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The Tatterdemalion King
To be fair, history consists of people screwing up and dying, so a totally faithful adaption is probably a hard sell.
My favourite was U571... The Royal Navy operation to recover a working Enigma machine. Updated to a US Navy operation (probably easier than selling Jon Bon Jovi as a Royal Navy rating). Which got a LOT of flack, so much that the DVD release got something that was missing from the cinema release... A synopsis of the real ops that captured Enigma machines and who ran them.
Of course the final word was anecotal. I read somewhere that after the anti-hollywood internet ranting someone spoke with one of the RN veterans who was on the real submarine who stated something along the lines of; "The operation was kept secret for decades and nobody cared then, why should anyone care now?"
True or not... Everytime I see history changes in movies I remember that response and have found myself being a little more tolerant of them. Apart from Pearl Harbour, I really take the Team America line on that movie.
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