okay, basically my idea... is not original. It's (kind of) based on (or better to say, inspired by) the life of the war pilot and writer Antoine de Saint Exupery. He was a aeropostale (air mail, what now is Air France) pilot before the WW2, and during the WW2 he was a war pilot (surveylance and stuff).
Bacially the idea is to show the war in Europe, particularily war between France and Germany. Show war on the two scales - on the level of a nation (trying to defend the land, evacuation, devastaion) and on the level of one man, who's a war piolt and who eventually gets shut down by luftwaffe and is on the enemy territory. And about what helps him survive. And as we show that, we have a glimpse of his life before, when his craft was taking mail to Sakhara and South America, about lessons he learned from the men of his trade, and the qualities of his characted that he has developed, or that were moulded in him. In the book that I am reading now there's an astonishing story about a pilot who had ran out of gas flying above Andes in Winrter, and about how he survived alone in the mountains for a week and about what kept him moving (literally, creeping). Example of this man kept the main character of the story moving and surviving. And as he went on, we immersed into his reflections about values of life, frienship, and the war.
The "bad guy" in the War part of the story is probably the germans, and his weakness. And in the flashback part of the story (his years as an airline pilot) the "villain" are the uncontrolled elements of nature (wind, sand, snow), and as well, the human weakness. These are practically unstoppable (unlike the nazis).
And in the movie it would be awesome to have some really amazing airplane dogfight scenes, because there are actually too few historical movies about war with good dogfight in the air sequences.
The two books I am reading (one of them I have finished reading) that are written by de Saint Exupery, and are autobiographical, are "Flight to Arras" and "Wind, sand and Stars" (I am reading it now).
But it is not necessary to make the main character identical to the autor of the books.
Also, as I said, the story is not just about a man, it's also about the nations. No one fully understood the reasons and meaning of wars. And most of the people who fought it, did not really understand the cause behind it, the cause for which they had to lay their lives. At the other hand, I read about the pilots, that they were a different breed, that for them fighting was like hunting, like gambling in a way.
Anyhow, I don't know, I am just thinking about it. And no, I don't see it as a "commercial" movie like "Saving private Ryan". It's action AND reflection.
What do you think?
Actually I can't stand the token anything in movies. I guess it kind of rubs me the wrong way. (actually, as of now I'm the laidback chic!)
