Red Tails Trailer #3

[robtek]

That is correct imo also, but a independent director, like Eastwood.

I don't think that those 2 Eastwood movies Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima were box office hits comparable to, yuck, Pearl Harbor.

[Kodoss]

It is possible to make good WWII movies showing the german side.

Das Boot, Stalingrad, Cross of Iron are good examples for this.

You only need a good Storywriter, what is hard to get in modern times with its sequals, prequals and its only good/bad guy themes.

As a story you could take and old pilot who was on war from the beginning of his carreer and is delusioned and a young inexperienced, overmotivated and from propaganda blinded pilot. That all around late43/early1944 where the bomber raids became more and more massive and the situation for the luftis became more desperate and disadvantaged. Just a movie about normal people who try to survive in a war that lost all barriers.

[SharpeXB]

Originally Posted by Kodoss

It is possible to make good WWII movies showing the german side.

Das Boot, Stalingrad, Cross of Iron are good examples for this.

You only need a good Storywriter, what is hard to get in modern times with its sequals, prequals and its only good/bad guy themes.

As a story you could take and old pilot who was on war from the beginning of his carreer and is delusioned and a young inexperienced, overmotivated and from propaganda blinded pilot. That all around late43/early1944 where the bomber raids became more and more massive and the situation for the luftis became more desperate and disadvantaged. Just a movie about normal people who try to survive in a war that lost all barriers.

Like a Das Boot in the air. That would be an excellent film.

[Kodoss]

I forgot to mention "All quiet on the western front".

Both the 1930 and 1979 movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbArOFsXs6I

[MD_Titus]

Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM

The "german side" will never be glorified in "normal" movies, because axis lost the war and all the NSDAP "behaviour"...

Live with that... It's one of the biggest "wrong sides" of human history.

uh what?

Originally Posted by SharpeXB

Like a Das Boot in the air. That would be an excellent film.

excellent, long, depressing sense of the inevitable.

although tbf galland or hartmann would make good subjects for a film. rudel not so much, what with all that nazi-poster-boy thing he had going on.

[Feathered_IV]

For pure fiction the Luftwaffe novel, "Ace" by Spencer Dunmore is a great little yarn. BoB fledgling to jaded Bodenplatte veteran with lots of rooting and flying in between. Certainly enough room for mass appeal in there.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by robtek

That is correct imo also, but a independent director, like Eastwood.

I don't think that those 2 Eastwood movies Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima were box office hits comparable to, yuck, Pearl Harbor.

that's probably the mentality that Hollywood needs to drop, all in all Letters from Iwo Jima did quite good
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2006/LFIJM.php

things didn't go as well for Che, but it has to be said it had an appalling distribution.