>Nooo! I built that bridge! It's mine! It's the fruit of my labor, it's the effort of my men! Some of my officers died building it!>What do you mean the owner of the bridge is the enemy? They are grateful to me! Therefore I am entitled to protect it despite this being fucking war and they having tried to kill me! This bridge represents the only worthwhile thing I did in my entire life and I must make it last!
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
It's anti British propaganda
A LEAN NIGHT!
>>220161272burijou on ta liva kawaii >3<
>>220161272Now imagine if the sides were reversed and a group of Japs built the bridge for the Bri’ish you would be praising them for their honour and calling it kino in hushed tones.
>>220161272The movie portrays British officials as retards, very based movie.
>>220161272He managed to hide it for a time, but the hotbox fucked his brain. He may also have been a secret weeaboo.
>>220161272it would have made more sense if a lot of his men died building the bridge and he went crazy because of it.or at least one flashback to when he was a kid at the beach and he went psycho when his little brother destroyed his sand castle or something.
>>220161272He gets tunnel vision, but he does explain himself earlier in the movie. Someday the war will end, but the bridge will still be there, and people will remember the British built it. Not to mention the bridge was the way he managed to get his officers and POWs through the war in one piece, treated with a modicum of respect.
noooo officers can't work! lazy? of course not, I'm just a stickler for international law
>>220162703>at least one flashback to when he was a kid at the beach and he went psycho when his little brother destroyed his sand castle or somethingi feel like i could identify anything you worked on based on this alone
>>220161272Spoilers
>>220161272bridge of the river kweh
>>220163142go ahead, take a guess.hint: I've directed 12 feature length films.
>>220162817>someday the war will endNigger, the bridge got blown up the day it was opened. The war ended and the bridge wasn't there, not a single vehicle crossed it.I don't really get why the officers MUST never work, why would men see leaders working as anything but superior from leading by example. I guess there must be truth to this, since CEOs never work and people still worship them.
>>220163836No one was expecting some OSS deep strike shit in the middle of the jungle.As for officers not being used for manual labor is mostly a holdover from a time where officers were gentry who bought the positions, they weren't much good for anything but ransoming back to their family/crown. Also they were ordered to surrender, so there would normally be expectation for better treatment because of that.And for obi wan's sake his war was fighting to keep his men alive and build the bridge. He's not supposed to be the "good guy" of the story, he's a tragic character, and what makes the movie compelling is following him along and being invested only to see his own pride be his undoing. It's ahab and the whale in a fresh coat of paint.
>>220161272Dude sat on his arse while his mates were working themselves to death in the sun.Absolute fucking prick.
...and he was a good friend
>>220165099>Officers don't work! Officers don't work!>*dies in the sun*What a kid.
Alec Guinness considers this his best movie yet even back in the 80s he was already extremely butthurt that people remembered him more as Obi Wan Kenobi instead.
>>220165367He's the star in this but I remember him most as king Faisal from Lawrence of Arabia.
>>220165367>>220165387>not George SmileyGuinnesslets
The IRL story is more interesting, the japanese officer was a nice guy and they became friends after the war.
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>>220161272Someone having a Lean Night?
>>220162240>you would be praising them for their honour and calling it kino in hushed tones.Indeed. I instinctively started kneeling out of respect just from reading your description of such kinography
