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Sam Mendes' war drama is set during World War I and very personal to him, as it tells a story his grandfather used to tell him when he was still a young lad. Dedicated to Mendes' hero, this drama cuts deep when we join two young soldiers on a mission to deliver a message that could possibly save thousands of fellow combatants.

Filmed and edited as if it was one long take, the camera never leaves our main protagonists, Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) out of its sight. Mendes (Skyfall) and co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (Penny Dreadful) therefore corner themselves by relying on this kind of linear storytelling, to tell a very focused but at times a somewhat thin tale. Some of the scenes are so empty, it will for sure test audiences' patience. Technical, 1917' is a true feast for the eyes and ears. Roger Deakins' Blade Runner 2049) cinematography is once again breathtakingly superior to anything else you've seen this year, and for sure will be the one thing people unanimously praise. Sound editing/mixing, visual effects and production design are all outstanding. These are the things, people will remember. It is Thomas Newman's (Passengers) score that elevates every moment happening in front of you, intensifying the emotions brought by our main characters. And although MacKay (Captain Fantastic) and Chapman (Game of Thrones) do a pretty phenomenal job at capturing the true essence of their characters going through a literal hell, it's the side characters with little-to-no screen time who steal their spotlight. Andrew Scott (Fleabag) Mark Strong (Shazam. Richard Madden (Rocketman) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Dr. Strange) are checkpoints along the way, but man, do they impress with the few lines they're given. 1917 is without a doubt a technical masterpiece, that will inspire many filmmakers, but I can't feel a bit let down. As an overall film, it wants to play a heavy tune on your heartstrings, but can't reach that level of sentiment, because the focus on technicalities pulled me out of the story. It for sure is one of the better films 2019 has brought to the big screen, yet a bit more focus on the script could've made this the cinematic masterpiece of the decade. Nonetheless, I recommend watching this on the biggest screen possible and enjoy another fine piece of cinema brought to you by Sam Mendes.

1917 movie near me. 1917 singing scene. 1917 pandemic. I went to the IMAX to watch it and the movie started and ended and I didn't even touch my popcorn. 1917 (2019) FULL MOVIE. 1917 sixteen hundred men. 1917 trailer subtitulado. ?À§°ì?ËÀŪ¹â?Î̺îÉÊ, ÚÛ¼û¿¸À, ²æÖá?沉¿»ºß¶ÃæŪ¿¿?. ´õ˾?ºîÉʲÄ?ÆÀ±ü»Û卡ǯÅٺDz±ÆÊÒ?. I personally find it so stupid when the guy left his gun behind in the burning city ruins. And the fact the rats didnt set off the trip wires until the 2 guys were in it. Forget it, might as well throw bongo bongo in scary stories. I'm pretty sure you said 1979 at 8:04. You sir have earned my interest.

