Original sentence: Dassin downplayed the rival gangsters' characters in his screenplay and made them European with the more German-sounding name Grutter.Dassin was against this idea—he still felt loyalty for his home country
Edited sentence: Dassin downplayed the rival gangsters' characters in his screenplay and made their ethnicity vague, with the name Grutter sounding possibly German, Polish or Centro-European.Dassin was against this idea as he didn't want to be accused of taking oblique revenge on screen