Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)

[TGM]

Reminds me of when I saw these two posters right next to one another at the theater a couple years back:

[Skitch]

I remember thinking that TDK poster was so fetching back in the day, but its design seems kind of clumsy now.

The Inception poster is fine, although it's a bit odd how — as others have pointed out to me — Nolan himself comes to mind as a result of the way DiCaprio is posed. It's probably just a coincidence, but either way, I've never seen a poster that seems to adopt the director surrogate angle as a visual feature.

TDKR poster is kind of mediocre, but it was alarming at the time.

The Dunkirk poster is very nice, even if its composition is familiar to many of the other posters for Nolan's films.

Yeah I agree with all points here! Honestly I wasn't mocking or bitching. It is a theme in Nolan films to have a poster of the back of someone though lol.

Edit: After TGM's post though, maybe its not a Nolan thing but a design...fad? Someone scour the internet for publicity houses and see whos done all this work! I cannot, for I have important things to do! *flings cape, turns on Netflix*

[Ezee E]

John Wayne started that trend.

[Morris Schæffer]

Ok Skitch it seems this goes pretty deep!

[number8]

It is definitely not just a Nolan thing, although I do believe the recent trend was popularized by TDK.

[angrycinephile]

[Irish]

Damn.

Still feels very weird that Nolan chose this for his subject.

(I hope the movie is a helluva lot broader than what they're showing)

[Peng]

Yeah, no matter what opinion of him, Nolan is such an "idea" filmmaker I have no idea what attracts him to a historical subject. Even a remake like Insomnia still feels more consistent for his style than this. If I care less about spoiler, I might look into the wiki page to see what angle he might possibly find for it.

[Irish]

Yeah, no matter what opinion of him, Nolan is such an "idea" filmmaker I have no idea what attracts him to a historical subject. Even a remake like Insomnia still feels more consistent for his style than this. If I care less about spoiler, I might look into the wiki page to see what angle he might possibly find for it.

It's based on a historical event, which is a weird choice in and of itself (given Nolan's previous projects, as you suggest).

But:

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This is the biggest British military fuck-up in history, outside maybe Gallipoli or the Charge of the Light Brigade. (And nobody sings songs or writes poetry about it, afaik)

The only reason the story has a moderately happy ending (and everybody in London isn't speaking German right now) is because the Germans fucked up more than the British did.

I can't imagine any rough, cinematic corollary -- maybe Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor movie.

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[number8]

Hey, The Prestige was historical.

[Wryan]

There are a lot of remarkably plain shots in that trailer, as well as some striking ones. Kinda surprising.

EDIT: NO NOT PLANE. LEAVE IT.

[Dukefrukem]

Best Picture of 2017.

[number8]

Wait, I just watched the trailer. Haha, Harry from One Direction is in this? That's quite the project for his first acting role.

[Watashi]

It's a great trailer. Looks pretty. Sounds pretty.

[Winston*]

It's based on a historical event, which is a weird choice in and of itself (given Nolan's previous projects, as you suggest).

But:

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Show Spoiler

This is the biggest British military fuck-up in history, outside maybe Gallipoli or the Charge of the Light Brigade. (And nobody sings songs or writes poetry about it, afaik)

The only reason the story has a moderately happy ending (and everybody in London isn't speaking German right now) is because the Germans fucked up more than the British did.

I can't imagine any rough, cinematic corollary -- maybe Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor movie.

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Well, Gallipoli maybe.

[Ezee E]

I'll watch.

[Wryan]

Gallipoli was stunning.

[Irish]

Well, Gallipoli maybe.

Heh!—maybe The Longest Day, too?

I was trying to think of war films based on a specific event with a scope limited entirely to that event.

(The trailer is at least half interesting to me because it doesn't even hint at anything outside "Dunkirk on the beach," etc. Looking at IMDb, the movie only has minor female roles ("Nurse on Battleship"), so it doesn't appear there will be any romance subplots or anything that might take place "back home." Like, even The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1936, co-starred Olivia de Havilland.)

[Skitch]

I was trying to think of war films based on a specific event with a scope limited entirely to that event.

Hamburger Hill?

[Irish]

Hamburger Hill?

That's a good one --- totally forgot about it.

[Melville]

I was trying to think of war films based on a specific event with a scope limited entirely to that event.

Black Hawk Down?

Nolan has been growing on me with his last few movies. I think he's great at relentless spectacle. This should be good.

[Dukefrukem]

I was trying to think of war films based on a specific event with a scope limited entirely to that event.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

[number8]

Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.

[megladon8]

Rogue One

[Dead & Messed Up]

This Is War