Crossing the Line (2008 film)
Crossing the Line | |
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Directed by | Peter Jackson |
Written by | Peter Jackson |
Produced by | Carolynne Cunningham Jim Jannard Fran Walsh |
Starring | Tom Hobbs Calum Gittins |
Edited by | Jabez Olssen |
Music by | James Newton Howard |
Production company | |
Distributed by | WingNut Films Weta Limited |
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Crossing the Line is a 2008
In 2007, the
Plot
The film centres on two young soldiers in World War I who are about to go into battle. Both have comforting reminders of home. One of the men is an
.The pilot takes off, headed for the airspace above the trenches where the other soldier waits for the whistle signalling an attack. The whistle sounds and the soldier tucks his photograph into his pocket and charges forward across the battlefield and dives into a foxhole. When he gets there he is horrified to discover he has dropped his photograph. He spots it lying on the battlefield nearby and begins crawling over to retrieve it. However every time he gets close the wind blows it further away.
Meanwhile, above him, the pilot is now involved in a dogfight with a German triplane while simultaneously struggling to keep control of his bear which keeps coming loose from its safe place in his cockpit. Eventually the bear falls out of his cockpit and becomes caught on the tail section of his plane.
Below on the ground, the infantryman has caught up with his photograph, but he doesn't realise he has wandered into the sights of a German
References
- ^ Boris and Natasha – Photo of Boris and Natasha cameras by Robert Rex Jackson (Flickr)
- ^ ‘Crossing the Line’ With the Big Red One Archived 1 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine – TV Technology (13 June 2007)
External links
- Crossing the Line at IMDb