1917: Is one of the best war films of all time shot from true history?

Problured in February 2020, 1917, Sam Mendes won 3 Oscars (best visual effects, photography and sound mixing). The film, which fell in front of the Covid 19 pandemic, has succeeded internationally by $ 446 million, with a $ 95 million expected budget. In France, he gathered 2.2 million curious people, great success for a war movie.

The story tells the story of the Shofield and Blake Course, two young British soldiers caught in World War I. They are assigned a mission that is strictly impossible.

A message that prevents a devastating attack and the deaths of hundreds of soldiers, including Blake’s brother, starting a real race against the clock, beyond the enemy lines.

In 1917, Sam Mendes was a special feature of the desired erection, giving the illusion of a long sequence. However, it was not taken into one plan, but with some long presses that were then installed together to achieve one scene.

Sam Mendes used a similar process 007 on the opening scene, but the use of this device for the whole movie was a new experience. After confirming this idea, it was first necessary to determine the movement of the actors on each stage, then plan the device movements exactly.

A true or fictional story?

Besides, is this ultra -realistic story from a real story? While interrogating us, when the film came out, Sam Mendes said he had inspired him from family history; However, the story is not based on real and difficult facts.

“My film is not about my grandfather’s story, but rather tries to stir his opinion. What these men have gone through, their sacrifice and their beliefs for the reason they have exceeded them. My grandfather told me a lot of stories when I was a child.Said the filmmaker.

My film is not related to the story of my grandfather, but rather trying to raise his opinion, what these men have gone through, their sacrifice and their beliefs for the reason that has exceeded them.

“My grandfather was a writer. He wrote his autobiography. One of the stories in it and he told me that he was with a friend voluntarily. He wanted to go to war. He thought rightly.He continued.

The hero of war

“He also told us the story where he had to get a message. I found this cinematic story.He said.

From there I created a story inspired by my grandfather, but it is not his own story. In the stories he made to us, human life was no price.

The director finally pointed to an important anecdote. When he was 10 or 11 years old, he saw that his grandfather was constantly washed his hands for a long time. Then he asked his father: “Why is the pope’s hands to wash so many?”

“My father replied: Because he remembers the mud of the trench, he would never be pure.” That’s really surprised me. He was a man at the time, and it was a part of it. He didn’t think about the trenches. But the way of his behavior has shown a very sharp person “He said.