Posted on 07/24/2017 6:18:35 AM PDT by C19fan
Period has become increasingly challenging at the box office, not to mention in recent times marquees have been inundated with World War II fare, particularly films starring Brad Pitt. But when director Christopher Nolan embraces the historical subject, its a different story, and Warner Bros is celebrating a win for its older-male-skewing Dunkirk this weekend with $50.5 million a figure that not only beat tracking, but the total $40M stateside ticket sales of Pitts November WWII bomb Allied.
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One of the main themes I got out of the movie was how a whole country perceived the existential threat to them and pulled together towards a common goal. Its a lesson we could use in this country in 2017.
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Yes, I felt that too. Gave me goose bumps to see the shot of all of the “Little Ships of Dunkirk” headed toward the shore.
I was in error on two points.
The small boat “Moonstone”, the “star” of the “One Day” part of the film, was not substituted by a stand-in boat. All scenes in that story were filmed on or with that particular boat.
The boat was not filmed in a tank at any time: however, some scenes were filmed on the waters of the IJsselmeer, in the Netherlands, rather than in the English Channel.
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