What's the Difference between Operation Mincemeat the Book and Operation Mincemeat the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Ewen Montagu
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Ewen Montagu
Portrayed by: Colin Firth
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Charles Cholmondeley
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Charles Cholmondeley
Portrayed by: Matthew Macfadyen
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Jose Antonio Rey Maria
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This Character does not appear.
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Jean Leslie
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Jean Leslie
Portrayed by: Kelly Macdonald
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Hester Leggett
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Hester Leggett
Portrayed by: Penelope Wilton
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Ian Fleming
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Ian Fleming
Portrayed by: Johnny Flynn
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John Godfrey
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John Godfrey
Portrayed by: Jason Isaacs
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Bernard Spilsbury
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This Character does not appear.
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Bentley Purchase
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Bentley Purchase
Portrayed by: Paul Ritter
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This Character does not appear.
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Teddy
Portrayed by: Jonjo O'Neill
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Commodore Edmund Rushbrooke
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This Character does not appear.
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Operation Mincemeat Book vs Movie
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In the Movie |
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There are many details about HMS Seraph and LCDR Jewell operations during WWII, during Operation Mincemeat and the invasion of Sicily. |
Very little about LCDR Jewell or the HMS Seraph other than dropping Major Martin into the sea. |
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Jose Antonio Rey Maria finds Major Martin while fishing in his boat and brings the corpse to shore. |
The corpse is spotted from shore by several unnamed fishermen and brought to the beach.
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This does not happen in the book. There are other deception plans in progress at the time. |
Montagu briefs the men and women on his team of the allied invasion plans for Sicily. He says Churchill is depending entirely upon us so we have lots of work to do. It is implied that Mincemeat is the only deception operation prior to the invasion of Sicily. |
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A captured American P-39 pilot is brought in to asked to identify the Martin's body; he is of course unable to. |
This does not happen in the film.
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Dr. Fernández, a civilian forensic pathologist, and his son Eduardo perform the autopsy on Major Martin. He noted differences between the corpse and the photo ID. He also noted that the body appeared to have been in the water for 8-10 days but had not been chewed on by marine life. The British were very lucky that the pathologist had not been informed of the details of finding the body or else the operation would have failed. |
The coroner, Dr. del Torno immediately thinks Martin might not have drowned. The coroner is rushed though the autopsy, no findings are revealed. |