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On the Beach

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On the Beach	label	On the Beach
On the Beach	page	OnTheBeach
On the Beach	comment	On the Beach is a 1957 novel by Nevil Shute that explores the aftermath of a nuclear war that wiped out all life in the northern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere was left untouched by the bombs, but not the fallout: each year more radioactive material is moved south by seasonal winds, and as the fallout accumulates, life slowly dies off, latitude by crawling latitude.The story follows a group of people in Melbourne, Australia who go on about their lives as they wait for the inevitable end. With only a handful of years left, desperation is sliding into acceptance. When a Morse-like code is received and identified as coming all the way from Seattle, a stranded US submarine is sent to investigate this glimmer of hope - small and unlikely though it is.The book was adapted into two movies by the same name, first in 1959 and then in 2000. The 1959 version was directed by Stanley Kramer and starred Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and a pre-Psycho Anthony Perkins, who struggles with an Australian accent. The first movie has inspired the Strugatsky Brothers to write Far Rainbow in 1962.Not to be confused with Beach Episode, or at least not what normally comes to mind when one thinks of that. It has nothing to do with bikini girls, and is anything but upbeat. It's also unrelated to the Neil Young album of the same name.
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On the Beach / int_1044a759	type	Dying Race
On the Beach / int_1044a759	comment	Dying Race: The human race, along with all remaining life on Earth. As a result of nuclear war, the last humans are confined to Australia, but eventually the radiation will reach Australia and kill them all as well, and the Australians know that they have only a few months left before the last human dies.
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On the Beach / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
On the Beach / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: In the 2000 adaption, John, Moira, Jennifer and Dwight are older than in the novel.
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On the Beach / int_13a6b7ef	type	Gaia's Lament
On the Beach / int_13a6b7ef	comment	Gaia's Lament: The planet’s biosphere is irreparably damaged by nuclear war, the northern hemisphere is already dead, and all life in the southern hemisphere will die as well from radiation poisoning in a few months.
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On the Beach / int_1865f13a	type	Apocalypse Anarchy
On the Beach / int_1865f13a	comment	Apocalypse Anarchy: Somewhat downplayed. The society never really disintegrates, but at the end, people were just taking stuff from stores. Also, hosting a lethal car race.
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On the Beach / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
On the Beach / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop:
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On the Beach / int_1c96f945	type	Wrong-Name Outburst
On the Beach / int_1c96f945	comment	Wrong-Name Outburst: In the 1959 film, everyone's having fun frolicking outside, including Dwight. Then he accidentally uses the name of his dead wife when he is affectionately calling Moira an "outrageous liar". The mood becomes subdued very quickly after that.
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On the Beach / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
On the Beach / int_1dab76ed	comment	Cosy Catastrophe: There's nothing left alive in the Northern hemisphere, but inhabitants of the Southern are inconvenienced at worst. Subverted, though, because the fallout will reach them eventually, and everybody knows it.
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On the Beach / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
On the Beach / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Graphically so in the 2000 adaptation, where several children are seen dead of suicide poisoning.
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On the Beach / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
On the Beach / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: The United States and Great Britain are drawn into the war when Egypt attacks them with Russian bombers.
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On the Beach / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
On the Beach / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The Northern Hemisphere is already dead. And soon, the Southern Hemisphere will be dead too.
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On the Beach / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
On the Beach / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: In the best Australian way.
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On the Beach / int_478343d6	type	Planning for the Future Before the End
On the Beach / int_478343d6	comment	Planning for the Future Before the End: Even though they're all fully aware they're going to die within a few months, the characters continue to plant gardens for the following year, talk about getting new clothes and accessories for their growing children, and generally maintain the polite fiction that the world isn't ending in order to Let Them Die Happy.
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On the Beach / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
On the Beach / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Obviously. Never once does the book's tone deviate from calm acceptance.
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On the Beach / int_55cd4012	type	"Everybody Dies" Ending
On the Beach / int_55cd4012	comment	"Everybody Dies" Ending: And in this case, that really does mean everybody.
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On the Beach / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
On the Beach / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Peter and Mary Holmes.
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On the Beach / int_63557923	type	Death World
On the Beach / int_63557923	comment	Death World: By 1964, everything outside of Australia, New Zealand and the southern tips of Africa and South America is an uninhabitable, radioactive wasteland. And the fallout's still moving south.
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On the Beach / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
On the Beach / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: The Australian government provides cyanide pills to its citizens so that they need not die slowly of radiation poisoning.
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On the Beach / int_6454966e	type	World War III
On the Beach / int_6454966e	comment	World War III: It began with an Albanian nuke being dropped on Naples, then another bomb on Tel Aviv, followed by Russian-made bombers piloted by Egyptians flying over and attacking Washington and London. Afterward, a full exchange between Russia, NATO and China was inevitable.
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On the Beach / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
On the Beach / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Everyone. First, mankind, of course, committed (unintentional) suicide via nuclear war, and the last survivors in Australia eventually decide to kill themselves, usually by taking cyanide pills, as they start to finally succumb to radiation sickness.
