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[YT Edit] The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Added 2023-11-15 02:58:18 +0000 UTCHey guys! Here is the YT edit for TBOTRK which will premiere shortly. Sorry this one is so late in the day! Hope you enjoy!
Here is the full reaction to this movie.
Comments
Thinks it speak to Pride in workmanship,but it is complicated would be hard doing nothing. Yet we blow up Bridges in War for Strategic and deployment of troops etc.War about Political decisions made but People are People.
Tim C
2024-04-21 19:28:12 +0000 UTCdidn't know. I'm new here.
Paul Rich
2023-11-17 22:48:05 +0000 UTCShe can do a Part 1 and a Part 2.
Jeffrey Schmidbauer
2023-11-17 22:12:38 +0000 UTCAnd the great escape
S Elphick
2023-11-17 21:46:59 +0000 UTCCassie has seen The Great Escape.
Stephen Malloy
2023-11-17 21:30:23 +0000 UTCFirst he's stuck in a Japanese jungle, then he's doing secret babysitting duty on a dangerous desert planet, Obi-Wan can't catch a break...
Paul Stelter
2023-11-17 03:47:14 +0000 UTCYep, but 1/10th the level, still an awesome and satisfying scene!
James Baugh
2023-11-16 22:48:10 +0000 UTCI'm flashing back to another bridge, the Branston Bridge interlude in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (the Civil War battle scene). Blondie and Tuco, no saints, are left bemused; the wholesale slaughter makes their sins seem like mere peccadilloes.
Happy Hanukkah
2023-11-16 22:40:58 +0000 UTCPS: Pleeeeeeze watch "The Big Country"!!!
James Baugh
2023-11-16 22:27:55 +0000 UTCThis is a movie that MUST be watched at least 4 times. There's so many concentric circles of plot/logic/ethics to swim through. But remember, for you the viewer, there is no right answer to your questions, there's only a better understanding of the actuality we try to stuff into a "reality" box.
James Baugh
2023-11-16 22:27:38 +0000 UTCThis is a morality play on at least 4 levels and you can tell because you can sympathize with so many different perspectives as you skip between those levels. That feeling of "not knowing who's right" that makes this apparent. ... (one last comment...)
James Baugh
2023-11-16 22:26:07 +0000 UTCSaito's rational is to satisfy the demands of his superiors subject to his own sense of honor. It conflicts with Col. Nicholson's reality which is that order is paramount, even to life itself. Note that means order even over authority. Then there's the Dr. who's perspective is life over even honor and order and then there's the American Shears who is the ultimate pragmatic, at least superficially. He knows the long term best but is always weighing it against his own personal local self interest. He is intellectually cynical but still understands the principles behind the war he's fighting. ...
James Baugh
2023-11-16 22:24:06 +0000 UTCHere's my answer to your question re: what the ending effing meant. Firstly you were looking for sanity and the first thing to realize is that war is, at one level, already insane. Firstly, yes Saito was preparing to commit seppuku (honorable suicide) because he didn't expect them to finish on time... but they did. More generally, there are layers to this story (authentic fiction) about morality and "sanity". I quote "sanity" because it is, as indicated, a relative term. ...
James Baugh
2023-11-16 22:17:34 +0000 UTCWell Cassie a few old comedy's with Martin Short you might like. Three Amigos, Innerspace or pure luck. Or a good thriller could be Sea or Love with Al Pacino or striking distance, the last boyscout with Bruce Willis.
Niall Burroughs
2023-11-16 17:34:27 +0000 UTCJeffrey!
Happy Hanukkah
2023-11-16 07:18:39 +0000 UTCThis film isn't historically accurate but that's not the point. As I understand it the bridge was actually bombed from the air. So what we have is a dazzling historical drama that depicts what it was like to fight in the Indonesian theater of war in WW2. What we have is an intimate war spectacle loosely based on an event of WW2. It's a great film that gets knocked because its facts aren't completely accurate. Please show the Treasure of the Sierra Madre since I have to leave the group.
Christopher Carr
2023-11-16 07:12:09 +0000 UTCShe's done long ones before.
Jeffrey Schmidbauer
2023-11-16 07:11:16 +0000 UTCGood idea J.S. but way too long.
Paul Rich
2023-11-16 07:09:48 +0000 UTCWhy didn't Alec Guiness just use the Force? Sorry. In bad taste for such a sterling film but couldn't resist. Another good war film is The Great Escape with Steve McQueen.
Paul Rich
2023-11-16 06:29:50 +0000 UTCAlec Guinness won Best Actor Oscar for this movie. David Lean, Best Director. The movie was also Best Picture of 1957. Next, you MUST watch "Lawrence of Arabia". It took David Lean two years just to film the thing and he did it at the some of the same locations where the actual events took place during World War I.
