When those 109s came in at the beginning, hopping a fence, I knew it was going to be a classic.
Assume you mean this scene: YouTube link
Agree it's quite impressive. Very well done. Some attention to detail, too, as it was all Hurricanes on their French airbase -- no Spits to be seen. I'm sure I'm not the only one on this forum who appreciates that level of attention in a war film.
One funny flaw in that scene, though. Watch the second view of strafing runs, from about 0:45 to 0:55.
Someone didn't get the effects of the bullet strikes aligned properly with the flight pattern of the planes. We clearly see a plane fly in to the camera "shooting". Then we see a plane fly across the camera "shooting", at which time (about 0:52) we see the bullet strikes coming in to the camera from a plane that flew over us several seconds before.
Whether the planes flew the cross in the wrong sequence, or the effects guy set off the poppers in the wrong sequence, it's clear that the sequence we see is:
- Plane A strafes
- Then Plane B strafes and we see bullet strikes for Plane B
- Then we see bullet strikes for Plane A
As I understand it this was observed in production … maybe in the editing process, maybe even on the day of filming. But it would have been too expensive to re-take the scene, so they just sucked it up and hoped no one would notice.
Not intended as a serious criticism … just offering it as a fun bit of trivia to those who haven't noticed (or had it pointed out) before.
-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)
