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To say that those soldiers fought for a free and unified Europe is a bit of a stretch. A lot of them had no idea what they were fighting for, many others were doing it for king and country, and many others were forced to. Apart from that, I really appreciated this analysis

The “one shot” drives home the reality of how quickly life throws the unexpected our way.

The one shot style makes the viewer feel like the 3rd person in the group. There were so many times I was trying to look over hills and around corners and felt like I was there.

I’ve never been so entrenched in the POV of a protagonist through a film. This was a truly special experience for me and probably my favorite film of the year.

Movie made the viewers feel the war through the lens of the soldiers and live it and it was great.

"War has no winners, only victims"

Loved that movie! 1. The one-take shot gives it a truly personal, intimate journey feeling. 2. Two unknown actors are given big roles while big name actors have mere cameos, that I loved. 3. How many WW1 movies do we have compared to WW2? 4. That it's inspired by one man's stories rather than by a big, well-known event gives it an even more intimate sense.

I loved this film and the people saying it's a gimmick and there's no character development are so frustrating. Schofield goes from being reluctant and even angry to be chosen for the mission to complete devotion to it. George MacKay's acting and subtle transformation is absolutely brilliant.

This film had me in it's first 10 minutes..with the 2 men starting out chilling against a country backdrop underneath a tree...and then as they walk the scenery transitions into gradually increasing grimness as you release they are walking back into the trenches and the front lines. You are right about WWI fading from memory, at least here in America. We didn't get involved in it, until relatively late and isn't near as much a part of our consciousness as WWII. It's over 100 years ago now, but it was the first 'modern' 20th century war. It transformed Europe as it marked the end of the Romanov Dynasy, the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires. This film and "They Shall Not Grow Old" brought this conflict back to life and it is important to remember.

Anyone calling it a "gimmick" in the first place has no idea how much hard work and effort is being put into this amazing film.

It was like being in someone else's nightmare, that you couldn't wake up from. It was such an emersive movie. I found myself not blinking enough. I can't recommended seeing this movie in theaters more. Do not skip this to just watch at home.

this movie was so engaging that it took me shockingly long time to realize that it was a long take. I hadn't even noticed.

3:22 "These men were fighting for a free and UNIFIED Europe." That is perhaps the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

This film is the antidote to EVERYTHING that is wrong with modern films: The endless micro edits and jump cuts, the cartoonish cgi, the lack of character development, the failure to develop a narrative, the repetitiveness, the bland endings, the weak stories,

Fun fact: that scene at the end when the main character is running and runs straight into another soldier & falls, that was completely unscripted. It accidentally happened during one of the takes and they decided to leave it in.

The Take: Meanwhile Mendez casts some of Britain's most recognizable male actors like Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Andrew Scott as officers. Mark Strong: Am I a joke to you?

Thanks guys! The only way to make this video more perfect would be if your video had a run time of 19:17.

Still waiting for the analysis on Jojo Rabbit... (This video is heckin interesting btw, great job!)

I was so amazed by the inmersion feel I got when I first saw it, how emotionally distressed it made me when it was over that I really hesitated on watching it again, but the entire thing is such a masterpiece I can't let it be taken out of the cinema without watching it again, and I would encourage anyone to watch it just for the opportunity to experience true cinema and be amazed just like in the old days

I'm so glad I watched this movie in theaters. The sounds of the explosions were so loud that it made me jump in my seat and cover my ears every time there was a loud bang! Especially *spoiler* the scene where the rat trips the bomb trap. Having suddenly heard such a load explosion had me shaken up just like the characters, which added to the intensity of the scene! Everything in this film just immerses you, I really felt like I was walking behind Lance Corporals Schofield the whole time.

Honestly it felt like a videogame. A thrilling and emotional one.

So much yes. It seems the film is getting backlash, but this video explains the brilliance of 1917 better than anyone else has so far. Thank you!

My favourite actor, George Mackay, is in this. I loved it, Oscar worthy performances. I might actually be upset if they don't win anything because it's that /good./

I'm begging you to go see It in theaters in you haven't yet. Let's give my boy Roger Deakins a financial success

Sincerely hope that they bring back the long shot to films. Older works have an elegance, a sophistication that could all possibly be related to the long shot and which collectively had us call it the Golden Age of Cinematography. So glad and thankful that these people had the mammoth sized balls to use it so thoroughly and ended up creating a masterpiece.

That background music is so noble and angelic ❤️ Thank you, ladies! 🌹 I’m always so happy to watch your masterpieces, I mean analysis! ❤️

This was such an amazing video ! Thank you for your work !

I was wondering if 1917 was one shot as I saw it on theater. It's just an amazing film. There are really no words to describe how wonderfully thrilling, meaningful and beautiful this movie is.

Just saw this movie yesterday and I was amazed by it ! And your analysis (and answers) is also very intersting and amazing ! :D

I felt the movie needed another 15 minutes or so at the end of the film. The first 2 acts are incredibly well paced, but the 3rd act just comes and goes entirely too quick. Given it's technical aspects, adding any extra time would be a big challenge, but it's my only flaw of the film.

This is such a good video! Its like a small documentary and love letter to/about the movie.

I love your channel and I was hoping you’d do a video on 1917. A cinematic masterpiece!!

There is a beautiful italian poem, "Soldiers" (written by Giuseppe Ungaretti during WW1), which I immediately thought of when I saw the film. Here it is: "Si sta come/ d'autunno/ sugli alberi/ le foglie" --> We are as / in autumn / on branches / the leaves

I was just thinking today how much I'd like you guys to do one on 1917...

6:00 Blake is played by Dean-Charles Chapman who played King Tommen I Baratheon in Game of Thrones Season 4-6.

Spectacular observation and breakdown

1:31 Paths of Glory

this movie looks amazing i really need to check this out. thanks for the video!

