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* Leitmotif: "Hatikvah." In a film about the struggle for the Jewish state, this is to be expected.
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* CrowdSong: "Hatikvah"
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* NationalAnthem: "Hatikvah" appears three times in the score. The first time is when the passengers hoist the Magen David flag on the ship and throw the food overboard at the beginning of the hunger strike. The second time, a jazz-influenced arrangement plays on the car radio during [[spoiler:Akiva's death]]. The last time, it's a joyous, a cappella crowd song after the Partition plan is voted on.
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* NotableOriginalMusic: Despite the film itself earning mixed reviews, Ernest Gold's Oscar-winning score was and is still quite well-regarded.
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* CompressedAdaptation: A necessity; the book is quite the {{Doorstopper}} and the film still clocks in at just under three and a half hours. The film leaves out or only briefly alludes to the backstories of numerous characters, including Kitty, Ari, Barak and Akiva, Karen, Dov, and General Sutherland - which take up hundreds of pages in the novel. And the film ends at barely the halfway point of the novel, which ends in approximately 1951 (while the film ends in late 1947).
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* CompressedAdaptation: A necessity; the book is quite the {{Doorstopper}} and the film still clocks in at just under three and a half hours. The film leaves out or only briefly alludes to the backstories of numerous characters, including Kitty, Ari, Barak and Akiva, Karen, Dov, and General Sutherland - which take up hundreds of pages in the novel. And the film ends at barely the halfway point of the novel, which ends in approximately 1951 (while the film ends in late 1947).1947, at the very beginning of the War of Independence).
* {{Doorstopper}}: the novel.
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* StarcrossedLovers: Dov and Karen finally admit that they love each other, [[spoiler: only for Karen to be killed by Arabs]].
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* StarcrossedLovers: Dov and Karen finally admit that they love each other, [[spoiler: only for Karen to be killed by Arabs]]. In the novel, we have additional examples. Ari and Dafna are this in the {{Backstory}}. David Ben-Ami and Jordana are this in the novel; he's killed trying to retake Jerusalem in the War of Independence. Ari and Kitty are shaping up to be this in the novel, but wind up together at the end.
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* HospitalHottie: Kitty is a nurse.
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* HospitalHottie: Kitty is a nurse.nurse, and over the course of the novel, Karen trains to become one.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ari Ben Canaan is loosely based on [[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/middleeast/24ahronovitch.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=91653211B44B39D765CA08A5620A1AE1&gwt=pay Yitzhak Aronwicz]], the real-life captain of the ''Exodus'' who later became an Israeli military official and businessmen. Aronwicz disliked both the book and film, saying that they were "neither history nor literature." There are numerous other examples, too.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ari Ben Canaan is loosely based on [[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/middleeast/24ahronovitch.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=91653211B44B39D765CA08A5620A1AE1&gwt=pay Yitzhak Aronwicz]], the real-life captain of the ''Exodus'' who later became an Israeli military official and businessmen. Aronwicz disliked both the book and film, saying that they were "neither history nor literature." There are numerous other examples, too.He also has elements of Moshe Dayan in his backstory. Harriet Saltzman is loosely based on Henrietta Szold.
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* RefugeInAudacity: How Ari plans on escaping from Cyprus with 611 Jewish internees.
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* RefugeInAudacity: How Ari plans on escaping from Cyprus with 611 Jewish internees. Also, the Acre prison breakout.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Major Caldwell, who gets gruesomely murdered by the Maccabees in the novel. Mind, since the only reason he got murdered by them was because he murdered a helpless prisoner who was a Maccabee...well, let's just say that it's [[KickTheSonOfABitch hard to have any sympathy for him]]. David Ben-Ami snuffs it the novel as well - making a suicidal charge to retake Jerusalem in the War of Independence - but is spared mostly because the film ends before his death. [[spoiler:And near the end of the novel, after the end of the War of Independence, Barak - at this point well over 80 - dies of cancer.]]
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* BadassIsraeli: One of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]]. Ari, David Ben-Ami, Dov Landau, Jordana, Akiva...yeah, the cast is chock full of these. Even Barak is a RetiredBadass.
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* FriendlySniper: Jordana, who's a crack shot with a rifle.
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* HospitalHottie: Kitty is a nurse.
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* WhipItGood: In the novel, both Barak and Ari, while quite thoroughly proficient with and comfortable using firearms, are skillful with a bullwhip.
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* FieryRedhead: Jordana. Subverted with Barak, who had red hair as a young man but was far more easygoing and even-tempered than [[HotBlooded Akiva]]. Just don't [[PapaWolf mess with his kids]] or [[BerserkButton break your promises to him]].
