# Das Boot remake?  Seriously?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 17, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/das-boot-remake-seriously/728105 "2015-08-17T19:14:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/das-boot-remake-seriously/728105/81 "2015-08-23T05:03:26Z")

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> [@KarlGauss](#):
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> Not according to [Google Translate](https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT#auto/en/Das%20boot).
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> Sounds more like ‘boort’ (with only a tiny hint of the ‘r’ sound).

> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Sure, it’s more like "boat’ than ‘boot’, but it’s not really either. But if I say “Das Boot” anglicized, people will know what I am talking about.

I pronounce it somewhere in-between “boat” and “butt,” with that vaguest hint there will be an R that never comes, but my teacher was old fifty years ago and grew up when German still had full-blown dialects, not just regional accents. My daughter laughs at my pronunciation and vocabulary, so I’m no authority.

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**Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/das-boot-remake-seriously/728105/82 "2015-08-23T05:09:15Z")

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Also, I interviewed to manage moving U-505 indoors. It was used as a model for the set designers of Das Boot. Sub had sat out in Chicago weather for decades and was so rusty there was concern that it would collapse if moved, so I was kinda glad they didn’t hire me.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/das-boot-remake-seriously/728105/83 "2015-08-24T16:15:46Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> \*Yosemite \*Sam!!! We missed you!

Pronounced “Yose-might”?

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/das-boot-remake-seriously/728105/84 "2015-08-24T16:43:28Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> They’ve remade _Casablanca_ in the past, at least twice that I can think of, for TV in the 1950s and … 1970s? Maybe about 1980. Laughable productions that did not tarnish the original. And don’t forget the shot-by-shot remake of _Psycho_, which almost immediately descended into obscurity.

Those were both short lived attempts at TV series, [1955](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047719/), 4 episodes and [1983](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084994/), 5 episodes.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/das-boot-remake-seriously/728105/85 "2015-08-25T01:37:00Z")

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> [@Big\_Norse](#):
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> Those were both short lived attempts at TV series, [1955](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047719/), 4 episodes and [1983](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084994/), 5 episodes.

I still have horrid memories of Hector Elizondo saying, “Round up the usual suspects.” _shudder_

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**Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/das-boot-remake-seriously/728105/86 "2015-08-25T03:15:34Z")

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And he pronounced “up” as “yoop.”

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