The International Cessna^® 170 Association

Anyone seen this one?

Jamie called wanting to go to a movie when she gets home, and I looked at the local review for "Amelia". It wasn't good. The final few words: "... everything ... in Ronald Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan’s hackneyed script is writ so large you see it coming a mile away – ......and they have a lot to do with Amelia’s relentlessly phony feel, something (Hiliary) Swank (Amelia), who is quite good (and a dead ringer for the real thing), can’t make a dent in. In her past work, such as Monsoon Wedding and Vanity Fair, Nair has shown great talent for rooting out moments of subtlety in the spectacle – and her last film, the underseen The Namesake, was nothing but intimate interplay between characters. But only rarely does her Amelia feel human-scale: These are cardboard cutouts from a long-ago and far cornier era, rearranged scene by scene to imply lust, inner conflict, triumph, and grief. But most devastating to the film’s effectiveness is its inability to convey that one essential to the story of Amelia Earhart: the tangible pleasures of flying.

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Sometime, when the occasion arises, ask one of the "99s" who was the first woman to fly around the world. Most of the ladies in this organization,who revere Amelia, don't seem to know. Amelia blew it twice flying an airliner with a navagator; tragically, the second time.
Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, a petite 38 year old mother of three, did it solo in 1964 flying a little four place Cessna 180 that was just about all gas tank. Unfortunately, few of our aviation enthusiasts, or the general public, are cognizant of this remarkable accomplishment.

We had previously seen Jerri's Cessna 180, which was a 1953 same as ours, in the Smithsonian, and we actually met her during the Cessna 180 Convention that we attended in 2005 or 2006 in Denver. She gave a presentation about her around the world trip and said that she was working on a sequal to her book about the flight. She said this second edition would contain lots of things that she could not tell in the first edition because of national security and the cold war at the time. We have tried, but have been unable to find a copy of her original book for a resonable cost, and , as far as we know, she still has not written the second edition.

Carolyn and I went to the movie "Amelia" the other night and it was a very mediocre pictureshow. That it is about flying is its only redeeming feature.

Harold

The Lockheed Electra 12 Jr is owned by Joe Shepard here in Georgia. Nice airplane and good guy so I will see the movie for the flying. I am sure that the movie Amelia is kind of like the movie Titanic where you know what the ending is before it starts.

Like Dan I will see the movie for the flying and if the movie is good entertainment so much the better. I decided quite some time ago that movie critics and I rarely agree on the entertainment value of most films. Several years ago Debra drug me to some movie produced by Oprah Winfrey that all the critics were raving about. Ten years later I'm still mad at myself for not walking out in the first ten minutes.

blueldr wrote:Sometime, when the occasion arises, ask one of the "99s" who was the first woman to fly around the world. Most of the ladies in this organization,who revere Amelia, don't seem to know. Amelia blew it twice flying an airliner with a navagator; tragically, the second time.
Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, a petite 38 year old mother of three, did it solo in 1964 flying a little four place Cessna 180 that was just about all gas tank. Unfortunately, few of our aviation enthusiasts, or the general public, are cognizant of this remarkable accomplishment.

BL,
Your quite right...Amelia was the aviation equivalent to PT Barnaham (a sucker is born every minute) She couldn't fly to save her butt...(the end is obvious) But she could make a media circus!!!! What is truly tragic, is the amount of women that were overshadowed by her, (not just at that time, but subsequently)...Brad