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* GoAndSinNoMore: A Hindu comes to Gandhi as he's partaking in a fast and says he (the Hindu) is going to Hell, because he killed a Muslim child in revenge for Muslims killing his son. Gandhi tells the man to to repent by finding a Muslim boy whose parents have been killed, and raise him. But here's the kicker: he's to raise the boy as a Muslim.
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In addition to Kingsley’s award, this won seven other Oscars, including Best Picture, and it holds the record for biggest cast, having around 300,000 people including extras.
In addition to Kingsley’s award, this won seven other Oscars, including Best Picture, and it holds the record for biggest cast, having around 300,000 people including extras.
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A 1982 EpicMovie directed by Richard Attenborough, ''Gandhi'' is the bio-pic of Mohandas K. Gandhi, aka UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi. The titular role was played by Creator/BenKingsley in his star making Oscar-winning role.StarMakingRole. Its story concerns Gandhi as he leads the non-violent fight for India’s independence from the British Empire. Along the way, he earns the respect of much of the world and enemies of all forms.
In addition The story starts with Gandhi as a 24-year-old lawyer in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica in 1893. After he is thrown out of a first-class train compartment for having brown skin, Gandhi becomes an activist, agitating for the civil rights of Indians in South Africa. After 20 years in South Africa in which he wins major concessions for the Indians living there, Gandhi returns to Kingsley’s award, this India to find himself a hero. He joins the Congress Party campaign for Indian home rule, and eventually becomes its leader, spending thirty years battling the British before finally winning Indian independence. Shortly thereafter, he is assassinated by a Hindu radical for favoring concessions to Pakistan.
This film wonseven other Oscars, including the AcademyAward for Best Picture, Best Director for Attenborough, Best Actor for Kingsley, and it five other Oscars. It holds the record for biggest cast, having around 300,000 people including extras.
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Creator/MartinSheen plays an American journalist who reports on Gandhi in both South Africa and India. Creator/CandiceBergen is featured prominently towards the end of the film (she is at the scene when Gandhi is murdered) as photo-journalist Margaret Bourke White. A very young Creator/DanielDayLewis is onscreen for about three minutes early in the film as a Afrikaner thug who harasses Gandhi on the street.
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Creator/MartinSheen plays an American journalist who reports on Gandhi in both South Africa and India. Creator/CandiceBergen is featured prominently towards the end of the film (she is at the scene when Gandhi is murdered) as photo-journalist Margaret Bourke White. A very young Creator/DanielDayLewis is onscreen for about three minutes early in the film as a Afrikaner thug who harasses Gandhi on the street.
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* AsYouKnow: Nehru tells Gandhi that the people are calling him "Mahatma", and helpfully explains for the benefit of the audience that it means "the great soul".
* BadassPacifist: The protagonist. (Although his belief that non-violence would work against UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler was ill-considered.)
* BadassPacifist: The protagonist. (Although his belief that non-violence would work against UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler was ill-considered.)
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* BookEnds: Gandhi's murder is shown at the beginning and again at the end.
* {{Commune}}: Gandhi establishes a communal ashram in South Africa. His wife, who was more enthusiastic about being married to a prosperous lawyer, isn't thrilled about having to work the latrine.
* {{Commune}}: Gandhi establishes a communal ashram in South Africa. His wife, who was more enthusiastic about being married to a prosperous lawyer, isn't thrilled about having to work the latrine.
* GlassesPull: Jinnah does a HighClassGlass pull after Gandhi says "we must end the campaign" after the non-cooperation campaign led to the lynching of some British Indian policemen.
* HighClassGlass: Mohammad Jinnah; see SkunkStripe below.
* HighClassGlass: Mohammad Jinnah; see SkunkStripe below.
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* IronicEcho: "It would be uncivil for us to let you make such a long trip for nothing."
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* {{Intermission}}: Once upon a time three-hour movies had them. This one is a good example of how intermissions were used as act breaks. The first act ends with the Amritsar massacre, and Gandhi visiting the blood-spattered scene shortly afterward. After the intermission, Gandhi has become radicalized. Where he once favored home rule under the British crown (and sang "God Save the King" in South Africa), he tells the British authorities that he no longer believes laws are the answer, and now favors independence.
* IronicEcho: "It would be uncivil for us to let you make such a long trip for nothing."" Gandhi says this to Vince Walker when Walker journeys to Gandhi's home to interview him, then Walker says this to Gandhi when Gandhi is setting off on his walk to the sea to make salt.
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* MusicForCourage: Gandhi inspires his fellow Indians to protest discriminatory laws in South Africa with his speech - and a rendition of God Save the King.
