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- If comparing 1917 to a video game seems like a slight, please know that it very much isn’t. While cinematic game adaptations have historically been disappointments, that shouldn’t be held against the medium as a whole. Video games can be just as narratively rich and innovative as Hollywood’s best movies.
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Jan 3, 2020 · 1917 Is a Movie That Feels Like a Videogame—in a Good Way. Director Sam Mendes' World War I epic is edited to look like one continuous shot. The strange thing is, that totally works. George...
Dec 24, 2019 · If comparing 1917 to a video game seems like a slight, please know that it very much isn’t. While cinematic game adaptations have historically been disappointments, that shouldn’t be held...
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Dec 10, 2019 · 1917 expertly blends the immersive video game concept with sheer moviemaking skill to create something new in the world. But that's where the similarity ends, because a movie that looks like...
Jan 22, 2022 · Sam Mendes' Oscar nominated 1917 emulates the rhythms of a video game, immersing players in the same was as the best third-person shooters.
- An amazing World War I thriller from Skyfall director Sam Mendes.
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By Jim Vejvoda
Updated: Apr 28, 2020 10:25 pm
Posted: Jan 9, 2020 8:55 pm
This is a spoiler-free review for 1917, which opens in wide release on January 10.
Set over less than 24 hours on the Western Front, the harrowing 1917 is both simple in its story and breathtaking in its execution, intimate yet epic. Director Sam Mendes has delivered a completely engrossing survival thriller about two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), on a perilous mission behind enemy lines.
Neither soldier is written to be particularly exceptional upon their introduction; they’re just two of the countless Everyman troops fighting in the First World War. It’s their very ordinariness and almost anonymous nature that lends this duo immediate sympathy and relatability. Blake and Schofield could be anyone, but they’ve been tasked with doing something extraordinary and heroic in the face of relentless danger: To deliver a time-sensitive message to another division to prevent them from falling into a German trap. If they fail to deliver it then 1600 soldiers, including Blake’s older brother, will die.
Sam Mendes, working from a script he co-wrote with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, crafts one ordeal and tension-fraught set-piece after another to put the young protagonists through. In 1917, death can come at you from any space, any location, whether it’s in a claustrophobic German tunnel or a wide-open field. Nowhere is safe. In addition to Mendes’ taut direction, the stunning cinematography by Roger Deakins, stealthy editing by Lee Smith, and exceptional production design by Dennis Gasner all contribute to making the viewer feel like they’re really there on the ground in war-torn France.
Visually, the film isn’t set solely in the muddied trenches and barbed-wire battlefields we expect from WWI films. 1917 also showcases action and suspense scenes set in serene fields and fire-ravaged French villages full of lurking dangers. The rustic beauty of the quaint European countryside is frequently juxtaposed against the mangled bodies and smashed machinery of man-made carnage. It’s simultaneously picturesque and grotesque.
The awe and precision of the whole one-take approach wouldn’t have as much impact if you didn’t care about the two main characters. Details of Blake and Schofield’s lives before and outside of the war come in bites; the closest thing to an exposition dump comes when they get their mission. After that, they’re literally off and running with the viewer following beside — or often stalking right behind — them. Mendes and Wilson-Cairns wisely use restraint in exposition and lean on physical storytelling to allow us to understand what their two main characters are feeling, and 1917 is only strengthened by that.
A large chunk of the second half of the movie takes place without dialogue, and it’s a testament to its leads’ performances that we fully understand and are immersed in the emotional, harrowing journey they are on without them needing to speak. While it’s the punishing physical demands of their roles you won’t soon forget, Chapman and MacKay also both admirably showcase their respective character’s vulnerability, fear, and sheer will in their quieter and most desperate moments. These are the scenes that keep you invested in the human drama amidst all the grim spectacle.
Several familiar actors also pop up along the way in glorified cameos as officers — including Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, and a particular scene-stealing performance from Andrew Scott — but they never distract from the main duo. These stars play the older men that callow youths follow into battle without question, likely never to return home.
(One big nitpick I have is with one sequence that relies on the isolation of Blake and Schofield to create the danger and suspense that is suddenly thrust upon them. That’s subsequently undercut by the reveal of a mass of British soldiers right nearby. Considering their location in this sequence, there’s no way the duo wouldn’t have heard all those men and vehicles beforehand. It’s a jarring moment of suspending disbelief in an otherwise brutally realistic film.)
1917 is an expertly crafted and emotionally exhausting thrill-ride behind enemy lines. Gloriously shot, deftly paced, and striking in its gruesome recreation of the time and place, Sam Mendes’ 1917 wisely never loses sight of the smaller, intimate elements in a fast-paced story with immense scale and action. 1917 firmly places the emphasis on what ...
That movie is the Sam Mendes World War I epic 1917. Many of 1917‘s action scenes play like video game levels. 1917 is a movie that quite effectively translates the video game experience to cinema— one that is emotional, personal and, above all, immersive. That immersion comes into play in
Jan 10, 2020 · 1917 opens as young soldiers Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) find themselves unexpectedly tasked with delivering a message deep behind enemy lines. Should they succeed, their actions could prevent the loss of more than 1,600 British lives.
