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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120102/

A mountaineer in India gets captured by the British during World War II, fleeing until circumstances bring him in the company of the Dalai Lama in Tibet.

A story about a man, until it nosedives straight into the politics of the hostile takeover that turned Tibet into an autonomous region in communist China.

• Based on Seven Years in Tibet – (1954 book), by Heinrich Harrer

• aka the movie that got Brad Pitt banned from China.

• 2023-01-09
• 2017-01-06

• Watched well before this time, possibly multiple times.

2023-01-09 ∞

(Tibet)

• 3:45 — Himalayas
• 5:00 — Nanga Parbat
• 5:30 — Pregnancy
• 7:30 — India
• 7:45 — TODO – A date.
• 12:45 — Tibetan horn
• 15:00 — Avalanche
• 22:45 — Divorce
• 25:30 — Blackface
• 27:30 — Where’d they get the backpacks from? I guess it took them years..

• 32:15 —

  • Tokyo – Japan – Japan during World War II
  • Shanghai – China – Borders of China
• 50:00 — He’s been out for that long and yet he has such a little beard.
• 52:00 — Horse – and I don’t know which part.
• 52:30 — Permit
• 56:15 — Dog food
• 60:00 — Tailor
• 1:20:45 — Egotism
• 1:10:30 — Republic of China (1912–1949)
• 1:20:00 — Movie theater
• 1:28:00 — Mass media
• 1:29:00 — He assumed the man did something to instigate the divorce..
• 1:30:30 — Christmas
• 1:45:00 — Religion

• 2:05:30 — You’d think he’d have a horse..

2017-01-06 ∞

• 2:15 — Tibetan Buddhism
• 3:30 — Oh god, that forced accent.
• 4:00 — Austria, 1939 (Nazi Germany)
• 5:00 — Austrians. As was Adolf Hitler.

• 6:00 — Him going away then is the perfect time. He won’t be losing out on much, and he’ll easily be back in time for his fatherly role. That is, early bonding and raising a child into an adult.

  • .. yes, plenty of men would risk their lives accomplishing great things rather than deal with pregnancy, childbirth and early child rearing.
• 7:45 — Mountaineering
• 18:00 — Oh, I thought the peak they were climbing to was in Tibet.
• 19:30 — October 1940
• 24:15 — September 1942
• 28:45 — Music box
• 30:15 — North India
• 31:15 — Improperly-cooked Chicken or Foodborne illness, and milk of magnesia
• 38:30 — Well that’s prophetic.
• 49:45 — Wild keyangs(?)
• 54:00 — 54:30 — Dalai Lama
• 56:30 — 1:03:45 — .. I know that guy from Big Trouble in Little China – (1986 movie)
• 1:09:45 — May 1945

• 1:20:30 —

  • Paris France
  • Molotov cocktail
  • Jack the Ripper
• 1:22:15 — Elevator
• 1:25:00 — Oh wow, so this is why this movie is banned in Communist China.
• 1:28:00 — Mass media
• 1:33:15 — Yeah. yeah. This is why this movie is so banned.. so very banned.
• 1:35:30 — Insomnia
• 1:50:00 — A lot of green muzzle flashes.
• 1:56:15 — The Moonlight, by Claude Debussy
• 2:01:45 — .. go home and be his father? That’s not how it works..
• 2:04:45 — Butter tea

• 2:05:30 — Why wouldn’t he have a horse?

  • It would be cool to fade out and show that cup having long-since rotted away into dust.
• 2:07:45 — Is that a plastic zipper?
• 2:08:00 — Austria, 1951

• 2:10:00 — .. and other things that never happen.

One million Tibetans have died as a result of the
Chinese occupation of Tibet.

Six thousand monasteries were destroyed.

In 1959, the Dalai Lama was forced to flee to India.
He still lives there today, trying to promote a peaceful
resolution with the Chinese.

In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Heinrich Harrer and the Dalai Lama remain
friends to this day.

.. yeah, he was given it. But then again so was Barak Obama.