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The Cine-Files

336 The Bridge on the River Kwai Part 2

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

This week's conversation, concluding their exploration of David Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai, takes Steve and John to some deep, complicated and conflicted places which is only fitting considering that Kwai is such a deep complicated and conflicted film.

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0:00.0

This is just a game this war. You and that Colonel Nichols, and you're two of a kind, crazy with courage for what?

0:06.2

How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules? When the only important thing is how to live like a human being?

0:20.0

Hello and welcome once again to the cine files where this week we return to the bridge on the river Quai. My name is Steve Morris

0:26.1

I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California. I mean, do we have to I am sweating I've lost some weight

0:33.0

But the clothes are falling off of me now at this point and it is hot

0:36.4

But this is the outlaw John Roca right a producer and host here in San Diego and ready to walk into this

0:42.9

Quagmire of a camp here for bridge on the river Quai. I'm just glad you were able to we were able to trade your old

0:49.6

microphones for some extra rations of food because I think that's you know going to help us survive here because it's rough

0:55.3

Man, they got a lot to say cyto's got a lot to say. Yeah

0:59.3

Shall we just jump back into this film? Let's do it

1:02.8

So where we left off Nicholson had won

1:06.5

Through strength of will determination and courage. He had essentially broken CITO completely and gotten

1:14.1

Everything he wanted most importantly that the officers will not do manual labor

1:19.4

And now for the first time as essentially the commander of the work party. He is walking through

1:26.1

The construction site of the bridge. Yeah, and of course what the men have most been doing is

1:33.0

Conspiring to sabotage their own work so they don't complete the bridge

1:37.4

Yeah, and right away

1:39.8

You can see that Nicholson is looking at this differently

1:48.7

Oh, sir 12 usually, but

1:51.5

Well, one of the men took sick very suddenly this morning, sir, and uh

1:54.7

Well, he took three or maybe four. Yeah, let's open the hospital sir

1:57.6

I've brought it all with no exactly how many many has under him at all times and it is quite obvious particularly from his

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