I’d like to see a film that follows a crew of an RAF bomber making a night raid on Europe, that follows their day and night. The briefing, the flight checks, the build up and tension, the raid, and getting shot down, then following them through an escape across Europe. I would want it to be gritty, real and scary. And I would want it to tell the truth, a real story or at least a combination of a couple of real stories. The crew would be very close friends, all looking out for one another – no tension at the top, no romantic subplot, no gung ho bull that makes no sense. Just the truth. Then, I guess it would fit into the documentary genere mentioend above, but at least it’s be damned good.
This sounds like Neville Shute’s novel “Pastoral” – oh sorry, that’s got a love element in it.
Lighten up folks. I don’t like blatant distortion of true stories any more than the next man but many’s the novel that has been based on fact.
Film producers make films, mostly, to make money not to please aviation fans they want bums on seats. My view is that if they want to use vintage aircraft (or have replicas built) then that’s fine – they are injecting cash into the industry and there are plenty of replicas around that probably wouldn’t have been built but for the film industry.
Roger Smith.
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