The title of the film is derived from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem "Gentlemen-Rankers," which is about British Empire troops who have "lost [their] path" and are "damned from here to eternity." The lines describe how these men will be condemned to stay on foreign soil forever.
Kipling based his poem on actual events. In 1877, the British government sent two officers to Tonga to investigate reports of torture and murder among the island's kingmaker family. The mission turned out to be a pretext for removing the family from the throne, because they were seen as obstacles to developing trade with Britain. Once removed, evidence of abuse at their hands came to light. This incident is what inspired him to write about "damned men lost / Forever from hope or future years".
In conclusion, here to eternity means without hope of rescue or escape.
—Webster's Dictionary
Hollywood has taken advantage of this famous poem to name many films after it including one in 1937 with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne. Here to Eternity was also used as an album by Frank Sinatra in 1991. And last but not least, here to eternity is the title of a 2001 novel by James Dickey that tells the story of a group of US soldiers held captive in Vietnam for nearly a decade.
The title is a reference to Dawn of the Dead, notably the statement "When there's no more place in hell, the dead will walk the earth," and several characters are allusions to other films such as American Psycho and The Big Lebowski.
This article discusses some of the themes and elements that appear in this movie.
Elements of horror include: ghosts/spiritual beings, evil-doers, victims, salvation, and hope.
These elements are all present in Day Watch. Ghosts/Spiritual Beings - There are two types of ghosts in this movie: those who have not passed on and those who have. The ones who have not passed on haunt the grounds of ICA, where they used to work. They are referred to as "Skulls" by the people who live there now. These are the ghosts of employees that were killed at ICA. Some examples are Agnieszka (who dies during production on their first film) and Wojciech (who dies during an electric shock incident). An example of a ghost who has passed on is Roman, the cameraman who died during the making of the first film. He appears to be angry at the people at ICA for not giving him a proper burial.
From the Beginning to the End (novel) Navigate to the next page. Go to the search for From Here to Eternity is American novelist James Jones's first novel, published by Scribner's in 1951. The story, set in 1941, follows many members of a United States Army infantry unit stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor. The book was adapted into a 1953 film of the same name that starred Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
James Jones was born on January 19th, 1900 in Chicago, Illinois, to Mary (née O'Shea) and Michael Jones, who worked as a carpenter and builder, respectively. The family moved to Wisconsin when Jim was still a child so that his father could take a job as a school teacher. He left this position after one year to work as a lumberjack in northern Michigan. It was here that he met and fell in love with Elizabeth "Bess" Ewing, a beautiful young woman who lived with her parents on the lake where Jim would later build his own house. The couple married in 1929 and had a son together named Patrick (named after Jim's father).
In 1931, Jones took a job working as an assistant editor for a newspaper in Duluth, Minnesota, while his wife Bess stayed home with their son. He later wrote that this period in his life was the most productive of his career, writing six novels during this time.
Preview of James Jones's From Here to Eternity by James Jones "That was one of the benefits of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as horrible as you expected." "The tiny little you and I could affect the world," Malloy smiled, "but it wouldn't show up until a hundred years after we died," we'd never see....
From Here to Eternity is a 1951 American war drama film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, and Frank Sinatra. The screenplay was written by John Lee Mahin, based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. The film tells the story of an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps who becomes caught up in the Pacific theater of World War II.
From Here to Eternity was released on August 4, 1951 by Columbia Pictures. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Director, and won for Music Score. It also won two Oscars at the 2nd British Academy Film Awards, for Best Actor (Cooper) and Best Music (Scoring).
The movie is about a young man named Private First Class Francis Xavier Crowe (Gary Cooper), who joins the Marines after the attack on Pearl Harbor. During his time in the corps, he meets several women, some friendly, others not so much. One of these women is named Linda Lane (Rita Hayworth), who belongs to a rich family but has no interest in marrying him.
In the days leading up to the assault on Pearl Harbor, lone-wolf soldier and boxing champion "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) refuses to box and instead prefers to play the bugle. Capt. Holmes (Philip Ober) subjected Prew to a harsh sequence of punishments while, unbeknownst to Holmes, the gruff but fair Sgt. Warden (Burt Lancaster) engaged in a covert romance with the captain's tortured wife (Deborah Kerr). Synopsis of the film From Here to Eternity.
When Prew finally boxes against Army champ Billy Conklin (Rocky Marciano), he humiliates his opponent and earns himself a medal. But the war continues to rage around them and Prew is soon caught up in it. He tries to save a young nurse (Eva Marie Saint) from being gang-raped by some sailors, but in doing so ends up getting her pregnant. When the soldiers go ashore on Bougainville Island, Prew joins a group of men in charge of burying several Japanese soldiers. During the burial ceremony one of the men spots a bone fragment that may be from a human face. The group goes on to find more remains before returning home. In the end, Prew gets drafted into the army and sent to fight in Europe, where he is given a medical discharge because of his hands. After the war, Prew returns home to find out that Warden has been promoted to chief warrant officer and that the two men have started a boxing team together. In the final scene we see Prew and Warden playing their horns on Broadway before turning in for the night.
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