Plane of beast lands in Turkish theaters
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by Çetin Cem Yılmaz
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Mayıs 06, 2009 00:00
ISTANBUL - To experience a month in the life of the English heavy metal legend, Iron Maiden welcomes you aboard when 'Flight 666' hits Turkish cinemas this Saturday. The documentary tells the story of their world tour highlighted by vocalist Bruce Dickinson's piloting skills as he flies his band across the continents
Forget Ted Striker, Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson is probably the most unlikely pilot ever to hit the silver screen.
When the ex-Navy pilot reluctantly took over piloting duties it created one of the funniest movies of film history in "Airplane!" Now Dickinson enters the cockpit to fly his band all around the world and create a one-of-a-kind road movie and rockumentary experience in "Flight 666."
Heavy metal legend Iron Maiden embarked on a daring project last year, when it decided to launch the "Somewhere Back in Time World Tour," a series of concerts devoted to the band’s golden era during the 1980s. Of course, touring with stone cold classics is not daring, but flying around the world on a private Boeing 757 piloted by Dickinson is. "Flight 666" focuses on a month in the life of a heavy metal band flying across the continents on the Ed Force One, named after band’s symbol beast Eddie.
Film to hit Turkey
Directed by Sam Dunne, "Flight 666" landed in most of the world’s theaters on April 21 and is now ready to hit Turkey, where the movie will be shown in seven theaters in four cities in Turkey, for just one day.
A diehard heavy metal fan known for his works "Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey" and "Global Metal," Dunne manages to keep the perfect distance that a film director should, when he captures his all-time favorite band on tour. No doubt this is the dream of any music fan, but the filmmaker manages to not get carried away with the magnitude of this experience. Fans help a great deal of course, especially in South America, the continent of which Dickinson says, "The further south you go, the hotter it gets."
From Mexicans chanting for the band like football fans, to Colombians camping near the concert area to get the best place in the queue and Argentines spending hours outside the band’s hotel to revive the craziest days of the Beatles-mania, Iron Maiden’s Latin American fans are living proof for why the Britons are still among the biggest bands of the planet.
Opting for dynamic editing, Dunne’s movie does not have any flaws when the band is playing, but the off-stage parts hardly prove the best insight to life in Iron Maiden. Probably a result of the sextet’s sensitivity to protect their private lives, most of the off-stage footage is devoted to moments when the members are eating, chatting, playing golf or welcoming some high-profile guests such as Ronnie James Dio or Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. Maybe that is why the movie’s claim to be "the most daring tour of rock history" falls flat: The only real threat the members face is not the turbulence that Dickinson’s airplane goes into, or something more dangerous, it is just a small arm injury drummer Nicko McBrain suffers during playing golf. At the end of the day, "Flight 666" is a joy from beginning to end, even if only for providing a closer look to Maiden on tour.
When the ex-Navy pilot reluctantly took over piloting duties it created one of the funniest movies of film history in "Airplane!" Now Dickinson enters the cockpit to fly his band all around the world and create a one-of-a-kind road movie and rockumentary experience in "Flight 666."
Heavy metal legend Iron Maiden embarked on a daring project last year, when it decided to launch the "Somewhere Back in Time World Tour," a series of concerts devoted to the band’s golden era during the 1980s. Of course, touring with stone cold classics is not daring, but flying around the world on a private Boeing 757 piloted by Dickinson is. "Flight 666" focuses on a month in the life of a heavy metal band flying across the continents on the Ed Force One, named after band’s symbol beast Eddie.
Film to hit Turkey
Directed by Sam Dunne, "Flight 666" landed in most of the world’s theaters on April 21 and is now ready to hit Turkey, where the movie will be shown in seven theaters in four cities in Turkey, for just one day.
A diehard heavy metal fan known for his works "Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey" and "Global Metal," Dunne manages to keep the perfect distance that a film director should, when he captures his all-time favorite band on tour. No doubt this is the dream of any music fan, but the filmmaker manages to not get carried away with the magnitude of this experience. Fans help a great deal of course, especially in South America, the continent of which Dickinson says, "The further south you go, the hotter it gets."
From Mexicans chanting for the band like football fans, to Colombians camping near the concert area to get the best place in the queue and Argentines spending hours outside the band’s hotel to revive the craziest days of the Beatles-mania, Iron Maiden’s Latin American fans are living proof for why the Britons are still among the biggest bands of the planet.
Opting for dynamic editing, Dunne’s movie does not have any flaws when the band is playing, but the off-stage parts hardly prove the best insight to life in Iron Maiden. Probably a result of the sextet’s sensitivity to protect their private lives, most of the off-stage footage is devoted to moments when the members are eating, chatting, playing golf or welcoming some high-profile guests such as Ronnie James Dio or Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. Maybe that is why the movie’s claim to be "the most daring tour of rock history" falls flat: The only real threat the members face is not the turbulence that Dickinson’s airplane goes into, or something more dangerous, it is just a small arm injury drummer Nicko McBrain suffers during playing golf. At the end of the day, "Flight 666" is a joy from beginning to end, even if only for providing a closer look to Maiden on tour.