Phanerothyme Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Or an Australian shepherd breed and call it Digger That is what they're calling the dog in the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gormenghast Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Why don't they just use a white dog and call it wigger. But that would offend the follicaly challenged. Shame on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 So when the Japanese produce a film portraying the Pearl Harbour attack as a response to an aggressive and belligerent US policy of forcing Japan out of South East Asia you won't have a problem? When Japan produces a film showing that the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had nothing to do with the war in Japan but were a warning to Russia paid for by the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians? When Japan then starts using these films in schools to portray Japan as a victim of Imperial American aggression in the Philipines? That won't be a big deal will it? The past is the past, like it or lump it. When we start censoring the past because we don't agree with their standards it is a big deal. We should not be trying to change history simply because it may cause offence to a few narrow minded idiots who can't cope with the context of the use of the language. How long before Wild west films start calling Indians Native Americans in case they cause offence? Where does it stop? You appear to be confusing fictionalized portrayals of past events produced for the purposes of entertainment with historically accurate documentaries produced for the purposes of education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuchi_Zien Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 You appear to be confusing fictionalized portrayals of past events produced for the purposes of entertainment with historically accurate documentaries produced for the purposes of education. Yet lots of people use films as their basis for understanding events of the past. Like it or not when a historical title is used there is an assumption that what is portryed is accurate and not completely fictiional. How many people have watched Hercules and think that is an accurate representation of the stories of Hercules? How many people have assumed that if it is in the film it is in the book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Yet lots of people use films as their basis for understanding events of the past. Like it or not when a historical title is used there is an assumption that what is portryed is accurate and not completely fictiional. How many people have watched Hercules and think that is an accurate representation of the stories of Hercules? How many people have assumed that if it is in the film it is in the book? They don't tend to present them as historical documentaries in schools though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuchi_Zien Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 They don't tend to present them as historical documentaries in schools though. Really? theey may not in UK schools but outside the UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Really? theey may not in UK schools but outside the UK? So you've shifted into films produced for propoganda now. This new version of the Dam Busters is going to be neither a historically accurate documentary nor a piece of propaganda. The historical accuracy of the dog's name is neither here nor there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riche Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Nip, Krout, Red, Wap, Mick, ****, N i g g e r, Words used to describe people of diff color, creed, ethnicity, WORDS. Ive been jokingly been called a Yid and worse. The film is set in a time when it was used widely. Not nice and not PC but of its time. Leave the dogs name alone and let people work out its not a racist comment just the latin for BLACK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuchi_Zien Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 So you've shifted into films produced for propoganda now. This new version of the Dam Busters is going to be neither a historically accurate documentary nor a piece of propaganda. The historical accuracy of the dog's name is neither here nor there. So if they used B-17's instead of Lancasters that wouldn't be an issue. If the pilots were from an American squadron it would be OK because it is not a documentary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Spyda Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 So if they used B-17's instead of Lancasters that wouldn't be an issue. If the pilots were from an American squadron it would be OK because it is not a documentary? Yes that would be fine as it's only a film for entertainment purposes only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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