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The Last Valley

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The Last Valley	comment	The Last Valley is a 1971 film directed by James Clavell, starring Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, and a young BRIAN BLESSED, featuring a score by John Barry.The story (adapting a J.B. Pick novel) is set during the Thirty Years' War, where Omar Sharif plays a teacher trying to survive in war-torn Germany. He witnesses a mercenary company led by Captain Michael Caine sack a village and flees blindly into the wilderness, where he stumbles upon a remote and hidden village. The mercenaries follow him, but as they are about to sack the village, Sharif makes a proposition to the Captain: why not spare the village and wait out the winter? Everybody wins, assuming that they can make this truce stick...
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The Last Valley / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
The Last Valley / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: The village priest during the witch-burning.
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The Last Valley / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Last Valley / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: While Father Wendt clashes with the mercenaries in the book, he is given more depth there and is killed by a stray shot from a mercenary turning on the captain, rather than during an attempted witch burning.
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The Last Valley / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Last Valley / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The Holy Roman Empire pretty much fits during this point of history, with what the never ending war and the ravenous mercenaries killing and destroying the countryside.
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The Last Valley / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The Last Valley / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Stoffel the bugler (one of the men the Captain leaves at the village in the book) just disappears one day. Presumably, he was murdered, but since the villagers didn't bother to hide the body of the other man left behind once he was killed (and because Stoffel had married a local girl), they may have just left him tied up someplace. The mercenaries in general in the book. The Captain returns to the valley at the end saying mortally wounded in battle and saying everyone who left with him was killed but given the likely chaos of the battlefield itâ€™s easy to question how he could have known that for sure, especially given his own need to quickly get out of there.
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The Last Valley / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Last Valley / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the book, Gruber and his men murder the two soldiers the captain left behind and mortally wound Vogel when he tries to warn him, which turns out to be unnecessary, given the Captain's Mortal Wound Reveal. In the film, they don't kill the soldiers left at the village -although one dies during the witch burning-, and while they do spring an ambush, upon realizing the captain was dying anyway, they spare the lives of the one man to make it back with the Captain, as well as Vogel.
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The Last Valley / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Last Valley / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: The mercenary captain considers Mayor Gruber, who opposes the mercenaries' presence, to be a worthy opponent after seeing how scheming and tenacious he can be.
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The Last Valley / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
The Last Valley / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: The mercenaries gradually fall to pieces over religious conflict and who gets which village girl.
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The Last Valley / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Last Valley / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The villagers hate the soldiers, and the soldiers basically want to Rape, Pillage, and Burn the whole place, but they both need the site to survive the winter. so they defend it together.
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The Last Valley / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Last Valley / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: The teacher convinces the mercenary captain to spare the village and live of it during the winter instead of indulging in Rape, Pillage, and Burn, arguing that it's the only bountiful village he has manage to encounter so far across Germany and to get rid of any troublemaker. The captain doesn't hesitate to kill the one mercenary that he knows won't agree with the idea a second after hearing it.
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The Last Valley / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Last Valley / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The last valley alluded in the title is the only one that has managed to escape the devastation of the Thirty Years War so far.
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The Last Valley / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Last Valley / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The Captain's men are wiped out (with the possible exception of Stoffel) in the book, but a few survive the film. Vogel who is wounded by the villagers and dies along with the Captain in the book. In the film, he instead decides But Now I Must Go.
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The Last Valley / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
The Last Valley / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: At the beginning, the teacher tries to convince one of the peasants to let him stay by paying him, the peasant summarises how little does his coins value in the current famine.
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The Last Valley / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Last Valley / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The first mercenary to die is the one that is implied to have raped a women in the prologue, as well as the one that just wants to burn the eponymous last valley.
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The Last Valley / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
The Last Valley / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: The Captain thinks Inge is Erica, who has been killed, as he's dying, and she lets him think it.
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The Last Valley / int_afd112fe	type	Hired Guns
The Last Valley / int_afd112fe	comment	Hired Guns: The mercenaries.
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The Last Valley / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Last Valley / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Tub and Stoffel, the two men left behind by the Captain in the book, are combined with Geddes and Pirelli.
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The Last Valley / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
The Last Valley / int_f0fe7e80	comment	Vogel who is wounded by the villagers and dies along with the Captain in the book. In the film, he instead decides But Now I Must Go.
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The Last Valley / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
The Last Valley / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: The Catholic village priest, played by Swedish actor Per Oscarsson, comes across as this. So does one of the Protestant mercenaries who stops to pray after killing a Catholic peasant.
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The Last Valley / int_fbb54ba6	type	Forever War
The Last Valley / int_fbb54ba6	comment	Forever War: The Thirty Years' War forms the backdrop to the story.
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