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ezzler -> RE: 1917 (2/2/2020 10:20:27 PM)
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What is odd about Dunkirk, is that for all the accuracy, there are loads of inaccuracies. the cranes on the docks are modern. The skyline hasn't been fully eradicated to make 1940 loo like 1940 not 2015. The train in the end scene is a 1970s train. The soldiers says, 'is this Woking?' and the boy says yes. But the landscape is utterly unlike Woking, then or now.
{though, having been on that train, I know how it happened. The yeovil restored train company runs two historic trains. one is a 1930s steam train. The other is a 1970s British rail diesel. I expect, the production team booked a historic train for a scene and didn't know, until too late, they had booked a 1970/80s train by mistake.]
its not that these mistakes are critical. Its just that, take a movie like Once upon a time in America. A bendy bus doesn't suddenly drive down the street. Or a Japanese car. And yet that was made without cgi. As were thousands of other films, that don't have the same issues.
For a 'must see director' his vision of 'must see' and mine are different. I believe he only wants the film to be 'close enough.' Knowing that most people neither know, nor care, that the type of paint on the fences and doors, in the opening scene of Dunkirk, is a very modern, gloss shade. To me, it looks out of place, as it is. As does the speech. Because the actors talk like modern actors. They don't sound authentic at all.
To my wife, she never noticed any of those things. So the director is right. And the critics didn't mention them either. So he is doubly right not to bother with them just to please a few history nerds.
{Spielberg, on the other hand..He wants to get it right. Matter of pride, i shouldn't wonder.]
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