Another Das Boot question - the wind-up thing?
 

What's the little gizmo that the navigator is winding up just before the surface attack on the convoy? About the size of a thread spool or a bit bigger and a wire coming out of it.

Looks like he´s sharpening a pencil.

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/31/cap0003yp6.jpg

Its the super secret ultra accurate writing device enhancement machine :know:

Without it it would be pointless :88)

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Nooooo! Don't tell me it's just a pencil sharpener? :oops:

I thought I was asking a moderately intelligent question. Oh well, sorry. :rotfl:

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;)

My dad asked me the same question after he watched the movie -he doesn't know anything about subs (he's an expert on all other ships though -the bastard:D,joking of course) so he thought i knew what that was.He was sure it was some sort of sub-specific plotting tool.I also think it's nothing but a pencil.

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I did a research on this, and i was shocked when i zoomed in on the actual objekt in the movie.... :o:o:o

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7868/spoolyj3.jpg

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Bernaaaaaaaaaaard

Priceless! :rotfl::rotfl:

-"Look! A miniature airplane!!"
-"It´s a fly..."
-"... oh..."

@ bert8for3: It was a good question, dont worry.

I have another one: I read somewhere that one of the actors in "Das Boot" actually got hurt during the shooting of the film. He broke a rib or two.. (In the scene where the waves washes a dude into the FLAK-guns or something..) Is this a fact?

Hrm I always wondered in the scene where the uhhh... reporter ? Asks to come up and is halfway up the sail when ALARM and he comes crashing down... ooooof that looked like it hurt.

Afaik it's a fact :). I think it was also mentioned during one of the interviews on the dvd.

In the "making of" part ,the director and the actor starring as kapitan say something about being hurt while filming in that interior sub-platform thing.Never thought the actor got hurt that bad.

From IMDb.