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Originally Posted by Ducimus
And any reasonable person will admit, the machine gun scene on u-571 is derived from old WW2 propganda which persists to this day. In short, it was bull****. On the otherhand Das boot was portrayed from a more humanity point of view, but also one which seems to absolve German uboat crews of their wartime role against the allied nations, and ultimatly created alot of fans of uboats and the men who sailed them. Primarly as a result of the movie das boot.
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On the other other hand, there is no way the scene from the end of the book - the one with the Spanish merchant - could have made it into the movie.
"What if we had torpedoed them? A neutral ship?"
"Then it would have been to our benefit that there be no-one to tell the tale."
(Paraphrasing from memory, as I can't get to my copy of the book to actually look)