Tuskegee Airman Bill Holloman dies at age 85

The Seattle Times ^ | June 16, 2010 | Keith Ervin

[onedoug]

What’s wrong with the Fishburne film?

One of the screenwriter/producers was Bob Williams, another Tuskeegee Airman who I had the honor to meet before his death.

Bob knew it was a composite but figured that was a good way to tell the story overall. It seems to have worked for the most part. What am I missing?

[SJSAMPLE]

Crappy diologue is the main thing.

Worst line: Die, Jerry!!!! We live in the air, We die by FIRE !!!

WTF?
You just can’t get past crap like that.

[onedoug]

I liked the spirit in that, frankly.

And I loved Ned Vaughn’s line: “...If it’s all the same to you, I want the 332 to take me to Germany and back.”

[archy]

Bob knew it was a composite but figured that was a good way to tell the story overall. It seems to have worked for the most part. What am I missing?

Probably that like most other war films, the real thing and the real people were a lot more fantastic and fascinating that the Hollywood composite or wholey created characters.

Yeah, I know. Sometimes you really do have to throw in a composite character to get the story told, whether in a *big picture* film like The Longest Day or Ross Carter's original telling of the 82nd Airborne's Company C / 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment's view of things Back Then: Those Devils in Baggy Pants.

The Hollywood fakers think that their storytelling is the Grand Spectacl, not that of the little guys who were actually theree. Which goes to show you how wrong they are- and how wrong they get it.

My friends call me a refugee from the law of averages."
-Ross Carter