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* FieryRedhead: Jordana. Barak is a subversion. He had red hair in his youth, but is a pretty even-tempered guy. Just don't [[BerserkButton mention Akiva]] or [[PapaWolf mess with his kids]].
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* EpicMovie: nearly 3 and a half hours. Apparently at the premiere, a Jewish comedian stood up at the 3 hour mark and asked director Otto Preminger to "let my people go!"
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* EpicMovie: nearly 3 and a half hours. Apparently at the premiere, a Jewish comedian (Mort Sahl) stood up at the 3 hour mark and asked director Otto Preminger to "let my people go!"go!"
* FieryRedhead: Jordana. Barak is a subversion. He had red hair in his youth, but is a pretty even-tempered guy. Just don't [[BerserkButton mention Akiva]] or [[PapaWolf mess with his kids]].
* FieryRedhead: Jordana. Barak is a subversion. He had red hair in his youth, but is a pretty even-tempered guy. Just don't [[BerserkButton mention Akiva]] or [[PapaWolf mess with his kids]].
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* AdaptationalWimp: Sarah. In the film she's a fairly stereotypical JewishMother, and granted, by the beginning of the film she's pretty old, but in the novel, the {{Backstory}} reveals her to be just as much of a {{Badass}} as Barak - a full on ActionGirl who can work a farm and handle a gun just as well as a man, and a {{Determinator}} who endures [[MadeOfIron three full days of torture]] at the hands of the Turkish police - [[PregnantBadass while seven months pregnant]]. By the beginning of the novel, she's aged into a tough as nails ApronMatron.
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* JewishMother: Sarah, Ari's mother, is portrayed as one in the film. In the novel...well, she's Jewish, and she's a mother, but not so much.
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* BittersweetEnding: The movie ends with Israel gaining its independence, but full-scale war breaks out between the Jews and Arabs, and [[spoiler: Karen and Taha have both been murdered]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The movie ends with Israel gaining its independence, but full-scale war breaks out between the Jews and Arabs, and [[spoiler: Karen and Taha have both been murdered]]. The novel ends on this as well: [[spoiler:Barak has just passed away from cancer, Karen is murdered, and Jordana is heartbroken after the death of David Ben-Ami. But Dov has a bright future as an engineer - he's been offered a scholarship to MIT. General Sutherland embraces the Jewish faith. Ari and Kitty will probably end up staying together. All of them, with Ari's mother, have joined together in a FamilyOfChoice. The book ends with a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Passover seder]], led by General Sutherland - specifically, with Dov, the youngest present, asking the Four Questions.]]
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* AgeLift: Barak is, at the beginning of the novel, about 80 years old, and Akiva is only two years younger. They were respectively played by Lee J. Cobb and David Opatoshu, who were 49 and 40 respectively (though both actors were well-known for being YoungerThanTheyLook, they don't look anywhere near 80).
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Major Caldwell, who gets gruesomely murdered by the Maccabees in the novel. Mind, since the only reason he got murdered by them was because he murdered a helpless prisoner who was a Maccabee...well, let's just say that it's [[KickTheSonOfABitch hard to have any sympathy for him]].
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Major Caldwell, who gets gruesomely murdered by the Maccabees in the novel. Mind, since the only reason he got murdered by them was because he murdered a helpless prisoner who was a Maccabee...well, let's just say that it's [[KickTheSonOfABitch hard to have any sympathy for him]]. David Ben-Ami snuffs it the novel as well - making a suicidal charge to retake Jerusalem in the War of Independence - but is spared mostly because the film ends before his death. [[spoiler:And near the end of the novel, after the end of the War of Independence, Barak - at this point well over 80 - dies of cancer.]]
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Jordana, who doesn't get a lot screentime, is far nicer in the film. In the book she's a massive bitch to Kitty (mostly due to [[MySisterIsOffLimits being insanely close to her brother]]). She does [[DefrostingIceQueen soften over time]], and by the end of the novel they're close FireForgedFriends.
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* {{Omniglot}}: Most of the main characters, but justified by their backgrounds. Ari is mentioned as fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic in addition to his native Hebrew. Karen is fluent in English and Danish in addition to her native German, and becomes fluent in Hebrew over the course of the novel. Barak's mother tongue is Yiddish, but he reverts completely to speaking Hebrew after making aliyah, and is also fluent in Arabic and English. Dov Laundau's language ability is never mentioned, but given he was a working-class Jew from Warsaw, his mother tongue was probably Yiddish, with fluency in Polish and modern Hebrew (as his father in the novel is mentioned as being an ardent Zionist).
