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Post by hardyakka on Jan 9, 2011 21:30:40 GMT 12
I think the A4 attack was just airforce stock footage that Roger Donaldson and crew just spliced in to the movie. The film was made on quite a tight budget. Even when I watched originally in the late 70s I felt there was incongruity between the rockets being launched from the aircraft and the puniness of the "squibs" they used to show the impacts. Remember we as an audience back then had seen real combat camera footage from the Vietnam war that showed the real thing. Didn't stop it being a breakthrough Kiwi film though. We even studied it at school as part of an English class reading the novel "Smith's Dream" (by C.K. Stead)
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Post by ErrolC on Jan 9, 2011 21:49:27 GMT 12
I think the A4 attack was just airforce stock footage that Roger Donaldson and crew just spliced in to the movie. Donaldson relates in the doco on the DVD how he was lucky to frame the air to air shots as he couldn't use the viewfinder (due to the helmet), and he realized afterwards that he accidentally had the camera stopped right down, but got usable footage.
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Post by hardyakka on Jan 9, 2011 21:54:51 GMT 12
Thanks Errol... Good to know that Roger D. did scam a ride in an A4 for the movie. Did the doco say whether he told the airforce the true storyline of the film? Would they have been as co-operative if they had known they were being portrayed as the tool of a fascist government dealing out violence to freedom fighters (or terrorists as they are now known...)
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Post by ErrolC on Jan 10, 2011 7:12:55 GMT 12
Thanks Errol... Good to know that Roger D. did scam a ride in an A4 for the movie. Did the doco say whether he told the airforce the true storyline of the film? Would they have been as co-operative if they had known they were being portrayed as the tool of a fascist government dealing out violence to freedom fighters (or terrorists as they are now known...) I think they kept it very vague.... I might have a go at grabing a screenshot of the rocket firing tomorrow night (out this evening).
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