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Instructions: Print
this homework sheet. Follow the directions, answer the questions and turn it in,
in class, on the due date. Vocabulary: Define the listed
terms and describe how or why they are significant to the film. You may have to use
outside sources.
| 1. Col. Bogey March |
4. "Ovens" |
7. plaque |
10. sick list |
| 2. Geneva Convention |
5. Hari- Kari |
8. samurai |
11. battalion |
| 3. Officers |
6. Blackmail |
9. camouflage |
12. Singapore |
Discussion: Write a paragraph or a short paper to explain the
requested information. Why is this important to the history involved?
1. When Nicholson decides to build the bridge to the best of their
ability, what is his reason for doing so? Perhaps he wanted to thank Saito for the amnesty
or to show Saito the superiority of the British or some other reason? What is your
evaluation?
2. At the end of the film, Nicholson finally realizes what he has done.
Would you consider his actions treasonous, delusional, justified?
Using the list below, fill in the blanks in the paragraphs with the
appropriate word.
| calamity |
honor |
insuperable |
superficially |
| dictated |
illusion |
intervened |
surrender |
| disjointed |
insistence |
justification |
tenacity |
| exceeded |
insufficient |
millennium |
victory |
The _________________ gap between East and West that exists in some eyes is perhaps
nothing more than an optical _________________ . Perhaps it is only the conventional way
of expressing a popular opinion based on __________________ evidence and masquerading as a
universally recognized statement of fact, for which there is no ________________ at all,
not even the plea that it contains an element of truth. During the last war, "saving
face" was perhaps as vitally important to the British as it was to the Japanese.
Perhaps it ________________ the behavior of the former, without their being aware of it,
as forcibly and as fatally as it did that of the latter, and no doubt that of every other
race in the world. Perhaps the conduct of each of the two enemies, ____________________ so
dissimilar, was in fact simply a different, though equally meaningless, manifestation of
the same spiritual reality. Perhaps the mentality of the Japanese colonel, Saito, was
essentially the same as that of his prisoner, Colonel Nicholson.
His chief weapons, when dealing with the Japanese, were his _______________ on a proper
code of conduct, his ____________________, his ability to keep harping on one particular
point until he obtained satisfaction. His personal courage and complete disregard for the
blows he received were also no doubt largely responsible for the high regard in which he
was held. On several occasions, when the Japanese had ____________________ the recognized
rights due to a victorious army, he had done more than protest. He had personally
_______________ .
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