das boot here I come!

[kylania]

Originally Posted by enaceo

Yep-watching it in German with subtitles is the best way!
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

After watching Das Boot in German, I actually switched to German voice overs in SH3 since English sounded wrong.

[SteamWake]

Its actually an interesting study in the cultures of the time to...

1.) Watch it in english with the english dub overs..

then

2.) Watch it in german with the subtitles.

There are some glaring differences in the way some subject matter is viewed.

[Frenssen]

Everytime I watch the movie it strikes me what a great actor Jürgen Prochnow is. He shows the whole spectrum of emotions. From the confident commander in the docks of La Rochelle to the beaten man in the Straits of Gibraltar. Klaus Wennemann as the LI also did a great part, just like i saw this character in the book.

[Landshark]

All together now:

Up to mighty London came
An Irish lad one day,
All the streets were paved with gold,
So everyone was gay!
Singing songs of Piccadilly,
Strand, and Leicester Square,
'Til Paddy got excited and
He shouted to them there:

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

Paddy wrote a letter
To his Irish Molly O',
Saying, "Should you not receive it,
Write and let me know!
If I make mistakes in "spelling",
Molly dear", said he,
"Remember it's the pen, that's bad,
Don't lay the blame on me".

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

Molly wrote a neat reply
To Irish Paddy O',
Saying, "Mike Maloney wants
To marry me, and so
Leave the Strand and Piccadilly,
Or you'll be to blame,
For love has fairly drove me silly,
Hoping you're the same!"

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

[Myxale]

[jaxa]

This is one of the best moment of Das Boot for me, I like to hear The Tipperary song at high sound level

[Rhodes]

Still whaiting for the uncut version that I ordered...

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Landshark

All together now:

Up to mighty London came
An Irish lad one day,
All the streets were paved with gold,
So everyone was gay!
Singing songs of Piccadilly,
Strand, and Leicester Square,
'Til Paddy got excited and
He shouted to them there:

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

Paddy wrote a letter
To his Irish Molly O',
Saying, "Should you not receive it,
Write and let me know!
If I make mistakes in "spelling",
Molly dear", said he,
"Remember it's the pen, that's bad,
Don't lay the blame on me".

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

Molly wrote a neat reply
To Irish Paddy O',
Saying, "Mike Maloney wants
To marry me, and so
Leave the Strand and Piccadilly,
Or you'll be to blame,
For love has fairly drove me silly,
Hoping you're the same!"

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

If I start singing that here in the office everyone would think I have gone nuts.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by STEED

If I start singing that here in the office everyone would think I have gone nuts.

You know the actual welcome signs in Tipperary, Ireland say "Welcome to Tipperary. You've come a long way..."

[blacbraun]

Prochnow is excellent but this is Wolfgang Peterson's Masterpiece. He's made other movies but none have compared to the craftsmanship he displays in Das Boot. His Magnum Opus.

[John Pancoast]

<reviving dead thread>

Reading Clay Blair's works for the first time finally. Great stuff. Read this passage tonight, which I found interesting.

"German submariners were delighted with Buchheim's wartime art, photographs, and heroic stories, but they were appalled by his postwar writings and the film. They denounced him for opening the film Das Boot with scenes of a wildly drunken orgy at the officer's club in Lorient; for the negative, defeatist, anti-military tone of the book and film; and for the implied criticism of Donitz. Two U-boat skippers, Karl-Friedrich Merten and Kurt Baberg, were so enraged by Buchheim's "non-fiction" U-boat history that in 1985 they published an entire book (Nein ! So War Das Nicht) pointing out Buchheim's errors and/or misleading statements."

[mookiemookie]

(Keeping dead thread alive)

Try playing the GW mod and then watching Das Boot. Your ears really perk up when the scene where they've just torpedoed the convoy ("Out of the way.... I think we hit her! We hit her! Quiet!) and when they order a dive ("Diving Stations!")....you'll her some awful familiar sounds