As we have all have hoped Dunkirk (2017) is a real history movie with an excellent level of details for historical fidelity. Moreover, we hope that Dunkirk brings back history movies in theatres and set the new level for history in movies. Dunkirk is first movie this year who was in first place of Box Office (US) that isn’t part of some franchise (we are all tired of superhero movies). Some say that this is best Christopher Nolan movie, and others say that this is greatest war movie of all time.
Christopher Nolan did his best to show us dramatic days of evacuating 338,226 soldiers from claws of Nazi Germany. The film covers three points of view: infantry, navy and air forces. Christopher Nolan said that for the soldiers who embarked in the conflict, the events took place on different temporalities. On land, some stayed one week stuck on the beach. On the water, the events lasted a maximum day; and if you were flying to Dunkirk, the British Spitfires would carry an hour of fuel.
Box Office
The movie grossed 50,513,488 $ in the opening weekend, and currently, he is on 274,070,738$ worldwide. With estimated production budget of 100 million dollars, we can only hope that this is not the last Christopher Nolan’s history movie. Heck, we hope that others will follow his example, so we won’t have to see movies like Braveheart etc.
The movie even prompted the debate about the role of women in this evacuation.
Dunkirk history accuracy
Off course, nothing could be all historical correct; fictional characters and storyline, the weather was worse than during the real evacuation, the German planes had their noses painted yellow in the film to better distinguish them; in reality, this was not done until a month after Dunkirk, the involvement of French, African and Indian soldiers was either limited or left out of the film etc.
That all will be soon covered in a review, but in the meantime enjoy the movie.
