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Originally posted by Low_Flyer_MkIX:
With apologies to Sailor Malan.


My 10 rules of air war film making.

1) The hero must be ahead of his time - e.g involved in a war before his country is or embracing new-fangled aeroplanes and technology (see (10) below).

2) He must have a bestest friend in the whole wide world who he'll fall out with and probably cause the death of (see (5) below), giving cause for guilt-ridden madcap final reel heroics against impossible odds.

3) National stereotypes are to be encouraged amongst the enemies and allies of our hero e.g. effeminate, class riddled English, Cruel teutonic Germans, brash gung-ho Americans, Indifferent, apathetic Frenchmen.

4) Despite use of cutting edge CGI sequences, a real aeroplane that looks nothing like the part it plays will be used in several sequences e.g. Tigermoth as Halberstadt, Harvard as Bf109.

5) It is mandatory for our hero to fall in love with a nurse at at exactly the same time as his bestest friend in the whole wide world (see 2) above) and (9) below), causing friction and tension.

6) Modern language and attitudes are to be used at all times.

7) Never, ever let the historical facts get in the way of the script.

8) Whenever possible use a 50 year actor to portray a 19 year old pilot.

9) As much celluloid as possible is to be used on more economical love interest scenes with nurse to pad movie out (see (5) above).

10) The laws of aerodynamics and gravity do not apply to movie warplanes. Those meddling idiots on internet forums don't pay our wages - gullible uneducated kids in search of cheap thrills and romantic mush that puts their girls in the mood for a grope on the bus home do.

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Originally posted by Low_Flyer_MkIX:
With apologies to Sailor Malan.


My 10 rules of air war film making.

1) The hero must be ahead of his time - e.g involved in a war before his country is or embracing new-fangled aeroplanes and technology (see (10) below).

2) He must have a bestest friend in the whole wide world who he'll fall out with and probably cause the death of (see (5) below), giving cause for guilt-ridden madcap final reel heroics against impossible odds.

3) National stereotypes are to be encouraged amongst the enemies and allies of our hero e.g. effeminate, class riddled English, Cruel teutonic Germans, brash gung-ho Americans, Indifferent, apathetic Frenchmen.

4) Despite use of cutting edge CGI sequences, a real aeroplane that looks nothing like the part it plays will be used in several sequences e.g. Tigermoth as Halberstadt, Harvard as Bf109.

5) It is mandatory for our hero to fall in love with a nurse at at exactly the same time as his bestest friend in the whole wide world (see 2) above) and (9) below), causing friction and tension.

6) Modern language and attitudes are to be used at all times.

7) Never, ever let the historical facts get in the way of the script.

8) Whenever possible use a 50 year actor to portray a 19 year old pilot.

9) As much celluloid as possible is to be used on more economical love interest scenes with nurse to pad movie out (see (5) above).

10) The laws of aerodynamics and gravity do not apply to movie warplanes. Those meddling idiots on internet forums don't pay our wages - gullible uneducated kids in search of cheap thrills and romantic mush that puts their girls in the mood for a grope on the bus home do.

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10) The laws of aerodynamics and gravity do not apply to movie warplanes. Those meddling idiots on internet forums don't pay our wages - gullible uneducated kids in search of cheap thrills and romantic mush that puts their girls in the mood for a grope on the bus home do.

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Originally posted by WN_Barbarossa:
God forbid those Germans have a war hero.

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Originally posted by joeap:

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Originally posted by WN_Barbarossa:
God forbid those Germans have a war hero.

Well they could, but Von Richtofen should be protrayed as he really was, but then again are ny other nation's war heroes always protrayed accurately??

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Originally posted by Low_Flyer_MkIX:
Some of that CGI from both Flyboys & Red Baron looked really good - some of it was pretty obvious CGI. No constants. It's been mentioned before that the majority of todays ticket buying public are too used to matrix style action sequences to get into a comparatively slow WWI dogfight.

Please German forum dudes, tell us we're wrong and this movie is a Das Boot for the 21st century.

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Originally posted by Low_Flyer_MkIX:
Some of that CGI from both Flyboys & Red Baron looked really good - some of it was pretty obvious CGI. No constants. It's been mentioned before that the majority of todays ticket buying public are too used to matrix style action sequences to get into a comparatively slow WWI dogfight.

Please German forum dudes, tell us we're wrong and this movie is a Das Boot for the 21st century.