What I Learned From Watching: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
David Lean’s exotic 1957 Opus, Bridge on the River Kwai is considered by many to be one of the greatest tales committed to film. Let’s set aside for a moment the seven Oscars it took home at the 30th Academy Awards and its distinction of being one of only 12 Best Picture winners to have been produced by a foreign studio—in this case, the United Kingdom. Instead, let’s consider what it is like to see this film today—during the era of the epic— and see just what a movie like this can teach us about filmmaking… Support this channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cinematyler Twitter: http://twitter.com/cinematyler Facebook: http://facebook.com/cinematyler Tumblr: http://cinematyler.tumblr.com This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen. Sources: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957 dir. David Lean) David Lean BBC interview ‘Film Profile’ 1955 DVD Booklet David Lean on What You Can Learn from Movies – Charles Reynolds/1958 David Lean and his Dedicated Maniacs Making of Bridge on the River Kwai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball The Steve Allen Show The Bridge on the River Kwai USC Short Film, Introduced by William Holden The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant Film 88 Special - David Lean ‘David Lean’ by Stephen M. Silverman The Geisha Boy (1958 dir. Frank Tashlin) Music: The Colonel Bogey March “RSPN” by Blank & Kytt (https://blankkytt.bandcamp.com/) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “Backed Vibes Clean” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Outstanding.
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slick brother. Thanks for sharing.
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Well, that was interesting and entertaining at the same time. Well done. This short mentioning of JAWS makes me hope you'll do a video about that movie as well. Finger crossed.
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Brilliant essay. Great work. This movie is one of my early favorites. Along such films like "Guns of Navarone" this too is directly responsible for my love of cinema.
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Wow! I love everything about this movie. You should do Lawrence of Arabia too! haha xD
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Great work again! Your movie analysis videos are by far the most comprehensive ones on YouTube! It's quite apparent you do a TON of research in order to make these videos. Looking forward to the next video!
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great work yet again
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Tyler putting those Premiumbeat transitions to use ;)
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Great video!
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I have never seen it. I definitely will now!
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really amazing - such an amazing essay
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24:20 also Lawrence of Arabia comes to my mind, also a David Lean movie :)
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me and my parents fucking love this movie
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Great work, excited for the next video
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Love your channel :)
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Superb work
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