>well if we are slave labor we're gonna be the best damn slave labor these japs have ever seen! Tally ho!
Are British soldiers really like this?
>well if we are slave labor we're gonna be the best damn slave labor these japs have ever seen!
>well if we are slave labor we're gonna be the best damn slave labor these japs have ever seen! Tally ho!
Are British soldiers really like this?
No, the real commanding officer sought to sabotage the construction every way he could
what real commanding officer?
the real colonel who commanded the British POWs who built the bridge
Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey of the British Army was the real senior Allied officer at the bridge in question. Toosey was very different from Nicholson and was certainly not a collaborator who felt obliged to work with the Japanese. Toosey in fact did as much as possible to delay the building of the bridge. While Nicholson disapproves of acts of sabotage and other deliberate attempts to delay progress, Toosey encouraged this: termites were collected in large numbers to eat the wooden structures, and the concrete was badly mixed.[31][32] Some consider the film to be an insulting parody of Toosey.[31]
Nice
It actually seems... Really shitty to portray him as a collaborator
It is kind of shitty and the Brits were rightly pissed about it when the movie came out, but otoh it's a great movie and Guinness' performance is fantastic. His Colonel Nicholson is a very compelling character. It's one of those things where you have to take the good with the bad.
Rank 'em:
>Bridge on the River Kwai
>A Bridge Too Far
>Bridges of Madison County
>Bridge to Terabithia
>Bridge of Spies
>Bridgerton
>>No The Bridge at Remagen
Anon...
Ah, I see we have a bridgesseiur.
Don't forget Force 10 from Navarone, hot Bridge busting action with a bonus of Dam destruction
>no Bridges at Toko Ri
what about Jeff Bridges
>no bridge bawds #9
ngmi
you got the order right
You're forgetting, The Bridge (1959)
Unironically one of my all-time favorites, and much better than The Bridge (2006).
If you enjoyed these movies then I've got a bridge to sell ya.
Frick you, A Bridge Too Far was kino. It was The Expendables of WW2 movies.
>The Expendables of WW2 movies
thats The Dirty Dozen anon
I have only seen the first soni will say it's the best
Doctor Zhivago, Brief Encounter, and The Bridge On The River Kwai.
A Lean night!
>I've been thinking. Tomorrow it will be 28 years to the day that I've been in the service. 28 years in peace and war. I don't suppose I've been at home more than 10 months in all that time. Still, it's been a good life. I loved India. I wouldn't have had it any other way. But there are times... when suddenly you realize you're nearer the end than the beginning. And you wonder, you ask yourself, what the sum total of your life represents. What difference your being there at any time made to anything - or if it made any difference at all, really. Particularly in comparison with other men's careers. I don't know whether that kind of thinking's very healthy, but I must admit I've had some thoughts on those lines from time to time. But tonight... tonight!
for you
If my choice was to either build a bridge or be tortured and killed I'd probably build the bridge
What about your principles and morals?
They probably change considerably when you're a captive of an enemy army
Don't indulge your morals over your practicals.
My what now?
Well done, that was the whole point, that he becomes too invested
>if we don't build the bridge we will be shot or tortured or death marched until we agree to build it
>even if we endure through that they'll just kill us and have weaker willed POWs do it
>even if we build it the war may very well soon be over so it won't be used by the Japs for very long
>anglos are moronic
yeah we know they controlled the world now are being reverse colonized
>they
Cool it with the antisemitism
Anti Anglo attitudes are a red flag for being a shitskin
Most bongs despite their displeasure with authority are complete cuckholds to authority and will bend over backwards to them if forced
Its true. My sister and her bf shouted at me when i said i dont like paying tax, and my mom is leaving 40% of the inheritance to the government "because other people need help"
Strangle your mother TODAY.
The thing is I’d agree with them if it was an actual ethnostate for anglos but since it’s not at the moment there’s no reasonable argument against pilfering as much from the state as you want while giving back as little as possible.
no way
>British fighting Japs
Did this really happen? I thought they were tied up fighting Nazis
They fought them mostly in the mainland, no island hopping from them. From India and into Burma etc
Famously in Burma yeah.
>famously
lol
We’ll it used to be famous at least before everyone went braindead, the thing people remembering from the war being d-day, mustache man, and the holohoax.
It was the biggest surrender of Brits in their history iirc, and Japs were mogging around with their mass bicycle invasion
nice b8
Alec Guinness is one of the greatest actors. I got into a conversation with some old israeli guy about cinema and he was shocked I didn’t know Guinness. By the next week he gave me all of Alec Guinness’s early work. Loved every film from lady killers to kind hearts
>Be a French dude in a Japanese camp
>See French officers collaborating
>Make them British in the movie
David Lean was French?
cope, anglos are superior beings even in slavery, this is why everyone seethes at us
his point about wanting to do the best job he could for the future and the morale of his men was good, he only screwed up at the end when he freaked out knowing they were going to destroy the bridge
i think bridges and other civil engineering structures are cool
Remember
>"Build 1000 bridges and suck 1 dick, you're not a bridge builder, you're a dick sucker" - Dom Mazzetti
The british are a depressed, dysgenic, mindbroken people
bit embarrassing for the rest of the world that allowed them to become the largest empire known to man then, isn't it?
The keyword there champ is "then"
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust