By Philip Ewing - Staff writer Posted : Friday Jul 13, 2007 17:30:24 EDT Hollywood is known for taking liberties when it adapts true stories and real lives for the movies, but Tinseltown has gone too far in an upcoming action-adventure movie based on the life of a real Navy pilot, critics say. In “Rescue Dawn,” scheduled to open July 20, Christian Bale plays Lt. j.g. Dieter Dengler, one of only two naval aviators ever to escape prisoner-of-war camps during the Vietnam War. On Feb. 1, 1966, Dengler was on his very first combat mission in Vietnam, over the Laotian border, when his A-1 Skyraider was hit by anti-aircraft fire and he crash-landed in Laos. He was taken captive by Communist Pathet Lao fighters and imprisoned and tortured along with a few other American, Laotian and Chinese prisoners. After five months, they broke out of the prison. Dengler evaded his captors for 23 days until he was rescued by an Air Force helicopter. Dengler was awarded the Navy Cross and several other decorations and went on to have a civilian career as a test pilot; he died of Lou Gehrig ’s disease in 2001. “Rescue Dawn” tells the story of Dengler’s ordeal in Laos, but it “takes liberties that are offensive to anyone who is familiar with the events surrounding the prison break,” wrote a group that includes activists and the POWs’ family members in a letter of protest, a copy of which was provided to Military Times. The letter writers “despise this movie and condemn those who made it.”
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