POZitive Attitudes

“1917” 

Based on True Story 

10 Oscar Academy Award Nominations including:

BEST MOTION PICTURE

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST DIRECTOR

BEST MAKEUP

BEST MUSIC

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

BEST SOUND EDITING

BEST SOUND MIXING

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

“1917”

Showing at Gateway Theatre.

Starts at 7 PM.

ALL FRIENDS WELCOME

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Note that if you arrive after 7 o’clock the group may already be seated inside the theater. Contact John at Jramos4000@aol.com with any suggestions. The group will decide on eating after show.

1917 received 10 nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards. It received three nominations at the 77th Golden Globe Awards, winning two for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director. It also received eight nominations at the 25th Critics’ Choice Awards and nine nominations at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards.

PLOT

The film opens with a claustrophia-inducing trek through the ill-kept British trenches that introduces Mendes unique filming style, which feels like it was filmed via one continuous shot. Then, our two heroes receive their orders. It’s April 6, 1917—coincidentally the day the U.S. formally entered the war—in northern France when Lance Corporal Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman, best known as Tommen Baratheon on the HBO juggernaut Game of Thrones) and Lance Corporal Schofield (George MacKay) are called into their superior’s bunker. The troops at the front line are about to walk into an ambush, they’re told by a General Erinmore (Colin Firth).

They plan to go on the offensive and attack the German forces, who appear to be retreating, but it’s a trap. 1,600 lives are at risk and the only way to get news to the operation’s commanding officer is for Blake and Schofield to hand-deliver a letter. They must exit the trenches, cross No-Man’s Land, get through the German encampments and then also a town, and then head down river to the woods where the men are preparing for what they don’t know is a certain slaughter.

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