Posted on 03/29/2021 8:16:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan
1955’s The Dam Busters is a brilliant film about stiff-upper-lip British bravery during WWII. Directed by Michael Anderson, it stars Michael Redgrave, Richard Todd, and in early cameo roles, Robert Shaw, and Patrick McGoohan. It dominated the British box office in 1955, and was nominated for an Academy Award for its special effects. And while its climatic action scenes look hokey today, with miniature aircraft that look like they could have been Airfix models, that’s in part because of the massive revolution in special effects the film directly inspired. When George Lucas was planning Star Wars, he took plenty of inspiration from The Dam Busters for his climactic Death Star “trench” battle scene....
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Lucas also hired Stuart Freeborn, The Dam Busters’ makeup man, and Gilbert Taylor, who photographed the film’s many flying scenes, to be Star Wars’ cinematographer. Anderson would go to direct a (decidedly inferior, alas) 1970s sci-fi film of his own, 1976’s Logan’s Run.
The Dam Busters has so much going for it, and yet it could be only a matter of time before cancel culture either banishes the film to the cornfield, or alters it permanently. The film is based on the real-life exploits of Britain’s 617 Squadron in 1943 as they smashed multiple dams on the Ruhr river, Nazi Germany’s industrial center, destroying critical hydroelectric power stations and other wartime infrastructure. But the name of the squadron’s mascot, a black Labrador dog, is spoken numerous times in the film, and becomes the code word for (spoiler alert) the completion of the mission.
He’s called the N-word.
And he has his own Wikipedia page...
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The cancel culture is eating itself up even liberals are taking a stand against them.
Love their motto: APRÈS MOI LE DELUGE.
Of course they will change the name of the dog in a PC remake. Guy Gibson will probably be black, and they can use a yellow lab and call him Whitey or Cracker.
In the TV version they dubbed his name to “Trigger.” Makes no sense when the guy runs in to say that Roy Roger’s horse is dead.
Yep that Dog’s name isn’t going to make it.
Buy the DVD
What’s the name of the country in Africa?
Oh......yeah.....
Niger
That country is named after what river in Africa?
Oh.....yeah.....
Niger
Words are just words.
It’s the ugly emotions behind some words that are the problem.
They learned about Skip Bombing from the American Air Forces in the SW Pacific.
Did they also learn about building an apparatus to provide backspin to the dambusting bomb from the Americans?
I was watching a show entitled “The Irregulars” on Netflix. It takes place in 1880s England and they have a black duke.
Rrrright...
They learned that from tennis.
My ex was a nagger.
I believe that was the name of Michael Caine’s dog in Battle of Britain too.
Yep, no more new “period” dramas for me.
Also the name of H.P. Lovecraft's black cat: N*ggerman.
Regards,
“After Me (comes) The Flood’’
lol!
I’m niggardly with money.
Apt, in that the brave dambusters killed man, many more German civilians than they did Nazi soldiers.
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