Year 9A & Year 9B
Today you are going to continue watching “Flyboys”, our film study that is set in the First World War that shows the adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military and became the country’s first fighter pilots, before the U.S. entered WW1.
Follow the order in which I give you instructions:
1.
Previously…
On their first mission, escorting bombers to attack a German ammunition depot, the rookie pilots were ambushed by Germans. Two were killed in the air (Toddman and Dewitt), and a third (Nunn) was forced to make an emergency landing, and was killed on the ground by ruthless German pilot “The Black Falcon”; the more chivalrous German pilot Franz Wolferd shook his head in disapproval…
2.
In this episode…
Rawlings is now intent on revenge and continues to pursue the ruthless “Black Falcon”… Also, against the orders of Captain Thenault, Rawlings comes to the assistance of Lucienne…
3.
Now, watch “Episode 3” by accessing it in Schoology Materials. (This “episode” is 43:21 minutes long.)
If, for some reason, it does not work, click on the square (at the top right) in the schoology page for “Episode 3” – then the video should work. (Make sure that you are logged into your school gmail account!) It looks like this:
4.
TRIVIA
Blaine Rawlings is played by James Franco. Rawlings cuts the left arm off a fellow pilot when trapped by an immovable object (in this case his plane). Four years later, in the film “127 Hours” (2010), which is also based on a true story, James Franco features in the role of Aron Ralston, a mountaineer who cuts off his right arm when trapped by a boulder.
5.
GOOFS
-anachronism-
In the scenes where the pilot crashes into no-mans-land, the Germans soldiers are shown wearing spiked helmets. The Germans abandoned these helmets in favor of the familiar trench helmets in mid-1915. They would not have been in use during the time portrayed in this film.
-factual error-
When Lowry shares a bottle of cognac with Skinner he claims it’s ‘a hundred year old bottle of Louis XV’.
In fact, there is no such thing. The bottle he is holding up is a bottle of Louis XIII.
-factual error-
The German column marching through the fields near Lucienne’s farm includes several tanks. The German Army built only a handful of tanks during the course of the war,
the first time they were used in action was on the 21st March 1918. The majority of tanks used by the Germans during World War One were captured French and British ones.
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