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An example: the scene in which Robert Duvall, as a crazed lieutenant colonel, leads his troops in a helicopter assault on a village is, quite simply, the best movie battle scene ever filmed. It's simultaneously numbing, depressing and exhilarating: as the rockets jar from the helicopters and spring through the air, we're elated like kids for a ...
Most of the battle scenes were filmed using five Panavision cameras simultaneously – from ground level, from 100-foot towers, from a helicopter, and from an overhead railway built right across the location. [18] [9] The battle reportedly cost $5 million of the $25 million budget. [4] It was the largest battlefield ever used for a film. [19]
Films with notable large battle scenes and the historical battles/wars they depict: Prehistory and ancient history. Spartacus (1960) – Third Servile War; The 300 Spartans (1962) – Battle of Thermopylae; Gladiator (2000) – Marcomannic Wars; Troy (2004) – Trojan War; Alexander (2004) – Battle of Gaugamela, Battle of the Hydaspes
Ann is seen in the final scene as Hornet docks at Pearl Harbor. The TV version also added Coral Sea battle scenes to help the plot build up to the decisive engagement at Midway. [13] Mitchell Ryan played Rear Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch aboard the USS Lexington and Jim Ishida played Takeo Koda, a Japanese pilot and old friend of Nagumo.
From that memorable closeup of him in his breakout movie, "Stagecoach," to all the performances that followed in movies like "The Searchers," "Rio Bravo," "Sands of Iwo Jima," and "True Grit," the ...
The film's major tank battle scene, and some other battle scenes, were fought in flat, bare, arid territory. The aviation reconnaissance scenes with Henry Fonda were filmed with one or more Cessna L-19 aircraft, which did not fly until December 1949, instead of the Piper L-4 that was widely used during World War II.
6. 'Scarface' (1983) — rise to power. Say hello to Tony Montana's rapid ascent in the Miami drug world. The montage is as fast, furious, and explosive as the character it portrays, accompanied ...
The Academy Awards have staged some iconic showdowns. Think of the tension around “La La Land” versus “Moonlight,” “12 Years a Slave” versus “Gravity” or “The Godfather” versus ...