It's funny how... (NON-ELECTION topic)

[daveleau]

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Gotta qualify it as a non- election topic since there are so many right now. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

It's kind of funny how ego-centric we Americans are. I was talking to a friend visiting from Bristol, England and he was telling me about a few movies where the US has taken a story from anbother country and posed it as our own. One that comes to mind is U-571. It was actually a British ship that took the first U-boat encryption key-coder. While we took one a year after the Brits took one and had already cracked the code.

Are there any others that come to mind?

dave

[alondra]

True . the enigma machine was on a captured sub, by the brittish. and broke the code, impossible with out the machine, in fact there was a case where they found out a bout a German action, that would cause allied losss. how ever they took no action, knowing that if they did. the Germans would know their code was cracked. a hard decision, but for the long term good.

[Graham]

Yeah,
John Wayne did not win every battle in WWII, nor, as S.Spielberg would have you believe, were the Americans the only nation present during D-day.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

G

[BBA]

True...but don't bash a good movie.

Besides, at the end of the movie...it shows the true information of who recovered what enigma/code books as closure...

So, it never claims to be a true story either.

BTW: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma...is what?

[BFlurie]

Holy decript, Batman, use the automatic Bat-belt decoder!

[OuTpaTienT]

hmmm, I'm not familiar with the movie you're talking about. But any Americans that got a "C" or higher in History class or at least watch the History Channel once in a while should know full well that the Brits were the first to capture an Enigma machine and the first to crack it's code. Heck, even I knew that and usually got a "D" is History.

I don't think it's quite fair to label all us Americans as ego-centric just because a few "Hollywood-types" couldn't muster a three digit IQ if their lives depended on it. Hell, the fact that they are "Hollywood-types" should tell ya they are about as bright as a pile of rocks.