Talk:Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

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The title score

I think it would be worth a separate page, or at least a sizable section of this page, for information regarding the song and the various forms it's taken - including being used in the game Shenmue, as well as sampled for Ai's version which goes by the same name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.190.112.34 (talk) 14:01, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The title score is definitely a popular song; it also is remixed in Machinae Supremacy's "Sidology 2 - Trinity" near the end. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.152.239.163 (talk) 23:29, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Plot

It seems to me the last paragraph of the plot is confused, and perhaps wrong. I've never seen the movie, but what the last paragraph says doesn't seem to make sense. It should probably be re-written to make it more clear. 71.36.64.51 (talk) 02:30, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I watched this movie last night for the first time in many years. The plot outline is fine in terms of a narative of the film but does not give any indication of its haunting qualites and the way it unsettles the viewer by juxtaposing scenes of extreme brutality against moments of humor and tenderness. For me the central theme is voiced by Laurence (Conti) at least twice - the idea that human beings with a total belief in what is right are capable of any action - and the film gives examples of heroic acts of selflessness - harikari or the suicidal act of Sellers (Bowie) to save the life of the RAF officer - and scenes of distressing brutality. In the last scene as Lawrence sits with the condemmed sargent he acknowledges that as victors the allies feel justified in sending him to his death - becuse they believe they are right, just as the camp officers and guards believed they were right, 'but of course the truth is we are all wrong'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.69.27.74 (talk) 23:10, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Captain Yonoi's reason for executing the British commanding officer Hicksley (played by Jack Thompson) is not that all prisoners are not brought in front of the Japanese (actually, they are - even the sick and wounded ones, by force) but because Hicksley refuses to give names of the prisoners who have skills in producing weapons; according to international agreements, such a demand is illegal, but the Japanese ignore all agreements which regulate treatment of prisoners-of-war. 83.145.225.167 (talk) 14:12, 6 May 2015 (UTC) Ellis.[reply]

Furyo

What does that word mean anyway? Or is it made up?--Stormwatch (talk) 21:26, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I edited to add its meaning. Nemui10pm (talk) 08:35, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.

I have always wondered what that meant. I was in France when this was released so I think of it as Furyo.

Varlaam (talk) 02:54, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The actual punctuation in the opening credits is what?

There are four possible film titles here:

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

North America puts a period (full stop) after Mr. but the UK does not, and this is a British film.
So options 3 and 4 seem likeliest.
Did they do a special opening credits sequence just so we North Americans could have our precious punctuation? I doubt it.
Is there a comma or not?
Varlaam (talk) 03:01, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's Option 2, but with a newline: "Merry Christmas [nl] Mr. Lawrence". This could be rendered as a comma in regular text. --78.42.235.84 (talk) 21:42, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Zealander?

The article states Celliers was from New Zealand, with one source backing it up. But checking the source, it appears it was just the casual opinion of the reviewer. I can't find any other source confirming it, the film didn't present the character as anything different from British Army, Bowie didn't attempt an accent, the flashback from his childhood doesn't seem to be set in New Zealand, and I found mentioned that the military hat he wears should be Australian, but it was wore by UK troops as well. I believe the linked reviewer's idea that he was from New Zealand might have stemmed from the fact that the film was filmed there. Otherwise, I'd like confirmation from a second source. Kumagoro-42 (talk) 19:18, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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apologism

Can we please add to the article that this is Japanese apologism. The idea that "commonplace on both sides of the war" is absolutely ridiculous. It was commonplace among the Eastern forces(Soviets, Japanese) and Germans. The actual people being detained- Americans and Dutchmen - had an incredibly clean record of POW treatment. A single POW, a German, was executed without cause by a mentally ill man in Utah who shot him. Several of the Japanese who did surrender recognize they were treated with kindness that they had not at all expected. None of that is "burying in their neck up to sand to die of exposure." How about how those soldiers literally killed and ate Indian POWs? Historian Mark Felton goes into great detail about it.

Why did we stop at two bombs? 2601:154:C000:4CF0:F81E:1C72:87FC:51E7 (talk) 09:44, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is tantamount to saying "Well, in the Ivory Coast people harvest cocoa as slave labor so I dont need to pay my employees either." Sure its happening somewhere in the world, but that's not an excuse. 2601:154:C000:4CF0:F81E:1C72:87FC:51E7 (talk) 09:45, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]