While the P-40 really is an amazing airplane, banking around Manhattan streets at taxicab-altitude with one is not even remotely possible at any flyable airspeed.With their first step, they would have crashed through the streets and kept sinking until they hit bedrock. Skyscraper-sized giant bipedal robots wouldn't have been able to stomp down the streets of the Big Apple.Apologetic Attacker - Played With: The note Totenkopf leaves at his death chair reads "Forgive me", and there's indications he tried to shut down his entire project, and it's implied his robot assassin/kidnapper rebelled when he tried to shut everything down.A pissed off Joe then admits that he did sleep with Franky. And on Totenkopf's island, she admits she did. Polly is understandably annoyed that they're going to spend their last moments on Earth discussing this point. When they're trapped in a cave packed with dynamite that's about to explode, Joe looks her in the eyes and asks. Joe Sullivan believes Polly Perkins deliberately sabotaged his plane in China while Going for the Big Scoop. Anguished Declaration of Love: Spoofed.They also have a fleet of later-model B-24s, an aircraft that was just being prototyped, and whose powered gun turrets * which gives the planes away with their notable blunted noseshadn’t been designed yet. Anachronism Stew: Natch for a Diesel Punk movie, but while the P-40 Warhawk existed in 1939, the Flying Legion are using the P-40E model * distinguished by its larger propeller spinner to accommodate a more powerful engine and 6 machine guns, which was barely on the drawing board at the time.The point of divergence is either the outcome of World War I, where Germany apparently ended on a stronger position than they did in real life, or just after it where either the Nazis failed to rise to power, or the Weimar Republic didn't fail. There are some subtler Alternate History implications as well, such as the apparent absence of Nazi Germany and an American/British evacuation of Nanjing, which of course implies that Japan still annexed Manchuria and China.There is a Hindenburg III zeppelin in the opening scene, which implies either that the first Hindenburg did not explode, or else its explosion was not an impediment to further airship construction.The Royal Navy has a lot more of them, as seen in the end of the movie. Airborne Aircraft Carrier: Franky's heliocarrier, which serves as mobile recon outpost for the Royal Navy.Aerial Canyon Chase: The title character flies his fighter plane along the streets of New York just above ground level while trying to escape Dr.Disappointment over this has been blamed for some of the film's negative audience reaction. Advertised Extra: Angelina Jolie's Frankie appears for about fifteen minutes despite the very heavy presence of Jolie in the film's marketing.There's also the Mysterious Woman, a silent but deadly woman who controls Totenkopf's machines and turns out to be a Robot Girl.She is also part of a Love Triangle in the movie. Commander Francesca "Franky" Cook of the Royal Navy, who sports an Eyepatch of Power.Action Dress Rip: Polly tears her skirt to run better during the NYC robot attack.Ace Pilot: Joseph Sullivan, the "Sky Captain".Totenkopf's machines carry on his work of assembling a "Noah's Ark"-type rocket and loading animals on it despite him having died 20 years prior. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow provides examples of: While the film was ultimately unsuccessful at the box office, Sky Captain has garnered a cult following in the years since its release. An anime was also planned, but that was also cancelled. The movie was originally planned to be the start of a franchise, but due to poor box office performance, a sequel never happened. The film is notable for being one of the first to be filmed on a completely digital backlot, with all shots being done in the studio and against a substantial amount of blue screen. The plot shamelessly uses the outrageous gadgets and cliches of the Pulp Magazine and Comic Book genres, plus numerous shout outs to other media of the period. Paley, Bai Ling as the Mysterious Woman and Omid Djalili as Kaji. The film also stars Giovanni Ribisi as Dexter "Dex" Dearborn, Michael Gambon as Mr. Further implicating Totenkopf is a string of kidnapped scientists, all of whom point back to Totenkopf's work. Totenkopf, after his machines attack New York City, searching for something. They begin investigating the affairs of the mysterious German scientist, Dr. Angelina Jolie also appears as Royal Navy Commander Francesca "Franky" Cook. Joseph "Joe" Sullivan, known as Sky Captain ( Jude Law) and Intrepid Reporter Polly Perkins ( Gwyneth Paltrow). The film follows the adventures of Ace Pilot H. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 movie homage to the Two-Fisted Tales of the 1930s, written and directed by Kerry Conran.
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