Episode #013: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The Essential Films Podcast

On today’s podcast adventure, Adolfo and Mark discuss the 1957 David Lean classic: THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI! On this week’s show:
Mark takes another EPIC trip to Alamo Drafthouse
Mark’s retweet from an 80’s icon
Jelly donuts
Toy guns
Korean exercise videos
2017 Summer Movies
Adolfo is done with Minions
Adolfo butchers Japanese and French
The benefits of Netflix Disc subscription
The slow start to Bridge
The David Lean Trilogy
Why William Holden was cast
William Holden’s record breaking salary
Why Alec Guinness thought the film was Anti-British
Why Adolfo trusts Alec Guinness without question
The anti-Japanese sentiment of the film
Does the film romanticize the building of the bridge?
The central conflict of Col. Nicholson
Major Shears’ redemption
Jack Hawkins: Bad Ass
Building an actual bridge for the film
Mark makes a Simpsons reference (SHOCKING)
Nicholson’s ambiguous finale
Women Bearers!
The hokey final words
The Hollywood Blacklist rears its ugly head
Masterful editing for the climax of the film
FILM REFERENCES IN THIS EPISODE:
THE GENERAL (1926)
BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945)
OLIVER TWIST (1948)
WINCHESTER ‘73 (1950)
SUNSET BLVD. (1950)
STALAG 17 (1953)
PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959)
SPARTACUS (1960)
WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963)
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1964)
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY (1965)
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
BATMAN: THE MOVIE (1966)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
THE LOSERS (1970)
JAWS (1975)
NETWORK (1976)
ZOMBI (1979)
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
MANIAC (1980)
AIRPLANE! (1980)
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1982)
A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984)
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
FULL METAL JACKET (1987)
TOP GUN (1987)
BATMAN (1989)
PACIFIC HEIGHTS (1990)
HEARTS OF DARKNESS (1991)
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
FORREST GUMP (1994)
INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)
MEN IN BLACK (1997)
ALI (2001)
HITCH (2005)
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS (2006)
I AM LEGEND (2007)
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012)
THE AVENGERS (2012)
INTERSTELLAR (2014)
JUPITER ASCENDING (2015)
MINIONS (2015)
FURIOUS 7 (2015)
STRANGER THINGS [Netflix Series] (2016)
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT (2017)
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (2017)
COLOSSAL (2017)
LUCKY (2017)
DUNKIRK (2017)
ATOMIC BLONDE (2017)
SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING (2017)
WAR OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (2017)
THE EMOJI MOVIE (2017)
ANNABELLE CREATION (2017)
THE DARK TOWER (2017)
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS (2017)
BABY DRIVER (2017)
LINKS:
The Essential Films: essentialfilmspodcast.com
The Losers (1970) - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQU3cRBoWGo
GI Joe Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLL67CN2hnw
Paths of Glory (1957) - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmDA60X-f_A
Nancy Sinatra “These Boots Are Made for Walking” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2fPkzJsMU8
R. Lee Ermey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPlKXBnLbK0
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