The Red Baron (film): Difference between revisions

* [[Ace Pilot]]

* [[Blue Blood]]: The Baron is, and the film makes a point of reminding the viewers that the royal families of the warring European countries are all close relatives.

* [[Cool Plane]]: perhaps the ''original'' cool plane, The Red Baron's signature all red Fokker Dr.1 triplane. However, as the film accurately depicts, he actually scored most of his kills flying Albatross D.II, D.III and D.V biplanes. His first red plane was a D.III

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: The younger von Richthofen points out to the Baron that war is about killing the enemy; this is echoed later by the Canadian pilot the Baron twice shot down.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: Von Richthofen's reputation was carefully fostered by government propaganda.

* [[Officer and A Gentleman]]: the German fighter pilots considered themselves sportsmen, not killers. Von Richthofen leads an unauthorized sortie into British territory in order to drop a wreath on the grave of an enemy pilot. Said pilot is apparently a distant relative, and a schoolmate of one of the other members of the squadron.

* [[Putting On the Reich]]: The German military really outdoes itself once ''those'' guys come into power, but even in WWI their uniforms were pretty pimp. Of course, the Baron inspired the iconic style of the fighter ace, which foreign aviators eagerly imitated, and eventually came to be universally associated with aviation in general--to include leather gloves, boots, helmets and jackets, jodhpurs, white scarves and [[Steampunk|steam-punky]] goggles.

* [[Token Minority]]: The Jewish German pilot, whose most important role seems to be reassuring everyone that it is okay to like Von Richthofen, because he's not one of ''[[Those Wacky Nazis|those Germans]]''.

* [[Too Cool to Live]]

* [[World War One]]

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: The aforementioned wreath had a ribbon that read in part "enemy and friend." In [[Real Life]], Von Richthofen was buried with full military honors by the British.