Dunkirk (2017)

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Title: Dunkirk (2017)

Genre: Action, War, Thriller, History, Drama

Director: Christopher Nolan

Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine, Billy Howle, Bobby Lockwood, Miranda Nolan, Kevin Guthrie, Brian Vernel, Elliott Tittensor, Matthew Marsh, Jochum ten Haaf, Damien Bonnard, Adam Long, Michael Fox, Will Attenborough, James Bloor, Paul Riley Fox, Richard Sanderson, Valiant Michael, Piers Stubbs, Johnny Otto, Jan-Michael Rosner, Brandon Duracher, Samgar Jacobs, Robby Prinsen, Nat Shervington, Simon Ates, Caleb Bailey, Thomas Millet, Constantin Balsan, Aldo Beqiri, Sander Huisman, Callum Blake, Luke Thompson, Crystal Pereyra, Bram Vlot, Calam Lynch, Jack Riddiford, Merlijn Willemsen, Michel Biel, Niels van 't Dek, Nirman Wolf, Tom Gill, Christian Roberts, Nick Vorsselman, Jedediah Jenk, Christian Janner, Bradley Hall, Jack Gover, Davey Jones, Michael Fox, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Adam Long, Kim Hartman, Bill Milner, Eric Richard, Harry Collett

Release: 2017-07-19

Plot: The story of the Dunkirk evacuation which took place at the beginning of World War II.

 
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Dunkirk. It's based on a prominent moment from World War II in which allied troops -- Belgian, British, and French -- were stranded at the French city of Dunkirk, surrounded by the German army. With their backs against the ocean, it appeared as though the allied troops would die or be captured; however, the Germans halted their attack, giving the allied troops enough to time build-up their defenses, allowing 338,226 soldiers to be rescued in an eight-day span.
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This could turn it around for Trump Hitler.

Wonder if they're going to show poor naïve Hitler trapped between hope and circumstance over whether or not to slaughter the remaining Allies or try and win over Britain through an act of humanity.
 
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Wrathin3L said:
This could turn it around for Trump Hitler.

Wonder if they're going to show poor naïve Hitler trapped between hope and circumstance over whether or not to slaughter the remaining Allies or try and win over Britain through an act of humanity.
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Da fuck history book are you reading?
 
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It's an exaggeration of the general (mis)understanding that Hitler did not want to go to war with Britain (in 1940) and argued with his generals over whether or not to complete the defeat of the Allies or delay and allow Britain to pull it's troops out of Europe.

In one of the most widely debated decisions of the war, the Germans halted their advance on Dunkirk. Contrary to popular belief, what became known as "the Halt Order" did not originate with Adolf Hitler. Gerd von Rundstedt and Günther von Kluge suggested that the German forces around the Dunkirk pocket should cease their advance on the port and consolidate, to avoid an Allied breakout. Hitler sanctioned the order on 24 May with the support of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW). The army was to halt for three days, which gave the Allies time to organise the Dunkirk evacuation and build a defensive line. Despite the Allies' gloomy estimates of the situation, with Britain discussing a conditional surrender to Germany, in the end over 330,000 Allied troops were rescued.

The true reason for the decision to halt the German armour on 24 May is still a matter of debate. One theory states that Von Rundstedt and Hitler agreed to conserve the armour for Fall Rot, an operation to the south. It is possible that the air force's closer ties than the army's to the Nazi Party contributed to Hitler's approval of Göring's request. Another theory—which few historians have given credence—was that Hitler was still trying to establish diplomatic peace with Britain before Operation Barbarossa (the invasion of the Soviet Union). Although von Rundstedt after the war stated his suspicions that Hitler wanted "to help the British", based on alleged praise of the British Empire during a visit to his headquarters, no evidence exists that Hitler wanted to let the Allies escape.[11][13][14] The historian Brian Bond stated:

If this is going to be a drama, I'm curious to what degree they're going to exaggerate things one way or the other.
 
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Definitely one of the largest fuckups of the war. Of course they got a second chance to end Britain shortly after and fucked that up again.
 
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now now trailer makers...

In his speech to the House of Commons on 4 June, Churchill reminded the country that "we must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations."
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ehh being nitty picky lol - it does look good.

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Saw a 5-minute prologue for this in IMAX before Rogue One last night. Looked to be just 5 minutes of straight footage, no usual trailer crap. Looked great and built a crazy amount of suspense.
 
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Yeah except being unrated or even nc-17 is a defacto ban. Fuck the MPAA and fuck everyone who keeps the rating system in place.
 
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