Craig symonds the battle of midway5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Many of the ships and aircraft involved are now extinct, or nearly so. Unsurprisingly, Emmerich’s Midway relies heavily on modern filmmaking tools-particularly greenscreens and computer animation-to create the illusion of the massive sea and air battle that occurred nearly eight decades ago. Sanford and Jack Smight, respectively), along with several prominent members of the movie’s large cast (Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Cliff Robertson, and Hal Holbrook) were all real-life World War II veterans. Coming from Independence Day director Roland Emmerich, it’s a dutiful, uncomplicated retelling that nevertheless sticks closer to history than the 1976 film Midway did-never mind that the screenwriter and director of Midway ’76 (Donald S. Midway, a fast-paced recounting of the war in the Pacific from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the decisive three-day battle seven months later, was the most-seen movie in America over the Veterans Day weekend. ![]()
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