[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I enjoyed the WWII sub movie U-571 a week ago, in which an American crew
commandeers a Nazi U-boat, and are reading its depth gauges in meters. The
use of meters throughout the dilaog is pervasive, even in one tense seen
where they're approaching crush depth: "180 meters!....190 meteres!....200
meters!....", with lots of tight shots of metric depth gauges and perspiring
faces.
Better than that even was Das Boot in the original German, where the
terrified U-boat crew, trying to avoid British depth charges, said the same
thing.
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