Christopher Nolan has had the vision to choreograph various male pillars of contemporary British culture with...

Christopher Nolan has had the vision to choreograph various male pillars of contemporary British culture with practically unknown and aspiring young actors to retell the tale of the evacuation of Dunkirk. In doing this, Nolan’s film drives home the idea that this is a story of Britain as a community; Dunkirk is essentially a film made by Brits, for Brits. The cast is crucially important to understanding what I think Nolan has tried to do with this film. Mark Rylance is an acting veteran; he appears on screen in an almost mentor-like role to his younger and significantly less experienced (on debut) counterparts, Jack Lowden and Barry Keoghan. Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Kenneth Branagh are all British cinema heavyweights, cast (in my opinion) almost as a greatest hit’s of contemporary British film actors. Fionn Whitehead, an unknown young actor, plays an inexperienced soldier out of his depth alongside pop superstar and first-time actor, Harry Styles (who plays a slightly more experienced soldier also out of his depth). Dunkirk is a story of traditional England, and during this time of great political turmoil for Britain (where the ‘tea, cricket and green fields’ culture seems to be on it’s last legs), Nolan has pulled out all the stops by creating a film with his people, about his people.

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cmon fuck you guys dont have anything to say? i thought this was a cool idea...maybe i just didnt communicate clearly enough

Shame that world, that community hasn't even remotely existed for nearly two decades, and has been fading for at least five decades now.
theamericanconservative.com/articles/unmaking-england/

it was a patriotic flick, although it had no right to be.

Based Nolan

please elaborate, it sounds like you have something interesting to say

where are the niggers?

It's not you, it's me. I didn't know the Brits in 1940 but if you take the image/description of the average Brit back then and assume they believed in the ideals they fought for then...yeah, cool beans.

Problem is today's Brit is...well I don't know but it's not traditional England and it never will be. So...meh. Sorry, just wanted to explain why your point didn't resonate.

Excellent film, though!

In America where they can't bother real people.

no dude you miss my point. actually i didnt really make it.

the point is that traditional england is DYING. Nolan knows that right. By making this film, he's getting one of the greatest stories of that traditional england and filling it with people who hail from that traditional england (a dying breed), almost like a last hurrah before it dies you know?

its like its the point that britain isn't the same anymore

trust me, this is Nolan we're talking about...

you can be sure this shit goes way deeper and is way more introspective than what it might initially seem

basically i can't express it, but i think that there is A LOT in the casting of this movie, like hes sending some kind of message or something idk but i think that the fact that he cast all those that he did is very very important

>Britain isn't the same anymore
No country was after ww2, if your point is that no body likes this country as much as they did back then you are sadly mistaken.

This will be the last time WW2 will resonate with the wider public in Britain. Its memory is fading (1,000 WW2 vets die everyday) Soon it will just be as foreign to us as the Napoleonic wars.

The world we live in is so different, it's almost alien. For Nolan to almost present a time machine to the people of Britain to how they once were, not arrogant, selfish or nihilistic. The people depicted in Dunkirk were made of something a lot stronger, like the solid wood of a 100 year old tree, still standing strong. Something happened to us after WW2, some say we lost our spirituality with the slow-death of Christianity, others say our empire became bankrupt and plundered by the Americans and Germans.

No, what we lost was our roots, we were the strong old tree, that had its roots ripped out by this horrific conflict.

youtube.com/watch?v=MWHPJ8hO-ZM

he means is that your country is full of muslims and its lost its tradition. england is dunkirkerd

true but england had a very distinctive culture that is definitely dying, perhaps not more so than in other countries, but enough for it to be significant to anglo-saxon inhabitants of britain (and most of the colonies).

i think that the film and the casting is a final celebration of it before the culture and people like rylance, hardy and styles (3 generations of pretty typically white brits) are gone forever

this poster needs kangaroos, kiwis, ducks and poos to make it feel right

You still have really given much evidence of this tradition and culture we lost, unless your point is that London is full of muslims and non whites.

