Wings
(Alas / Les ailes / Ali)
(USA, 1927) [B/N tintado y parcialmente coloreado, 144 m. Muda].
Género: Drama romántico, Drama bélico / PMG, Aviación, Homosexualidad.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: William A. Wellman / Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast (no acreditado).
Argumento: John Monk Saunders (relato).
Guión: Louis D. Lighton, Hope Loring.
Fotografía: Harry Perry (B&W tintado / coloreado).
Música: J.S. Zamecnik (no acreditado).
Producción: Lucien Hubbard (no acreditado) / B.P. Schulberg.
Productora: Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation (A Lucien Hubbard Production).
Premios:
- 1928: 2 Oscar: Mejor película, mejores efectos especiales.
- 1997 Library of Congress: U.S. National Film Registry.
Sinopsis: Jack Powell, un joven que vive en una pequeña ciudad de Estados Unidos en 1917, está enamorado de la sofisticada Sylvia Lewis y se siente irritado por las constantes atenciones de la chica de la casa de al lado, Mary. Sylvia está a su vez enamorada del rico heredero David Armstrong, aunque su relación se ve interrumpida cuando los dos jóvenes se alistan en el Ejército.
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Drama bélico que ha pasado a la historia por ser el primer film que ganó el Oscar a la mejor película, el año de la creación de los premios de la Academia americana (años 1927-1928). (FILMAFFINITY)
Título clásico de la historia del cine al ser el primero en conseguir el Oscar a la mejor película –y mejores efectos visuales para Roy Pomeroy– en la ceremonia de los años 1927-28. Basada en experiencias reales del propio director, su argumento nos presenta a dos jóvenes norteamericanos que se alistan en el ejército para combatir contra los alemanes en la Primera Guerra Mundial. A su vez, ambos tienen una gran rivalidad por el amor de una muchacha.
En la realización del filme participó activamente el Ministerio de Defensa, y su rodaje tuvo lugar en la localidad de San Antonio, cercana a bases y campos de entrenamiento del ejército norteamericano. Wellman quiso darle el máximo realismo a las escenas de aviación, poniendo en riesgo incluso la integridad física de los actores. Éste hecho le enfrentó a los ejecutivos de la Paramount, que no le invitaron al estreno (DeCine21).
AMG SYNOPSIS: Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is afforded the wheezy old plotline about two World War I aviators (Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen) in love with the same Red Cross nurse (Clara Bow), while the comedy relief of El Brendel is decidedly not to everyone's taste. But during the aerial "dogfight" sequences, the film is something else again: a grand-scale spectacular, the likes of which has never been duplicated, not even by more expensive efforts like Hell's Angels (1930) and The Blue Max (1965). Twenty-eight-year-old director William Wellman, himself a wartime aviator, was fortunate enough to have the full cooperation of the US War department at his disposal (even though his legendary temper nearly lost him that cooperation on more than one occasion!) Brilliantly handled though the aerial scenes may be, they are matched by the Earthbound combat sequences, including the now-famous shot of a long trench caving in on hundreds of unfortunate doughboys. Oh, we forgot about the storyline. Well, here goes: Rogers and Arlen hate each other during basic training, grow to like each other, fall out again over Clara Bow's affections, Bow sacrifices her own nursing career to save a drunken Rogers from disgrace, Rogers goes on a rampage when he believes his pal Arlen has been killed, inadvertently shoots down Arlen while decimating the German air corps, is reunited with Bow, The End. Wrapped up in nurse's garb throughout most of the film, the ebullient Clara Bow is permitted a sequence in which, disguised as a Parisian floozie while trying to rescue a revelling Rogers, she displays a great deal of epidermis. One of the film's chief claims to fame is its "introduction" of Gary Cooper (who'd actually been in films since the early 1920s), in a brief but crucial role as veteran flyer with a cheerily fatalistic attitude. When originally released, Wings included a sequence lensed in the wide-screen "Magnascope" process; even when seen "flat", however, the film contains some of the best flying sequences ever captured on celluloid. -- Hal Erickson
AMG REVIEW: Wings is the 1927 equivalent of Top Gun, with marvelous air combat scenes and just enough plot to keep the film moving at other times. While the film stands out primarily because of its production values, there's still room for strong performances by Buddy Rogers and Clara Bow and a small but important appearance by Gary Cooper. On the downside, there's the not-so-comic relief of El Brendel, whose contributions occupy far too much of the film's 139 minutes. When it came time for the first Oscars to be awarded, the committee selecting the winners struggled with whether to honor a film for production values or for artistic merit. They did both, giving a Best Production Oscar to Wings and a Best Artistic Quality Oscar to Sunrise. -- Richard Gilliam
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Filmografía William A. Wellman (Director)
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