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20 July 2009, 04:17 PM
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Your idea for a WWI aviation film!
Whats your idea of an excellent WWI aviation film.If Peter Jackson happened to stumble on this thread,then hopefully he would use one of these ideas!Its worth a shot!
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20 July 2009, 06:51 PM
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21 July 2009, 12:49 AM
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I would do a Boelcke biopic, or possibly a linked McCudden-Voss film.
Then again, a proper MvR movie would be far better than that recent German movie of course... Kind regards, Reinout
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21 July 2009, 01:00 AM
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Ah - well hundreds of possibilities.
Iīd suggest Udetīs Mein Fliegerleben, including his post war adventures and engagement with the III.Reich. He was a real flying adventurer. I fear that a pure WWI story would not make a good script, because just the air - fighting would not be a good story for the not-so-interested. I fear we all overestimate the interest in MvR or McCudden or Guynemer. How would a script look like ? Flying-Fighting-coming back-reasoning about the war-seeing his friends dying-getting medals -thatīs it. Thomas |
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21 July 2009, 04:12 AM
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'A Killing For The Hawks' by Frederick E. Smith (of 633 Squadron) It has the right ingredients----intense romance (this is essential in a Box Office sense) a good american hero, a sadistic (that can't hurt) upper class brit. villain----a working class/upper class sub-plot---plenty of action, and a good 'twist' at the end.......
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21 July 2009, 06:44 AM
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Ernest Gann's In the Company of Eagles would probably make a very good movie. The story is tight enough to not need six hours to film properly. It's also very compelling with great characters on both sides.
Gann had other works made into very good movies, so this wouldn't be a first. Regards,
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21 July 2009, 10:14 AM
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I don't think there is any more compelling story from WWI than the story of
 Frank Luke. It has it all: pathos, irony and heroism in the face of abject rejection by his fellow pilots. Luke was a misfit, an unlikely hero and a spectacularly talented pilot. What more could you want?  Mike Good
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