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* MusicForCourage: Gandhi inspires his fellow Indians to protest discriminatory laws in South Africa with his speech - and a rendition of God "God Save the King.King".
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gandhi reacts this way after the non-cooperation campaign leads to the death of some British Indian policemen. He then goes on a hunger strike until the campaign ends.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gandhi reacts this way after the non-cooperation campaign leads to the death of some British Indian policemen. He then goes on a hunger strike until the campaign ends.
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* ReallyGetsAround: As this movie was an attempt to show Gandhi's life honestly, it also portrayed his well-known affinity for women.
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* ReallyGetsAround: As this movie was an attempt LaResistance: The people of India fighting to show Gandhi's life honestly, it also portrayed his well-known affinity for women.
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* UnderminedByReality: The studio launched a quite sleazy Oscar campaign against the frontrunner ''ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', essentially saying that a vote against the film was a vote against Gandhi the man. The Mahatma certainly would not have approved.
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SkunkStripe: Mohammad Jinnah has both this and a HighClassGlass. Not coincidentally, he is a semi-antagonistic character. He has little regard for Gandhi's habit of dressing and living like a peasant. Later, and more importantly, he opposes Gandhi's desire for a united India, and insists on the partitioning of the subcontinent between Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
*UnderminedByReality: StartsWithTheirFuneral: The studio launched a quite sleazy Oscar campaign against the frontrunner ''ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', essentially saying that a vote against the film was a vote against Gandhi opens with Gandhi's assassination on Jan. 30, 1948, shows his funeral procession, and then jumps back to 1893 to pick up the man. The Mahatma certainly would not have approved.story.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Almost literally. Gandhi's desire for a united Indian subcontinent, and his willingness to make concessions to the Indian Muslims (later the Pakistanis), were the reason for his murder by an extreme Hindu nationalist.
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* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Almost literally. Gandhi's desire for a united Indian subcontinent, and his willingness to make concessions to the Indian Muslims (later the Pakistanis), were the reason for his murder by an extreme Hindu nationalist.
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* InsistentTerminology: The "day of prayer and fasting." When Nehru calls it a "general strike," Gandhi corrects him, referring to it as a "day of prayer and fasting." Whatever the terminology, it showed the British Raj just how [[OhCrap isolated and helpless it was]].
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For the individual, see the page MahatmaGandhi.
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For the individual, see the page MahatmaGandhi.
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* DownerEnding: It's shown at the start of the film, already. Gandhi is murdered in the end.
* MeanBrit: Gandhi has to face a lot of them, including probably the meanest of them all: Reginald Dyer.
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* StarMakingRole: For Ben Kingsley, as he nailed the Oscar for Best Actor.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Attempts to make a Gandhi biopic were started in the 50’s; Creator/DavidLean was considered for the director’s chair.
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* ForeignCorrespondent: Although primarily told from the perspective of the title character, large chunks of the story are seen through the eyes of Britons and Americans Charlie, Walker, Mirabehn, and Margaret Bourke-White.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Aside from Ben Kingsley, there are several familiar faces to look out for. Roshan Seth, Creator/AmrishPuri (pre-''Film/TempleOfDoom''), Bernard Hill (pre-''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and pre-''{{Film/Titanic}}''), [[{{Cheers}} John Ratzenburger]], Colin Farrell (no, not '''that''' Colin Farrell), MartinSheen and Creator/DanielDayLewis show up in the movie.
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* GeneralRipper: General Reginald Dyer, but Gandhi makes it clear that the only difference between in him and the mainstream British colonial treatment of India is in the degree of violence used.
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* EccentricMentor: Gandhi, especially when dealing with Smuts and directly after he comes home from South Africa and has to deal with the wealthy congressmen of India - he comes off as a excessively polite and eccentrically wistful, until he starts doing things and moving whole countries right under their noses.
** Smuts being the name of a British official.
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* MusicForCourage: Gandhi inspires his fellow Indians to protest discriminatory laws in South Africa with his speech - and a rendition of God Save the Queen.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Aside from Ben Kingsley, there are several familiar faces to look out for. Roshan Seth, AmrishPuri (pre-''Film/templeOfDoom''), Bernard Hill (pre-''Film/LordOfTheRings'' and pre-{{Titanic}}), [[{{Cheers}} John Ratzenburger]], Colin Farrell (no, not '''that''' Colin Farrell), MartinSheen and DanielDayLewis show up in the movie.
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->''Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always. ''
-->'''Mohandas K. Gandhi.'''
A 1982 EpicMovie directed by Richard Attenborough, ''Gandhi'' is the bio-pic of Mohandas K. Gandhi, aka Mahatma Gandhi. The titular role was played by Ben Kingsley in his star making Oscar-winning role. Its story concerns Gandhi as he leads the non-violent fight for India’s independence from the British Empire. Along the way, he earns the respect of much of the world and enemies of all forms.
