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Re: IF YOU COULD CREATE A MOVIE

Posted by Rob Mears on Wed Jan 07, 2004 12:41:12 PM

In reply top IF YOU COULD CREATE A MOVIE posted by John Parker on Tue Jan 06, 2004 07:32:03 PM

I'd do a down and dirty, realistic account of VF-17 "Jolly Rogers" squadron during WWII.

No Holloywood paint schemes, no "Memphis Belle" cleanliness about the pilots. A bonafide detailed study of the men and the hellish jobs they performed from their little island paradise in the South Pacific.

It would be very interesting to see someone in Hollywood produce this movie as more of a drama/documentary with extreme detail given to the documented weathering of each major plane (Kepford, Blackburn, etc) and extreme detail given to the surrounding environment. It would be the antethesis of the "Blacksheep Squadron" production which was admittedly a glossed over, limited budget spoof.

I'd like ot see the movie come off the screen like Saving Private Ryan, or an episode of NYPD Blue :) Very gritty and with the camera playing almost an anonymous role amongst the actors.

You couldn't film this thing in the SoPac, so you'd have to hire seven or eight FG-1D's and relocate them to somewhere like the south Mexican coast for filming. Somewhere with a very believable tropic environment, but a place where the hired warbirds could actually be flown over land to the set for safety & financial reasons.

It would be an excellent opportunity to really play upon the plight of these pilots who lived under fairly horrible conditions far from home and civilization, all the time having to deal with the loss of fellow friends & pilots and the (then) questionable outcome of the war during the early years.

In the end, I would want the movie to be reflected upon as very much a historical documentary moreso than a summer blockbuster. It would have to be at the very top of the History Channel's "History vs. Hollywood" list :)

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