MASH
Starring: Donald Sutherland
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"A couple of wise-cracking doctors join a mash unit in Japan.
The doctors and nurses do more drinking and messing around than actual medical work.
When a new by-the-book nurse arrives, she cramps the doctors' style.
The doctors continuously play tricks on her and she eventually loosens up.
When the commander comes to visit, the talk turns to football. The commander proposes a game between his team and the doctors for a sizeable bet.
The doctors come up with a plan. They played badly in the first half. At half time they suckered the commander into doubling his bet. In the second half the doctors brought in a ringer and won the game.
The doctors continue their joking and partying ways until their new orders come in they get to go home."
--Brandon Swenson, Resident MASH Scholar
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"This comedy follows a group of military doctors in Korea during the war. We see their adventures with a religious doctor, a suicidal doctor, and a stuck up female officer. This is a parody of war movies and it makes war seem funny."
--Jack Bauer, Resident MASH Scholar
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"Trapper, and Hawkeye have just been enlisted to become surgeons at the 4077th Mobie Amry Surgical Hospital. There they meet a lot of strange characters. Two majors have a not-so-secret love for each other. The colonel's assistant can tell when helicopters with patients will arrive, before they plan to. Through all their mad-cap adventures we see how Hawk, and Trap try to humorize the war. The film is funny dispite it's slow pace. Sutherland is amazing, and Robert Altman is working a smooth crew. "
--Estefan Ellison, Resident MASH Scholar
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"After nearly two decades of TV shows and a handful of forgettable films, director Robert Altman had his first hit with this irreverent 1970 satire of war and war movies. Two Army doctors in the Korean conflict do everything they can to escape the horror of their work: finding out whether the head nurse is a true blonde, taking an R&R trip to Japan for golf, playing another unit in a football game with much betting and cheating, helping a despondent camp dentist "commit suicide," goading an uptight superior officer to fury, etc. Though set in Korea, the film made a pointed comment on the lunacy of Vietnam (although the only shot heard in the story is a referee's pistol during the ball game). The wonderful supporting cast included Sally Kellerman, Tom Skerritt, Jo Ann Pflug, Bud Cort, and even Fran Tarkenton as an uncredited football player. Two years later, the movie inspired one of the longest-running and popular TV series of all time, and emblazoned the number 4077 permanently in cultural memory."
--David Loftus, Resident MASH Scholar
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"This is about a Mobile Army Hospital set in the Korean war. A bunch of draftee doctors and their struggles to survive and let others survive during a war."
--Rusty Glusing, Resident MASH Scholar
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"The film that started it all, MASH, about an army surgical hospital during the Korean War. A comedy, of all things!"
--steve, Resident MASH Scholar
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Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
If a parody... of
- war movies
Kind of comedy
- adults acting eccentric
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
How much humor v. drama
- Nearly all humor
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
- the Koreas
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing full frontal--women
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