Flyboys (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.5/10   

Director:

Tony Bill

Escritores (WGA):

Phil Sears (screenplay) &
Blake T. Evans (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

22 septiembre 2006 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Aventura | Drama | Romance | Guerra

Frase comercial:

Inspired by a true story

Plot:

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

Plot Keywords:

American | France | Pilot | Training | Military

Premios:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A fun adventure that plays loose with history

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Reparto

James Franco	...	Blaine Rawlings
Scott Hazell	...	Cinema Usher
Mac McDonald	...	Sheriff Detweiller
Philip Winchester	...	William Jensen
Todd Boyce	...	Mr. Jensen
Karen Ford	...	Mrs. Jensen
Ruth Bradley	...	Laura
Abdul Salis	...	Eugene Skinner
Jean-Philippe Écoffey	...	Skinner's trainer
Tim Pigott-Smith	...	Mr. Lowry
Tyler Labine	...	Briggs Lowry
Gail Downey	...	Mrs. Lowry
David Ellison	...	Eddie Beagle
Jean Reno	...	Capt. Thenault
Augustin Legrand	...	L.T. Giroux

También conocida como:

Fly Boys (International: English title) (alternative spelling)
Caballeros del aire (Argentina) [es]
Peligro en el aire (Peru) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for war action violence and some sexual content.

Duración:

140 min

País:

UK | USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS

Clasificación:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #42281) | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Singapore:PG | Malaysia:U | UK:12A | Portugal:M/12 | Ireland:12A | New Zealand:M | Germany:12 | Finland:K-13 | Argentina:Atp | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | Peru:14

Locaciones de Filmación:

RAF Halton, Halton, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Compañía:

Electric Entertainment

Trivialidades:

In the scene where the pilots are painting or having painted personalizations on the sides of their airplanes, Lyle Porter is painting a banner that reads "Timothy CH. IV V. 7". This is reference to a chapter and verse in the Book of Timothy in the Bible. There are TWO books of Timothy in the Bible, both having a chapter IV and verse 7. However, more than likely, this would be a reference to the SECOND book of Timothy, chapter IV, verse 7, which reads, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:", which might be something a very religious combat pilot might reference on the side of his combat airplane. That same-numbered chapter and verse in the FIRST book does not read anything like having to do with fighting or combat.

Errores:

Errores cometidos por los personajes (posiblemente errores deliberados por los cineastas): When Blaine rescues Lucienne from her farmhouse invaded by German soldiers he takes off across a field. For some reason, two very unintelligent German soldiers run into the flight line of the plane and start shooting at the plane head on. They would have been much better off trying to shoot the plane from the side and would not have been in the firing line of the main machine gun on the plane.

Citas:

Eugene Skinner: This country
[referring to France]
Eugene Skinner: has been good to me. Better than my own. I owe them something.

Conexiones de Película:

Spoofed in Diary of a Miniature Stunt Pilot (2007) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty

A fun adventure that plays loose with history

When I first saw the previews and read the synopsis, I was expecting a horrible film like Pearl Harbor. Fighter pilots in love with a girl. Happily the love story is not sappy or sickening and actually helps create character development. And how the love story ends is a very nice non-Hollywood ending.

The Planes look magnificent, but could have been done better. The use of German Dr1's (the Fokker Triplanes) as the only German fighter is understandable as distinguishing friend from foe. However, making all of the Dr1's (except for the main villains ) solid red is extremely annoying. While it is up to some discussion if the Red Baron's Dr1 was all red or mostly red, it does not mean that all Dr1's were red, especially all red. The Dr1's came from the Fokker factory usually in an olive drab paint scheme with a light blue underside. The film makers could have added a red scheme to the planes but left a portion olive drab and blue underside, it still would have made the Germans distinctive without being clones of Manfred von Rictoffen.

The dogfights are fun to watch and are fairly exciting, however the planes fly highly unrealistically at times. Overall the CGI is excellent but at times it is noticeable as CGI. The planes that explode (Explosions are such a Hollywood staple :) ) are unrealistic. The planes are traveling 70 t0 100 miles per hour in reality, but the explosions react as if the plane is standing still, going up in a ball instead of being spread along the doomed plane's path.

Over all it was fun to watch and covers a historical period that has long been neglected in film.