He bought it as a regualr T-6, once he learned of its history from USAF records, he back dated his G visually only, he left the improved G systems in it into a D and put on the proper markings. Since the Tuskegee Airman film is fairly new and an excellent film well worth watching, I wonder how Lucas' film will be different?
Bigger budget, bigger stars, more CGI? It might be worthwhile if Lucas does it first rate Not taking anything away from the Tuskegee airmen, but if Lucas wants to make a WWII aviation film, I'd politely remind him there are other stories out there.
But his dad asked when he'd make a film about his B unit in the Pacific I'd like to see those. Good to know Speilberg knows that those stories are waiting to be told. By: colin. The original "Tuskegee Airman" film was quite good but suffered from a lack of spectacle.
Only a few aircraft were used in the making of the film and there were numerous inaccuracies due to the low budget e. Hopefully a new film would correct these inaccuracies and would show large numbers of planes thanks to CG!. To be honest, I really enjoyed the HBO film, despite its budget constraints how many cut scenes from Battle of Britain were there?! It was an ambitious attempt to tell the story that, hitherto, very few of us had probably ever heard about. I liked the film too, but don't know much about the real story behind it.
There are a lot of people on a WIX thread about this same subject who'd disagree with it being excellent and some say there's just too much made up for Hollywood. Lucas has made similar remarks apparently and plans to make it more accurate. Bigger stars? Even Malcolm Jamal Warner was excellent in the film and I usually hate his work. And as for supporting cast, John Lithgow is pretty big too.
I hope his Dad insists on a Pacific aviation film. I'm really looking forward to his currently-being-made mini series The Pacific. I hope there might be some aviation in that, even if fleeting glimpse. As for CGI aircraft, sure real ones would be preferable but perhaps these days they might be able to make them better than ever before.
Look at the aircraft in King Kong a couple of years ago, I thought they were pretty superb, as was the entire cgi in that film. By now Lucas should have caught up to, if not overtaken that technology. And Dambusters will have CGI too, which will look better than the models used in the original I'm certain.
Theres only one man for the starring role, Will Smith, how could you forget him, he could introduce a bit of rapping too. I can see it now, following a low level chase through the Italian Alps, Will shoots down Bf and lands his P next to him on a glacier.
Dragging the dazed Luftwaffe pilot out of the wreckage, Major Smith knocks him out with the immortal lines,'Welcome to Earth'. He then wraps him in a parachute and drags him through the snow to the nearest POW camp, could be a good film. Yeah, but I think that most people still think of him as a yoof, and seriously, I'm not knocking him, I really like the bloke, I thought he was excellent in Legend, he's the man for me, a bit of pancake and off we go, I reckon he would love a role in that film, as long as he was able to have that last cigar, not that he would need it, I didn't think that any TG airmen were shot down in combat.
By the way, do P's have lighters, just in case. I don't know about fighter escort missions, but Tuskegee Airman Alexander Jefferson was shot down while flying ground support. Now, this is a story all about how my 'stang got bounced and then shot down And i'd like to take a minute Just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the prince of Stalag Luft 3.
Nothing except money and Lucas doesn't have much excuse there Though I can't seem to nail down the exact date the project was announced I say , but a couple of reliable Lucas-philes think it might be as old as WILLOW , it was, for many years, one of those "non-prequel" ideas Lucas batted around in interviews just to get our hopes up that he might one day return to big-screen feature filmmaking.
But that was the extent of the public's knowledge about the project. If Lucas had any interest in winning Oscars, the former might've been a possibility. But one of the things I've always liked about Lucas is that, with very few exceptions all of them being over twenty years old , he doesn't go in for prestige.
He may feint at making "small independent films like Francis", but, as CHUD's Devin Faraci discovered a while back, that's hardly a priority. The blatant racism of the s was often not regarded as racist in those days. Coming down to Tuskegee, the airmen were forced to change cars on their train as they entered the South, making room for white German prisoners of war.
Hannibal, who calls Iowa home, was shocked when requested to move but is informed of this standard by his southern acquaintances.
Arriving at the base, one of the commanding officers forces the men to retake the admission test because he did not believe that any black could be so intelligent to pass it.
In Congress, Senator Conyers waged a war with words to have the experiment ended because he did not believe they were intellectually qualified to fly let alone complete any combat missions. Each of these scenes is not uniquely shot, nor is the acting style much different than the characters in the rest of the movie compared with scenes of racism in contemporary film where there is disbelief on the faces of the actors.
Everything is expected, as if this was the expectations for blacks in those days, mainly because it was. This expected racism was easier to be found and criticized by higher figures and figures who had more morality. Senator Conyers is shown the abilities of the airmen when Eleanor Roosevelt is taken for a flight by Hannibal to invalidate the. Many politicians today are quick to denounce anything that shows blatant racism, as they should. After the Charlottesville riots, white supremacist groups saw criticism from both parties for their blatant acts of hatred and discrimination.
Confederate statues were quickly removed in many cities. Blatant racism is much easier to locate and denounce. The other forms are much more difficult. Such a punishment would generally warrant a suspension. For the black cadet, the consequence was expulsion from the program.
This is a subtler racism. Nobody knows about it, nobody can denounce it. It exists in the mind of the racist and comes out when the opportunity is present. While the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has helped taper such incidents of racism, not all of these crimes can be discovered, especially when hidden under the disguise of another excuse.
Systematic racism is by far the most contentious form of discrimination in a modern context. It can be debated whether the system was already blatantly or subtly racist in those days, but it has become more vague moving into modern times.
The Tuskegee Airmen shows systematic racism when Col. Davis, a West Point graduate that commands the Tuskegee squadron, explains the bureaucratic inefficiencies arising exclusively with their group. Paperwork to replace a cadet always show some form of inefficiency. The movie shows that the distinguished Colonel still needs another white senator and a white general to support him just to be heard by the committee. These are white men who recognized the privilege they held and used it to prevent others from letting racist inhibitions discontinue the Tuskegee Airmen.
Moving into the modern era, this racism takes form with the War on Drugs. In the year , the same year The Tuskegee Airmen was first shown on television, the rate of black men that were under the watch of the criminal justice system, either in jail, on parole, or on probation, was one in three. This new way to segregate society has yet to come to an end and has led to the suppression of black communities by creating broken families and communities.
I enjoyed the dogfights in the sky even though many criticized it as not being real enough. Whatever that means. The first film mostly attracted Blacks so Lucas knew if he was to make money or at least break even he had to have a product that White people all over the country would watch.
He had to make his point without being too preachy. And he did. Cuba Gooding Jr. Laurence Fishburne was the star, but he had plenty support in Cuba Gooding Jr.
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