A miscommunication between the casting agent and Catinca Untaru led her to believe that Lee Pace was a real-life paraplegic. Director Tarsem Singh found that this brought an added level of believability to their dialogue, so he decided to keep almost the entire cast and crew under the same impression. Singh had to speak to the actor playing Alexandria's father and explain that his role was smaller than it appeared, since the script implied that he played the role of the bandit (actually played by Pace) in the fantasy scenes. Apparently it was hard to keep up the lie - a makeup artist walked into a room to find Pace standing and almost passed out from shock.
U-571 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The "German" aircraft flying over the sub, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, is an Italian Fiat G.59 trainer, first flown in 1948.
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Major Coonan (David Keith) seems to mysteriously disappear from the film. A death scene was filmed for his character, but the effect did not work so well, so they took it out of the film.
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A History Channel review of this movie, which aired soon after its release, included a German World War II U-Boat commander. At the end of the show, he was asked for his opinion of the authenticity of the movie. His response was; "They got one thing right in the movie. There were U-Boats in the North Atlantic during the Second World War."
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When the "U-571" leaves the Navy port at the beginning of its turn, marine ships from the former East Germany (DDR) are shown in the background. The so-called "coast mine seekers" (corvettes), built for the East German Navy "Volksmarine" from the late 1960s, and in use until the end of the country, and the re-unification with West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany). These ships (and their slightly larger version "high-sea mine seekers" or corvette "Adler" (= Eagle in N.A.T.O. jargon)) where able to position, relocate, and destroy mines. They mainly served at the sea-frontier between east and west (Nato and Warsaw treaty) in the Baltic sea.
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Coincidentally, 571 was the numerical designation of the U.S.S. Nautilus, launched in 1954, the first nuclear submarine.
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This movie earned a rebuke from then Prime Minister of UK, Tony Blair, and many in the English community for its inaccurate depiction of the Americans' success with decoding the Nazi Enigma machine in 1941. USA had not even entered the war by then, let alone done any code breaking.
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Michael Douglas was the original choice for the lead.
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In the original script, the German prisoner broke free twice.
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Erik Palladino (Mazzola) had laryngitis during the filming of the plane-buzzing scene. He lip-syncked his lines and dubbed them later in the studio.
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Parts of the movie's score are obviously taken from Star Trek - First Contact.
U-571 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
U-571 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
U-571 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
U-571 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
U-571 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
U-571 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
U-571 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
U-571 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
U-571 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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