From Variety
Looking very nice. What's not mentioned is that Steven Spielberg is involved and cinematographer is Roger Deakins.
EDIT: Already a thread. Go ahead and close this. I just saw the news today, don't know how I missed this yesterday.
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First Trailer for WW1 Drama "1917" has arrived
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From Variety
Looking very nice. What's not mentioned is that Steven Spielberg is involved and cinematographer is Roger Deakins.
EDIT: Already a thread. Go ahead and close this. I just saw the news today, don't know how I missed this yesterday.
The world needs more WW1 movies
But scenes with the vision inside the numbers is jarrying and tacky
But scenes with the vision inside the numbers is jarrying and tacky
Must say it's a bit jarring to see soldiers using a Lee Enfield with some kind of electric torch on the barrel. It's an echo of modern house-clearing tactics, but you'd probably want to use something more practical than a huge bolt action rifle. Perhaps an artilleryman's revolver or something, leaving a free hand to wield the torch.
For most of us I suppose 1917 is significant for the October Revolution and the truce on the Eastern Front, or perhaps the Zimmerman Telegram and the resumption of the U-boat campaigns leading to the entry of the United States into the war. A film about a race against time to save a quite minuscule number of men seems rather tone deaf to me. It was a meat grinder.
For most of us I suppose 1917 is significant for the October Revolution and the truce on the Eastern Front, or perhaps the Zimmerman Telegram and the resumption of the U-boat campaigns leading to the entry of the United States into the war. A film about a race against time to save a quite minuscule number of men seems rather tone deaf to me. It was a meat grinder.
Looks like Dunkirk but WWI, although what was up with those modern clearing tactics?
Nonetheless glad to see the Great War finally getting some love again in mainstream media, and Deakins is a nice touch.
Nonetheless glad to see the Great War finally getting some love again in mainstream media, and Deakins is a nice touch.
Although the consequences of WWI dramatically reshaped the world, the war itself is best remembered as a meat grinder; it did not begin on the basis of where it finished unlike WWII, but instead was more about rather archaic attitudes toward geopolitical power mixing with the turn of the century into modern warfare and technology, producing deadly results. Though 1600 is relatively small to the total amount lost in some single days of battle, I think it's a good basis for the actions of a small band of soldiers in this particular war in how they do not set out to save or reshape the world, but instead save the lives of those caught in the middle of a war that is of the scale to do that, and is therefore a far more appropriately human story.
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Yeah, I can see that it's a Saving Private Ryan-style mcguffin, setting up a story we can all empathize with (save all those soldiers, your brother included) against the broader backdrop of mechanised warfare.
Looks awful. It's 1917 but somehow no mans land is still a pristine grass field with a neat trench in it. Everything should be a moonscape.
