In Other Media
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The song has frequently been heard and seen in other media.
The lyrics were sung in the 1972 film adaptation of the John Knowles novel A Separate Peace (although they are not in the book, and the tune to which they are sung in the film is not the "Colonel Bogey March"). The lyrics were not sung during the famous Colonel Bogey March sequence in the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai because they were considered to be too vulgar.
Thomas Pynchon quoted the words in his novel V. by putting them in the mouths of British artillerymen on Malta. In the Vertigo DC Comics miniseries Adventures in the Rifle Brigade by Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra, an Operation Bollock storyline describes a mission to retrieve Adolf Hitler's missing testicle as a central plot device.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)