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World War II battleships, pored over
Jonathan Mostow knows exactly
ship diaries, hired the production
why
he made U 571, his World War II designer from Das Boot and picked the
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"I grew up in the shadow of the
who led the boarding party that
Holocaust," says the 38-year-old
snatched the first Enigma off a Nazi
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"Everyone I knew seemed to have a
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deep personal connection to the war."
"They were real Nazis," he said,
One uncle fought in the Battle of
leaning
across the table for emphasis.
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the Bulge; another was a tail gunner
Until recently, Balme suffered recur-
shot down and killed during his 50th
ring nightmares about the moment,
mission over North Africa; and
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60 years ago, that he "had to climb
Mostow's father, a Yale math professor,
down the dark hatch into the bowels
taught trigonometry to artillery officers
of a Nazi sub, not knowing what was
who used the math to blitz Nazis.
waiting for him," Mostow says.
"Hitler no longer existed, but he
His story was an inspiration for the
was still a lingering horror," Mostow
U 571 scene in which actor Matthew
recalls of his childhood.. "It was impos-
McConaughey shoots his way into a sub
sible to grow up in my home and not
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to steal the Enigma, which looks like a
be conscious of that."
souped-up typewriter.
U 571, inspired by a 1992 visit to
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After shooting in gales and storms
an old sub anchored in San Francisco,
off the island of Malta, U 571 proved
was the script Mostow shlepped
so painstakingly authentic that even
around for years as he struggled to
retired U.S. admirals were impressed.
anciAlazi make it in Hollywood. It was the
The movie gleaned a very different
screenplay the Harvard grad really
response from the British, whose
wanted to direct as he executive pro-
alon
newspapers ran indignant headlines
duced The Game and finally earned his pointing out that the heroes who stole
big break directing Kurt Russell in the
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the Enigma in 1941 were Brits, not
1997 thriller Breakdown (which, he
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says, he decided to write one day when
the British Parliament, President
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he was unemployed and sitting home,
Clinton even stepped in to mediate.
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Because Mostow wanted the movie
the fuss. U-571 isn't Saving Private
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A scene from Jonathan Mostow's "U-571."

