"Frying chickens in the barnyard!" George C. Scott was General "Buck" Turgidson.
Dan "and sug - be sure to say your prayers." Sent from my iPad On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:49 PM, "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Yes, I understand that; I'm afraid, though, that many think/thought that a > lot of that satire was depicting real life, or maybe, didn't "get" the > joke(s). Because I was living it for real every day (overall for nearly > fourteen years), it was a bit "hard on me" to know that some people > think/thought that was the way it really was. 'Don't mean to imply any > discredit to the movie - it was/is, after all, a MOVIE - entertainment - not > a completely accurate representation of the real flight and actions that I > lived daily. Isn't that the way of most any movie, play, etc., for one who > is intimately familiar with the "story" in real life? > > BTW, one of the best scenes for me was when George C. Scott (was it Gen. Jack > Ripper?) was enthusiastically telling the President how the bomber could get > right on down "REAL LOW," beneath the radar - stuff we practiced on every > training mission. > > I've enjoyed the movie several times, too. When I get a chance, I'll see it > again. > > Wilton > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt Raymond" <curtlud...@yahoo.com> > To: "Diesel List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 9:50 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] buymbparts is dead drunk and rattling > > > Sheesh Wilton now you've done it. I wrote not one, not two but THREE papers > on that movie in college. > > No joke, I went to film school remember. I actually saw the movie in class, I > can't remember if it was Film History or something else. I did write a paper > on it for Film History, another was a technical dissection for Lighting, I > can't remember the third other than I did it, maybe something on the use of > black and white as an artistic decision... > > Anyway don't for one second thing any of the dialog in that movie was written > by accident. If its stilted its stilted on purpose... > > -Curt > > Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 18:49:16 -0400 > From: "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] buymbparts is dead drunk and rattling > Message-ID: <8F57E18D42004311AD58ADCEDC72B4D8@wiltonPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Yep, Slim (T. J.) did mention the special items, didn't he? > > No such inventory would ever have occurred in flight on a real such mission. > Example of writer trying to insert another joke. > > BTW, y'all do realize, don't you that most (almost ALL) of the stuff in that > movie was BS from somebody's imagination. For example, pilot never read any > checklist for bombing or its prep and sure as Hell wouldn't have gone into > the bomb bay for ANYTHING - if anybody did, it would have been the navigator > or radar-navigator/bombardier. All of the in flight dialog was very > stilted, imaginary BS - not like the real world at all. > > Wilton > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
