To be fair, the original film wasn't exactly bang on the mark either. Barnes Wallis didn't have half the problems with the bureaucracy that the film portrayed him having, nor was he the Chief designer of the Wellington bomber like the character says in the film. Neither did Gibson devise the spotlight altimeter, it was suggested to him by a chap in the ministry because of a method Coastal Command had been using for some time (presumably with their Leigh lights).
However much of that is because the film was made only twelve years after the event and a lot of the information (including the shape of the bomb) was still classified.
At the end of the day, the film says that it is 'based on' true events, 'based on', not an 'accurate retelling' which means there are going to be slight changes here and there, just as there was in the original. If that means that people will boycott the film, well, fair enough, but I will give it a chance, Digger or not (and let's face it, the Dogs name was already altered for American audiences in the original film), and if it's another U-571...well...I haven't watched U-571 so I haven't been exposed to that kind of horror.
Anyway, I shall end with a spot of trivia.
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...when filming on location at RAF Scampton, where ****** and Gibson were to stroll through a group of RAF men waiting outside of a building for a briefing. The dog could not be persuaded to move off one spot, or even dragged past it on a leash. It later transpired that the spot was the site where the real ****** had been buried, some 11 years before, whose gravestone had been temporarily removed for filming. In the end, the scene was filmed without the dog.
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