Whoever decided to turn the bf1 masterpiece into this is a genius. I feel sad you didn't mention the one shot scene in season 1 of True Detective which is a masterpiece for a tv show. 1917 subtitle. 1917 kino praha. 1917 soundtrack. 1917 release date. 1917 ͹ð. 1917 night window scene. 1917 UK theatrical release poster Directed by Sam Mendes Produced by Sam Mendes Pippa Harris Jayne-Ann Tenggren Callum McDougall Brian Oliver Written by Krysty Wilson-Cairns Starring George MacKay Dean-Charles Chapman Mark Strong Andrew Scott Richard Madden Claire Duburcq Colin Firth Benedict Cumberbatch Music by Thomas Newman Cinematography Roger Deakins Edited by Lee Smith Production company DreamWorks Pictures Reliance Entertainment New Republic Pictures Mogambo Neal Street Productions Amblin Partners Distributed by Universal Pictures (United States) Entertainment One Films (United Kingdom) Release date 4?December?2019 (London) 25?December?2019 (United States) 10?January?2020 (United Kingdom) Running time 119 minutes [1] Country United Kingdom United States Language English Budget $90?100 million [2] [3] Box office $363. 8 million [4] [5] 1917 is a 2019 British epic war film directed, co-written, and produced by Sam Mendes. The film stars George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman, with Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq, Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch in supporting roles. It is based in part on an account told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather, Alfred Mendes. [6] The film tells the story of two young British soldiers during the First World War who are ordered to deliver a message calling off an attack doomed to fail soon after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich in 1917. This message is especially important to one of the young soldiers, as his brother is taking part in the pending attack. The project was officially announced in June 2018, with MacKay and Chapman signing on in October and the rest of the cast the following March. Filming took place from April to June 2019 in the UK, with cinematographer Roger Deakins and editor Lee Smith using long takes to have the entire film appear as one continuous shot. [7] [8] [9] 1917 premiered in the UK on 4 December 2019 and was released theatrically in the United States on 25 December by Universal Pictures and in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2020 by Entertainment One Films. The film received praise for Mendes's direction, the performances, cinematography, musical score, editing, sound design, and realism. Among its accolades, the film received ten nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, including Best Cinematography. It also won Best Motion Picture ? Drama and Best Director at the 77th Golden Globe Awards, and at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards won a leading seven, including Best Film and Best Direction. It also won the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, and Mendes won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing ? Feature Film. Plot [ edit] On 6 April 1917, aerial reconnaissance has observed that the German army, which has pulled back from a sector of the Western Front in northern France, is not in retreat but has made a strategic withdrawal to the new Hindenburg Line, where they are waiting to overwhelm the British with artillery. In the British trenches, with field telephone lines cut, two young British soldiers, Lance Corporals William Schofield, a veteran of the Somme, and Tom Blake, are ordered by General Erinmore to carry a message to Colonel Mackenzie of the Second Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, calling off a scheduled attack that would jeopardise the lives of 1, 600 men, including Blake's brother Lieutenant Joseph Blake. Schofield and Blake cross no man's land to reach the abandoned German trenches. In an underground barracks, they discover a booby-trap tripwire, which is promptly triggered by a rat. The explosion almost kills Schofield, but Blake saves him, and the two escape. They arrive at an abandoned farmhouse, where they witness a German plane being shot down. Schofield and Blake rescue the German pilot from the burning plane. However, the pilot stabs Blake and is shot dead by Schofield. Schofield comforts Blake as he dies, promising to complete the mission and to write to Blake's mother. Schofield is then picked up by a passing British unit. A destroyed canal bridge near Écoust-Saint-Mein prevents the British lorries from crossing. Schofield chooses to part with them at the bridge, but before he does, one of the unit's officers Captain Smith, warns Schofield that Colonel Mackenzie is someone who would rather fight than follow orders. He then uses what is left of the bridge to cross alone, and quickly comes under fire from a German sniper. He and the sniper shoot each other simultaneously; the sniper is killed, while Schofield is knocked unconscious. He regains consciousness at night, and finds the town in flames. He encounters another German soldier, and escapes by hiding in the basement of an abandoned building, where