On September 1, we finally waited until "Dunkirk" was released.
The process of anticipating the movie seems to be more topical than the movie itself.
So let's take a look at what "Dunkirk" has to offer.
The director is of course the first choice
Christopher Nolan
Even if you haven't heard the name, you've at least heard of his movies.
"Inception", "Interstellar", "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Batman: Mystery", "Deadly Magic", "Memento", "Insomnia" and more.
In Hollywood, which is full of this type of movies, he can always maintain his own unique style, perfectly combining business and art.
In the previous works, Nolan was best at the innovation of narrative structure.
With the right benefit of his ability to always take control of complex non-linear narrative structures, movies seem to be his magic .
So many people didn't believe it when they heard that he was going to make "Dunkirk", because the subject matter - too Nolan.
Dunkirk is a known event. Without the natural advantage of "unknown" in Nolan's films in the past, how could it be possible to make a "Nolan feeling"?
How to tell the story is the key
For the less-than-Nolan plot, Nolan chose to look at this century-old retreat from the perspective of "people" .
The entire film unfolds from three different "temporal density" events.
They are: military and civilian joint rescue at sea (sea) - 1 hour ;
Teacher Tang will take you to play stunts in the air (empty) - 1 day ;
Beach Soldier Survival (Road) - 1 week .
Through Nolan's best editing, these three events of different time densities are rearranged and combined to fully show Dunkirk from the perspective of "people" .
Boldly use small fresh meat
Since it is shot from the perspective of "people", the actors naturally cannot be ignored.
Different from the previous Nolan movies, this time Nolan used a lot of fresh meat, which also caused some controversy in foreign media.
This is how he responded.
Except for the "Teacher Soup" Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy who have cooperated many times, they are not the protagonists.
The protagonists are four little fresh meat.
The most controversial is "One Direction" frontman Harry Styles , 23, who has never starred in any movies.
Finn Whitehead , with no formal acting experience, was taking acting lessons and working in a cafe, 20 years old
Jack Lowden , 27, British comedian, won the highest award in British drama - the Lawrence Oliver Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Tom Green-Carney , 22, stage actor.
In general, Nolan's little fresh meat is by no means like the little fresh meat from "What Great Achievement" that is completely directed at the market.
Because almost all the soldiers retreating from Dunkirk were young soldiers, Xiao Xianrou fully met the content requirements.
There are also certain commercial considerations.
Let's see how Xiao Xianrou was trained by Nolan.
Collaboration with "Master of Loneliness"
Regarding the script, Nolan layer revealed that it was the fastest script he completed because it was only 76 pages.
This also means that there is almost no dialogue.
So the music pretty much covers the whole movie.
For the film, it is Hans Zimmer, the "Master of Lonely" who has collaborated with Nolan many times .
This is the sixth collaboration between Nolan and Hans Zimmer
The soundtrack uses a concept called "Shepard tone"
It is said that the original idea for the soundtrack was that Nolan recorded a pocket watch "tick" for Hans Zimmer.
So music has become a very important "role" in this film, because the biggest "enemy" of this film is actually "time" .
IMAX, IMAX, IMAX!
Nolan is probably one of the most dedicated directors to film .
He has another habit - real shooting.
I still remember that in "Inception", in order to realize the climax of the fight in the dream, Nolan actually built a barreled equipment manually for live shooting.
This time it is even more unambiguous. In order to ensure the quality of the film, 70% of the content is shot with IMAX film cameras.
The rest of the shots were shot with non-IMAX film cameras, mainly some with dialogue, because IMAX cameras are so noisy.
Nolan has emphasized more than once that the original intention of making this film - "bring all the audience to the scene"
So he put IMAX cameras on his shoulders, in the water and even on planes.
It's all about making the audience part of the movie.
Therefore, the best viewing experience should be film IMAX>laser IMAX>ordinary digital IMAX .
Unfortunately, there are no film IMAX theaters in the country, and the nearest theater is in Thailand.
There are only 4 laser IMAX companies in China, located in Shenyang, Dongguan, Harbin and Taipei.
If you want to experience the pure IMAX version, it is estimated that in addition to movie tickets, you have to have train tickets or air tickets.
It's true but regrets
Although Dunkirk was an Allied retreat, it was an extremely important turning point in the history of World War II.
If the Great Retreat fails, Britain will have to surrender to Germany, and the whole world will fall, or the world will go to a different fate.
But Nolan's swerving of the retreating French soldiers in the film is only a passing glance.
At that time, it was not only the British soldiers who retreated, but also 120,000 French soldiers, 33,000 Belgian soldiers, and 40,000 French soldiers who were desperately defending the city in France and holding the Germans back for the retreat.
It can only be said that film is a subjective art, and there is no room for too much objective discussion. After all, this is not a historical documentary.
A little regret doesn't detract from the quality of the movie itself.
Dunkirk is a good movie, and it's destined to be a great movie.
Hurry up and book an IMAX movie ticket to experience it.
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