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Microsoft Word - Red Tails Movie Guide Student Copy

The document is a movie guide for the 2012 film 'Red Tails', featuring a series of questions and prompts related to the film's content, themes, and characters. It covers various aspects of the Tuskegee Airmen's experiences during World War II, including quotes, character interactions, and mission details. The guide encourages viewers to reflect on historical inaccuracies and the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen.

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Microsoft Word - Red Tails Movie Guide Student Copy

The document is a movie guide for the 2012 film 'Red Tails', featuring a series of questions and prompts related to the film's content, themes, and characters. It covers various aspects of the Tuskegee Airmen's experiences during World War II, including quotes, character interactions, and mission details. The guide encourages viewers to reflect on historical inaccuracies and the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen.

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Name______________________________________________Date___________________________________Period_________

RED TAILS
MOVIE GUIDE (2012)
1. Finishing the Opening Quote- “Blacks are mentally inferior, by nature subservient, and cowards in the
face of danger. They are therefore ____________________ __________ _________________.” -1925 U.S. Army
War College Study
2. Describe the opening scene:

3. What country are they in? _____________ What year is it? ____________

4. Joker compare flying his plane to driving his _________________________ ______________

5. Finish This Quote- “Congratulations kid. You killed yourself a ______________.”

6. Why did they go after the train?

7. What does the message, read by Marty “Easy” Julian, say about
African American pilots?

8. Colonel A.J. Bullard lists several problems that keep the Tuskegee
Airmen from being successful. Name one of them:

9. What book does Easy give Joe “Lightning” Little for his birthday?

10. What is the name of the woman Lightning meets? ___________________

11. Finish This Quote: “Experience is a ______________ __________________. She gives the exam first, then the
______________.”
12. What does Junior want the other men to call him? ____________ _____________

13. What is the name for the Tuskegee Airmen’s mission?


14. Finish This Quote: “Let’s give those newspapers
__________________________ to __________________ ________________.”

15. Why is the German pilot surprised when he saw Lightning?

16. Who is injured on the mission? ______________________

17. How do the men celebrate before landing their planes?

18. How many aircrafts did the Tuskegee Airmen destroy? _________ How many losses did the Tuskegee
Airmen have during the mission? ________

19. Finish Junior’s Quote: “I’d rather be __________ than on the


________________.”

20. Colonel Bullard agree to help Major General Luntz in exchange


for:

21. What happens when Lightning goes to the Officer’s Club?

22. What gift does Colonel Bullard bring the men?

23. What’s the Tuskegee Airmen job for their next mission?

24. How does Maurice respond when asked about the plane’s flight?

25. How do they change the exterior of the planes?

26. How do the bombers respond to seeing the Tuskegee Airmen?

27. What is Lightning’s trick?

28. Who has to bail from his plane? ________________ What happens afterwards?
29. Is the mission successful? __________ Explain how you know
it was or was not successful.

30. Describe three struggles faced by Deke:


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31. Why does Lightning confront Easy?

32. What is the name of Ray “Junior” Gannon’s daughter?

33. Why did the soldiers want Ray to bunk with them?

34. What deal do Lightning and Easy make?

35. What does a white soldier, Chester Barnes, say to the


Tuskegee Airmen?

36. What important question does Lightning ask and what response does he receive?

37. What does Ray give to the men? __________________________________

38. What does Lightning make for Sophia? ________________________________

39. What news does Captain Miller share with Easy?

40. According to Colonel Bullard, what is Easy’s weakness?

41. What disappointing news are the men given for their Berlin
mission?
42. What does Easy do before their mission?

43. What color is on the German’s plane tail?

44. Finish Lightning’s Quote: “I think I did get


________________ _________________.”

45. Who does Easy visit? _________________ Why?

46. Who returns at the end? ____________________

47. How many Tuskegee Airmen were killed in action? ______________

AFTER THE FILM


48. Look back at the Opening Quote from #1. Explain how it was false by using information from the movie.

49. Which scene or character stood out to you the most? Why?

50. What is the Tuskegee Airmen’s legacy? How does their legacy still resonate today?

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