Warning Touchy subject: Dambusters dog is now called Digger not Nigga

[STEED]

WTF is going on?

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by STEED

WTF is going on?

We'll make a plan for your week STEED, nothing to worry about, you only notice it,

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Vendor

We'll make a plan for your week STEED, nothing to worry about, you only notice it,

What has that got to do with this thread?

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by STEED

What has that got to do with this thread?

Nothing, that is just smile as David

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by STEED

What has that got to do with this thread?

If I recall, we were naming you "Steeger" and making you some bomber mascot.:

I can see it now....

Buna's bastid bomber squadron and their faithfull mascot Stigger.

[Sailor Steve]

We've actually been having this discussion for quite a while.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ght=dambusters. The decision was hardly finalized back then, so I'm not knocking this thread, just having fun with the past.

As for the choice, I'm undecided (not that our opinion matters at this point, or ever did). Platapus made an excellent point about how many other changes are likely. This probably won't be accurate in other ways, so a name change is nothing.

AVGWarhawk's link is an outstanding study of the problems involved.

I don't see a problem with the name, as it was the dog's name, but then it was just a name, and if it bothers people I don't have a problem with changing it either. I would like to say that the filmmakers' concern probably wasn't with 'The PC Crowd', as so many label them, but with overall negative reaction from the filmgoing public, who are their bread and butter. If a small group is going raise a big stink they probably don't care, but if a much larger group is going to take offense they probably just decided it was easier to change than fight.

As I said, I'm undecided.

[nikimcbee]

So what do we feed Stigger? Fish-n-chips? might upset his tummy.

[Oberon]

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.

...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.

[August]

Originally Posted by Oberon

I haven't watched U-571 so I haven't been exposed to that kind of horror.

The only good part is seeing Jon Bon Jovi getting nailed with that hatch cover.