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David Ayer is an American screenwriter, film producer and film director. David Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1968. He grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota and Bethesda, Maryland, where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. Ayer then lived with his cousin in Los... Angeles, California, where his experiences in South Central Los Angeles became the inspiration for many of his films. Ayer's screenplay, Squids, was based on his experiences as a submariner in the United States Navy, experience that he had earlier put into rewrites of the submarine thriller U-571, a fictional account of Americans capturing the Enigma code rather than the British. The furor that surrounded the film's release led Tony Blair, then British Prime Minister, to claim that it was an "affront to the memories" of those involved and Bill Clinton, US President at the time, to write a letter emphasizing the film's fictional nature. Ayer has said that U-571 distorted history by this assertion, and that he would not do it again. "It was a distortion", he said, "a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience.
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