he stumbles into the hiding place of a French woman with an infant. She treats his wounds, and he comforts the infant by reciting "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear, giving the woman his canned food and milk from the farm. Despite her pleas, Schofield leaves soon after, realising that it is morning. After strangling one German soldier and pushing past another who is inebriated, he escapes by jumping into a river. He is swept over a waterfall before reaching the riverbank. In the forest, he finds D Company of the 2nd Devons, which is in the last wave of the attack. As the company starts to move toward the front, Schofield tries to reach Colonel Mackenzie. Realising that the trenches are too crowded for him to make it to Mackenzie in time, Schofield sprints across the open battlefield, just as the infantry begins its charge. He forces his way into meeting Mackenzie, who reads the message and reluctantly calls off the attack. Mackenzie says that, while the cancellation offers a temporary reprieve, command will likely change its orders in a week. Schofield is told that Joseph was in the first wave, and he searches for him among the wounded, finding him unscathed. Joseph is upset to hear of his brother's death, but thanks Schofield for his efforts. Schofield gives Joseph his brother's rings and dog tag, and asks to write to their mother about Blake's heroics, to which Joseph agrees. Exhausted, Schofield sits under a tree, looking at photographs of his wife and two daughters. Cast [ edit] Production [ edit] Development and casting [ edit] Amblin Partners and New Republic Pictures were announced to have acquired the project in June 2018, with Sam Mendes directing, and co-writing the screenplay alongside Krysty Wilson-Cairns. [10] Tom Holland was reported to be in talks for the film in September 2018, though ultimately was not involved, [11] and in October, Roger Deakins was set to reunite with Mendes as cinematographer. [12] George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman entered negotiations to star the same month. [13] Thomas Newman was hired to compose the score in March 2019. [14] The same month, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Richard Madden, Andrew Scott, Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough, Jamie Parker, Nabhaan Rizwan, and Claire Duburcq joined the cast in supporting roles. [15] Writing [ edit] In August 2019, Mendes stated, "It's the story of a messenger who has a message to carry. And that's all I can say. It lodged with me as a child, this story or this fragment and obviously I've enlarged it significantly. But it has that at its core. " [16] In Time in 2020, Mendes stated that the writing involved some risk-taking: "I took a calculated gamble, and I'm pleased I did because of the energy you get just from driving forward (in the narrative), in a war that was fundamentally about paralysis and stasis. " The ideas for a script, which Mendes wrote with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, came from the story that Mendes's grandfather, Alfred Mendes, a native of Trinidad who was a messenger for the British on the Western Front, had told him. [17] Mendes stated: "I felt an obligation to honour my grandfather. It's important to remember they were fighting for a free and unified Europe. Good to be reminded of that now. " [18] Filming [ edit] Roger Deakins was the cinematographer for the film, reuniting with Mendes for their fourth collaboration, having first worked together on Jarhead in 2005. [17] Filming was accomplished with long takes and elaborately choreographed moving camera shots to give the effect of two continuous takes. [7] [8] Although media accounts often refer to the story as being told in only one shot, [19] [20] the story cuts to black one hour and six minutes into the film, when Schofield is knocked unconscious, and fades in upon his regaining consciousness after night has fallen. [9] Mendes explained, "it was to do with the fact that I wanted the movie to go from afternoon to dusk, and then from night into dawn. I wanted it to be in two movements... I wanted to take it somewhere more like a hallucination. Somewhere more surreal, almost dream-like. And horrifying too". [7] 1917 was the first film to be shot with the Arri Alexa Mini LF digital cinema camera. Deakins wanted to use a camera with a large format image sensor, but thought that the original Alexa LF was too large and heavy to capture the intimate shots he wanted. Arri provided him with a prototype of the Mini LF two months before filming was set to begin, and two more cameras a week before. [21] [22] His lenses were Arri Signature Primes, of which he used three focal lengths: a 40?mm lens for most of the film, a wider 35?mm for scenes in the tunnels and bunkers, to emphasise feelings of claustrophobia, [22] and a narrower 47?mm in the river, to lose some of the background. [23] Filming began on 1 April 2019
If he ever sees a Nigerian Action movie he will get a heart attack. 1917 movie 2019. I like how the whole thing is ¡Èone shot¡É until he gets thrown into the car. Makes it have 100% more of an impact.
