Real or Hollywood?

[rpm]

Watching The Longest Day and noticed the only two Luftwaffe aircraft that made a pass were 190's. The odd thing was the cockpit shot. Their stick was over chest high. It was huge.
Were all 190's that way or was it just Hollywood? Seems like a bad design to me.

[Squire]

Those were Bf 108 trainers made up to look like fighters. There was no CGI in the 1960s for movies of course. They often used planes that were mocked up to look like combat a/c. As for the cockpits im not sure if they used real Bf 108s or some kind of mockup. Could have been either.

[GScholz]

"Prips" Priller (Heinz Reincke) in The Longest Day:





The real thing:

[eagl]

Although a lot of earlier aircraft had longer control sticks to give more leverage, my bet is that that was a movie-ism so you could see what he was doing.  Otherwise a guy flying around in a movie just looks like he's jiggling in his seat and shouting to nobody for no reason.  That's why in top gun they kept cutting to quick shots of the throttles being slammed forward and the stick being yanked back, to make it look like they were actually doing something.

[68ZooM]

One of my favorite black and white war flicks of all time