>unless your point is that London is full of muslims and non whites.
you didn't think that was his point when you read OP's first post?

there. i think that is pretty much my point as distinctly as i could make it.

the only other thing i would add at this stage is that, and FUCK nolan is such a clever guy if this is true, but i think that this idea is backed up even stronger by the fact that when nolan cast harry styles, styles basically seamlessly fitted in with his anonymous peers which

a) strengthens the idea that the soldiers at dunkirk came from all walks of british life, class and culture

b) removed the alienation the group surely mustve felt with someone as famous as styles and

c) shown styles that he was still a typical british kid at heart who is still capable of fitting in with ordinary people

all of those things strengthen the patriotic feel that i think nolan is trying to push home

No I was stupid enough to think he was talking about the culture and tradition of Britain as a whole, if he wanted to go full Sup Forums and talk about muslims in London he should have just said so.

theres surely other shit idk what has led to the death of that distinctive english culture, all i know is that it's going fast and people like nolan and a lot of the cast are some of the last few pillars of it

Still no evidence of you having any idea of knowing what english tradition is or knowing what its supposed downfall is.

>traditional england
Kenneth and Cillian are Irish.

i dont think its necessarily muslims it could be like you know commercialisation of the economy anything idk ill go do an anthropology paper and get back to you haha but we all know the english culture im talking about it and we all know its gone.

its like the vibe you get in the henderson's boys books you know?

brits need to stop being cowards and take back their country. same for any country being brainwashed with this liberal bullshit

>just come out of Imax 70mm screening
>I'm shocked Nolan has changed his style so much
>goes full arthouse. Literally zero dialogue and visual storytelling
>very reminiscent of tarkosvky
>for the first time in Nolan midnight screening nobody clapped
>All plebs seemed confused and some were saying it was boring
>Nolan went balls deep
>first arthouse blockbuster of 21st century.

i realised that earlier. it's a good point and detracts from what im trying to say, but i really believe that there's more than meets the eye behind nolan's casting choices. come on, this is nolan, he studied english literature, there is always more than meets the eye.

is it really so hard to believe that the casting would be an introspection, you know a final ensemble of traditionally english people to tell a traditionally english story?

So your point is we all know what English tradition is even know you don't and that it's going away because of Muslims? You might want to visit England sometime because trust me plenty of tradition and culture still alive and well here, if your basis is London the most culturally diverse place in Britain then of course you'll find more different traditions there. As for the rest of the country it's a totally different story but feel free to belive Muslims are somehow causing Englishness to dissappear if you want.

He's trying to remind the Brits of what they fought for and not to lose it all to the Muslim hordes

yeah dude look i can't explain it but look at this interview:
youtube.com/watch?v=dS_9lvbT-ec

he doesn't explicitly explain the point im trying to, but you can see from elements of what he's saying that he has a similar sort of feeling

yep go to 2:45.

that was the point i was thinking of

wait no like 2:10

I hope that's not what you bases you entire argument on because unless you come from some shithole people do still have a sense of community, I think again you're too focused on somewhere like London where there's so many people that every is selfish and thinks for themselves. I come from a small town and even here we have local festivals, charities for the local schools and groups, football fields, cricket fields and various other things for the town to all go to together. Sorry to tell you that sense of Britishness you're associate with his interview is very much still today.

dude don't be sorry id be glad to hear it.

im not from england and i just understood that england had changed. if it hasnt then fuck yeah, what a good old time.

i retract what i was trying to say, maybe there wasnt that much in the casting

So you're saying this movie will bomb in the US?

Its probably changed in the big cities yeah but the again what capital city hasn't changed in 70 years anywhere in the world. In the small towns and villages everywhere in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales is where you'll find communities are very much still alive.

true, very true. i guess that's what makes cities interesting, they're often the forefront of contemporary culture.

im glad to hear that traditional culture is still alive and well though, one day ill come and check it out

Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan are Irish though?

Northern Ireland is in Britain you dumb ass.

don't know about Keoghan, but Cilian's not from NI