fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]You're very welcome. The script was written with historical rigor -- his treatment of captured pilots, the head wound, the relationship with Fokker, the mystery woman, being trotted out for display in Berlin, the dismemberment of le Petit Rouge -- all true. It's nice when history provides all the drama -- all we had to do was connect the dots.[/SIZE]
I noticed all of that, and the dots were very well connected. The only bit of controversy was that some believe that Von Richtoffen was actually hit by a machine gunner firing from the ground. But as I said . . . that's controversy.
What a pity the story wasn't accepted and filmed. But Hollyweird seems to want fictional drama rather than historical fact. No matter how dramatic the actual historical facts happen to be.
Speaking of FLYBOYS, have you read the book by the same name written by James Bradley? (It was Bradley who wrote
Flags Of Our Fathers.) It deals with the fates of nine Navy FLYBOYS who were shot down over Chichi Jima in early 1945 -- during the time the battle for Iwo Jima was going on. Eight of them were killed -- and a couple of them were partially eaten -- the ninth was picked up by an American submarine and later became president.
For those who are fans of horror, this book presents horror in its truest sense . . . real horror . . . horror that actually happened.
Ken V.