Favorite FLYBOYS scenes.....

FlyXwire · 23 September 2006, 07:06 AM

Hey Guys,

Thought it would be fun to start a thread here listing our favorite Flyboys movie scenes (w/o giving too much away about the movie for those who haven't seen it yet).

First off though just wanted to say I really enjoyed Phillip Winchester's portrayal of character William Jensen (reflecting the Jensen warrior-blood)......first rate acting!

Ok, one of my favorite scenes (at least one that sticks in my mind "the morning after" here), is when David Ellison who plays Eddie Beagle finally "gets it right"......the lead-shot view through the post and bead sight of his Nieuport is just tremendous (guess you could almost call it a "hook-shot")!

Great movie visual!

23 September 2006, 08:21 AM

I think one of my favorite scenes was when a certain Bosche got his just deserts - the expression on his face was priceless.

One scene that would have been a favorite if it had been included was a balloon busting scene. The Observer balloons not the Zepplin. I would have liked to have seen a

Frank Luke type of attack.

Matt Nelson

ww1 ace · 23 September 2006, 01:00 PM

I loved the ending

Bruno Stachel · 23 September 2006, 01:12 PM

I liked the Zeppelin scene the best. (The Zeppelin from Hells Angels brought out of the darkness!) Although not completely believable, I thought it was the most exciting scene. I won't describe it and spoil it for those that haven't see it. But the death plunge was gripping. Cassidy is my favorite character.

A near second was the Gotha scene, which most have seen the clip of. I liked the German pilot with the cross swords insignia (forgot the name). I would have liked to get to know him better in the film.

JohnReid · 23 September 2006, 01:16 PM

I agree ,I too really liked the Zeppelin scene!

Russell Smith · 23 September 2006, 01:39 PM

I thought almost all of the aerial scenes were great - sort of a visual feast, if you will.

this is kind of gruesome, but the scene that really affected me was the scene where one character went down in flames. we've all read and heard about that happening to pilots during the great war, but to see a depiction someone actually suffering through that really got to me. made me think of Lufberry.

russ

Bruno Stachel · 23 September 2006, 01:43 PM

That was a tough one. I keep going back to how that pilot came to join the Escadrille - his relationship with his father and all.

Russell Smith · 23 September 2006, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Bruno Stachel

That was a tough one. I keep going back to how that pilot came to join the Escadrille - his relationship with his father and all.

Yep. In that sense his character reminded me of

Elliot Springs and his rocky relationship with his father. Springs, of course came from money, and nothing he did ever seemed good enough for his father. Springs often made comments like the one made in the movie that the only thing he could that would exhonorate him in his father's eyes would be to die in combat. the biggest difference would be that it was Springs' choice to join the war, not his father's.

russ

cfgray · 23 September 2006, 03:42 PM

There are more than a few scenes I enjoyed in FLYBOYS (not in order of preference).
1) the Gotha scene - GREAT (could have been a longer sequence)
2) the moment when Capt. T. looks down at the kids - GREAT
3) the new recruits walking around the docks in France asking for directions
4) the interior shot of Zeppelin L-32
5) the ground level shot of the trenches as they Flyboys go overhead
6) seeing the mechanician turning over the LeRhone rotary on the workstand
7) seeing the Shuttleworth Bleriot
8) the intro sequence of "Skinner" (Bullard) in the boxing ring and after
9) ALL of the aerials... simply wonderful

cfgray

Gregvan · 23 September 2006, 05:07 PM

Hi All,

I enjoyed the whole film, especially the aerial sequences. I appreciated the scenes filmed with real aircraft - the atmospheric scenes of the new Nieuports taxiing in through the mist, or the escadrille taking off, or the Sopwith Strutter flying over the lovely countryside - those had the ring of reality, or at least reality as we would like it to have been.

As I said in the other "Flyboys Opening Night" thread, the quiet little scene in which Thenault and "Rawlings" do a memorial for two of their dead comrades really affected me, because the speech "Rawlings" reads from his deceased friend was taken almost verbatim from the real note left by Lafayette Escadrille member James McConnell. Thenault standing before the two Nieuports draped with wreaths...that struck me as how it really might have been, sometimes.

Greg