Hana and Kip have slightly toned-down versions in their backstories as well. Heroic BSoD: Kip, towards the end, when he learns about the bombing of Hiroshima.Of course, the story she chose to read was rather apropos. Geeky Turn-On: The Patient realizes he's attracted to Katharine when she reads aloud from Herodotus.Fingore: There's a certain German major who likes to collect thumbs, as David Caravaggio found out the hard way.Deconstruction: The book and movie to a degree deconstruct The Power of Love and identities, including the Patient's rejection of nationalities.Cut Himself Shaving: The Patient's excuses for the scars Katharine gives him.Booby Trap: The villa is full of bombs and mines left by retreating Axis forces.Bedouin Rescue Service: How the Patient survives the plane crash.Battleaxe Nurse: In Caravaggio's interrogation scene.Anachronic Order: The story sprawls out non-linearly, digging into each character's backstory.It has earned the distinguished pop-culture status of being 'That movie Elaine bitched about in that one episode of Seinfeld.' Both versions won a bunch of awards, most prominently the 1997 Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was a box office hit, earning $231,976,425 in the worldwide market. It stars Juliette Binoche as Hana, Ralph Fiennes as the 'English Patient', Colin Firth as Geoffrey Clifton, Kristin Scott Thomas as Katharine Clifton, Willem Dafoe as Caravaggio, and Naveen Andrews as Kip. Made into a 1996 movie directed by Anthony Minghella. The story sprawls out non-linearly, digging into each character's backstory, with running themes of nationality, nationalism, and the Power of Love. Hana and the Patient are joined by David Caravaggio, a Canadian thief who knew Hana before the war, and who worked as an Allied spy until he was captured and maimed and Kip, an Indian Sikh who's one of the best sappers in the British army. He refuses to reveal his identity, but his speech and mannerisms indicate that he's an Englishman (his status as a patient is considerably less ambiguous, given that he's being treated for critical burns all over his body). The book opens in an abandoned villa in World War II Italy, where Hana, a Canadian army nurse, cares for a man referred to as the English Patient. A 1992 novel by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje.

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