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* DawsonCasting: The First World War sections are set in 1917. Per the books, Biggles turned 18 that year (having "lost" his birth certificate to join the Army at age 16, and flown for the first time a month after his 17th birthday); Neil Dickson was in his mid 30s at the time of filming.
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* DawsonCasting: The First World War sections are set in 1917. Per the books, Biggles turned 18 that year (having "lost" his birth certificate to join the Army at age 16, and flown for the first time a month after his 17th birthday); Neil Dickson was in his mid 30s at the time of filming. It's worth noting that while Biggles was unusually young, there were plenty of real-life teenagers fighting in the war, and the overwhelming majority of Royal Flying Corps pilots were in their 20s (with some even younger). If Biggles was in his 30s it would be something highly unusual in-universe, and worth commenting on.
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* FollowTheLeader: The original script called for an adventure film in the mould of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' and would have been much more faithful to the original novels. During scriptwriting, however, ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' was released and became a major hit, so the script was duly altered to follow this trend, in an attempt to capitalise on ''Back to the Future'''s popularity.
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* FollowTheLeader: The original script called for an adventure film in the mould of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' and would have been much more faithful to the original novels. During scriptwriting, however, ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' was released and became a major hit, so the script was duly altered to follow this trend, in an attempt to capitalise on ''Back to the Future'''s popularity.
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* DawsonCasting: The First World War sections are set in 1917. Per the books, Biggles turned 18 that year (having "lost" his birth certificate to join the Army at age 16, and flown for the first time a month after his 17th birthday); Neil Dickson was in his mid 30s at the time of filming.
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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/NeilDickson's initial feelings towards the film after attending an early test screening against director John Hough's wishes. He changed his mind a few years later and now enjoys it for what it is as opposed to what it isn't.
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* OldShame: Creator/NeilDickson's initial feelings towards the film after attending an early test screening against director John Hough's wishes. He changed his mind a few years later and now enjoys it for what it is as opposed to what it isn't.
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* OldShame: Creator/NeilDickson initially thought of the film in this way after attending an early test screening against director John Hough's wishes. He soon changed his mind a few years later and now enjoys it for what it is as opposed to what it isn't.
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* OldShame: Creator/NeilDickson initially thought of Creator/NeilDickson's initial feelings towards the film in this way after attending an early test screening against director John Hough's wishes. He soon changed his mind a few years later and now enjoys it for what it is as opposed to what it isn't.
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* OldShame: Creator/NeilDickson initially thought of the film in this way after attending an early test screening against director John Hough's wishes. He soon changed his mind a few years later and now enjoys it for what it is as opposed to what it isn't.
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* PromotedFanboy: Neil Dickson had been a fan of the original books since childhood and was very keen to appear in the film, however when he signed on, there was no final script written.
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* PromotedFanboy: Neil Dickson Creator/NeilDickson had been a fan of the original books since childhood and was very keen to appear in the film, however when he signed on, there was no final script written.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, £7 million. Box office, $112,132.
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* HeyItsThatPlace: The weapon testing ground scene was filmed in the now disused Beckton Gas Works in London, which was also used for the Vietnam scenes in ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' a year later.
* PromotedFanboy: Neil Dickson had been a fan of the original books since childhood and was very keen to appear in the film, however when he signed on, there was no final script written.
* PromotedFanboy: Neil Dickson had been a fan of the original books since childhood and was very keen to appear in the film, however when he signed on, there was no final script written.
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* FridgeBrilliance:
** The way that they got past the police, using the highly visible nearby punks, with a ghettoblaster being used to hide Jim's face.
** How do you get BOTH of them into the past, when neither of them is in any kind of danger... Simply, [[CaptainCrash almost crash the helicopter,]] which fulfils the requirements nicely, with Biggles piloting it with ease moments later.
** The way that they got past the police, using the highly visible nearby punks, with a ghettoblaster being used to hide Jim's face.
** How do you get BOTH of them into the past, when neither of them is in any kind of danger... Simply, [[CaptainCrash almost crash the helicopter,]] which fulfils the requirements nicely, with Biggles piloting it with ease moments later.
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* FridgeBrilliance:
**FollowTheLeader: The way that they got past original script called for an adventure film in the police, using mould of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' and would have been much more faithful to the highly visible nearby punks, with original novels. During scriptwriting, however, ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' was released and became a ghettoblaster being used to hide Jim's face.
** How do you get BOTH of them intomajor hit, so the past, when neither of them is script was duly altered to follow this trend, in any kind of danger... Simply, [[CaptainCrash almost crash an attempt to capitalise on ''Back to the helicopter,]] which fulfils the requirements nicely, with Biggles piloting it with ease moments later.Future'''s popularity.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JeremyIrons and Creator/DudleyMoore were touted to play Biggles.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JeremyIrons and Creator/DudleyMoore were touted to play Biggles.
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Given that it's an English film filmed in England, there's nothing noteworthy about the fact that the scenes set in England were filmed in England.
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** Averted hard in the modern-day scenes set around the area of the Tower Bridge, which outright use the area around Tower Bridge.
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** The way that they got past the police, using the highly visible nearby punks, with a ghettoblaster being used to hide James' face.
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** The way that they got past the police, using the highly visible nearby punks, with a ghettoblaster being used to hide James' Jim's face.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Various locations in the home counties of England stand in for war-torn Northern France during the scenes set in the past.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Various locations in the home counties of England stand in for war-torn Northern France during the scenes set in the past.past, as well as locations in London standing in for New York.
** Averted hard in the modern-day scenes set around the area of the Tower Bridge, which outright use the area around Tower Bridge.
* FridgeBrilliance:
** The way that they got past the police, using the highly visible nearby punks, with a ghettoblaster being used to hide James' face.
** How do you get BOTH of them into the past, when neither of them is in any kind of danger... Simply, [[CaptainCrash almost crash the helicopter,]] which fulfils the requirements nicely, with Biggles piloting it with ease moments later.
** Averted hard in the modern-day scenes set around the area of the Tower Bridge, which outright use the area around Tower Bridge.
* FridgeBrilliance:
** The way that they got past the police, using the highly visible nearby punks, with a ghettoblaster being used to hide James' face.
** How do you get BOTH of them into the past, when neither of them is in any kind of danger... Simply, [[CaptainCrash almost crash the helicopter,]] which fulfils the requirements nicely, with Biggles piloting it with ease moments later.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Various locations in the home counties of England stand in for war-torn Northern France during the scenes set in the past.
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