Nuclear Carrier Adventures

Lexie 2022-03-14 08:01:02

"Long Blood" (aka: "Nuclear Carrier Adventure"), a U.S. Navy recruiting movie earlier than "Top Gun", is also an interesting "travel" movie. This sci-fi film with strong military elements was released in the United States in 1980. The story tells the story of the USS Nimitz CVN-68, the first ship of the "Nimitz" class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Officially launched on May 13, 1972) inadvertently crossed the Pacific Ocean in World War II during a routine sea mission, and this day was on December 6, 1941, the second time The day before the famous Pearl Harbor incident in the world war, the main plot of the film is a series of stories that take place after the entire crew of the "Nimitz" is caught in this historical event.

The whole film was actually shot on the "Nimitz", and there are a lot of actual scenes of aircraft carrier operations, which are more than "Top Gun" six years later and "Defending the Invaders" eleven years later. rare. Martin Sheen, best known for his role in the classic Vietnam War movie "Apocalypse Now" the previous year (1979), plays the film's protagonist, Warren Leski, an employee of a defense contractor whose company is the ship. The builder of the aircraft carrier (the actual builder of the "Nimitz" was the Newport News Shipyard in the United States, which was later owned by Northrop Grumman and now Huntington Ingalls Industries) , he boarded the ship and went to sea with the ship's main task is to investigate the operation of the ship. Another male protagonist, Richard Owens, is the famous and soulful VF-84 "Pirate Flag" (Jolly Rogers) carrier-based fighter squadron of the US Naval Air Force (the squadron was disbanded in 1995 by VF-103. The squadron inherits its name and insignia, and is fully F/A-18 after the VFA-103, now the Fighter Strike Squadron) pilot is also the squadron commander, played by James Farentillo. Although the movie "travels", it still follows the real history. The "Nimitz" failed to prevent the Pearl Harbor incident from happening. Compared with the same theme anime "Nimitz" produced by the former enemy Japan 24 years later Dimension Fleet", the story of this movie has not changed history, but the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's "Xuebo" class No. 3 ship "Mirai" (fictional) guided missile destroyer in "Dimension Fleet" traveled back to World War II and created it. A whole new world came out. Of course, it can also be said that "Dimension Fleet" is a parallel universe, and this movie is a single timeline. The interesting thing about the movie is that it played some "conspiracy theories" in the time travel. Although it did not change the history, it questioned the authenticity of the history we have experienced. At the end of the movie, Richard Owens, who was left in 1941, later In fact, it is the mysterious Mr. Tedman at the beginning of the movie, and this "Nimitz" was built because of him.

There are some interesting plots of "interlacing" in time and space in the film. For example, the people on the yacht were listening to jazz in the 1940s and talking about World War II, but suddenly they saw two F-14s that were only available more than 30 years later. Jet fighters roared overhead; the F-14 of the modern US Navy fought the "Zero" fighter of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The God cannon and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles shot down the two Zeros; the senator from the 1940s learned that the ship was named Nimitz (Chester William Nimmy) hereby), and scolded how to name a ship after an active-duty general, there are still many such scenes, and this sense of time and space confusion is quite meaningful.

There are a large number of aircraft carrier operation scenes in the film, which are rare. Not only the ordinary ejection and landing scenes are very detailed, but all the aerial scenes are also real shots, including the dog fight scenes of "Zero" and "Tomcat". There are KA-6Ds for partner refueling of two F-14s, SH-3s for sea rescue, and even a simulated A-7 tail hook failure to use arresting nets to stop the aircraft. The models appearing in the film are: F-14 "Tomcat" carrier-based fighter, E-2 "Hawkeye" carrier-based early warning aircraft, A-6 "Invader" carrier-based attack aircraft, EA-6B "Prowler" Carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft, F-8 "Crusader" carrier-based fighter, A-7 "Corsair" II carrier-based attack aircraft, A-5 "Vigilante" carrier-based attack aircraft, S-3 "Viking" carrier-based Anti-submarine aircraft, A-3 "Air Warrior" carrier-based attack aircraft and SH-3 "Sea King" carrier-based anti-submarine helicopter. The two most frequently photographed naval squadrons in the movie are the aforementioned VF-84, and the other is the 9th carrier-based anti-submarine helicopter squadron of the HS-9 "Sea Griffins" (responsible for the aircraft carrier's anti-submarine, It should be noted here that the U.S. Navy anti-submarine helicopter team in this period adopted a dual-track system, the HSL squadron was the anti-submarine helicopter squadron responsible for the anti-submarine mission of the surface combat ship, and the HS squadron was the anti-submarine helicopter squadron deployed on the aircraft carrier responsible for the aircraft carrier’s anti-submarine mission) .

In addition, the captain of the USS Nimitz in this film is the famous American actor Kirk Douglas, who served in the Navy himself and also starred in the classic war movie "Path of Glory".

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  • Fabian 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    It's really good to come up with such a story in 1980. The US government is really open and bright, and the most awesome aircraft carrier at that time was shot casually. . . awesome! F-14 is really funny to the Zero fighter~

  • Adelle 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    The films of the 1980s, in all aspects of sophistication, I don't think they are any worse than the current films, it's awesome!

The Final Countdown quotes

  • [one of the F-14's barely dodges a burst of gunfire from one of the Zeroes]

    Pilot: Why the hell are we playing with these guys?

  • [Trying to warn Pearl Harbor of the impending Japanese attack]

    Senator Chapman: This is, uh, Senator Samuel S. Chapman, of the United States Senate on board the aircraft carrier Nimitz. Captain Yelland is here with me.

    Pearl Harbor Radio Operator: You're on a what?

    Senator Chapman: I repeat. I am Senator Samuel S. Chapman onboard the U.S.S. Nimitz.

    Pearl Harbor Radio Operator: Alright, whoever the hell you are. Use of military frequencies by unauthorized personnel is a felony.

    Senator Chapman: Now listen here, sir!

    Pearl Harbor Radio Operator: As we have no aircraft carrier Nimitz and no Captain Yelland I suggest, asshole, that you stop impersonating some other asshole and get off the air! You're wasting our time!

    Senator Chapman: How dare you talk to me that way!