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From Here to Eternity

Fred Zinnemann · 1953 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A bugler transfers into a rifle company at Schofield Barracks in the summer of 1941 and refuses to box for the regiment, so the captain's men set about breaking him by degrees. His first sergeant begins an affair with the captain's wife, and a friend on stockade detail keeps needling the wrong man. Columbia got the Army's cooperation by softening James Jones's book, and the surf embrace cleared the Code by inches.

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Attributes

Genre
WarRomanceTragedy
Theme
Duty & HonorIndividual vs SocietyForbidden LoveWar & Violence
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Rebel / OutlawLoverEveryman
Plot structure
Tragic ReversalPolyphonic
Symbol / motif
The BattlefieldMusicThe Sea
Conflict
vs Societyvs Person
Mode / tone
RealistTragicRomantic
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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