When the B-52 of yesterday was getting old, and the B-1B and B-2 brought the bomber's capabilities to the fullest in the sonic field, have you ever thought about how dark the sky was when the bomber fleet fought seventy years ago? with gory. The film "Memphis Belle" from Warner Bros. filmed in 1990 tells the story of a B-17F "Flying Fortress" crew "Memphis Belle" serving in the U.S. Army Air Force (US Air Force, 1947). Heroic combat deeds on the European battlefield. The B-17 "Flying Fortress" strategic bomber, produced by Boeing, is the main bomber model of the US Army Air Forces in the European battlefield. It is mainly used to bomb Nazi ground military targets. It also has powerful self-defense firepower including the nose, the sides of the fuselage, the machine gun at the tail, the top of the machine and the rotating turret on the belly. Combined with the flight formation and tactics of the bomber group, "air fortress" is the best description. The movie uses a B-17F, and the story takes place in the European battlefield in 1943. From the very beginning of the film, the crew is "coagulated" in front of the audience with a relaxed atmosphere, and each character has a short and witty identity narrative, which makes each crew member stand out on the camera. The story begins with the last bombing mission of the "Memphis Belle". In the first half of the film, a large number of life details of the Army Air Corps soldiers are interspersed. Although this is the usual method used in almost every Hollywood film of related topics, it just shows the optimism of Americans, which is very real. I remember a section where the captain whispered alone in front of the "Memphis Belle" logo painting, taking the plane as his true lover (the name was actually taken from the captain's girlfriend), I thought about it later In the movie "Space Cowboy", Tommy Lee Jones carefully touched the SR-71 he had flown, perhaps this is a kind of aviation feeling. The combat mission began, but before takeoff, because the target was covered by clouds, the combat mission was postponed, and a scene that I thought was no less than the air combat plot behind it began. In the morning light, the warm European sunlight shone on the skin of the B-17F fuselage, and the soldiers were lying on the tarmac listening to the verses of the "college students" soldiers. This beautiful shot, But the war is about to come to an end, and a kind of accusation about the disappearance of the war penetrates the hearts of the people. This film uses a large number of real aircraft for shooting, whether it is the preparatory work of each crew member in the cabin at the beginning or the spectacular shot of the bomber group taking off at the back, and even the actual flight and encounter in the air. It will undoubtedly deepen the authenticity and professionalism of the film. The bomber group entered the sky over the Nazi-occupied area, and the battle was imminent. The first encounter was the Luftwaffe Fw 190 "Mozu" fighter jets that intercepted the attacking bomber group, designed by the famous Dr. Kurt Tank, and Nazi Germany's Bf 109 (Me 109) fighter jets, as the absolute main force of the Luftwaffe in World War II, are also the best fighter jets in the history of World War II. These fighters are speculated to be Fw 190 A-4/R6 type, "Bomber Killer" (possibly produced from different The Fokker-Wolf aircraft factory in Leimen, because this film is about the bombing of the Fw 190 fighter aircraft parts factory in Bremen), under the fire of the MG series machine guns and machine guns produced by Rheinmetall, the whole film begins tense scenes. Then came the Bf 109 fighter jets one after another. The Messerschmitt Bf 109 (Me 109) series fighter jets were the absolute main force of the Luftwaffe, and their excellent performance allowed them to top the rankings of World War II fighter jets. The film handles these battle episodes very well. Combined with the previous description of each crew member's character, in the battle episode, the image of each member is fully displayed, with calmness, fear, optimism, and between the members. The contradictions, and with the development of the plot, each character has grown, and the team has been united in crisis after crisis. Although this is also the usual way of shooting, considering that it was shot in the 1990s, it is extremely realistic, which is also an important element of aerospace and sci-fi space movies. Regarding the specific World War II bomber group tactics and interception tactics, this movie did not show too much, so I will not repeat it here. In the battle scene, there is a very deep impression. The wingman "Mother Motherland" was hit by an out of control Bf 109 and fell into two pieces. The radio operator of the aircraft was screaming in the radio and screaming in the harsh radio interruption noise. At the end of the middle, there is no grand background music, and the simple radio silence is the best atmosphere rendering. At the end, the "Memphis Belle", which lost the power of two engines and was riddled with holes, manually lowered the landing gear at the last moment and landed successfully. This may be to demonstrate the "survival resilience" of this model in World War II. . The film isn't simply telling the story of the bomber, quoting a "verse" from the film: "Beyond the blue sky deep in the white clouds, I know death awaits, I fight not what I hate, I defend with blood It's not what I love, it's not the law, it's not the duty to put me on the shirt, there's no politicians and there's no cheering crowd, only one impulse sends me to the sky, I think and compare, the days ahead seem small , the breath of youth is lingering between life and death." Accompanied by the lonely sound of the harmonica and the oil painting-like countryside in the distance, the warm sunlight of Europe quietly sprinkled on the fuselage of these young people and the B-17F. The breath seems to have stopped here, and the country gospel song "Amazing Grace" has quietly played with the roar of the engine, paying tribute to the heroes who fought for it - the brothers in the blue sky. The film is based on the 1944 documentary The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress.
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