>For anyone interested, the new film Windtalkers is supposed to take place during the battle of Saipan. While watching the movie today (here in Saipan), the entire audience got a good laugh when the first scenes of "Saipan" were shown - turns out the movie was filmed in Hawaii...and it looks nothing like Saipan.
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I remember reading about the filming of a movie, which had some phrases in an African language - Swahili, I think it was. Well, directors at that time didn't much care about the content of foreign-language texts, and somebody was hired to come running (acting as a messenger) and deliver some message - any message, as long as it sounded urgent or something. Which he did.
When the movie was shown in Africa, it got some good laughs - because the actor had said, in Swahili: "It is a disgrace, how little money I get for this role."
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
