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# it's awfully hard to get accuracy. I mean to within a few feet. Especially at night, over water.
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 13:41, archived)
# Still never heard of him.
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 13:50, archived)
# Surely you must have seen Dambusters?
If not then please rectify this at the first chance.
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 13:57, archived)
# Is that the film where they have carefully taken out the name of the air field's pet dog?
or was that the other film with Kenneth Moore as Douglas Bader - Reach for the Pie?
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:00, archived)
# Tis this film
Peter jackson who is at this moment fiming a remake saya that, as he's damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't, then he's sticking with history.
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:01, archived)
# I think I would have to agree with him
Political Correctness is a fine thing within moderation but to alter history for the sake of it then that has to be a big no!
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:03, archived)
# Agreed.
Also given the nature of the film and raid it is about, and the hundreds of deaths involved on all sides (for good or not, historians still argue) Arguing about the possible racial connotations of Guy Gibsons dog strikes me as an odd priority...
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:07, archived)
# Absolutely - I love the film
but the horror of hundreds or thousands of innocent people drowning to disable the manufactoring industry of Nazi Germany is very thought provoking. The fire-storm Blitzing of Dresden and Hamburg is also something to think about. Hmmm. much is lost in War - Yoda
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:19, archived)
# Isn't Stephen Fry doing the screeenplay ...
or did I dream that up ?
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:06, archived)
# He has written a version of the screenplay / script
if his is the one used the final filmed version I don't know.
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:08, archived)
# "Trigger"!
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:32, archived)
# as someone who used to live near one of those dams I find this offensive
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:02, archived)
# like I care, I just moved about 5 minutes from the dam that it was tested on
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:06, archived)
# You live near Derdyshire?
where they filmed it?
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:07, archived)
# nah, I'm no fan of remakes
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:08, archived)