why is he so relaxed? Why is he so calm? How can he stay so

They only pick the very best to become fighter pilots. Even the the standards were quite high. Though as the war went and and there were lots of pilot casualties, the RAF had to shorten the training time and put inexperienced pilots to the air.

>>85786567
He's a good pilot

Because pilots fly at a higher altitude, the lack of oxygen affects their brain making them more calm

>>85786567
Because he is British not some cigar chomping yank

This isn't his first time crashing planes

>>85786702

noice

>>85786567
No one cared who he was

>>85786567
because he's phoning it in.

>>85786567
because he's in charge

>>85786611
collins didn't seem that calm

>>85786567
now is not the time for fear

Now that I think about it, his story contrasts greatly with George's (I think that's his name).

Farrier was the true hero of the film, who saved countless lives. Yet, he ends up captured and without recognition. George dies from a push, is effectively useless, and yet is recognized for at least trying.

Regardless of what the intention of the contrast is, it does seem like it was done on purpose.

>>85786567
Serious answer (though I haven't seen the movie yet) pilots were/are very well trained. Guys who can't handle pressure wash out. Plus there's a certain distance between them and the chaos/carnage that allows them to think more rationally than the guys in the trenches, whether they're being shot at or mowing people down. I've heard of ww2 ground attack pilots coming back from missions and being sick at the thought of what they did, but they keep it together until that point.

>>85786911
lol why would they be sick?

at the movie all I had in mind was "kill german"

I actually wanted to be there and kill as many germans as possible

btw you should see this movie, probably the best we'll have this year, it was a miracle it was done in this time

Real fighter pilots are very calm and calculating people.

Not like maverick rogue pilots who refuse to play by the book and always have the hardass chief breathing down their necks.

>>85786567
>that feel when I learned to fly a plane before I learned to drive.

Nothing like it, lads.

>>85787013
flight simulator?

>>85786996
witnessing/inflicting/being victim to real violence is extremely traumatic for most humans anon. Even the best soldiers in ww2 cracked up if they were left in the thick of it too long

You see in ww2 half of the yanks went in drunk as a skunk. British men are naturally more brave. It's in our genes.

>>85786611
This. To give a famous example, Christopher Lee originally trained to be a fighter pilot during WW2, but he had some problems during training and ended up getting kicked out when he accidentally crashed a plane.
At that time Britain was undergoing a crisis, and, if you weren't able to adapt and overcome- the "right stuff" as the Americans called it- then you were replaced with someone who could

>>85786567
The way he effortlessly delivers that "Let's climb up so we come down on the bastards yeh" line was almost comically good and so smooth, had a big ass smile in the theater.

>>85786832
that comes later

Because he's a big guy for you.

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>>85786567
He is a large lad.

>>85786996
cringe

>that scene when he's gliding past the beach in silence

ABSOLUTE KINO

>>85786567
why does he wear the mask?

>>85786996
ETERNAL ANGLO

>>85788613
why didn't he ditch his plane in an empty stretch of sea and parachute to safety instead of landing behind enemy lines?

>>85788738
for you

>>85788819
Probably wanted to tell the Germans how many of their friends he shot down for a laugh.

>>85786567
no one cared who he was till he put on the mask

>>85788852
seriously though, was getting caught part of his plan?

>>85788946
of courshe!

>>85788946
OF COURSH!

But in all seriousness, landing in the sea was not that easy. The water was calm when his friend ditched and he still hit the water hard and nearly drowned.

Given the option to between ditching in the sea (and possibly smashing the plane to pieces on impact) or gliding onto a flat beach, you'd probably go for the beach landing.

>>85788996
what im wondering is why he didn't parachute into the water, the skies were clear, and the sea wasn't entirely crowded

a safe landing would've been entirely feasible

>>85789038
Parachutes were very unreliable back then, they were basically used as a very last resort in case it was impossible to land or ditch the plane.

You also had to be quite high up for them to work properly too and he seemed quite low when the engine cut off.

>>85789038
That also crossed my mind. I think that he didn't have the elevation to make a bailout feasible and his plane was too damaged to climb up to a safer altitude.

>>85787299
Not anymore

>>85786567
Spoilers here, but did anybody find it darkly humorous that even though he saved a lot of his fellow Brits but he also killed a bunch indirectly when he downed a German fighter that caused an oil fire which immolated a bunch of the lads? WTF was Nolan going for there? That war is crazy hell?

>>85786567
He's a professional