Daily Dialogue — March 19, 2019

Willi von Klugermann: By the way, Stachel… there’s an impression around that… you care more about your unconfirmed kill than you do about Fabian’s death.
Bruno Stachel: Perhaps it’s force of habit. In the trenches, we couldn’t even bury the dead; there were too many of them. I’ve never had the time… to discuss them over a glass of champagne.

— The Blue Max (1966), screenplay by David Pursall & Jack Seddon and Gerald Hanley, adaptation by Ben Barzman and Basilio Franchina, novel by Jack Hunter

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: World War I.

Trivia: One of the stunt pilots was Joan Hughes MBE who had been Britain’s youngest female pilot at age 17. In WW2, she ferried aircraft with the Air Transport Auxiliary and was the first female flying instructor qualified to instruct on all military plane types at the time. She became one of Britian’s first female test pilots.

Dialogue On Dialogue: It’s nearly a trope about aviation movies where one of the pilots is a hothead with a big ego (see: Top Gun). The Blue Max fits into that mold.