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2. • • As Mendes explained earlier this year, he drew inspiration from a tale shared by his paternal grandfather, author and World War I veteran Alfred Mendes. In an interview with Variety, Mendes said he had a faint memory from childhood of his grandfather telling a story about “a messenger who has a message to carry.”
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   Why did Mendes create the movie 1917?

   • It is the image that inspired the new film 1917, directed and co-written by Mendes, about two British lance corporals who must make their way across miles of battleground to deliver an urgent message that could save 1,600 of their fellow soldiers from a massacre.

   The story behind Sam Mendes’s ambitious First World War drama 1917

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   Is 1917 a thriller or a war movie?

   • Director Sam Mendes tells EW the film is "constructed more like a thriller than a conventional war movie." Film fans looking forward to Sam Mendes ’ upcoming World War I movie 1917 only recently learned the film was shot to look like one continuous take, but the actors and filmmakers themselves knew it from the get-go.

   1917 creators explain how they made the film one

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   What campaign inspired Sam Mendes' 1917?

   • American Film Institute. Archivedfrom the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 4 December2019. ^"Operation Alberich, the campaign that inspired Sam Mendes' 1917". History.co.uk. Archivedfrom the original on 21 March 2020. Retrieved 12 February2020. ^Simkins, P.; Jukes, G.; Hickey, M. (2003). The First World War: The War to End All Wars.

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   Will Sam Mendes war movie '1917' be a UK charity event?

   • "Sam Mendes War Movie '1917' To World Premiere As UK Royal Charity Event". Archivedfrom the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 21 November2019. ^Pulver, Andrew; Sweney, Mark (5 January 2021). "Battlefield drama 1917 wins 2020 UK box office in pandemic-struck year". The Guardian. Archivedfrom the original on 29 November 2022.

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   Will Sam Mendes' '1917' be filmed at Shepperton Studios?

   • "EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes' '1917' Adds 'Skyfall/Blade Runner 2049' Production Designer and 'Atonement' Art Director – Confirmed To Shoot At Shepperton Studios". Archivedfrom the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 7 April2019. ^Pulver, Andrew (6 February 2019). "Spielberg and Mendes Stonehenge war film plans hit by locals' objections". The Guardian.

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   Why was Alfred Mendes sent home in 1917?

   • While 1917 isn't a direct retelling of his experience obviously, fragments of the stories that Alfred told his grandson served as the inspiration for the mission at the center of the movie. Alfred Mendes was sent home from the war in 1918 after inhaling poisonous gas.

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4. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › true-historyThe True History Behind the '1917' Movie | Smithsonian

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   Dec 20, 2019 · The new World War I drama from director Sam Mendes, 1917, unfolds in real-time, tracking a pair of British soldiers as they cross the Western Front on a desperate rescue mission.

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   1917 is a 2019 war film directed and produced by Sam Mendes, who co-wrote it with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.

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   Oct 9, 2019 · The Oscar-winning director and cinematographer Sam Mendes and Roger Deakins team up once again for a unique, and challenging, experiment with 1917.

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   Jun 1, 2024 · Sam Mendes' Oscar-nominated WWI epic 1917 chronicles a desperate race against the clock in World War I, and while the specifics of the mission in the movie may not be real, the entirety of the movie is rooted in real WWI experiences.

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   Feb 10, 2020 · It is the image that inspired the new film 1917, directed and co-written by Mendes, about two British lance corporals who must make their way across miles of battleground to deliver an urgent...

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   Dec 26, 2019 · After marinating in the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s imagination for 40-some years, those stories are now the basis of Mendes’ latest film, 1917, a $90 million World War I movie that Universal...

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    Oct 4, 2019 · Film fans looking forward to Sam Mendes’ upcoming World War I movie 1917 only recently learned the film was shot to look like one continuous take, but the actors and filmmakers themselves...