5/26/2023 0 Comments Book bridge over the river kwai![]() ![]() And it was these experiences that imbued the novel with a level of authenticity that carried over to the film adaptation. ![]() ![]() “We shouldn’t hesitate to adopt a principle of the enemy’s if it happens to be a good one.”īoulle’s novel was a character study, drawn from his own experiences in WW2 as both a secret agent and a Japanese prisoner of war. In fact, in the book Nicholson unwaveringly dedicates himself to the completion of the bridge and encourages his men to take up the motto of their captors: “be happy in your work” One in which British officer and stickler for rules and regulations, Colonel Nicholson, becomes so hung up on constructing a masterful piece of British engineering in the Thai jungle that he completely loses sight of the fact that his obsession:Ī) will lead to the slaughter of British troops in Burmaī) is causing further suffering to his already sick, weak and malnourished menĬ) has turned him into a war collaborator. Instead, author Pierre Boulle and director David Lean used the construction of the Thai-Burma railway as the setting for a story about obsession and madness. But you couldn’t make a movie about the reality of the “Death Railway” and the treatment of the prisoners of war who built it, because that movie is not one the average viewer could stomach. ![]() There is also a 415 km stretch of railway, built by allied prisoners of war, that joins Southern Thailand to what is now Myanmar. ![]()
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