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Sean Astin on Memphis Belle
I'll never forget being with David Puttnam and Mathew Modine in
Japan on January 15, 1991 promoting Memphis Belle. I had
asked David to bring me with him when it came time to publicize the film
in Asia. I was sitting on a dais preparing to field questions
about making an "American War Movie", when I glanced at my
watch and saw that it was 12:00 back home...the UN Deadline had just
expired and coalition airplanes were about to begin a massive bombing
campaign in the air above Kuwait and Iraq. I remember feeling
later that day that my country was at war and I needed to get
home. The irony was not lost on me. I think the real value
of our film is that it attempts to show, in a realistic way, human faces
during a critical moment in the evolution of American Air
Supremacy.
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