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:
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)