now that the dust has settled was colonel nicholson a madman? he served 28 years including in india there is no way he could've survived this long if he wasn't competent
>>221210694This movie wouldn't be anywhere near as good or memorable if they tried to make it today
In real life they deliberately sabotaged the bridge again and again.
>>221210694here's a more accurate japanese POW camp movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-LLeDy61s
>>221210694>was colonel nicholson a madman?Yes.
>>221210694I thought it was the humiliating surrender to the Japanese that drove him bonkers
>>221210694more like bridge over the river kweer
>>221210694I thought this scene was about pride and legacy. He gave his life to the service and had no children to carry on his name. The bridge was meant to be his legacy to the world and he treated it as such.
the great escape was better
>>221211218I haven’t watched it yet but the cast is based
>>221210694My Italian WW2 vet grandfather loved that movie and would always play the VHS when I was a kid.All I remember is the end.
>>221213602the book the movie is loosely based on is good too. based on a true story by a former prisoner who was upset about the bridge on the river kwai movie not being accurate at all
>>221213620>Mens top film choice #13> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g_R4-jbVx8>jeets have infected the listThe trailer is absolute shit, your culture is shit, too from the presentation to the quality to the fact it wastes 2/3 of its runtime on logos, the horror
>>221213620>women rank 147>men rank 837What the fuck does that mean?
>>221210694>now that the dust has settled was colonel nicholson a madman?No, he was so focused on the minutia of maintaining order and discipline that he lost sight of the big picture. Once he won the fight against Saito to have things done his way his pride in himself and in the English military system lead him to embrace building the bridge as proof that he was right.
>>221214456I dunno bruh frNo cap it’s like runes or some shit
>>221214552I would say he saw the small picture (his responsibility to do the best for his men) and the very big picture (he wanted the bridge to stand for centuries after the war ended, as a statement of the worth of the English and the West generally) but he lost sight of (or underestimated) the middle-scale picture (that by building a good bridge he was actually helping the Japanese war effort).Hard to say whether he was right or wrong. Let's say the bridge was not destroyed. How much would it help the Japanese in the war, and how big would the effect be afterwards? He's sort of gambling to some extent. But he's not insane.FWIW, Alec Guinness said he knew people like Colonel Nicholson and they were often the ones who got stuff done but he didn't like them at all.
>>221212804Why didn't he commit sudoku then? He is not samurai.
>>221216123British actually have a God and it is haram to play sudoku
