U-571 Trailer

movie 2000
submarine, WW2

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Film & Animation

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[Ulver27]

so the americans went into a disabled Uboat made it turn, destroyed an enemy uboat, fought a warship, destroyed its radio contact, dived below 200 meters to avoid depth charges and then they made blow ballast only to destroy it with a single torpedo fired from stern while moving...Riiiiight...what did they do next? Closed the ozone hole?

[Lossarnach23]

I don't understand why they can't simply dub the scenes where the actors are supposed to speak "perfect" German (or any other foreign language they're not capable of). Here it would have been really necessary, not even a deaf would be fooled by this blah blah. I know it's just a movie but if they're trying to do it right they should do so in every aspect.

[Lossarnach23]

@Matthew9447 Given the fact that you're american it doesn't really surprise me ;)

[Matthew9447]

@Lossarnach23 you lied, i got fooled :D

[MrPatt1983]

@terrortorn The movie is very loosely based on real events. Its not as if the U.S. didn't capture a single Enigma and went and made a movie about capturing one. Okay so they distorted the timing and manner in which it was captured. That is Hollywood for you. The whole purpose of the film industry is entertainment. In hindsight if they wanted America to have credit they probably should of called it U-505 and stuck more closely to that story. But they didn't.

[terrortorn]

@MrPatt1983

That in no way negates the obligation of an industry that makes the rules up as it suits to be morally honest when dealing with something that is based on real events in living memory. Its only entertainment is no defense. There are many films and documentaries based on the real story only America feels fit to do this. Clearly in America you need a message explaining this has been dumbed down for your understanding and altered for your sense of pride.

[MrPatt1983]

@terrortorn Well that's your opinion. I guess you need a message at the beginning of each movie explaining to you if it is true or not. If a movie doesn't claim to be based on a true story then that means it is usually not true. In no way did the film ever imply to be based on actual events. It was for entertainment purposes only. Hollywood is in the entertainment business, not the educational business. If you want education watch a documentary or read a book or make a movie of your own.

[terrortorn]

@MrPatt1983 You thought wrong. The Yank contribution was a footnote. Here is an opportunity for a work of fact on a War winning discovery but it won't happen because Americans are too insular . There is a wealth of true stories about this but leave it to the Yanks to manufacture one where they are the hero's. There is something valueless about that sort of morality. Don't complain when one of your major cultural assets, the celluloid world of make believe is found wanting in the real world.

[MrPatt1983]

@terrortorn Yes I did know that because I researched the movie after watching it for the first time recently. I was also just pointing out to you that what you said "It just does not involve the Yanks" was untrue. Don't be upset because you are wrong. I realize there is no note to the fictional nature of the movie, but the movie doesn't claim to be based on a true story either. There is however a mention in the credits to actual capturing of Enigmas, I thought that was enough to imply fiction.

[terrortorn]

@MrPatt1983 12 years after the Polish recovered the first machine and 3 years after the British recovered the first Naval enigma and 12 others followed and one to the Canadians. By the time the Yanks got hold of one the code was being routinely read by Bletchley Park. There is no note as to the fictional nature of the film in its credits, and the screenwriter apologised for a "mercenary distortion" to drive American audiences. But you knew this didn't you Yank.

[MrPatt1983]

@terrortorn U-505 and her Enigma machine and code books were captured on June 4 1944 by United States Navy Task Group 22.3 off the coast Rio de Oro. Fool.

[GeistFright]

LOL. So this is what Lana was talking about...