Jeffrey Schmidbauer
2023-11-15 23:35:59 +0000 UTCWatching this movie (yet) again in fast-forward, it almost plays like a dark comedy.
Happy Hanukkah
2023-11-15 20:25:39 +0000 UTCCassie, I deeply sympathize with that illness you're trying to shake off. Must be one of them Mexican viruses. π€£
Happy Hanukkah
2023-11-15 14:06:34 +0000 UTCThis is one of those films that until streaming and so on was ALWAYS shown here in the U.K. at Christmas. Along with the great escape and a handful of others. It probably wasnβt every year but we got so many repeats we were convinced it was on constantly. This was well into the 90βs it was like the BBC refused to show anything that wasnβt a pre 1985 war film.
Don
2023-11-15 13:40:09 +0000 UTCCassie.. did you recognize Obi Wan Kenobi in this movie?
Emily Coleman
2023-11-15 13:00:08 +0000 UTCanother good one is -- The Train ... if you want a copy, let me know ... great movie here ....
mhz
2023-11-15 09:42:38 +0000 UTCExcellent film. A classic!
Jeffrey Schmidbauer
2023-11-15 09:18:50 +0000 UTCPlease note the movie The Devils Brigade. Cliff Robertson and Richard Dawson play Canadians in WWII. Also, Escape from Sobibor. I've always loved Alan Arkin's acting.
John Burns
2023-11-15 06:14:00 +0000 UTCAgain, I never said that it was based on a true story
Neill Shaughness
2023-11-15 04:33:01 +0000 UTCFair enough I guess, but that does not change the fact that is was fictional for the most part.
Benjamin Gerrald
2023-11-15 04:31:01 +0000 UTCI wasn't saying it's a true story. I'm saying they really built a bridge for the movie and only had one take to blow it up
Neill Shaughness
2023-11-15 04:29:41 +0000 UTCNo. the movie is mostly fictional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_over_the_River_Kwai
Benjamin Gerrald
2023-11-15 04:27:28 +0000 UTCYet another largely fictional movie pretending to be history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_over_the_River_Kwai
Benjamin Gerrald
2023-11-15 04:25:59 +0000 UTCBTW they had to actually build that bridge and only had one take to blow it up.
Neill Shaughness
2023-11-15 04:05:49 +0000 UTCMy all time favorite movie. I get something new from it every time I watch it.
Neill Shaughness
2023-11-15 04:04:15 +0000 UTCYes I have also always had mixed emotions about the ending of this movie. It has some complex characters that are not just black and white.
Jay
2023-11-15 03:54:34 +0000 UTCGreat movie, but about the only thing that they got right is that the Japanese used slave labor to build a railway that had a bridge over the river Kwai. The things they did to the natives and POWs are unspeakable and the stuff of nightmares. 90,000 natives and 12,000 POWs were killed during the construction of the Burma Railroad.
Alex
2023-11-15 03:48:34 +0000 UTC"Less traveled?!" We're on the road to nowhere!
Happy Hanukkah
2023-11-15 03:37:18 +0000 UTCSpartacus & The Searchers!! "Go big or go home" ππ
Celeste McAllister
2023-11-15 03:36:41 +0000 UTC"I took the road less traveled and that made all the difference"
Celeste McAllister
2023-11-15 03:35:04 +0000 UTCI only had time to watch the first 16 seconds of this, but that was enough to inspire me to start a new career in drug-smuggling. Thank you, Cassie! π (Don't worry, I'll be sure to give you full credit!) Regarding the movie, I'll quote the following comment on Lawrence of Arabia (1962): "The director David Lean perfected long war epics in the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957) and Dr. Zhivago (1965). This is his desert film. Bridge Over the River Kwai is his jungle film. Dr. Zhivago is his snow film. I recommend all three war films."
Happy Hanukkah
2023-11-15 03:33:39 +0000 UTCWhat is that beautiful house? Where does that highway go to? Am I right? Am I wrong? My God!
Happy Hanukkah
2023-11-15 03:26:11 +0000 UTCOne of the great all time movies. Lawrence of Arabia is another. These arenβt movies but epics. Spartacus and The Searchers are others
Bill Maurer
2023-11-15 03:18:09 +0000 UTCI almost forgot it's been a hot minute,perfect yt cut for saying good bye,it's been a slice.βπ
Celeste McAllister
2023-11-15 03:06:40 +0000 UTCThis feels like it's been simmering on the back burner for a while.
Zane From Canada
2023-11-15 03:02:20 +0000 UTCThis has been on the back burner for a while, hasnβt it? Looking forward to it.
Brian McGovern
2023-11-15 03:00:03 +0000 UTC
