The first trailer … sit down before viewing:
Wow. That is a very good trailer.
Please, God, give me just one more year so I can see this movie… :o
That’s as good a teaser trailer as I’ve seen. Wow, shivers.
Are you OK?
My daughter, a 1D fan, will definitely want to see this.
Can someone refresh my memory of the history of this event? I read the Wikipedia article, but it doesn’t seem like an evacuation makes for a compelling story. The British are retreating, but it looks like the Germans are letting up their attack, allowing a quick, but fairly safe retreat. What are the soldiers looking up at? Are they about to be strafed?
The siren is on a dive bombing Stuka.
You should email Christoper Nolan and tell him he’s wasting his time.
Without looking it up, isn’t a part of the film The Atonement having to do with Dunkirk, or am I misremembering it?
It sounds like they’re about to be strafed.
I can see how it would make a good movie. Yeah, we know they all get away, but they don’t know that.
I don’t think there was anything “safe” about the Dunkirk evacuation. If the delaying Allied forces fought slightly less effectively, or if the evacuation was slightly less well organized, tens or hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers would have been captured. At the end, it was a matter of hours.
In the big picture, the Dunkirk Evacuation immediately became part of the British national legend. Churchill’s “We shall fight on the beaches… we will never surrender” speech was about the successful evacuation. That’s what makes the story more compelling than just “a fortuitous and orderly retreat”.
From a more practical perspective, the rescued veteran soldiers were a critical foundation for Britain’s growing military.
I’d like to see it succeed if for no other reason than it might beget a Battle of Britain sequel…
If you look at the world as on 1st June 1940 it is impossible to think 5 years later half of Europe would be looking at democratc elections and every Gernam city lay in ruins
But it happened and it started at Dunkirk.
Christopher Nolan shows more directing talent in that last shot than, say, Zack Snyder has shown in his entire career.
They were under constant air attack, from both bombs and machine gun and cannon fire. On the advice of his senior officers, Hitler had agreed to halt ground attacks on the Dunkirk pocket in the belief that the Luftwaffe could, if not finish the BEF off entirely, at least force them to surrender. (The Germans wanted to rest and rebuild their forces before turning south to finish off the French. What’s now known as the Sickle Cut strategy took both the British and the French by complete surprise.)
What they didn’t count on was the improvised evacuation fleet (which was also subjected to constant air attacks) and the resistance put up by the RAF. It didn’t take Hitler et al. long to realize they’d made a tremendous blunder (just two or three days). If the Germans had pressed the ground attack when they held the initiative, they could well have neutralized the 330,000 men Britain had on the Continent and forced London to sue for peace.
Until the rescue fleet showed up, those men were trapped without any hope of escaping. Their evacuation robbed Germany of an easy victory and altered the whole course of the war.
You don’t like this one? :eek: :dubious:
“What do I need to defeat the British, Herr Reichsmarschall? A squadron of Spitfires, please!”
—Adolf Galland to Hermann Goering
Yeah, including this remarkable long take:
That’s a wonderful sequence
First official trailer was released earlier today. Nolan seems to have made another fantastic movie.
Nolan has assembled himself quite a stable of regular actors for his movies – this one looks great.
There’s a second trailer right after that one ends. On the next page. Even better.
Will they include leaving behind thousands of Frenchmen?