Empire of the Sun...

[Wing Nut]

Saw it for the first time the other night and it became one of my favorites immediately.

[beefhole]

Fantastic movie, always liked it.  Christian Bale is a great actor.  One thing I've always wondered though, did P-51s actually see action in China?  I was under the assumption they were strictly European theatre.  I suppose China wasn't exactly the Pacific theatre in the traditional sense however...

[Wing Nut]

And how could he see the Atom Bomb in China?  I'm pretty sure the Mustang was everywhere by the time the war was over...

[beefhole]

And how could he see the Atom Bomb in China?  I'm pretty sure the Mustang was everywhere by the time the war was over...

Another good point.  I'll check the trivia/goofs on imdb tomorrow, need to go to bed now.

[alrot]

That's not only a great movie is an master piece an Epic movie by Steven Spielberg 1987,What the Child(Jim Graham) sees its the Ionization of the high atmosphere,(this is a fiction Movie)Im sure I don't think Spielberg made a mistake on that or any of his creation (well exept Jaws 6 bullets 4 air barrels and the agressive white shark like that never exist) ,maybe 20 megatons could make IRL a phenomenon like that hundred miles away from the detonation,This is a book from J. G. Ballard. 1984,I got to see it again
I love the Good taste ,I love when some one mention the Good things ,and brough to our memories Extraordinary & epics movies like that....Like I said Im going to rent it and see it again  

Hey, Kevin theres another epic from Spielberg good as that one ,its Schindler's List, But I recomend you not let your childs to see it, its very strong,and based on a true story about the Hitler's Holocaust ....See if you don't like it Ill give your money back Garantee  

[Woodlouse2002]

Have you fella's stopped to consider that he may have been in Japan at that point?

[alrot]

Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by J. G. Ballard. Though it is essentially fiction, it draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II, recounting the story of a young English boy, Jim Graham, who is living with his parents in Shanghai just before its capture by the Japanese. Ballard later wrote a sequel to the book, called The Kindness of Women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_the_Sun

Here you go Woodlouse!!... That was also my first thinking..I didn't remember too well .. Thanks God Google exist  ;D

[Wing Nut]

Well they might have SAID he was relocated to Japan!  

[beefhole]

Have you fella's stopped to consider that he may have been in Japan at that point?

I believe he was in China throughout if I recollect correctly.

Nothing on imdb about the P-51s or the a-bomb.

[Wing Nut]

[quote]That's not only a great movie is an master piece an Epic movie by Steven Spielberg 1987,What the Child(Jim Graham) sees its the Ionization of the high atmosphere,(this is a fiction Movie)Im sure I don't think Spielberg made a mistake on that or any of his creation (well exept Jaws 6 bullets 4 air barrels and the agressive white shark like that never exist) ,maybe 20 megatons could make IRL a phenomenon like that hundred miles away from the detonation,This is a book from J. G. Ballard. 1984,I got to see it again
I love the Good taste ,I love when some one mention the Good things ,and brough to our memories Extraordinary & epics movies like that....Like I said Im going to rent it and see it again

[Hagar]

I believe he was in China throughout if I recollect correctly.

Nothing on imdb about the P-51s or the a-bomb.

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One thing I've always wondered though, did P-51s actually see action in China?  

In 1987 P-51s were fairly easily available to the company that provided the flying sequences...