Many of you have likely seen the WWI short (very short) film by Peter Jackson.
It is worth looking at for the fine production value and attention to detail, after all he has sponsored the creation of many old aircraft. Hopefully a full length feature is somewhere in his head...

Anyways, I noticed a brief close up sequence at 1:44 of a Brisfit gunner firing his Lewis. Interesting to note the recoil on the gun.

Awesome...wish he'd do the full reel.

Wow!
That looked good.

Yea!
Would be nice if Peter Jackson got the backing to do full-film of that story.


He didn't paint the Dr1 in Richthofen's colors like they did in Flyboys either. lol


Would love seeing a well made WW1 aerial flick!

Yes he'd probably do a great job of it, though he won’t have any free time for another 2 years (well, slightly less than that now) due to the commitments of the Hobbit.

Then there's also the prep work he did for the dam busters which was put on hold, so perhaps that will be taken up again.

I am pretty sure all those planes he has been building in NZ are for a future movie. I would love if he could make a gritty and REALISTIC aviation movie. I.e. not so much King Kong... We dearly need some great, realistic aviation movie after Flyboys, Red Tails and The Red Baron, one worse than the other...

Well, not impressed. Yes it looks good, yes it makes my go "yeah!", but, from what we can see here, it seems to have the classic one sided view of the war, classic Hollywood-ish stuff where one side is the good, and the other is composed by anonymous clones with no heart.

Looks interesting -- thanks for sharing!

I do wish, however, that movie trailers for drama and action movies didn't always have to follow the mold of showing glimpses of scenes separated with overlong blackouts in that sort of blinking style. It's pretty annoying and certainly not creative anymore.

Oh, on the gun recoil... if you want to see what folks think about the depiction of guns in movies, check out the Hell's Angel thread over at the RoF forum.

Doing a little digging, and supposedly he shot the whole thing in two days, just two weeks prior to some film event where he showed it. Having witnessed how slowly film productions take, and the number of shots in this short, I don't believe it.

Regardless, his intention was never to make a feature film with it, but with all those airplanes coming out of NZ, hopefully the seed has been planted.

the 100th anniversaries are right around the corner, I'd love a james cameron ww1 film but it's pretty sure peter jackson has plans for one.

Most stories are told from one side. The ones that tell it from both sides are documentaries. The needs are different. A film that is historical is still not a documentary. For many of those fighting the battles, they DID see the other side as one-dimensional heartless automatons interested in nothing but killing. The guy in the cockpit wasn't trying to see "the bigger picture" of the war as a whole. He was trying to do his job without getting killed, and the other guys were trying to kill him. Films tell war stories from the perspective of one or a few related characters. Tora Tora Tora was 2 films done like documentaries edited together, not a standard story telling method.



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In a way is that not how war is.

It is the movies that show both sides that I like best. Battle of Britain, while definitely told from one side, at least shows the Germans as human.

Interestingly enough, the Game of Thrones series of books does a great job of this. Each chapter is told from the PoV of a character. IMHO the author does a great job of showing the world from the PoV of a character and then showing that same character from the PoV of another character. It really rounds things out.

Fighting it, yes. Understanding it, no.

Love the 'Game of Thrones' books.. got one more to read.. the whole series has had me enthralled for weeks!