Knights of The Air
This focuses FLYBOYS and THE RED BARON on the aerial combat that should be the center of the stories. It also eliminates some of the historical inaccuracies in each of the source films.
tagline: The newest kind of warfare, war in the sky, is chivalry’s last stand.
original film name: FLYBOYS and THE RED BARON
new film name : KNIGHTS OF THE AIR
film studio name : Electric Entertainment and Niama Film
edit crew name : Blackhawk
Date Original Film Was Released : 2006 and 2008
Date Edit Was Released : 2010
Original Runtime : 269 minutes
New Runtime : 114 minutes
Amount of time Cut/Added : 155 minutes cut
Cuts removed/added/extended : cut romantic subplots, character histories, and other elements
Fanedit details: DVD NTSC 16:9 2.25:1 anamorphic widescreen, AC3 5.1 channel sound, scene selection menus, cover and label art.
Intention for this fanedit: The romantic subplot of FLYBOYS is charming and well done but unnecessary. The romantic subplot of THE RED BARON is both unnecessary and poorly executed. The intent of this edit is to remove the unnecessary elements, including the romances, and focus the film on the aerial combat that should be the center of the story. Another purpose was to eliminate as many historical inaccuracies in each of the source films as possible.
How intention was achieved: Simply, a lot of material was removed from both films. The aerial combat, which is the best part of either movie, is retained along with enough ground-based story to flesh out the characters and environment without slowing down the story too much. One big problem to be tackled was the numerous historical inaccuracies present in both films. The most glaring example is the squadrons of red Fokker Tri-planes in FLYBOYS, but THE RED BARON has its problems, too. The solution, which will seem incongruous or too fanciful to some, was to place the story in a parallel universe with an alternate history (a solution also used by the new STAR TREK movie). This allowed the rationalization of apparent historical mistakes since history is different in the KNIGHTS world from ours.
Hardware and software information : PC, DVD Decrypter, Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD
Time needed for the edition: approx. 20 hours
persons involved: 1
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