why does this movie exist
Alt text: The movie Bricklayer. Overview: Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant - and rebellious - operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy.
In reality, the CIA would be the ones funding the assassination of foreign journalists ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Because they had to recreate the Star Wars trench run, obviously!
Which is already a recreation of a previous movie about an actual WWII dam bombing campaign.
would that be "The Dam Busters"? Only watched it the once, but now that you mention it i can see the similarities, especially with the.. bomb guider...
Yeah, that's it! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dam_Busters_(film)
"The attack on the Death Star in the climax of the film Star Wars is a deliberate and acknowledged homage to the climactic sequence of The Dam Busters. In the former film, rebel pilots have to fly through a trench while evading enemy fire and fire a proton torpedo at a precise distance from the target to destroy the entire base with a single explosion; if one run fails, another run must be made by a different pilot. In addition to the similarity of the scenes, some of the dialogue is nearly identical. Star Wars also ends with an Elgarian march, like The Dam Busters.[55] The same may be said of 633 Squadron, in which a squadron of de Havilland Mosquitos must drop a bomb on a rock overhanging a key German factory at the end of a Norwegian fjord.[56] Gilbert Taylor, responsible for special effects photography on The Dam Busters, was the director of photography for Star Wars."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M