Kevin, who has been on the CD, reviews the good guys in the flying machine.

In 1980s, 20th Century Fox, the largest American film company, presented a batch of films to CCTV. Including "General Barton", "The Sound of Music" and other Oscar-level classics, so that Chinese mainland audiences who have just popularized TV can enjoy these unforgettable movies at home. In addition to those tall themes, there is also an impressive non-mainstream and indecent film "The Good Man in the Plane", which was shot at 1965.

The film made up an aerial race that took place in 19 10. A British newspaper tycoon promised a reward of 1 10,000 pounds to hold a flight race from London to Paris to show Britain's powerful aviation industry. Ten thousand pounds then is equivalent to one million pounds now. The lure of such a huge bonus made the subsequent games brilliant and full of jokes.

First of all, highly restored old aircraft.

The replica plane in the movie uses the same materials as the prototype in 19 10, but it uses modern engines for safety reasons, so most of the flight scenes presented in the movie are real. This flight competition is only seven years away from the Wright brothers' successful first power flight in human history. All kinds of flying machines driven by players from all over the world are strange and vulnerable, even inferior to some toy planes today.

The plane, model Antoinette IV, piloted by a British player made its first flight on 1908. This kind of plane is actually the earliest French-made fixed-wing plane, and the first manned plane to fly across the English Channel in human history. The fuselage is slender, the wings are stretched, and the pilot sits gracefully in the clouds.

Another British player is flying the Roe IV tri-wing aircraft made in Britain, which is a tri-wing aircraft made by A.V. Roe, a famous British aircraft manufacturing company. Later, Lancaster bomber will be produced, which is the main bomber of the Royal Air Force in World War II, which scares the Germans.

The French fly a plane nicknamed "Dragonfly" produced by Santos-Dumont Demoiselle. The fuselage of this light aircraft consists of three bamboo poles, and the pilot sits on the canvas and tightens, with two bamboo poles under the wing.

Second, a vivid description of the world powers at that time.

In addition to highly restored props, the film also vividly depicts the world powers in the early 20th century.

The British Empire, which has never lost in two world wars, is still at the top of the world, holding such an incredible flight competition at that time to show its national strength. At this time, it is less than ten years since human beings invented the power plane. In Britain, flying a plane is still an aristocratic sport that embodies chivalry. The plane driven by the British was powerful and well-made and won the championship successfully.

The United States has just risen, but it is only a nouveau riche in front of European powers. But the whole country is thriving, and ordinary people dare to think and do it and pursue wealth. The American guy in the movie was attracted by the huge prize of 1 10,000 pounds, so he drove a tractor and took part in the competition directly with a broken plane. Despite the poor performance, the cowboy-like adventure spirit of Americans deeply touched the aristocratic ladies in Britain and performed several emotional scenes in this film.

How did this world-famous game lose the conceited Frenchman? The French live for two things, busy dating and running on the Germans next door. When the excited German soldiers were holding the grand national flag and playing the national anthem, how could the French next to them miss this opportunity to play a trick on a stuffy German? In this way, a solemn flag of the German Empire slowly rose in the cheerful music of two tigers, which became the classic plot of this film.

Third, excellent performers from all over the world.

There are no superstars in The Good Man in the Plane, but there are still many impressive actors.

Terry-Thomas, who plays a British pilot, may be a household name in China. He also played a funny image of a British pilot in Escape from Danger, which may be the most memorable image of a World War II comedy movie for generations of China audiences.

Stuart. Whitman, an American actor who looks a bit like john wayne's low-end version, plays a poor American boy who broke into the old world in the movie. It's interesting that Stuart. Whitman is in the film director Ken? Anakin's last film, The Longest Day, played a soldier beside his big brother john wayne.

Benny. Hill benny hill is an English comedian of Mr. Bean's previous generation. After 70s, I still remember that in 1980s, Shanghai TV introduced a batch of short comedies of benny hill, and the scale of this guy's spoof was a bit unacceptable to people at that time. But in this movie, Benny? Hill plays the airport fire chief who is always teased by the pilots, and his performance is quite satisfactory.

Such a shot may be one of the reasons why this film is unforgettable!

Great achievements and progress in human history often come from some incredible ideas. Whether flying an ancient plane across the English Channel +09 10 in the 1960s or shooting such a fantastic airplane movie with crude photography technology in the 1960s, Good Boy in the Plane is such a great movie and tells a great story.