Truth is stranger than fiction, as it has famously been said. That certainly holds when it comes to the plot of director Sam Mendes¡Çs new WWI epic, 1917, which just won Best Motion Picture ? Drama at the Golden Globes and gets its wide release on Friday. (Mendes also cowrote the script alongside Penny Dreadful staff scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns. ) To be clear, there are no aliens or overlapping universes to contend with across the film¡Çs 117 minutes, just the daunting, terrifying absurdity of war. The film opens with a claustrophia-inducing trek through the ill-kept British trenches that introduces Mendes unique filming style, which feels like it was filmed via one continuous shot. Then, our two heroes receive their orders. It¡Çs April 6, 1917?coincidentally the day the U. S. formally entered the war?in northern France when Lance Corporal Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman, best known as Tommen Baratheon on the HBO juggernaut Game of Thrones) and Lance Corporal Schofield (George MacKay) are called into their superior¡Çs bunker. The troops at the front line are about to walk into an ambush, they¡Çre told by a fictional General Erinmore (Colin Firth). They plan to go on the offensive and attack the German forces, who appear to be retreating, but it¡Çs a trap. 1, 600 lives are at risk and the only way to get news to the operation¡Çs commanding officer is for Blake and Schofield to hand-deliver a letter. They must exit the trenches, cross No-Man¡Çs Land, get through the German encampments and then also a town, and then head down river to the woods where the men are preparing for what they don¡Çt know is a certain slaughter. Oh, it must be done by dawn. ¡ÈIf you fail, ¡É they're warned, ¡Èit will be a massacre. ¡É Lance Corporal Schofield (L; George MacKay) Lance Corporal Blake (R; Dean-Charles Chapman, best known as Tommen Baratheon on the HBO juggernaut Game of Thrones) are tasked with carrying a message across No Man¡Çs Land to stop an attack against German forces and, hopefully, save a battalion of 1, 600 Allied men. Photo Credit: François Duhamel Blake accepts willingly, furiously. His brother is at the frontline, but Schofield, who has already survived the Battle of the Somme, where more than one million men lost their lives some 18 months prior, and has since gotten rid of the medal he earned, swapping it for a bottle of wine, begs his partner to just stop and think. He doesn¡Çt; they don¡Çt. And beyond even the saga¡Çs wrap, the anxiety?insanity?of combat feels inescapable. It also begs, especially with Mendes¡Çs closing film dedication to his grandfather, World War I veteran Alfred Mendes, whom the director thanks for ¡Èthe stories, ¡É is any of this true? Below, Esquire unpacks the fact and fiction that built the new epic. The Germans really did retreat, which led to pronounced confusion on the side of the Allies. In the Spring of 1917, the Germans really did launch Operation Alberich and fall back to the Hindenburg Line, a ¡Ènewly built and massively fortified" safehold, as Mendes described to Vanity Fair. Doran Cart, senior curator at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, told Smithsonian Magazine, the Germans were ¡Èconsolidating their forces in preparation for potential further offensive operations. ¡É They, he continued, ¡Ènever said they were retreating. They were simply moving to a better defensive position. ¡É (The Allies would not breach that barrier until September 29, 1918. ) Much of the confusion that this inspired, which is shown so effectively with Mendes¡Çs linear storytelling (the audience never gleans more knowledge than the two Lance Corporals), came from the fact that the Germans basically moved 42 miles of their existing front line overnight. As Blake and Schofield relay their instructions to the leader of their own front line?a jaundiced Lieutenant Leslie played with great, fatalistic humor by Andrew Scott ( Spectre, Fleabag)?asking him where the holes in their own wires are for a hopefully seamless exit, Leslie tells them he truly has no clue if they¡Çll happen upon empty trenches or thousands of pointed guns. He hands them a flare gun and asks, if by the chance there actually are no Germans over there, would they mind shooting that thing off to let the guys over here know? ¡ÈThe research shows everyone was disagreeing, ¡É Mendes explained to Deadline last year. ¡ÈSo you have a