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Please issue DVD with commentary


I know there was a DVD release, in 1999, but the copy I saw did not have the commentary that is available on the Image Entertainment laserdisc.

Tidbits from the commentary...

Director Roger Spottswoode noted that many times he was trying to be even-handed in the portrayal of the Japanese military leaders, and it was the Japanese co-director who would keep coming back and saying "You don't really understand; they were much more intransigent than that." (Some of the top military men over there had a pretty good idea of the resources required for the bomb, and didn't believe we could sustain the attacks.)

Some of the internal scenes aboard the B-29 were filmed in the only remaining example that is still capable of flight. That one belonged to the Confederate Air Force (now the more politically-correct Commemorative Air Force).

Spottswoode commented to the pilot about what a shame it was that of the thousands of these magnificent machines built, that only this one was still flying. The pilot (a World War Two veteran) was not so nostalgic, and replied "This thing was designed and built for just one purpose; to kill thousands of people at a time. One is more than enough."



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