Movies: Dunkirk
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What is the main premise of Dunkirk?
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Hello and welcome to The Best Movies You've Never Seen, our podcast about movies. Movies that I know very well. My name is Stephen Fennec. I love picking the movies for this show because then I get to show them to Trevor Long, my co-host, for the very first time. 99% of the time it's for the first time. Absolutely, yeah. And I'm pretty sure this time is for the first time also. Have you seen Dunkirk before? I'd never heard the word. I'd never heard the word. It's actually a place.
Just so you know, I'll preface this podcast with I'm not a big history buff, okay?
Oh, okay. All right. Well, Dunkirk was released in 2017, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who brought us so many other great movies. Written and directed. Dark Knight, Tenet, Inception, Oppenheimer. He's got a movie coming out in cinemas, The Odyssey, in a few weeks. He's the dude that still films on film.
He's even been knighted. What? Is he the dude that films on film? He does IMAX, films in IMAX. Crazy. I'm not sure. He's Sir Christopher Nolan. There's some docos on YouTube people have done stories. Wouldn't surprise me. He's the last holdout.
Wouldn't surprise me. So the writer, producer, and director. So he does it all. Along with his wife. His wife's actually one of the producers, Dame Emma Thomas. She's a dame. He's a knight. Wow. They're doing okay. And a friend. They made the crossing from England to Dunkirk on a boat the way that a civilian would have done it during the original evacuation. Right. It took 19 hours because of the sea conditions. Wow. So that was sort of her part inspiration. Yeah. Now, after he heard a lot of firsthand accounts of the Dunkirk evacuation.
Right.
So he thought – he realised how young and inexperienced most of the soldiers were. Right. So that inspired him to cast young, unknown actors for the beach setting, like people you'd never seen before, young actors, you know, that early part. Right, yeah. That was his decision. Now, this was made, it was only a 76-page screenplay. Now, normally, screenwriters in the industry, they take it like a page a minute. This is a 76-page screenplay. It's a two-hour movie. Well, it's not even a two-hour movie. Later on, you'll find out it's his shortest movie he's ever made. But he originally intended to make it an improvised movie. What? So it's a little bit like Curb Your Enthusiasm. Okay, here we are. You're waiting for a boat.
It's not coming. Go. And then they'd improvise the scene. Wow. But he decided, and I discovered after looking through the movie for the audio, there's not much audio. There's not much of people talking. It's all action. Yeah.
One character that basically never talks.
Yeah. So that's a remarkable part of it. Now- According to The Hollywood Reporter, the deal that he got against the box office here, he received apparently a $20 million salary against 20% of the box office gross. Biggest deal for any director, along with Peter Jackson didn't even do it. He had the same amount with King Kong. But Vanity Fair reported that Nolan agreed to receive a low upfront salary in exchange for a larger back-end percentage. So who knows?
Who knows?
Now, the importance of Dunkirk, like Christopher Nolan's not going to just make it.
As I said, I'm not a history buff, but spoiler alert, I've watched it now. I feel like it's not there gallipoli, but it's as big for them as that. As big a moment. Because a moment, it's not a victory.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main premise of Dunkirk?
0:06–6:30
2
How does Christopher Nolan's direction influence the film?
6:30–35:55
3
Who are the main characters in Dunkirk and their roles?
35:55–43:10
4
What historical context is essential to understand Dunkirk?
43:10–45:34
5
What unique storytelling techniques are used in Dunkirk?
45:34–54:06
6
How does the film depict the theme of survival?
54:06–57:29
Speakers
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