Dambusters' dog to be renamed digger in remake of film

[Gromit]

// The Dambusters dog N***r will be renamed Digger for a modern remake of the iconic film to avoid offending American viewers, it has emerged.

Script writer Stephen Fry, 53, has confirmed that pilot Guy Gibson's faithful black Labrador will be renamed for the forthcoming Peter Jackson movie. //

http://www.dailymail....offend-Americans.html

Is this messing about with history?
A fair concession if it gets the film made?
Should they be remaking 'the Dambusters' at all?

[jno]

which Bodysnatchers is that, triggerhippy?

[Sqad]

Zeuhl ...N.igger gets run over before 617 sqad sets off for the Dams, however he keeps this from the crews as he feels that they may take it as a bad omen for the raid.

[Zeuhl]

Thanks Sqad - that's right.

Poor Nee-jer.

I remember being quite upset about that as a child.

Richard Leech was in it. I knew him many years later - nice man but deaf as a post.

[emmie]

triggerhappy if you say so,
i liked 3-10 to Yuma, because of Russell Crowe
but the original had more grit.
True Grit with John Wayne should never have been remade
The Fly - awful film, whichever one.
Invasion of the Body snatchers the one with Donald Sutherland?
sure there are more,

but then you have War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise, two hours of my life wasted.
and many more.

[Kerosene]

Why would the Yanks be interested in a war film about the Brits anyway? I thought it was our colonial cousins who won both world wars???

Or have I been watching too many Hollywood "blockbusters"?

[anotheoldgit]

To pander even more to the 'PC Brigade', perhaps they shouldn't re-write history at all, and pretend there wasn't such an event as the Dam Busters raid.

Imagine all those RAF bomber crew members who lost their lives and the innocent German civilians who lost there lives also.

We are talking about human lives here, which makes the name of a dog rather insignificant.

[anotheoldgit]

Kerosene

/// Why would the Yanks be interested in a war film about the Brits anyway? I thought it was our colonial cousins who won both world wars???///

Credit where it's due, we couldn't have won them on our own, that is for sure.

[anotheoldgit]

There were once a series of films in which a character called 'Boston Blackie' played by the actor Chester Morris appeared, would that be a no-no today also?

http://www.cinevent.com/images/cv199817.jpg

[jackthehat]

Why would it, it was his name ?

[jno]

"Of get-rich-quick Wallingford fame"? How intriguing.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012209/

Anyway, yes, Blackie was and is a surname and has no racial connotations.

I went on a backstage tour of the London Palladium yesterday. The Cinderella Bar, now all rococo and painted in pale yellow, used to have murals on the walls depicting music hall stars who once played there. They eventually had to be covered up because one of them was shown in his most popular role as "the chocolate-coloured c00n'. However, they have just been lightly covered with paper rather than overpainted or removed, for heritage reasons, though I'm not sure when heritage concerns will ever lead to their uncovering. I can live with this.

[anotheoldgit]

For interest, I looked the word n****r up in the Politically Incorrect Dictionary, and came up with the following.

/// N****r - Originally, A *** Slave. Has evolved to mean "A Trashy or devious ***", but the word has still lost acceptance. (see : White Trash) ///

/// White Trash - Losers of European descent. Term still in acceptance, although its counterpart term to describe trash of the *** race is being eliminated ///

/// White: melanin-impoverished; member of the mutant albino genetic-recessive global minority ///

Well you did tell me to "get my teeth into that" Gromit.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

There was a WW2 song called "That Chocolate Coloured Soldier from the USA"

If I can remember right the first verse was,

They used to call him lazy bones in Harlem,
Lazy bones and good for nothing man,
But now they are mighty proud of him in Arnhem,
That Chocolate Coloured Soldier from the USA.

http://ny-image1.etsy...l_570xN.216344497.jpg

[jackthehat]

AOG - That's how things were done 'back then' thankfully most of us know better now. And we would not wish to cause needless offence.