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* TranslationConvention: Absolutely necessary, though it's given a {{Handwave}} in the novel by most characters being mentioned as {{Omniglot}} - somewhat justified by their respective backgrounds. Ari and Karen speak fluent English, though as Karen was a well-educated scientist's daughter and Ari was in the British Army this is understandable - however their mother languages are modern Hebrew and German, respectively. Barak probably picked up English much later in life; his native tongue is Yiddish and he reverts to Modern Hebrew sometime after making aliyah. Dov Landau's native tongue isn't specified, but given he's a working-class Jew from Warsaw, his mother tongue is likely Yiddish, with fluency in Polish (and probably modern Hebrew, his father is mentioned as being an ardent Zionist).
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* TranslationConvention: Absolutely necessary, though it's given a {{Handwave}} in the novel by most characters being mentioned as {{Omniglot}} - somewhat justified by their respective backgrounds. Ari {{Omniglot}}.
* TraumaCongaLine: In the film, Dov andKaren speak fluent English, though as Karen was a well-educated scientist's daughter and Ari was in Karen, who are orphaned Holocaust survivors. In the British Army this is understandable - however their mother languages are modern Hebrew and German, respectively. Barak probably picked up English much later in life; his native tongue is Yiddish and he reverts to Modern Hebrew sometime after making aliyah. Dov Landau's native tongue isn't specified, but given he's a working-class Jew from Warsaw, his mother tongue is likely Yiddish, with fluency in Polish (and probably modern Hebrew, his father novel...[[UpToEleven everyone]]. Ari's LostLenore, Dafna, is mentioned as being an ardent Zionist). in the film, but her death and its effect on Ari are graphically depicted in the novel. Also in the novel, Ari spends 18 months in Acre prison, and is gravely wounded fighting in World War II. Barak and Akiva's father was murdered in a pogrom in their native Russia. General Sutherland is [[ShellShockedVeteran haunted by the liberation of the concentration camps and his testimony at the Nuremberg Trials]] - at the beginning of the novel he's still having nightmares about liberating Bergen-Belsen. And this is just the backstory.
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* TranslationConvention: Absolutely necessary, though it's given a {{Handwave}} in the novel by most characters being mentioned as {{Omniglot}} - somewhat justified by their respective backgrounds. Ari and Karen speak fluent English, though as Karen was a well-educated scientist's daughter and Ari was in the British Army this is understandable - however their mother languages are modern Hebrew and German, respectively. Barak probably picked up English much later in life; his native tongue is Yiddish and he reverts to Modern Hebrew sometime after making aliyah. Dov Landau's native tongue isn't specified, but given he's a working-class Jew from Warsaw, his mother tongue is likely Yiddish, with fluency in Polish (and probably modern Hebrew, his father is mentioned as being an ardent Zionist).
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Poor Dov. Bad enough in the book that he lost his entire family (either to the death camps or the Warsaw Ghetto uprising). Worse that he also, in the book, was forced to work as a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. The film adds RapeAsBackstory. And at the start of the both the film and book, he's only seventeen years old.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Dov Landau, a fair-skinned, blue eyed blond in the novel, is played by swarthy, dark haired Sal Mineo.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the novel, the Jewish terrorist organization is clearly an {{Expy}} of the Irgun but called the Maccabees. In the film, it's just called the Irgun.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the novel, the Jewish terrorist organization is clearly an {{Expy}} of the Irgun but called the Maccabees. In the film, it's just called the Irgun.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ari Ben Canaan is loosely based on [[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/middleeast/24ahronovitch.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=91653211B44B39D765CA08A5620A1AE1&gwt=pay Yitzhak Aronwicz]], the real-life captain of the ''Exodus'' who later became an Israeli military official and businessmen. Aronwicz disliked both the book and film, saying that they were "neither history nor literature."
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ari Ben Canaan is loosely based on [[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/middleeast/24ahronovitch.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=91653211B44B39D765CA08A5620A1AE1&gwt=pay Yitzhak Aronwicz]], the real-life captain of the ''Exodus'' who later became an Israeli military official and businessmen. Aronwicz disliked both the book and film, saying that they were "neither history nor literature."" There are numerous other examples, too.
