From the link above:
THE ORIGINAL (1954)
Budget £5 million
Box office 8.4m tickets
Special effects Models by Army photographic reconnaissance unit. Bouncing bombs from archive test shots painted over frame-by-frame
Music Eric Coates’s march
Name of Guy Gibson’s dog Nigger
THE REMAKE (2007)
Budget £21 million
Box office £50 million predicted with DVD sales
Special effects Bombs from King Kong animator
Music Coates plus Oscar-winner Howard Shore
Name of dog Trigger
I don't care for the liberal wishy-washy argument, so totally lacking in LMF, over Nigger.
You can't change history - fact.
There was a total, all-out war = WWII
Desperate measures had to be taken = mass civilian casualties
Among most of the participants, there were no racially-sensitive, gender-fair, differently-abled positive policies = people were (wrongly) called niggers, cripples and there was a separate WRAF, WRAC and WRNS.
To all those who don't approve.... "MAN UP, N*GGER!"
My point is, you can't remove items of historical fact from the Dambusters: mass civilian casualties, high friendly losses, a totalitarian enemy fixated on dominating Europe (no change there then) and a lack of refined, PC language.
It's the thin end of the wedge.
