Hey anons, some trivia about afew films Q started mentioning awhile back. I just realized that I never posted this b4 when I meant to. I was drawn to filming locales like Trump Castle and resort Casino in G3 & some historical events portrayed. Hope y'all find it interesting as well.
Although their F-16s aeatured in the movie poster, the United States Air Force has a long-standing policy about not cooperating on any film involving the theft of an aircraft. Consequently, the filmmakers turned to the Israeli Air Force for the necessary aerial sequences. The filming in Israel took six weeks, with the flight sequences choreographed
The character of Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair was inspired by the real life U.S. Air Force General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. General James was a member of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen, and also flew fighter jets in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He later became the first black four-star General in U.S. history
The basis of the fictional story in the film relates to real life attacks by the United States against Libya over the Gulf of Sidra, in particular the 1981 Gulf of Sidra incident.
GODFATHER III - Locations include New York, New Jersey, Italy Palazzo Azzurro’, site of the ’copter attack on the mob convention was Trump Castle Casino Resort, now the Golden Nugget Atlantic City, 1 Castle Boulevard, Atlantic City, New Jersey (though the interior was recreated in the studio at Cinecittá). It was still Trump Castle when it featured as the casino in Woody Allen's Celebrity.
weaves into its plot a fictionalized account of real-life events — the 1978 death of Pope John Paul 1 and the Papal banking scandal of 1981–1982 — and links them with each other and with the affairs of Michael Corleone.
HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
In 1975, a Soviet Navy officer named Valery Sablin led a mutiny on the frigate (not submarine) Storozhevoy—not because he wanted to move to America and embrace democracy, but because he believed the current Soviet administration wasn't socialist enough. The Kremlin sent 13 ships and three aircraft in pursuit of Sablin, who was arrested and executed for treason. Before that, in 1961, a Soviet Navy officer named Jonas Pleškys did indeed take his ship (a submarine tender, not a submarine) to Sweden instead of its intended destination, and then (with some CIA help) successfully defected to the United States, where he lived out the rest of his days
film caused a minor sensation in the black projects submarine warfare technology community.[10][11] In one scene, where USS Dallas is chasing Red October through the submarine canyon, the crew can be heard calling out that they have various "milligal anomalies". This essentially revealed the use of gravimetry as a method of silent navigation in US submarines. Thought to be a billion dollar black project, the development of a full-tensor gravity gradiometer by Bell Aerospace was a classified technology at the time. It was thought to be deployed on only a few Ohio-class submarines after it was first developed in 1973. Bell Aerospace later sold the technology to Bell Geospace for oil exploration purposes.[12] The last Typhoon-class submarine was officially laid down in 1986, under the name TK-210, but according to sources was never finished and scrapped in 1990.[13]