"Dunkirk offical trailer #2" Topic

Looks like it's going to be good!

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It does look good.

Good. But everyone looks so CLEAN.

The story of Dunkirk is about the hugely successful controlled collapsing of the pocket all the way to the canal line and the defence there. What happened on the beach was secondary, albeit bloody unpleasant if you were there. This looks to be another re-telling of the Little Boats story. I do hope not.

We're all going to see it. You know you want to.

the story of Dunkirk is the result of the phony war -- we need to debate why the heck that happened,,,,
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Most people these days don't even know what Dunkirk is. I respectfully disagree with TFL on this one. I hope they tell the story of the little boats. I do hope they show some of the fighting on the perimeter though.

Looks Good!

I'll go see it, though I do agree with 4D Jones, not only clean, but young. Even if they were really young (and without data on hand, I would have expected the BEF to be relatively mature soldiers), they grew up in harder times and it showed in their appearance.

My paternal grandfather was one of the blokes on the 'little ship's so l do hope they get a scene or two!

Plus how many people know that after getting them back home, Churchhill sent them back to France and had to evacuate them all again?

My grandfather came off that beach… and he looked young at the time.

I've enjoyed Mark Rylance's performance in "Wolfhall" so much, I'd see Dunkirk just because he's in it.

Set your expectations, Nolan has said in a few interviews that it's about the evacuation and the tension around getting the BEF out on all the little boats. Very much looking forward to this, and Ridley Scott doing Battle of Britain.

I would prefer to have the movie for what it is than not have it. As a Yank our public needs to see this story much like Stalingrad in its many forms be they good depictions or something sensationalized. I even enjoy the propaganda style Russian movies like BrestLitovsk fortress. It is what it is and you get what you want from a movie. For me this Russian movie was seeing the very opening move of Barbarosa.

Plus those Luftwaffe engine cowls being yellow: Battle of France did not have those colored for theater. As France was the only theater. Unless I am missing some jagdgeschwader may have done this. my books do not state that. But, I will take it.

The little ships were one thing but those men that held up the German advance be they BEF or French were the heroes to me. The little ships would serve for nothing with the beach over ran and some half million allies as prisoners.

My opinion, 2 cents for what it is worth.

JH

Remember: it's going to be Hollywood, not Sandhurst.

Looking forward to this my grandfather was evacuated from Dunkirk having been injured inland.

My late father was a 27 year old Sergeant at Dunkirk with 2nd Battalion the Northamptonshire regiment. He was part of the defence of the Ypres-Comines Canal which as a battle has been very much overlooked. However, the book The Road to Dunkirk by Charles More goes some way to correcting that. My father spoke very little about this action and unfortunately, in my youth, regrettably never asked about his involvement.

I'm looking more forward to the Pegasus brigade movie, but I'll still see this one.

I agree with Richard from TFL. It will be hard to top Sir John Mills as 'Tubby' in the original Dunkirk, and the story of the little ships was brilliantly done in Mrs Miniver. I too hope for more of the fighting retreat.
For those wishing to read about it and the campaign leading up to it I would recommend 'Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man' by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.

I am with TFL on this though I am really hoping there isn't an inserted American presence in it and it give some prominence to the French too.