History Main / TakeItToTheBridge

* A SignatureScene from the Indian movie, ''Bollywood/{{Magadheera}}'' have the hero fighting 100 enemies on a narrow bridge atop a BottomlessPit.

* A SignatureScene from the Indian movie, ''Magadheera'' have the hero fighting 100 enemies on a narrow bridge atop a BottomlessPit.

* A SignatureScene from the Indian movie, ''Magadheera'' have the hero fighting 100 enemies on a narrow bridge atop a BottomlessPit.

* Very common in old ''{{wuxia}}'' movies made by Shaw Brothers. Movies like ''[[Film/OneArmedSwordsman The New One-Armed Swordsman]]'',''Film/TheHeroicsOnes'', ''Film/DelightfulForest'', ''Film/TheDeadlyDuo'' and several others have large battle scenes where the heroes fights against hordes and hordes of mooks on a narrow bridge.

* Very common in old ''wuxia'' movies made by Shaw Brothers. Movies like ''The New One-Armed Swordsman'',''The Heroics Ones'', ''The Delightful Forest'', ''The Deadly Duo'' and several others have large batttle scenes where the heroes fights against hordes and hordes of mooks on a narrow bridge.

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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', one of Squall's first major NotSoStoic moments takes place on the Horizon Bridge when he [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious pours his heart out to the unconscious Rinoa]] during the hike along the bridge to Esthar.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Bridge of Eldin]]. Good for horseback duels ''and'' brawling.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', Naked Snake is betrayed and left for dead by his beloved mentor, The Boss, just as he has retrieved his target from imprisonment and they're crossing the rope bridge towards their recovery point.

* ''Smiley's People'', third of John le Carre's ''Literature/TheQuestForKarla'' trilogy, has its climactic scene set on an unnamed bridge across divided Berlin, the culmination of [[spoiler:George Smiley's final victory against Karla, by blackmailing him into defecting to the West.]] It's the second time in the series, and the only time outside of Smiley's flashback in ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'', that he meets his nemesis face-to-face; the bridge is heavily implied to be the famous "Bridge of Spies", the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glienicke_Bridge Glienicke Bridge]].

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. In TheFilmOfTheBook, Arwen gives the Evenstar to Aragorn on an obviously symbolic bridge.

It can also be a battlefield for two men in a duel, with the loser [[DisneyVillainDeath falling to their doom]]. In this scenario, underneath the bridge is a chasm, some rapids, a pit of spikes, or anything deadly. When the bridge itself is hazardous, that's RopeBridge; when it's guarded, it's a TrollBridge.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has the Steps of Faith, a massive stone bridge connecting the city-state of Ishgard to the Eorzean mainland. Also in Coerthas is Griffin Crossing, the site of the trial titled "Battle on the Big Bridge", which sees adventurers square off with -- who else? -- [[DimensionTraveller Gilgamesh]]. In the expansion ''Stormblood'', there is also the Kugane Dori bridge, where players square off with the mercenary ronin Yojimbo. [[spoiler: ...who is actually Gilgamesh in disguise.]]

* Bridges are the site of many historical battles, due to their value as "choke points" that an enemy must file through slowly. The Battle of Stirling, depicted in the movie ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' as a battle on an open field, was really the Battle of Stirling ''Bridge''.

* One of the ''Anime/FairyPrincessMinkyMomo'' [=OAVs=] ("The Bridge Over Dreams," maybe?) had a bridge with the legend that anyone who met another person on the bridge would eventually meet them there again. The catch is that it's about to be torn down--will everyone be able to get back in time?

* ''MortalKombat'' has "The Pit", where the Kombatants fight on a bridge over a pit of spikes or just the cold hard floor.

* ''Film/PersonOfInterest''. In "Beta", the Jefferson Bridge is used for a prisoner exchange because it's too exposed for any treachery, especially with all the cameras accessed by both the [[BenevolentAI Machine]] and [[EvilCounterpart Samaritan.]]

* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jade_Emperor#The_princess_and_the_cowherd The Princess and the Cowherd]]'' is about two lovers who are forever separated by the Milky Way, except for on the seventh day of the seventh month, when a bridge of magpies forms for them to be together.

* The French film ''Les Amants du Pont-Neuf'' (''The Lovers on the Bridge'').

* The original book of ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia'', basis for the movie.

* Many WarMovies will have as their focus the taking or destroying of a strategic bridge. Some examples are ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' and ''Film/ForceTenFromNavarone''.

* ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' parodies the scene mentioned in Robin Hood's entry under Literature. In this movie, the "river" is a tiny creek that one can straddle with no effort and the bridge is just a six-foot work over a 3-inch drop. In this one, Robin won and John feared drowning in the "river" when he lands in it.