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That is the same reason filmmakers keep asking
for military cooperation to this day and why, in many cases, the Defense
Department supports their requests, Mr. Strub said.
In another recent example of that cooperation, Edwards Air Force Base hosted
movie director Jon Favreau.
As he spent three days at Edwards filming "Iron Man," which Marvel
studio hopes will become its next superhero blockbuster; Mr. Favreau raved about
the realism the base's array of aircraft brought to his fantasy story.
"This is the best back lot you could ever have," he said. "Every
angle you shoot is authentic: desert, dry lake beds, hangars."
Some of the most popular TV series, including the Fox Broadcasting Company
thriller "24," tap into this realism, too.
Fans of "24" might remember the scene when a military honor guard
attended President Palmer's coffin in the Season 5 finale, or when Jack Bauer
frantically worked to foil a terrorist plot involving a nuclear submarine.
Robert Cochran, the program's cofounder, said the military support used to
create these and other military-related scenes lends a tremendous dimension to
the program. "It makes it bigger. It makes it more interesting. It makes it
more real," he said.
Meanwhile, Cochran said, it underscores the "high-stakes" theme of the
program. "When you see an F-18 streaking across the sky and dropping a bomb
on an enemy helicopter, that visually tells you this is real, this is important,
this is big stuff," he said.
Howard Gordon, lead writer for the show, said he's often amazed just how far the
military will go to support storylines he and his fellow writers come up with.
"I'll say, 'There's no way they are going to do this, but we will negotiate
a way to do something like it, but much more modestly'," he said.
"Then, they come back with a 'yes.'"
But before giving that "yes," officials from the Pentagon and the
military services portrayed get a chance to review the script, Mr. Strub said.
They negotiate to increase the realism and historical accuracy of the military
scenes, recognizing the leeway needed for artistic license. Sometimes they
require script changes as a condition of providing support.
Whether they provide support, and how much, depends largely on what is needed in
the production and how available it is in light of real-world requirements, Mr.
Strub said. Movie and TV producers reimburse the government for the cost of
supporting a production. One of the biggest costs comes from reimbursing
squadrons for flight operations specifically for a movie production, as in the
movies "Top Gun" and "Black Hawk Down."
The DoD's support for a production boils down to something less tangible than
hardware: how the production portrays the military and the men and women in
uniform, said Mr. Strub.
When reviewing a script, Mr. Strub said, he tries to put himself in the place of
a servicemember who would see the movie. "I try to imagine myself sitting
in a theater or the big screen, and how it makes me feel seeing how I'm being
portrayed," he said.
Air Force Capt. Christian Hodge, who has served as the Defense Department's
project officer on both "Transformers" and "Iron Man," said
military people typically enjoy seeing their services on screen. "It's good
for morale," he said.
Hodge said there's no way to measure the true impact Hollywood productions have
on recruiting. But he said it's hard to dismiss the message a big-screen
production like "Iron Man" sends.
"This movie is going to be fantastic," he said. "The Air Force is
going to come off looking like rock stars."
Mr. Strub said he hopes audiences viewing these programs see past the action and
high-tech hardware to fundamentals that make the military stand apart from much
of society. "We're talking about self-sacrifice, duty and commitment to
something beyond oneself," he said. "These are values that we hope
come through."
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run for cover during filming May 31 at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. The movie,
scheduled for release July 4, will feature 300 Airmen and Soldiers alongside
military aircraft, including the CV-22 Osprey, F-117 Nighthawk and F-22 Raptor.
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Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. About 300
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