The Red Baron
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.
Our read · The Red Baron (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · adventure · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Red Baron
What watching it is actually like.
“You want glossy WWI dogfights with romantic disillusion under the medals.”
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The reading.
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