“I went through the application process for both the Naval Academy and West Point. “Growing up, military service was certainly something I was interested in,” says the filmmaker. This was a story that hit home for Dillard, however. Like the Korean War – which is sometimes called ‘The Forgotten War’ – Brown and Hudner’s narrative is little known outside of military circles. Hudner Jr., who intentionally crashed his own aircraft in a rescue attempt. He died of his wounds despite the efforts of wingman Thomas J. Navy as a naval aviator and became the first Black aviator to see combat.īrown had flown 20 combat missions before his F4U Corsair aircraft came under fire and crashed on a remote mountaintop on 4 December 1950 while supporting ground troops at the Battle Of Chosin Reservoir. He was the first Black man to be trained by the U.S. He overcame poverty and entrenched racial segregation in the pre-War south to attend university, earn his pilot wings and become a skilled aviator all by the time he was 23.
Jesse LeRoy Brown’s story is a remarkable one. Of course there had been a number by the time my father was flying, but you’ve certainly heard of the first if you are one of them.” “There hadn’t been an enormous lineage of black aviators. “My dad had certainly heard of Jesse,” he explains. It starts from the fact that his father was also an African American naval aviator. That emotion derives from the film’s personal resonance for Dillard and his family, something relatively unusual for a director on a big-canvas project such as this. I’m gonna need some warm words from him before we get started.” J.D. “I’m sure we’ll be speaking Sunday night and I’m sure one of us will get all emotional once we kick this whole thing off.
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How does a young director wind down on the weekend before cameras roll on a big-budget war movie?Ī slug of Tequila, a link to Sundance movie Minari and the poetry of Mary Oliver are all on the list, he tells me. “This weekend will be about calming and re-setting before we embark on the next step of the process,” an excited but busy Dillard told me on Friday evening.
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