In addition to Kingsley’s award, this won seven other Oscars, including Best Picture, and it holds the record for biggest cast, having around 300,000 people including extras.
For the individual, see the page MahatmaGandhi.
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* ActualPacifist: Gandhi, obviously. As he states early in the film: "In this cause, I too am prepared to die. There's no cause for which I'm prepared to kill."
* AllStarCast
* BadassPacifist: The protagonist.
* BaldOfAwesome: Gandhi himself.
* {{Biopic}}
* EccentricMentor: Gandhi, especially when dealing with Smuts and directly after he comes home from South Africa and has to deal with the wealthy congressmen of India - he comes off as a excessively polite and eccentrically wistful, until he starts doing things and moving whole countries right under their noses.
** Smuts being the name of a British official.
* EpicMovie
* FakeNationality: Averted, Kingsley has Indian origins.
* ForegoneConclusion: The film starts with Gandhi’s murder.
* GeneralRipper: General Reginald Dyer.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Aside from Ben Kingsley, there are several familiar faces to look out for. Roshan Seth, Amrish Puri (pre-[[IndianaJones Temple Of Doom]]), Bernard Hill (pre-Film/LordOfTheRings and pre-{{Titanic}}), [[{{Cheers}} John Ratzenburger]], Colin Farrell (no, not '''that''' Colin Farrell), MartinSheen and DanielDayLewis show up in the movie.
* MononymousBiopicTitle
* MoralEventHorizon: The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar.
* OhCrap: The gathered crowd inside the Jallianwala Bagh just before General Dyer orders to fire.
* ReallyGetsAround: As this movie was an attempt to show Gandhi's life honestly, it also portrayed his well-known affinity for women.
* LaResistance
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: The trope Gandhi lives for
* ShamingTheMob: Gandhi fasts as he sees his followers act violently, leading them to stop every time.
* StarMakingRole: For Ben Kingsley, as he nailed the Oscar for Best Actor.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Attempts to make a Gandhi biopic were started in the 50’s; David Lean was considered for the director’s chair.
-->'''Mohandas K. Gandhi.'''
A 1982 EpicMovie directed by Richard Attenborough, ''Gandhi'' is the bio-pic of Mohandas K. Gandhi, aka Mahatma Gandhi. The titular role was played by Ben Kingsley in his star making Oscar-winning role. Its story concerns Gandhi as he leads the non-violent fight for India’s independence from the British Empire. Along the way, he earns the respect of much of the world and enemies of all forms.
In addition to Kingsley’s award, this won seven other Oscars, including Best Picture, and it holds the record for biggest cast, having around 300,000 people including extras.
For the individual, see the page MahatmaGandhi.
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* ActualPacifist: Gandhi, obviously. As he states early in the film: "In this cause, I too am prepared to die. There's no cause for which I'm prepared to kill."
* AllStarCast
* BadassPacifist: The protagonist.
* BaldOfAwesome: Gandhi himself.
* {{Biopic}}
* EccentricMentor: Gandhi, especially when dealing with Smuts and directly after he comes home from South Africa and has to deal with the wealthy congressmen of India - he comes off as a excessively polite and eccentrically wistful, until he starts doing things and moving whole countries right under their noses.
** Smuts being the name of a British official.
* EpicMovie
* FakeNationality: Averted, Kingsley has Indian origins.
* ForegoneConclusion: The film starts with Gandhi’s murder.
* GeneralRipper: General Reginald Dyer.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Aside from Ben Kingsley, there are several familiar faces to look out for. Roshan Seth, Amrish Puri (pre-[[IndianaJones Temple Of Doom]]), Bernard Hill (pre-Film/LordOfTheRings and pre-{{Titanic}}), [[{{Cheers}} John Ratzenburger]], Colin Farrell (no, not '''that''' Colin Farrell), MartinSheen and DanielDayLewis show up in the movie.
* MononymousBiopicTitle
* MoralEventHorizon: The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar.
* OhCrap: The gathered crowd inside the Jallianwala Bagh just before General Dyer orders to fire.
* ReallyGetsAround: As this movie was an attempt to show Gandhi's life honestly, it also portrayed his well-known affinity for women.
* LaResistance
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: The trope Gandhi lives for
* ShamingTheMob: Gandhi fasts as he sees his followers act violently, leading them to stop every time.
* StarMakingRole: For Ben Kingsley, as he nailed the Oscar for Best Actor.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Attempts to make a Gandhi biopic were started in the 50’s; David Lean was considered for the director’s chair.
