24ad1d	type	Bawdy Song
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ff24ad1d	comment	Bawdy Song: The famous whistling scene is an attempt to get "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" past the censors. The song is called the ""Colonel Bogey March" and has been a favorite for adding smutty lyrics to since 1914. It was supposedly inspired by an officer who whistled the first two notes instead of shouting "fore" on the golf course, so the song was insulting even when given its original title. Or not, considering that a "bogey" then, was what we today call a "par". Being called a scratch-player is probably NOT an insult anywhere.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ff6d8ad9	type	Adaptational Nationality
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: Shears is British in the book, doesn't escape from the prison camp, and isn't especially distinct from Warden or the other commandos. He was changed to American to accommodate William Holden's casting, and given a larger role to boot. A great example of Tropes Are Not Bad.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Saito has his moments. One example being when Jennings, Weaver, and Shears (supposedly in Shears' case) are killed by the guards while attempting to escape the camp. Saito tells Nicholson of his admiration of them, giving them credit for their courage and saying with pride that "for a few brief moments, they were soldiers again." Similarly, Grogan and Baker (who spend most of the movie mocking Saito and the Japanese) seem sincerely sad at the implication of Lt. Miura committing suicide.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Bawdy Song / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Binocular Shot / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Birthday Hater / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	California Doubling / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Circling Vultures / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Colonel Bogey March / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Cultural Translation / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Cunning Linguist / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Dead Person Impersonation / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Deadly Environment Prison / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Disturbed Doves / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Epic Movie / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	False Credit / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Fatal Method Acting / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Head-Turning Beauty / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Holiday Pardon / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Homegrown Hero / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	I Will Only Slow You Down / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	It's the Principle of the Thing / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Majored in Western Hypocrisy / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	March / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Mission Briefing / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	One-Take Wonder / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	POW Camp / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Parachute in a Tree / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Parenthetical Swearing / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Percussive Maintenance / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Plunger Detonator / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Principles Zealot / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Prison Films / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Prisoner Performance / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Prisoner's Work / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Punishment Box / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Shoot the Medic First / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Sound Off / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Staff of Authority / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Suicide Attack / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	The Alcatraz / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	The Place / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Title Confusion / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Tokyo Rose / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Track Trouble / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Trash the Set / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Two-Hit Wonder / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	What a Senseless Waste of Human Life / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	Where's the Kaboom? / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	"You!" Exclamation / int_cad40a0e
The Bridge on the River Kwai	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies / int_cad40a0e

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