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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
influenced by Hell's Angels (1930)
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Aside from fighting female Phoenix (Barbaro, of TV’s “The Good Cop,” “Stumptown,” etc) reminding us that the Navy’s not just a boy’s club any more, this “boy’s club” engages in the same camaraderie, hijinks and pilots’ piano bar sing-alongs that every fighter pilot movie since “Hell’s Angels” has showcased.
Sophisticated movie magic makes their performances seamless with the exterior airborne shots, while the commitment to filming practically everything practically feels like the cutting-edge equivalent of Howard Hughes’ history-making “Hell’s Angels.”
Consider a sequence involving Carl’s house engaged in a mid-air dogfight with a giant silver airship: not only is it executed with grand flair and craftsmanship, parts actually feel inspired by some of the better aviation movies of vintage Hollywood, including William Wellman’s “Wings” and Howard Hughes’ “Hell’s Angels.”
Kubrick was a movie buff who echoed classics like "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Howard Hughes' "Hell's Angels," and directors like Max Ophuls and Ingmar Bergman, in his work here.
Nolan looked to silent films for inspiration, and more than once during the dogfights I thought of Hell’s Angels.
The air section of “Dunkirk,” in particular, is a visual wonder—less because Nolan’s direction of the sequences is distinctive than because solo flight in combat is irresistibly, sensuously fascinating to watch, and has been so since William Wellman’s “Wings” (1927) and Howard Hawks’s “The Dawn Patrol” and Howard Hughes’s “Hell’s Angels” (both from 1930)—and the expanse of sky is all the more engulfing, thrilling, terrifying on a screen the size of an apartment building.
Black single-handedly manipulates the film’s underlying comic tone and alleviates some of its excessive violence with a characterization that spins in a parallel orbit with Howard Hughes as filmmaker around the same time that Hughes made "Hell’s Angels."
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
influenced by Hell's Angels (1930)
Visuals
…playing as a Hell’s Angels (1930) homage in the same way that Dead Reckoning tipped its hat to The General (1926)…