Tom Cruise may do his own stunts, but the stunt work in the first Best Picture Winner, Wings, was truly death-defying.
The Big Picture For the last couple of decades, at least, Tom Cruise seems to have been in a constant game of one-upsmanship with himself over the most ridiculous way to top the most recent hair-raising stunt he attempted: whether it be climbing the Burj Khalifa, learning how to hold his breath underwater for five minutes, taking off strapped to the side of an airplane, driving a motorcycle off a cliff, or literally leaping tall buildings with a single bound, Cruise has developed a reputation...
What Is 'Wings' About? Wings tells the story of two pilots in World War I, both of whom come from the same town and due to a misunderstanding are both romantic rivals for the same woman: Sylvia Lewis, played by Jobyna Ralston. The central protagonist is Jack Powell , a working-class aficionado of engines, who strikes up an unlikely friendship with his aristocratic romantic rival, David Armstrong , as they both learn to pilot planes for the war.
In the air, though, the work that went into filming the dynamic dogfights was even more harrowing. Biplanes in the early years of flight were, of course, not known for being the most reliable machines, and in order to film the aerial scenes where German and American planes were going down in flames, the stunt pilots flying those planes had to go into convincing dives to the ground while trailing smoke — and ideally not actually crash to their deaths while they pretended to.
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