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Not to be confused with [[Music/EmpireOfTheSunBand the Australian electronic music duo of the same name]] (especially since WordOfGod has confirmed that they didn't name themselves after this work).
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Not to be confused with [[Music/EmpireOfTheSunBand the Australian electronic music duo of the same name]] (especially since WordOfGod has confirmed that they didn't name themselves after this work).
work). Nor with ''Kingdom of the Sun'', the original concept for ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''.
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: A day after Jim loses his parents in the confusion of the Japanese attack on Shanghai, he returns to his family's empty estate, where he sees a maid (whom he berated earlier in the film) and a companion stealing some furniture. When he demands to know what she's doing, the maid stops what she's doing, walks over to Jim, slaps him in the face, and then leaves with her companion and the furniture.
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--> '''Dainty''': Hey kid, would you like a Hershey bar?
--> '''Jamie''':Oh yes please, Dainty!
--> '''Dainty''':So would I kid. Have you got one?
--> '''Jamie''':Oh yes please, Dainty!
--> '''Dainty''':So would I kid. Have you got one?
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'''Jamie:''' Oh yes please,
--> '''Dainty''':So
'''Dainty:''' So would I kid. Have you got one?
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* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Where Were Jamie's Parents the Whole Time?]]: Jamie ends up reuniting with his parents, but no mention is made to where they went to or what they did during the five long years (let alone them coping over Jamie being lost from them) and the book doesn't specify either. In reality, J. G. Ballard's parents were sent to another camp with even worser conditions than the one their son was imprisoned in.
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* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Where Were Jamie's Parents the Whole Time?]]: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Jamie ends up reuniting with his parents, but no mention is made to where they went to or what they did during the five long years (let alone them coping over Jamie being lost from them) and the book doesn't specify either. In reality, J. G. Ballard's parents were sent to another camp with even worser conditions than the one their son was imprisoned in.
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* DiesWideOpen: Amy Matthews dies with her eyes open. When Jim's attempts at CPR cause a post-mortem eye movement, he believes that he's brought her back to life.
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''Empire of the Sun'' is a 1987 American ComingOfAge war film based on [[{{Creator/Jgballard}} J. G. Ballard]]'s semi-autobiographical [[Literature/EmpireOfTheSun novel of the same name]]. Creator/StevenSpielberg directed the film, which stars Creator/ChristianBale, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/MirandaRichardson, and Creator/NigelHavers.
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''Empire of the Sun'' is a 1987 American ComingOfAge war film based on [[{{Creator/Jgballard}} J. G. Ballard]]'s semi-autobiographical [[Literature/EmpireOfTheSun novel of the same name]]. Creator/StevenSpielberg directed the film, which stars Creator/ChristianBale, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/MirandaRichardson, Creator/LesliePhillips and Creator/NigelHavers.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Ambiguously so for Mr. Maxton. In the novel, Maxton wastes away from starvation and exhaustion, Jim stays with him as he dies. The last time Jim sees Maxton in the film, he's alive (though exhausted and frail) and his ultimate fate is left open-ended.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Ambiguously so for Mr. Maxton. In the novel, Maxton wastes away from starvation and exhaustion, Jim stays with him as he dies. The last time Jim sees Maxton in the film, he's alive (though exhausted and frail) and [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse his ultimate fate is left open-ended.open-ended]].
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* AndStarring: "And introducing Christian Bale".
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* AndStarring: "And introducing Christian Bale".Creator/ChristianBale".
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* ChildSoldiers: One of the kamikaze pilots stationed near the internment camp.
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* ChildSoldiers: One of the kamikaze pilots stationed near the internment camp.camp seems to be in his late teens.
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* IronicEcho: In the first minutes of the second act, one of the American internees named Dainty (played by Ben Stiller), gives Jamie a pretty mean joke:
--> '''Dainty''': Hey kid, would you like a Hershey bar?
--> '''Jamie''':Oh yes please, Dainty!
--> '''Dainty''':So would I kid. Have you got one?
** After being accepted into the American dormitory, Jamie repeats this rude rebuttal to a little girl named Nina. In the end, Jamie [[BrickJoke does end up getting a Hershey bar]] as a parting gift from Basie.
--> '''Dainty''': Hey kid, would you like a Hershey bar?
--> '''Jamie''':Oh yes please, Dainty!
--> '''Dainty''':So would I kid. Have you got one?
** After being accepted into the American dormitory, Jamie repeats this rude rebuttal to a little girl named Nina. In the end, Jamie [[BrickJoke does end up getting a Hershey bar]] as a parting gift from Basie.
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* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Where Were Jamie's Parents the Whole Time?]]: Jamie ends up reuniting with his parents, but no mention is made to where they went to or what they did during the five long years (let alone them coping over Jamie being lost from them) and the book doesn't specify either. In reality, J. G. Ballard's parents were sent to another camp with even worser conditions than the one their son was imprisoned in.
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* BattleDiscretionShot: When Basie gets beaten by Japanese soldiers, first at Jim's house and later again at the camp, we only see Jim's reaction to it.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: CPR was not invented until 1960.
* BattleDiscretionShot: When Basie gets beaten by Japanese soldiers, first at Jim's house and later again at the camp, we only see Jim's reaction toit.it with a few shots of Basie getting whopped.
* BattleDiscretionShot: When Basie gets beaten by Japanese soldiers, first at Jim's house and later again at the camp, we only see Jim's reaction to
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* StabTheSalad: The Japanese pilot uses his sword to help Jim cut open a mango. Basie doesn't realize this and shoots him.
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It's either one or the other.
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* BreakTheCutie: Or BreakTheHaughty, take your pick.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: It would not have been possible to witness the atomic bombing of Hiroshima all the way from Shanghai. See [[https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/21088/how-far-away-could-one-be-and-still-see-the-atom-bomb-explosions this]] for an analysis.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: It would not have been possible to witness the atomic bombing of Hiroshima Nagasaki all the way from Shanghai. See [[https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/21088/how-far-away-could-one-be-and-still-see-the-atom-bomb-explosions this]] for an analysis.
