Here then, are my ten best aviation movies: 1.
How do you choose the ten best? For my selections, I looked for great stories, good acting (mostly), spectacular flying scenes and beautiful classic aircraft. Since then, there have been many movies about aviation.
#Movies about the enola gay movie
The Wright Brothers took off from Kitty Hawk, Henry Ford began cranking out Model Ts, the bicycle became wildly popular, and the movie business was changing from a boardwalk novelty to a full-fledged entertainment business. “I’m going to make the greatest aviation movie of all time.” - Howard Hughes New and exciting inventions, and new ways to manufacture them, were springing up everywhere. The Industrial Revolution gave way to the Technological Revolution. After the turn of the 19 th century, and before World War I, a new age was dawning. But at the same time I get a sense that to make this entertaining some big liberties had to be taken from altering the actual events to the casting.Two of the man’s most wonderful inventions, movies and aviation, came of age around the same time. What this all boils down to is that "Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb" is interesting and also entertaining which in many ways makes it a movie for people like me whose knowledge of what happened is limited but don't want to be weighed down by a heavy drama. In fairness Crystal impresses as he does get in to character more than some of the other actors and is one of the movies real highlights. In a similar way I wonder whether Billy Crystal was cast as Lieutenant Jacob 'Jake' Beser because he could deliver the quick fire dialogue and wise cracks which makes him an entertaining character. That sense of being entertained extends to the casting and whilst I have always been a fan of Patrick Duffy I have to say that I wonder if his casting was as much to do with look liking Rock Hudson when in uniform as it was for being right as Colonel Paul Tibbets. But at times it feels like it is trying too hard to incorporate everything and we have scenes which feel like they have no purpose other that to entertain such as one revolving around the men spotting a member of security masquerading as a plumber, it is a scene which goes nowhere and so only serves as entertainment. It is a good mix and the writers have tried to cover as many posts as possible including showing us things from the other side with James Shigeta showing up as Field Marshall Abehata. Bilko" to scenes of intrigue and conspiracy whilst all the time trying to highlight how there was the need for secrecy and the dangers of what happened if someone let slip what was going on behind closed doors.
As such we have a variety of scenes thrown in from humorous scenes of snappy dialogue which wouldn't have been out of place in an episode of "Sgt. Taking a guess I would say that the writers whilst taking the facts of what happened altered them so the end result ended up a movie which was more entertaining than informative. As such there is part of me which is impressed by "Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb" for doing exactly what it says in the title.īut here is the thing, I am no expert on WWII or the Enola Gay so have to say right away I have no idea how much fact and fiction there is going on in "Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb". Part of the movie focuses on the men involved in the dropping of the bomb as well as their families both American and Japanese, another part focuses on the mission to drop the bomb and the difficulties they faced and then we get a bit of a science lesson as we learn about the Atomic bomb and some possible issues.
"Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb": when it comes to movie titles that one certainly describes the movie.