Even then, the War Department stipulated that blacks be put into separate military That was in 1939, two years before the formation of the Tuskegee program and five years before the all black 332nd Fighter Group would be sent overseas to join the 99th Squadron in escorting the Fifteenth Air Force's bombing raids across Europe. It took just over twenty years of civil rights advocacy for Congress to pass a law amending the rules that prevented funding for the training of black military pilots. military was racially segregated. During World War II, many African Americans were still subject to degrading Jim Crow laws, and the U.S.
That's because the real life story of the Airmen is far more compelling than the filmmakers give it credit for. Had I been executive producer George Lucas, who invested an estimated $100 million of his own money into its budget and promotion, I would have opted for a more serious approach. Perhaps if someone had come to a decision as to which film they wanted to make, there might have been something to get out of it. On the other side, we have a stylistic homage, it's a generic war movie rife with threadbare clichés, some lightweight, some melodramatic, all of it dated and hopelessly predictable.
On one side, we have serious drama, the film is an historical account of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first ever group of African American fighter pilots to serve the United States military during World War II. Red Tails is caught in a fatal tug of war between two narrative approaches.
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