Flyboys: Difference between revisions

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Three main squad members are killed throughout the movie, not to mention the several minor characters and the one pilot strafed on the ground in the beginning.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Most of the main characters, but Cassidy in particular for wearing the only gray-black one as opposed to tan.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The first dogfight that the Escadrille gets into. The German pilots are more skilled and have better planes.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Allied WWI pilots didn't actually fly bomber escort missions. They did fly a few missions escorting reconnaisance planes, but those were rare exceptions. Likewise, German pilots never escorted Zeppelins, which were only used for maritime reconnaisance and night bombing missions and never over the battlefield.

** A really notable flaw in the movie is that ''every single'' German fighter plane is colored [[Red Shirt|Red]] (except for the [[Good Colors, Evil Colors|Black]] Falcon), and is a triplane, which simply happens to be completely similar to the ''actual plane of the [[Red Baron|greatest]] [[World War I]] [[Ace Pilot|pilot]].'' Well, of course [[Word of God|they said]] they did it to [[Viewers are Morons|help the audience distinguish]] who's [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|good and who's bad]].

* [[Eagle Squadron]] : The US hasn't entered the war yet, so the protagonists volunteer into the French air force by themselves.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: One of the pilots in the Black Falcon's squadron shakes his head when the Black Falcon strafes one of the escadrille's [[Red Shirt]] pilots while he's on the ground and can't fight back.

** Mr Jensen (the military father) is well-known to British audiences as Stephen Reid from ''[[Coronation Street]]''.

** Mrs Jensen, on the other hand, is better known as Ms Booth from ''[[Grange Hill]]''.

*** In the commentary, producer Dean Devlin comments that they knew the Red Fokker Triplanes were inaccurate, but they wanted to keep the dogfights easy to follow for the audience by making the aircraft as different as possible.

* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]] : The Black Falcon's entire modus operandi.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Briggs Lowry is a racist snob. After he's forgiven by Eugene, the resident minority, he's promptly killed in a dogfight.

** [[Word of God]] is that Lowry was intended to just be a snob, and the conflict between him and Eugene was intended to be based more on class than race. Given American history, the misunderstanding was bound to happen, even though class was definitely there (Lowry: from an exceedingly rich family; Eugene: a boxer). Interestingly, most of the real pilots of the Escadrille actually were more like Lowry than Eugene, coming from fairly well-off families. Eugene is also one of the only characters who was almost completely based on one person who really did fly with the Escadrille. Class/race conflicts as seen in the film likely did actually happen to some extent.

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Cassidy

* [[Token Minority]]: Eugene, the black-boxer-turned-pilot. ([[Aluminum Christmas Trees|Based on Eugene Bullard, the first black military pilot.]])

* [[Upper Class Twit]] : Lowry is an American version. He gets friendlier and less self-centered as the movie progresses.