Take my word for it, Mr.Emmerich, this is a ripe plum ready to fall...Perhaps you know my reputation.I""ve engineered some very big things.The take of a million dollars worth of jewels will amount to about a half-million dollars "in actual cash" after he rocks are fenced, according to the knowledgeable Emmerich ("because you know as well as I do that in no case will a fence give you more han fifty percent").Nominated for five Academy Awards (with no wins): Best Actor (Johnny Depp), Best Makeup, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing.They are ordered to sing a Negro spiritual by Lyle (Burton Gilliam), the white-chain gang overseer:Now come on boys, where""s your spirit? I don""t hear no singin"".Shot on location in the steamy, colorful, dense tropical jungles of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the story""s theme is the futility and insanity of war, and the irony of British pride, viewed through he psychological, confrontational struggle of imperialistic wills between a proud and rigid British and Japanese Colonel.Exhibiting traits of a real leader, Elias warned Gardner and Chris: "Look, in case anything happens to you, you get lost or separated, don""t yell out, OK?.