dramatically wonderful situation, where you have a general say, they¡Çve gone, they¡Çve abandoned their position. Trust me, go across No Man¡Çs Land. And 200 yards later, you will meet someone else saying, that¡Çs absolute nonsense. You¡Çre going to die if you go over the top. We did that last night, and we died. What the fuck are you doing? ¡É The Germans did actually booby trap the bunkers they abandoned. As the Germans pulled back, they made sure to handicap anything the Allies might find useful in their push forward?cables, roads, bridges, (a number of trees, plus one blown-to-bits bridge, delay the progress of troops in 1917)?so as to slow their enemy's progress towards the new front line. ¡ÈThe Germans had destroyed anything of value?burnt down the towns, taken most of the civilians, chopped down the trees, and they had left behind booby traps, snipers, and a few other unexpected surprises, ¡É the director also mentioned to Vanity Fair. That reality inspired much of the scorched earth setting viewers see in the film, where barbed wire, mud, rats, and ash cover more earth than grass. Schofield and Blake also encounter the violent threat of secret weapons left behind near-immediately, when a trip wire inside the abandoned, in comparison, opulent German barracks, nearly sends Schofield to his grave. Is April 6, 1917 a significant day in history? The answer is yes, but it's followed by a huge ¡Èbut. ¡É The United States did enter the war on the day Mendes chose to depict?and here it is? but it is a total coincidence and has nothing to do with the plot that unfolds on screen. That such a big announcement would have no bearing on these characters feels, in many ways, appropriate. History recalls such a moment so definitively, but the very here and now of men like Schofield or Blake wouldn¡Çt have changed in its goal with that news. Their truest, biggest mission remained to stay alive, today. Regarding the events of the film and the exact single day 1917 captures, it¡Çs possible, though not definite, that a mission like this would have happened on that date. The Germans began moving stretches of their Western Front backwards beginning February 25 of 1917, ending sometime in April. As Smithsonian also notes, it seems like the attack Schofield and Blake must stop is heavily modeled on The Battle of Poelcappelle, which actually happened in Belgium in late 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres, and The First Battle of Passchendaele, which was part of the same campaign and was plotted based on misleading information. (The latter was sanctioned under the assumption that Poelcappelle had earned a substantial advance, which it had not. ) Schofield and Blake¡Çs mission was inspired, in part, by stories from director Sam Mendes¡Çs grandfather, who served in the first World War and was tasked with carrying several missives. "That stayed with me, " he said. Photo Credit: Universal Pictures Blake and Schofield¡Çs mission didn¡Çt?but could have?happened. ¡ÈThe idea was loosely based on a story my grandfather told me, ¡É Mendes told Deadline last year. So while neither Blake nor Schofield were real soldiers, the need to deliver messages physically was common. The Germans had cut off telegraph cables and telephone lines rarely survived. ¡ÈMy grandfather fought in the First World War. He was very young, and small and very fast. He was given the job of carrying messages on the Western front ¡Ä the spirit of what he told me and the central idea of a man carrying a message wouldn¡Çt leave me. It just clung on in there somehow, for the last 50 years. ¡É One mission of his grandfather¡Çs seems to have carried particular weight for the filmmaker. ¡ÈIt wasn't until his mid-70s that he decided he was going to tell the stories of what happened to him when he was in his teenage years, " Mendes told NPR in 2019. "And there was one particular story he told us of being tasked to carry a single message through no man's land in dusk in the winter of 1916. He was a small man, and they used to send him with messages because he ran 5 1/2 feet, and the mist used to hang at about 6 feet in no man's land, so he wasn't visible above the mist. And that stayed with me. And that was the story I found I wanted to tell. " Madison Vain Madison Vain is a writer and editor living in New York, covering music, books, TV, and movies; prior to Esquire, she worked at Entertainment Weekly and Sports Illustrated.
