Movie director David Ayer issued a
grovelling apology after filming a Nazi battle scene on Remembrance Sunday.
Ayer said sorry, tweeting: “My heartfelt apologies
for any disrespect on Remembrance Day.
“I am a veteran myself. It is an honor to film here
in the UK.”
How hard would it have been to stop filming for a
day, I mean didn’t anyone associated with the movie think to themselves hmm
maybe we could move a few things around so we don’t film part of the Nazi
battle scenes on the day that everyone will be remembering the bravery of the
soldiers who fought in the First World War? Clearly not.
There are two things that make this even more insensitive,
one is that as this is a major studio picture, with a budget of £50 million,
there would no doubt have been studio execs and hideous pr people crawling all
over the place ensuring that stuff like this doesn’t happen, and yet it still
did.
The other reason is that Ayer himself is a veteran,
serving in the US Navy, so he would have taken part in war memorial services and
yet he thought it would be ok to film.
It should also be pointed out that this is not the
first time Ayers has made a clanger of this nature, he was the writer of the
film U-571 that told the heroic and completely false story of some brave
Americans capturing an enigma machine, and after everyone including his own
president criticised the film, he said “Both my
grandparents were officers in World
War II and I would be personally offended if
somebody distorted their achievements.
Yet he had no problem distorting the achievements of
other peoples parents, grandparents etc.
Also on a much more minor note Brad Pitt is in the
film and plays a character called Sergeant
Wardaddy, PATHETIC!
I wonder how Mr Ayer would respond
if a British director decided to make a film about the key battles of the
Pacific Theatre and then decided to film on Hawaii and then decided to film the
most intense battle scenes on December 7th?
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