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25-05-2008, 05:22 AM
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You're Top Poster: #12   | Dambusters remake Hey all, Peter Jackson's doing a remake of the 1954 film "The Dambusters". What do you think of it? Will he stick to being completely accurate or not?
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25-05-2008, 06:35 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | It will possibly be more accurate than the original!
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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25-05-2008, 09:43 AM
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The big problemwith a new version, is what, if any changes the new production team will do. Okay, it will be CGI for the aircraft, and the raid itself. But, its the other things that are worrying, Stepehn Fry, is supposed to be writing the script, will he introduce sutble or unsutble refences to being gay? Could we see someones reputation tarnished by being played as a closet gay? Then there is the decsion, what to include and what to leave out. I suspect that inorder for the film to cover most of the ground, it would have to be somewhere in the region of three to four hours!
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25-05-2008, 10:01 AM
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You're Top Poster: #22  | There is an interesting thread regarding the remake here. A lot of waffle (IMHO) regarding the name of Wg Cdr Gibson's dog! Roxy
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25-05-2008, 10:28 AM
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Care to enlarge on the waffle. I can't get in unless I register. We had a discussion about it previously on another forum. I feel the "Nigger" should remain and apparently the producer said it will be included. Apparently channel 4 in the UK beep it out whenever it is shown! What is your view?
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25-05-2008, 10:44 AM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |||
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25-05-2008, 09:15 PM
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You're Top Poster: #22 | I'll have a trawl through the PPRuNe thread to try to find something of use. Most of it centred around Wg Cdr Tom Cruise of the 617th Sqn USAAF fighting the nasty English Germans...Germany was being run by the very nasty Adolf Rickman...you get the gist. Then they got to the name of the dog... Roxy
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26-05-2008, 08:14 AM
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For example, Bomber Harris, in his guise as a Squadron Commander, did trials with the "sixpenny sight" and using searchlighs to judge height back in the 1920s. Would the producers allow that to be mentiond? I think not.
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26-05-2008, 08:39 AM
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26-05-2008, 08:43 AM
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