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imatonkatoo Posts: 151
9/17/2017
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Excellent film, but I wish they showed the French & Belgians a bit more instead of it just being the British point of view. There was also Indians there from the Royal Indian Army Service Corps. Though there's not a mention of these brave men either. Proper true warriors they are. When we watch American films us Brits always complain that they only show the Americans and they distort the history in the film. Though I do understand why as it's just a film, but I find it quite disrespectful on the people that took part or who were involved. If you're going to make a film about somebody or about an event then make it as real as possible or just don't make it if it's going to be boring without distorting what happened. Entertainment rights I know but it does get my goat a bit. And now we've done it too, it's quite annoying.
Take these films for example where us Brits have whinged on the inaccuracy.
Objective Burma
Errol Flynn's paratroopers overcome the Japanese with barely a Brit in sight, although it was really they who won the battle. The press and public, some of whom had fought in Burma, were so outraged that the film had to be withdrawn.
The Great Escape
Steve McQueen played a leading part in a mass escape from a POW camp. In real life, 76 got out of Stalag Luft III, but only three made it alive; 50 were shot and 23 recaptured. No Americans among them.
Braveheart
Mel Gibson as a charming William Wallace - not the real man who wore the skin of an opposing general as his belt. Wallace fathers a son by the Princess of Wales who really gave birth seven years after his execution.
Titanic
First Officer William McMaster Murdoch is remembered as a hero in his Scottish home for saving passengers. He froze to death in the sea. The film shows him shooting passengers in a blind panic.
U-571
Harvey Keitel and other plucky American seamen pull an Enigma code machine from a sinking German submarine and change the course of the war. Except that it was the crew of British HMS Bulldog.
The Patriot
Gibson again as a pacifist provoked into joining the American War of Independence when sadistic Brits herd women and children into a church and set fire to it. Nothing like that happened.
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colbalt91 Posts: 298
9/17/2017
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There was a British film released about three months before the Dunkirk movie that dealt with the publicity machine of the British Ministry trying to make a positive of the Dunkirk retreat. This film was called "Their Finest." It was a small budget affair and did not do that well in the United States, though it was an excellent film. In this movie, it showed that the British had interred the Italian population of Britain in internment camps like the US did the Japanese during World War II.
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