1917 trailer movie 2019. The only thing missing in this Trailer is Thomas Fu* ing Shelby. So. it's a series of running shots? This behind the scenes makes it look dull. The most vulgar visual effect that I saw in a movie last year wasn¡Çt Marvel-ous or otherwise superheroic; it was in ¡È1917, ¡É and depicted the death of a soldier in combat. The soldier is stabbed, and, as he bleeds out, his face is leached of pinkness and turns papery white just before he expires. The character¡Çs death would have been as wrenching for viewers if the soldier¡Çs appearance remained unaltered and he merely fell limp. Instead, the director, Sam Mendes, chose to render the moment picturesque?to adorn it with an anecdotal detail of the sort that might have cropped up in a war story, a tale told at years¡Ç remove, and that would have stood for the ineffable horror of the experience. Instead, rendered as a special effect, the character¡Çs end becomes merely poignant?not terrifying or repulsive?making for a very tasteful death. That tastefulness is a mark of the utter tastelessness of ¡È1917, ¡É a movie that¡Çs filmed in a gimmicky way?as a simulacrum of a single long take (actually, it¡Çs a bunch of takes that run up to nine minutes and are stitched together with digital effects to make them look continuous). Yet that visual trickery isn¡Çt the fakest aspect of the movie. Rather, the so-called long take serves as a mask?a gross bit of earnest showmanship that both conceals and reflects the trickery and the cheap machinations of the script, the shallowness of the direction of the actors, and the brazenly superficial and emotion-dictating music score. The story is a sort of ¡ÈSaving Private Ryan¡É in reverse, and that reversal is by far the most interesting thing about ¡È1917, ¡É with its suggestion of an antiwar ethos. Somewhere behind the lines in France, a young British lance corporal, Tom Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), dozing during downtime, is awakened by a sergeant and told, ¡ÈPick a man, bring your kit. ¡É Blake chooses a fellow lance corporal, Will Schofield (George MacKay), a friend who¡Çd been napping in the grass alongside him. The sergeant sends the duo on a special mission: to cross the former front lines, now abandoned by German forces, and take a letter to a colonel who¡Çs with his troops at a new forward position. That colonel is about to launch an offensive against the apparently retreating Germans, but aerial reconnaissance shows that the Germans are luring the colonel¡Çs two battalions into a trap, and the letter is an order calling off the offensive. What¡Çs more, the battalions to which Blake is being dispatched include his brother, a lieutenant. Blake is outgoing and earnest, Schofield is a sarcastic cynic, and the implication is that Blake has been chosen for this mission not because he¡Çs necessarily the best soldier to undertake it but because he¡Çs uniquely motivated to complete it?because he knows that, if he doesn¡Çt reach the colonel in time, his brother will be among sixteen hundred soldiers who will be entrapped and massacred. The darker suggestion, utterly unexplored, is that morale and commitment were issues in the British Army at this latter stage of the Great War (the action begins on April 6, 1917, and concludes the next morning), and that a soldier without Blake¡Çs personal motive for saving the two battalions might not be trusted to put himself at risk to fulfill it. What¡Çs clear is that Schofield is dubious about the mission and resentful of Blake for choosing him as his partner. Of course, because ¡È1917¡É is a film of patriotic bombast and heroic duty, Schofield¡Çs mind will be changed in the course of the action. It¡Çs only one in a series of painfully blatant dramatic reversals that wouldn¡Çt be out of place in any of the comic-book movies that are so readily contrasted with ¡Èauthentic¡É cinema. (For example, while Schofield has the cynicism knocked out of him, Blake?in another overlap with ¡ÈSaving Private Ryan¡É?has to confront the painful consequences of his own warm-heartedly humane idealism. ) The script is filled with melodramatic coincidences that grossly trivialize the life-and-death action by reducing it to sentiment: Schofield fills his canteen with fresh milk that he finds in a pail at a recently deserted farm, and eventually feeds an abandoned baby with it; Blake¡Çs reminiscence of the blanket of cherry blossoms that covers his family¡Çs garden is echoed in Schofield¡Çs discovery of cherry blossoms scattered on a river, which serves as a reminder of his duty and a spark of motivation; an ugly but inconsequential swarm of rats in one part of a