Line #6 YMMV/Gandhi


1	* CompleteMonster: [[InsaneAdmiral Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer]] oversaw the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre Jallianwala Bagh Massacre]], intending "[[MakeAnExampleOfThem to inflict a lesson that would have an impact throughout all India]]". Dyer ordered his troops to fire "where the crowd was the thickest", and even had innocent civilians gunned down for trying to escape. His actions and callousness [[EveryoneHasStandards disgust his British peers]], and catalyzes UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi's pursuit for complete independence from British rule.
2	* HilariousInHindsight: The fact that Creator/JohnRatzenberger, one of the most distinctive voice actors of all time, gets a SameLanguageDub. The fact that the voice used is so goofy it takes a modern audience completely out of the movie.
3	* MoralEventHorizon: Gandhi and his fellows were initially crusading simply for better treatment by the British Raj. However, after General Reginald Dyer orchestrates a massacre of peaceful protestors at a park, Gandhi declares now their only goal is full independence from the British Empire.
4	* NightmareFuel:
5	** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre The Jallianwala Bagh massacre.]] Men, woman and children slaughtered in the hundreds, maybe even more than a thousand, on the orders of a heartless butcher who thought he would "teach them a lesson"[[note]]This is historically correct - during the afterwards inquiry, he literally said his objective [[DisproportionateRetribution "was not to disperse the meeting, but to punish the Indians for disobedience"]][[/note]]. The whole sequence is as horrifying as it was historically, from Dyer making his troops fire on every Indian in sight, even on those trying to escape, to a few people jumping into the well in despair, then dozens more throwing themselves into the 'Martyr's well' until it looks like a literal ''flood'' of bodies.
6	** The Dharasana Salt Works protest is as chilling as it is awesome. Stone-faced men line up shoulder-to-shoulder and march towards the cordon of British soldiers who savagely club them to the ground, without raising a hand to strike back... then once they fall, the next group line up to follow them. Again and again and again.
7	** The horrific sectarian violence that rocked India after Pakistan broke away, where neighbors killed each other and trains pulled into stations full of corpses.
8	* OneSceneWonder: Several renowned film and stage actors among the AllStarCast qualify, some stand-outs include:
9	** Creator/JohnGielgud as 1st Baron Irwin
10	** Creator/TrevorHoward as [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Judge Broomfield]].
11	** Creator/EdwardFox as [[GeneralRipper General Dyer]]
12	* RetroactiveRecognition:
13	** A young Creator/DanielDayLewis has one short scene as an Afrikaaner thug who intimidates a young Gandhi.
14	** Creator/BernardHill appears as a British soldier stationed in India.
15	** Creator/AmrishPuri appears early in the film as Mr. Khan, the Muslim businessman who hires Gandhi in South Africa.
16	** Creator/JohnRatzenberger as an American soldier driving Margaret Bourke-White. Why his voice gets a SameLanguageDub is anyone guess.
17	** Sonja Schlesin is played by Creator/CarolineHutchison, who would later be best known for playing Vera Patterson in ''Series/AufWiedersehenPet''.

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