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Charm City Slicker (57-35)@sprawlhater.bsky.social |
I think there is a way to tell this story where the bridge isn't being built properly because the men have a communication barrier with the Japanese engineers and have fallen out of discipline with their officers locked up, but I think the film does British Ingenuity/Bumbling Asian stereotyping
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Dan
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the worst scene is where the soldiers are just cavorting in the river like it’s a resort as their armed captors look on helplessly, it makes no sense that they wouldnt all be being punished for that.
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Charm City Slicker (57-35)
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Saito is a man who believes in totalitarianism and Nicholson is a man who believes in the rule of law, and if one of the themes is that rule of law is better because it allows for specialization relative to brute force, that can be expressed without the Asians being so hapless they put piles in mud
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RNtropy
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Also, at the time Japan was known for manufacturing cheap, low quality, low value add products. Portraying the Japanese as being technically incompetent would have played into this stereotype. Ironic, given how much Japan would come to dominate advanced electronics in the following decades.
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