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Dambusters' dog to be renamed digger in remake of film
// The Dambusters dog N***r will be renamed Digger for a modern remake of the iconic film to avoid offending American viewers, it has emerged.
Script writer Stephen Fry, 53, has confirmed that pilot Guy Gibson's faithful black Labrador will be renamed for the forthcoming Peter Jackson movie. //
http://www.dailymail....offend-Americans.html
Is this messing about with history?
A fair concession if it gets the film made?
Should they be remaking 'the Dambusters' at all?
Script writer Stephen Fry, 53, has confirmed that pilot Guy Gibson's faithful black Labrador will be renamed for the forthcoming Peter Jackson movie. //
http://www.dailymail....offend-Americans.html
Is this messing about with history?
A fair concession if it gets the film made?
Should they be remaking 'the Dambusters' at all?
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The dog adds a poignant element to the story but the accuracy of his name isn't significant as far as i can tell.
Without the opportunity to explain the context in the 1940s (and after) where reasonable people called black pets by a name that has since been recognised as inappropriate just means that it will be an unnecessary distraction from an interesting story.
Presumably the new film will be more historically accurate than the first one. For example, the disappointingly minimal effect on german production despite the brilliant inventiveness, flying skill, bravery and human sacrifice.
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Without the opportunity to explain the context in the 1940s (and after) where reasonable people called black pets by a name that has since been recognised as inappropriate just means that it will be an unnecessary distraction from an interesting story.
Presumably the new film will be more historically accurate than the first one. For example, the disappointingly minimal effect on german production despite the brilliant inventiveness, flying skill, bravery and human sacrifice.
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As Zeuhl said, the actual name of the dog is not relevant to the story, it doesn't matter if it's called N******, digger, Burt, Ernie, or whatever in the film and although the N word was acceptable in the 40's it's not now.
It was also acceptable in the 40's to portray a large percentage of people in films smoking, this isn't acceptable any more so modern films don't have people smoking in them.
I find it more objectionable when Hollywood pretty much totally re-writes history in films, normally to make it look like America won the world wars all on their own and rescued all the poor Europeans that done nothing at all.
It was also acceptable in the 40's to portray a large percentage of people in films smoking, this isn't acceptable any more so modern films don't have people smoking in them.
I find it more objectionable when Hollywood pretty much totally re-writes history in films, normally to make it look like America won the world wars all on their own and rescued all the poor Europeans that done nothing at all.
History was being messed about with a decade ago...
http://www.telegraph....og-cut-by-censor.html
...and has the name ever re-emerged in subsequent terrestrial TV broadcasts of the film?
http://www.telegraph....og-cut-by-censor.html
...and has the name ever re-emerged in subsequent terrestrial TV broadcasts of the film?
From wikipedia
// Work on a remake of The Dam Busters, produced by Peter Jackson and directed by first time director Christian Rivers, began production in 2008. Jackson said in the mid-1990s that he became interested in remaking the 1954 film, but found that the rights had been bought by Mel Gibson. In 2004, Jackson was contacted by his agent, who said Gibson had dropped the rights. The rights were purchased by Sir David Frost from the Brickhill family in 2005.[4] Stephen Fry is writing the script of the film.[5] It will be distributed by Universal Pictures and StudioCanal.[6] Filming was planned to commence in early 2009, on a budget of USD 40 million,[7] although no project-specific filming had begun as of May 2009. //
// Work on a remake of The Dam Busters, produced by Peter Jackson and directed by first time director Christian Rivers, began production in 2008. Jackson said in the mid-1990s that he became interested in remaking the 1954 film, but found that the rights had been bought by Mel Gibson. In 2004, Jackson was contacted by his agent, who said Gibson had dropped the rights. The rights were purchased by Sir David Frost from the Brickhill family in 2005.[4] Stephen Fry is writing the script of the film.[5] It will be distributed by Universal Pictures and StudioCanal.[6] Filming was planned to commence in early 2009, on a budget of USD 40 million,[7] although no project-specific filming had begun as of May 2009. //
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