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To: ExGeeEye

There’s an obvious hole in the Dunkirk story without a single clip of Mr. Churchill.


219 posted on 07/23/2017 4:33:37 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

It’s not a hole. It’s understanding what story they’re trying to tell. When push comes to shove movies are short stories, novellas at best. In under 2 hours you aren’t telling the whole of Dunkirk, you ain’t even telling the half of Dunkirk. They 3 stories basically: a handful of soldiers trying to get out, 1 civilian boat, one squad of Spitfires. It’s a “soldier’s eye” of the story. We spend a little time with that Admiral but he’s mostly just telling the audience stuff: why the destroyers can’t come in, what the tide schedule is, why this isn’t a massive air sea war. In a book form that character wouldn’t exist because the author would just fill that in. Including Churchill would have broken the scope of the story.


236 posted on 07/23/2017 3:54:14 PM PDT by discostu (You are what you is, and that's all it is, you ain't what you're not, so see what you got.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
This one wasn't about government officials or even senior military leaders.

For that side of this same story, please see The Darkest Hour due out in November.

237 posted on 07/23/2017 4:06:47 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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