The Bridge on the River Kwai

See also AZON. The second 1976 album of Genesis, Wind & Wuthering was also largely inspired by the novel. The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. (see Wuthering Heights (band)). At about the same time a new release of the film finally gave them proper screen credit. Wuthering Heights is also the name of a Danish Heavy Metal band. Only in 1984 did the Academy rectify the situation by awarding the Oscar to Foreman and Wilson retrospectively (and posthumously in both cases, although Foreman did live long enough to know that it was going to happen). Carlisle Floyd wrote an opera based on this novel in 1958.

Pierre Boulle, who did not speak English, was given screen credit for adapting his own novel, and the Oscar was awarded to him. The song was later covered by Pat Benatar.
The screenwriters, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, were on the Hollywood blacklist and could only work secretly. Kate Bush was inspired to write the song after watching the 1939 version of the film and the fact that she shares the same birthday as Emily Brontë: July 30.
Award nominations:. Its lyrics are based on the story of the novel.
Award wins:. It quickly reached number one in the UK pop charts, and propelled the singer to widespread fame.

One memorable feature of the movie is the tune that is whistled by the POW's—the "Colonel Bogey March"—and is now widely associated with the movie, and even sometimes referred to as the "River Kwai March." Besides serving as an example of British fortitude and dignity in the face of privation, it suggested (whether or not intended by the screenwriters) a specific symbol of defiance to many movie-goers of the period: WW II veterans (and many of their baby-boom sons) thought of the tune as that of a mockery of Japan's principal ally. It appears on her 1978 debut album, The Kick Inside, and was also released as her debut single. (Buster Keaton's The General includes an almost identical scene.). Wuthering Heights is also the title of a song by Kate Bush. The destruction of the bridge in the film was accomplished by blowing up a full-sized bridge as a real train drove over it. This may have been the first time such a scene had been attempted without model shots since the silent film era. It is a parody of the original story, free for download here: http://philippe.tromeur.free.fr/rene.htm
. The steel bridge has been repaired and is still in use. The Wuthering Heights Roleplay game is a role-playing game based on the French "René le Jeu de Rôle Romantique" by Philippe Tromeur.

In reality, a parallel steel bridge was added a few months after the wooden bridge was completed, and both were destroyed by Allied aerial bombing, the steel bridge first. Sadly, this version does not survive in the BBC archives.
The plot of the film is built around a fictional destruction of the wooden bridge by prisoner sabotage. A 1953 adaptation on BBC Television was scripted by Nigel Kneale, directed by Rudolph Cartier and starred Yvonne Mitchell as Cathy.
. Ralph Fiennes plays Heathcliff. About a hundred thousand conscripted Asian labourers and 16,000 prisoners of war died on the whole project, which was nicknamed the Death Railway. Juliette Binoche plays two roles, Catherine Earnshaw and her daughter.

This was part of a project to link existing Thai and Burmese railway lines to create a route from Bangkok, Thailand to Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) to support the Japanese occupation of Burma. A 1992 film adaptation was the first one to show both generations from the story; that is Heathcliff, Cathy, Edgar, and Hindley, as well as their children. The story is based on a real event, the building in 1942 of a railway bridge over the Mae Klong (not the Kwai) in the Thai town of Kanchanaburi. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was filmed in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and England. It was directed by William Wyler. An Anglo-American film in English based on the book appeared in 1957 and the name was changed slightly, to The Bridge on the River Kwai. The film portrays a group of British captives in a Japanese POW camp forced to build a railway bridge spanning the River Kwai in Thailand. The film was adapted by Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht and John Huston.

Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (The Bridge over the River Kwai) is a novel by Pierre Boulle, published in 1954, that won France's "Prix Ste Beuve." It dramatizes the plight of Allied prisoners of war during World War II forced to build the 258-mile Death Railway by Japanese forces. Carroll as Joseph Earnshaw. Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast (Malcolm Arnold). Kenneth, Geraldine Fitzgerald as Isabella Linton and Leo G. Golden Globe Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Sessue Hayakawa). It stars Merle Oberon as Cathy Linton, Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff, David Niven as Edgar Linton, Flora Robson as Ellen Dean, Donald Crisp as Dr. Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Sessue Hayakawa). Perhaps the best-known of the film adaptations was released in 1939.

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - Pierre Boulle - Carl Foreman - Michael Wilson. Camus juxtaposes the concept of Heathcliff's reaction to Cathy with the reaction of a disenchanted rebel to the ideal he once held. Academy Award for Original Music Score - Malcolm Arnold. Both are driven by a sort of madness: one by misguided love, the other by oppression. Academy Award for Film Editing - Peter Taylor. In Albert Camus' essay The Rebel, Heathcliff is compared to a rebel leader. Academy Award for Best Cinematography - Jack Hildyard. Instead, Cathy marries a wealthy neighbour, Edgar Linton, and the embittered Heathcliff sets out to ruin the fortunes of her family, which he does over a period of many years.

New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Actor (Alec Guinness). The anti-hero is the foundling Heathcliff, who is taken in by the wealthy Earnshaw family as a child, and falls in love with their daughter, Catherine. Catherine is also attached to Heathcliff, but he is not considered good enough to marry her. Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama (Alec Guinness). Subsequent critics revised this view; most would agree that Wuthering Heights's originality and achievement exceeded anything that her sisters Charlotte and Anne had ever attempted. Academy Award for Best Actor (Alec Guinness). Some contemporaneous critics even believed it to be an earlier, less mature work from Charlotte Brontë, who had also published Jane Eyre that same year under a pseudonym. New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Director (David Lean). Wuthering Heights 's innovative structure, which has been likened to a series of Chinese boxes, puzzled critics when the novel first appeared, and reception was lukewarm at best.

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture (David Lean). Nelly Dean, the secondary narrator, recounts scenes of strong emotion, violence, infanticide and sadism in a manner which is not completely dispassionate, but somewhat detached; she is not surprised at the extremes she recounts. Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (David Lean, Assistants: Gus Agosti & Ted Sturgis). This framing device gives distance to the events. Academy Award for Directing (David Lean). It takes the form of the first-person narrative of a minor character, Lockwood, who through conversations is told the tale of the principal protagonists. New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Film. The setting for the book is Brontë's native Yorkshire moors.

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. A posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. BAFTA Award for Best Picture. Published in 1847, under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, it has become a classic of English literature, and has given rise to many adaptations, including several films, radio and television dramatisations, and a musical, as well as inspiring a hit song by Kate Bush. Academy Award for Best Picture. Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. M.R.B. Chakrabandhu  : Yai.

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