Tally Ho!

[caddyman]

I see that Peter Jackson is to film a remake of the Dambusters.

Jackson said it would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible".

Well, it will be interesting to see how he does it. Let's hope that a) 617 Squadron is still an RAF unit, b) that Barnes Wallis is British and that Wing Commander Guy Gibson doesn't suffer a nationality change. Of equal interest will be whether or not Gibson's pet dog is renamed. It would be fair enough of them not to refer to it by name in the film, except that as it was run down and killed just before the mission, the dog's name became the call-sign for the successful destruction of the dams...

It seems that at one point Mel Gibson had the rights to the story and was set to remake the movie. I think we can guess how that would have turned out, can't we?

Thank God for small mercies.

Comments

[itsjustaname.livejournal.com]

No... *wails*

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Well as it's Peter Jackson, I'm willing to keep an open mind for now, but I know what you mean...

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

If it was Gibson it would have been the USAAF flying Liberators out of Midway to hit the dams north of Tokyo.

There would have been a British spy in the camp who revealed all to the Japanese who surprised and shot down the bombers, but Mel would have managed to get away just long enough to hit the dam (made of paper and lacquered wood). He would then have crash landed and single-handedly fought his way into the Imperial Palace before succumbing heroically to overwhelming numbers.

Other than that I should think it would fiollow history quite closely.

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

Surely, the closest to the spirit of the original as possible would in fact be the original. Fine.

I have no faith, regardless of the director. Remakes of classics suck the big one and there is never any excuse.

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

I think Wild West retellings of Kurosawa's retellings of film noir stories are cool (for example), but that's doing something new, like an interesting remix of a song is cool. Just remaking it in a shineynuhollywoodwithfx way is shit and makes me want to beat people to death with the the complete works of Alfred Hitchcock.

[averylaterabbit.livejournal.com]

Agree, unless the remake is differnt (or in this case factually correct - we can only hope) its only a money making exersize.

Psysho - come see a film exactly the same as the other, its hook was it was supposed to be exactly the same, least it had the balls to admit it but still NO.

Its like when you go abroad and buy "britsh" food in super makets (Cadbury's chocolate fingers, Walkers crisps and Kitkats) just to see if they taste the same.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Its like when you go abroad and buy "britsh" food in super makets (Cadbury's chocolate fingers, Walkers crisps and Kitkats) just to see if they taste the same.

Funny you should mention that. American mass market choccy is vile (Hershey's tastes like burnt turpentine), so last time I was there I was happy to see Cadbury's Dairy Milk. I bought some and for the first second or two there was the taste....

and then there came back the underlying burnt turps and plastic of Hershey's who have the US license. It is to weep.

And don't get me started on French Mars Bars...

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

I agree that US choc is vile, although I think Hersheys tastes more like grease and sweat m'self. I suspect they put meat in it. Someone should probably tell them that's not one of the required ingredients.

I like trying different types of Coke. Some European Coke is less sweet than ours and therefore almost edible (although apparently not Italian, which is sweeter, if such a thing is possible or sane). Some even doesn't have a dodgy cabbagey aftertaste.

Alas my sugar tolerence is not fit for these sacharine times.

[cybersofa.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they could apply to Disney for permission to call the dog Tigger.

[irdm.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry but I find that offensive to striped persons.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Well you just bounce on over here and let's talk about it!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Ooh.

Controversial!

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

A damn bad idea. As for the dog, take one "g" out, thus naming it after an African nation, and we'd be all politically correct.

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Mel Gibson almost took this on?!
Oi Vey !