Line #12 YMMV/DasBoot


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: The film pretty much dwarfs the book in terms of popularity (at least outside of Germany).
2	* AwardSnub: The film was nominated for ''six'' UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s (Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Writing, and Directing), and went home empty-handed. This was the highest number of nominations received by a German film, prior to another WarIsHell film, 2022's ''Film/{{All Quiet on the Western Front\|2022}}'', earning nine nominations (and winning four eventually).
3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The whole {{electronic\|music}} score by Music/KlausDoldinger.
4	** "Titel" and its declinations in particular. Who knew sonar sounds could be this awesome?
5	*** Speaking of its declinations, there's the glorious TriumphantReprise of it with "Rückzug" and "Heimkehr" as the U-96 crew manages to cheat death right under the Royal Navy's nose in Gibraltar and come back at the base.
6	** "U96". Listening to it will put you in the mood to go kick some ass!
7	** "Konvoi" generally does the trick as well.
8	* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Hotly debated. The author of the original book accuses the film of this (possibly based on the engaging soundtrack and acting), and some do side with him, but a huge number of people consider the movie to be the final, ultimate proof there is no glamour in war, merely fear, suffering, misery, missed opportunities [[spoiler:and heartwrenching slaughter at the end]].
9	* HilariousInHindsight: The Captain says that the crew at the cabaret belong to Merkel's boat.
10	* HoYay: Understandable given that dozens of young men are going through hell living in incredibly tight quarters together.
11	* MemeticMutation: An officer running through the corridor of a sub will inevitably mimic this film.
12	* RewatchBonus: The party scene at the beginning seems a little over the top and ridiculous on first viewing. Then you see the hell they go through while out on their mission.
13	* SubbingVersusDubbing: The film was first released in the U.S. (as ''The Boat'') with dubbed English, while subsequent versions use German with English subtitles. The German version is actually dubbed too, as the gyroscopes used to stabilize the cameras on the submarines were too noisy for the filming dialogue to be heard.
14	** The first PanAndScan Laserdisc version is dubbed, while the letterbox versions are subtitled, but contain the English dub on the analog tracks.
15	** In the original theatrical release, the dubbing was all performed by anonymous British actors. By the time of the Director's Cut release, the entire German cast had been brought back together to dub their lines in English for both cuts.
16	** The English subtitles vary in accuracy between versions. Some lines are different in wording (to improve clarity for English speakers) though the general meaning is the same, but in a few cases the subtitles are just plain wrong compared to the audio.
17	*** One notable difference between the English subtitles and the actual German audio, is the profanity. One of the most clear examples is when they talk about passing the Strait of Gibraltar. In English they say that passing Gibraltar, is going through the eye of a needle... In German, they talk about a virgin without Vaseline.
18	*** Another illuminating example is Werner's mini-speech at the bottom of the Strait of Gibraltar; while the original German (and the subtitles) is a pretty poignant confessional of how hollow self-imposed "DareToBeBadass" is in almost 300 meters of water in a crippled U-boat (see the [[Tearjerker/DasBoot Tear Jerker]] page), the English dub comes across as less profound and a touch immature:
19	--->'''Werner:''' They made us all train for this day. "To be fearless and proud and alone. To need no one, just sacrifice. All for the Fatherland." Oh God, all just empty words. It's not the way they said it was, is it? I just want someone to be with. The only thing I feel is afraid.
20	* ToughActToFollow:
21	** None of Creator/WolfgangPetersen's later films are considered as good as ''Das Boot'' (although ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' carved itself a path to classic status). The next film Petersen would make in German language 35 years later (which turned out to be his final film), ''Film/FourAgainstTheBank'', is a lowbrow heist comedy.
22	** You'll also be hard-pressed to find a role as acclaimed and memorable as ''Kaleun'' in Creator/JurgenProchnow's later filmography.

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