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sgteam14283Saw Red Tails this weekend and it's a brilliant movie. It's about the Tuskegee Airmen during WW2 and how they got into flying protection with the bombers in Europe.
This is really a passion project for George Lucas because he's been working on it for ages with the actual Airmen and had to pay for everything himself in terms of marketing because no studio would touch it. Why? Because it features an all African-American main cast. Also it's not like a "normal" war movie because you don't have the standard "Glory" formula with a white commander leading an all African-American squad.
The movie is actually the middle script of a three-part series (George even said that to think of it as an "Episode 7"). The first one shows their training and the beginning of the program and then the third one shows how they have to deal with the racism after the war because over in Europe they were reguarded as equals to the pilots they flew with and were told that they owe their lives to the Red Tails. But then they had to come back to the US where they were suddenly reguarded as second-class citizens and what they did in Europe didn't matter.
I think was brilliant because it wasn't the standard WW2 movie; it showed an aspect of history that they don't really teach in school but the Tuskegee airmen played an important part in the war effort in Europe.
I'm urging people to go see it and tell the movie studio with their money that we need to see the rest of the series. That a movie about WW2 can have an all African-American cast and still be amazing.
This is really a passion project for George Lucas because he's been working on it for ages with the actual Airmen and had to pay for everything himself in terms of marketing because no studio would touch it. Why? Because it features an all African-American main cast. Also it's not like a "normal" war movie because you don't have the standard "Glory" formula with a white commander leading an all African-American squad.
The movie is actually the middle script of a three-part series (George even said that to think of it as an "Episode 7"). The first one shows their training and the beginning of the program and then the third one shows how they have to deal with the racism after the war because over in Europe they were reguarded as equals to the pilots they flew with and were told that they owe their lives to the Red Tails. But then they had to come back to the US where they were suddenly reguarded as second-class citizens and what they did in Europe didn't matter.
I think was brilliant because it wasn't the standard WW2 movie; it showed an aspect of history that they don't really teach in school but the Tuskegee airmen played an important part in the war effort in Europe.
I'm urging people to go see it and tell the movie studio with their money that we need to see the rest of the series. That a movie about WW2 can have an all African-American cast and still be amazing.