battlefield presages a single fateful encounter with a rat in another. Whereas Steven Spielberg¡Çs ¡ÈSaving Private Ryan¡É presents an entire army mobilizing to save the life of one soldier, Mendes¡Çs ¡È1917¡É depicts two ordinary, obscure, and low-ranking soldiers thrust into a mission to potentially save sixteen hundred, and, by implication, the entire British Army, and change the course of the war. This is a classic idea, one that comes packed with an elegant irony. (For instance, it¡Çs the idea at work in John Ford¡Çs brief and brilliant Civil War episode in ¡ÈHow the West Was Won, ¡É depicting the fateful encounter of two foot soldiers and two Union generals. ) And it¡Çs that very irony which Mendes replaces with a lumbering portentousness. He endows Blake and Schofield with no comparable sense of their own mission, their own disproportionate moment. The script (written by Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns) is imagination-free, which is to say that it endows the characters with no inner lives whatsoever. Have Blake and Schofield ever killed before in hand-to-hand combat? How far along are they in their military experience? What have they experienced of the war? For that matter, who are they? What do they think? Where are they from? What did they do before the war? What are their ambitions beyond survival? What¡Çs especially revealing about Mendes¡Çs superficial and externalized practice in ¡È1917¡É is that he¡Çs not averse to presenting his characters¡Ç inner visions and states of mind. In ¡ÈAmerican Beauty, ¡É he famously showed the middle-aged male protagonist¡Çs sexual fantasy of a naked teen-age girl being covered in a sprinkling of rose petals. While Mendes didn¡Çt shrink from displaying the vivid imagination of a suburban horndog, he¡Çs unwilling to face the imagination of the valorous combatants of ¡È1917. ¡É It¡Çs as if whatever might be on the minds of his protagonists in the course of their dangerous journey toward the front lines, whether fear or lust, frivolity or hatred, would get in the way of the unbroken solemnity and earnestness with which he approaches the subject of the Great War. (On the other hand, he may fear unleashing his characters¡Ç imagination, because, when, in ¡ÈAmerican Beauty, ¡É he let his own imagination loose, the result was a cinematic ickiness of historic dimensions. ) Instead, Mendes shuts down Blake and Schofield and envelops them in a silence of the mind in order not to probe or care what they think. What he substitutes for their inner lives are sequences that exist solely because they make for striking images (a big fire at night, a run through a crowd of soldiers going over a trench wall). These shotlike compositions that arise from the flow of long takes come at the expense of plot and character, as in a scene of hand-to-hand combat that¡Çs framed in the distance without regard to its mortal stakes and intense physicality. Once more, violence is moved offstage and prettified. The movie¡Çs long takes, far from intensifying the experience of war, trivialize it; the effect isn¡Çt one of artistic imagination expanded by technique but of convention showily tweaked. Its visual prose resembles a mass-market novel with the punctuation removed. The film is dedicated, in the end credits, to Lance Corporal Alfred H. Mendes?the director¡Çs grandfather?¡Èwho told us the stories. ¡É In honoring the recollections and experiences of his grandfather, Mendes remains trapped in the narrow emotional range of filial piety that, far from sparking his imagination, inhibits it. His sense of duty yields an effortful and sanctimonious movie that, at the same time, takes its place in a lamentable recent trend. Mendes joins such directors of proud and bombastic craft as Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Peter Jackson, and Damien Chazelle, who¡Çve recently made films that are fixated on the heroic deeds of earlier British and American generations. These filmmakers, celebrating their truncated yet monumental versions of history¡Çs heroes, are separating the public figures from their private lives, their visible greatness from mores that might not pass current-day muster. (It¡Çs worth comparing their films to the work of Clint Eastwood, who¡Çs upfront about the powers and limits of his stunted heroes. ) The vision of heroism that these directors present bleaches the past of its presumptions and prejudices, cruelties and pettiness, but also of its genuine humanity, courage, and tragedy.
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Besides, this seems sorta like a remake of Idi, Smotri.

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