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* RaceLift: General Sutherland is half-Jewish in the novel (his mother [[ConvertingForLove converted to Christianity to marry his father]]), [[spoiler:and embraces his mother's faith at the end, leading a Passover seder with all the surviving main characters]]. In the film, he's fully English, and the rumor that he's half-Jewish is untrue.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Major Caldwell, who gets gruesomely murdered by the Maccabees in the novel. Mind, since the only reason he got murdered by them was because he murdered a helpless prisoner who was a Maccabee...well, let's just say that it's [[KickTheSonOfABitch hard to have any sympathy for him]].
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Taha is much more likeable and sympathetic in the film than the book - [[spoiler:to the point of becoming a Sacrificial Lion for Arab-Israeli friendship]].
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Taha is much more likeable and sympathetic in the film than the book - [[spoiler:to the point of becoming a Sacrificial Lion for Arab-Israeli friendship]]. And Major Caldwell is much more of a {{Jerkass}} in the novel, where his antisemitsm leads him to murder a Jewish prisoner.
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* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Karen, who is murdered by Arab invaders near the end of the film]].
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* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Karen, who is murdered by Arab invaders near the end of the film]].
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* General Sutherland (Ralph Richardson): British general in command of the Cyprus detention camp where Jews attempting to get to Palestine are held. Doesn't want to send them back to Germany (which his underling Major Caldwell suggests to him), but under orders not to let the Jews get to Palestine as they wish. Sympathetic to the Jews, and therefore suspected of being of Jewish descent himself.
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* General Sutherland (Ralph Richardson): (Creator/RalphRichardson): British general in command of the Cyprus detention camp where Jews attempting to get to Palestine are held. Doesn't want to send them back to Germany (which his underling Major Caldwell suggests to him), but under orders not to let the Jews get to Palestine as they wish. Sympathetic to the Jews, and therefore suspected of being of Jewish descent himself.
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Ernest Gold's original music score won an Oscar, beating out other celebrated scores such as ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'', ''Film/TheAlamo'', and ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]''.
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Ernest Gold's original music score won an Oscar, beating out other celebrated scores such as ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'', ''Film/TheAlamo'', ''Film/{{The Alamo|1960}}'', and ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]''.
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Ernest Gold's original music score won an Oscar, beating out other celebrated scores such as ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'', ''Film/TheAlamo'', and ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''.
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Ernest Gold's original music score won an Oscar, beating out other celebrated scores such as ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'', ''Film/TheAlamo'', and ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''.''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]''.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: One of them shows up at the end acting as a trainer/enforcer for the Grand Mufti's anti-Israel forces.
* TokenGoodTeammate: General Sutherland is one of the few British characters to treat the Jews with any respect.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: One The Holocaust hangs over the entire film, with most of them the main characters either having survived it (Karen, Dov), fought in World War II (Ari, General Sutherland) or both. Within the story itself, a Nazi refugee shows up at the end acting as a trainer/enforcer for the Grand Mufti's anti-Israel forces.
forces and refuses Taha's pleas to negotiate with the Jews.
* TokenGoodTeammate: General Sutherland is one of the few British characters to treat the Jews with any respect. Taha serves as this for the Arabs later in the movie.
* TokenGoodTeammate: General Sutherland is one of the few British characters to treat the Jews with any respect. Taha serves as this for the Arabs later in the movie.
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''Exodus'' is a 1960 epic film directed and produced by Creator/OttoPreminger, based on a 1958 novel by Leon Uris about the founding of the modern state of UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}. The story follows a collection of characters in 1947 and 1948 as they fight the British (in order to gain independence for Israel and support for the Partition Plan) and then the Arabs (to keep their newly-established nation). The main characters are as follows:
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''Exodus'' is a 1960 epic film directed and produced by Creator/OttoPreminger, based on a 1958 novel by Leon Uris about the founding of the modern state of UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}. The story follows a collection of characters in 1947 and 1948 as they fight the British (in order to gain independence for Israel and support for the Partition Plan) and then the Arabs (to keep their newly-established nation).
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''Exodus'' is a 1960 epic film directed and produced by Creator/OttoPreminger, based on a 1958 novel by Leon Uris about the founding of the modern state of UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}. The story follows a collection of characters in 1947 and 1948 as they first fight the British in order to gain independence for Israel and support for the Partition Plan, and then the Arabs to keep their newly established nation. The main characters are as follows:
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''Exodus'' is a 1960 epic film directed and produced by Creator/OttoPreminger, based on a 1958 novel by Leon Uris about the founding of the modern state of UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}. The story follows a collection of characters in 1947 and 1948 as they first fight the British in (in order to gain independence for Israel and support for the Partition Plan, Plan) and then the Arabs to (to keep their newly established nation.newly-established nation). The main characters are as follows:
