The Hollywoodification Of History

[Deadstick]

This is just one such cases and there are many more, i give the US full credit for all they did in WW2 without turning Hollywood loose on History, just stick to the facts, by the way it's XXX 30 corp under General Horrocks my Dad was with the Coldstream Guards a element of the Guards Armoured Div, he was in the Ardennes.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Band of Brothers

Dick Winters visited the set while the actors, all in uniform, were in the back of a truck. He looked in the truck for just a second then turned and walked away. The actors looked so much like the men he lead he thought he was seeing ghosts

 

[Deadstick]

Band of Brothers

Dick Winters visited the set while the actors, all in uniform, were in the back of a truck. He looked in the truck for just a second then turned and walked away. The actors looked so much like the men he lead he thought he was seeing ghosts

No doubt he thought that because he was there and band of Brothers was from a US angle, i am not insulting those men or taking anything away from them, i just like films to be accurate and reflect history, i always hated that film the battle of the bulge because it was not reality, for a start the 6th SS Panzer Army and German falchirmjager forces spearheaded the attack, they were never mentioned in the film including Otto Skortzeyny SS special forces.

 

[1srelluc]

Yeah, that went really well. Better those supplies/resources went to 3rd Army/Patton.

 

[postman]

No doubt he thought that because he was there and band of Brothers was from a US angle, i am not insulting those men or taking anything away from them, i just like films to be accurate and reflect history, i always hated that film the battle of the bulge because it was not reality, for a start the 6th SS Panzer Army and German falchirmjager forces spearheaded the attack, they were never mentioned in the film including Otto Skortzeyny SS special forces.

It's a movie, not a documentary.
Even Saving Private Ryan, a highly accurate depiction of WWII, except there was no private Ryan.

Try Saving Private Niland if you want accuracy.

 

[Deadstick]

It's a movie, not a documentary.
Even Saving Private Ryan, a highly accurate depiction of WWII, except there was no private Ryan.

Try Saving Private Niland if you want accuracy.

Well that's ok up to a point with private Ryan which i thought was one of the better war films then it crosses a line when whole chunks of historical facts are erased.
The Royal Navy captured a German Enigma machine from a German U-Boat Hollywood took credit for that saying the US did it.