![]() ![]() ![]() However, David Lean didn’t like the draft by Foreman. Foreman gave the project over to producer Sam Spiegel and stayed on secretly as a screenwriter. Foreman was living in England because he was blacklisted in Hollywood under suspicion of being a communist sympathizer (Wiki). The novel was published in France in 1952 and was later published in Britain where it piqued the interest of an American producer and screenwriter named Carl Foreman. 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…Įven though the story is about British, Japanese, and American soldiers, the original novel was written by a French man named Pierre Boulle. ![]() 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 (Wiki). 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. ![]()
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