{"id":36270,"date":"2024-07-24T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36270"},"modified":"2024-07-23T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:46:08","slug":"1917-2019-directed-by-sam-mendes-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36270","title":{"rendered":"“1917” (2019)\u00a0directed by Sam Mendes \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1917 (2019)\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Director: Sam Mendes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenplay: Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay<\/strong>, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth, Andy Apollo, Billy Postlethwaite, Gabriel Akuwudike, Andrew Scott, Robert Maaser, Benedict Cumberbatch <\/strong>and Mark Strong.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tagline: Time is the enemy.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Plot…<\/strong><\/p>\n

The year is 1917.\u00a0 World War I rages.\u00a0 Officers on the British front lines are surprised to see German troops withdrawing.\u00a0 The British mistakenly believe that the Huns are retreating.\u00a0 They’re not.\u00a0 What the Germans are actually doing is a systematic extraction.\u00a0 They want the British to believe that they’re on the run.\u00a0 They know the British will believe the time to attack is now.\u00a0 What the British on the front don’t realize is they’re being tricked into running headlong into a trap.<\/p>\n

British officers away from the front get aerial evidence of the trap.\u00a0 Unfortunately communication to the front is down.\u00a0 Two young British corporals are selected to slip behind enemy lines with orders to the British officers stand down.\u00a0 Time is of the essence.\u00a0 The errand is a suicide mission, but if the message isn’t delivered, thousands of British soldiers will be massacred.<\/p>\n

Time is ticking…<\/p>\n

Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

1917<\/em> was nominated for ten\u00a0Academy Awards<\/em>, winning three<\/p>\n