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On the Beach / int_717d735a	type	Suicide by Pills
On the Beach / int_717d735a	comment	Suicide by Pills: The Australian Government starts issuing cyanide pills for everyone in order to avoid a slow death from the deadly radiation.
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On the Beach / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
On the Beach / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Never a dull moment" for the first half of the book. "We all go a little mad" for the second.
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On the Beach / int_7d32da92	type	Lost in Transmission
On the Beach / int_7d32da92	comment	Lost in Transmission: In the book and in the first movie, the Australians hear garbled Morse Code radio messages from the United States (Seattle in the book, San Diego in the first movie), which turn out to be caused by a broken window frame striking a telegraph key. In the second movie, the submarine crew receive a garbled message every day at roughly the same time. They're tracking it to see if it's from a group of survivors, but it turns out to be a solar-powered laptop transmitting on its own. Doubles as an Apocalyptic Log.
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On the Beach / int_82464731	type	Humanity's Wake
On the Beach / int_82464731	comment	Humanity's Wake: The inevitable end of humanity occurs, with those who survived World War III all eventually dying from violence, suicide, or radiation sickness.
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On the Beach / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
On the Beach / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: The northern hemisphere is toast; the book narrates the Australian population's attempts to live out their last days in joy.
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On the Beach / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
On the Beach / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Class 3a at the least, presumably a Class 4. Possibly a Class 5.
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On the Beach / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
On the Beach / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: Averted — the estimate of when people in Melbourne will start dying of radiation poisoning turns out to be inaccurate.
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On the Beach / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
On the Beach / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: In the 2000 film. How did a standoff over Taiwan escalate so quickly? Which side fired first?
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On the Beach / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
On the Beach / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": When the submarine's crew finds the radio message was not the result of human activity — a broken window in the book and first film, a solar-powered laptop in the second film.
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On the Beach / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
On the Beach / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: The cyanide pills. Depending on personal convictions not everyone takes them, and some commit suicide in other ways.
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On the Beach / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
On the Beach / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: "Waltzing Matilda". "Waltzing Matilda" is a song about suicide, which makes grim sense given that the story's theme is the entire world's (unintentional) suicide.
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On the Beach / int_99dd103c	type	Safe Zone Hope Spot
On the Beach / int_99dd103c	comment	Safe Zone Hope Spot: The transmission coming from the United States.
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On the Beach / int_a08b0736	type	Nuclear Option
On the Beach / int_a08b0736	comment	Nuclear Option: Obviously.
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On the Beach / int_c446f93c	type	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics
On the Beach / int_c446f93c	comment	Artistic License – Nuclear Physics: Nuclear fallout would be a serious problem for the immediate areas surrounding the bombing sites, but even with the total destruction of the northern hemisphere, it's highly unlikely that enough fallout could be carried to the southern hemisphere to completely poison the planet. It's mentioned that the bombs used included cobalt, which would increase their radioactivity, but this wouldn't be a problem for the people in the southern hemisphere if it couldn't reach them. Only the lightest particles from the fires produced by the bombings could reach the far-flung areas of the planet and they would be so light that they'd stay in the upper atmosphere, contributing instead to a resulting nuclear winter.
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On the Beach / int_d4fc9734	type	Salt the Earth
On the Beach / int_d4fc9734	comment	Salt the Earth: The nuclear version.
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On the Beach / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
On the Beach / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: And Australians largely decide to go out doing whatever makes them most comfortable.
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On the Beach / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
On the Beach / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Discussed and angrily thrown back at the submarine's captain. Mostly, Australians don't really care if the USSR (China in the 2000 film) or the US fired first.
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On the Beach / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
On the Beach / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: The impending death of humanity. And when the radio transmission proves not to be the result of human activity. And towards the end, when people start developing symptoms of radiation sickness, and know the time has come.
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On the Beach / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
On the Beach / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: Both played straight and averted by Commander Towers. He's completely by-the-book, but goes easy on his men when they begin to show signs of this themselves. Played straight by pretty much every other member of the American and Australian navies. Justified by the circumstances: there are no enemies left to fight, all missions are scientific in nature, and everybody's going to be dead soon anyway.
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On the Beach / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
On the Beach / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Averted in the 2000 film. Towards the end when the cast develops radiation sickness, most of them are shown vomiting, huddled in vomit-stained clothing.
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On the Beach / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
On the Beach / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The 1959 film is set in 1964.
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On the Beach / int_f5afa308	type	Hard-Drinking Party Girl
On the Beach / int_f5afa308	comment	Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Moira, bordering on The Alcoholic.
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On the Beach / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
On the Beach / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Played straight by John Osborne when he's on the streets. His Improbably Cool Car was never designed for transportation, and tends to stall below 50 miles per hour, so he tears around the streets of Melbourne like a madman, only avoiding accidents by being the only car on the road. Averted on the racetrack, though - his caution behind the wheel saves his life at least once, and is the main factor in his Grand Prix victory.
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On the Beach / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
On the Beach / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: John Osborne becomes one over the course of the story.
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