Should’ve been an Oscar winner ...

Sam Mendes should be commended for this amazing piece of filmmaking. ScreenRant said 34, I counted at least 38.

I keep saying that 1917 should have won the Oscar for Best Picture. It wholly deserved it.

I love all your videos! Could you do one on Knives Out? Would love to know your take on it!

A message about saving ourselves from reckless and tragic waste of human life, told through the lens of cinema by way of a story about delivering a message; inspired by the tales recounted by the director's own grandfather, who was a messenger during a costly war. It's beautiful really.

I really loved the movie. I would definitely watch it again.

For the record I am relatively young, and I certainly was a member of the "young audience" when I first watched the 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front, and I still find it incredibly immersive and really impactful. I watched it in the early 2010s and I was perhaps 21 or so.

YESSSSSS SO GLAD YOU DID THIS AMAZING MOVIE

The main star of the movie is the camera.

My dad saw this and couldn't quite put a finger on what he liked about this movie in particular. Maybe by sending a link to this video, he will be able to :-)

Watched this movie last night....Absolutely Amazing

A fantastic film in countless ways.

Russian Ark actually WAS done in one long, long, looong take. No stitching. Check it out.

Not fighting for a unified Europe, as difficult in can be for today's children people to understand, they were fighting for King and Country. That was a time when that actually meant all to men then.

what song plays during the mubi ad and what movie is the shot of a dancing woman from? thanks

Can you please do a film analysis on Power (2014-2020)

Allow me to over-analyse this film. The film is basically supposed to look like two long shots. There's a break in between when our guy exchanges shots with a German soldier. Why was this break there? According to an interview, Sam Mendes said that he wanted this break because he wanted to show a shift in time from morning to evening. There was no option other than to have a cut. He also said that he wanted to give this second half a "dreamlike" feel to it. Now, I found the second part of that explanation especially interesting. Was a cut really needed to signify a change in time? Was the change in time itself that necessary? Think about it. Surely for all the effort that was put in order to make the two big shots, it wouldn't have been that hard to avoid that cut. Maybe he could've just taken a shot around the building, or just do a wall stare scene like in Taxi Driver. So here's my theory. In the exchange both people die. The second half of the movie which looks "dreamlike" and almost surreal is just a hallucination that our guy has during the last moments of his life. He survives the head injury and the shot, he meets a scared woman and child and gives them food, he dodges multiple shots from a number of enemies, he makes it through a waterfall, he runs through bombs and grenades. He successfully warns the others AND manages to see his friend's brother ALIVE. Now doesn't all that sound a bit too good to be true?

Speaking of one-shot movie, you should make video or watch a movie called One Cut of the Dead

That blossom sure is beautiful

Took ma awhile to realize that that was Tommen from GoT

The film is engrossing and gorgeous to look at but most importantly the acting is phenomenal

Jojo Rabit next please!!!! 🙏 (what an amazing analysis, as usual ❤️)

I can't say that I have yet FULLY experienced losing someone "close" to me. But what I felt during Blake's death, was new and had not been felt before by me in a movie. Especially not for a character that died after 40 minutes of screen time and almost zero dialog by comparable standards. That tells you something.

Loved this movie. Would love to see a one shot type movie in 3D

Hey Take , Can you please cover an analysis on Suits Tv series. It's a brilliant series with pretty awesome characters. Haven't seen much of it on youtube tho. Would like you to cover it ❤️♥️

PLEASE DO JOJO RABBIT -from an avid fan of this channel and this director

Will you be doing a video on Sense8?

The first two acts are fantastic, last act was just aight

I sometimes wish the Academy could wait five years and then award the best film to the one that has stood the test of time - I feel that eventually this one will be regarded as the film most worthy of the Best Picture Oscar and that Parasite benefited from the political winds of that moment.

Good point, I want to mention: Shell shock includes not just PTSD but nerve damage caused by the concussion of the explosion

When you said that people are gradually forgetting about the FirstWorld War, it really got me. Like said in the video, many people who fought in the Great War are not with us anymore and that is just depressing. We need to know and remember what WWI was like and the psychological effects, just as much as any other wars that occurred afterwards. The soldiers back then, were young and innocent and they had no idea what they were going into. 1917 did, what I thought was, an amazing job in communicating with me the horrors of the war and not knowing when you could be facing danger. It's not over until it's over.

My only flaw with the movie was sometimes the dialogue was a bit on the nose and explanatory, like where the characters told each other what they would need to do next, but I guess the average movie-goer would need pointers like that

I loved the film as for me it is most personal when the story is simple yet great idea in terms of taking the viewer through the horrible path of war along with the characters. You sort of feel like the silent third soldier sent in with the main two. I have always been interested in seeing what happens over the trenches and the first hour was the most thrilling, because personally I only got to imagine this having read books on ww1. We definitely need more POVs movies on the subject of ww1 as there are so many lifes that intersected over the 4 years, so many forgotten heroes.

I like the one take.

Too bad MUBI never shows anything even close to this level of quality.

I believe you should have talked about the scene with the mother and child. I believe it’s pivotal to the film.

Shot stupidly well. You can tell where they performed certain wipes but some scenes, I had no idea how they accomplished it. I thought the characters and plot were severely lacking though.

A good technical made movie.

« the goal was to make people forgot about the camera » Me for 2 hours straight: how the fuck did they do that, wow, cool cool cool

I’d say WW2 was fighting for a more unified Europe rather than WW1

One of the best movies I have set my eyes on. Powerful stuff

What movie showed WWI trenches? Paths of Glory.

I hate war movies but had to go see this in the theater after I heard about it having super long shots. Very glad I did. I was only disappointed with how the 1st guy died. I was so mad when they helped the guy from the plane. They didn't have time for all that, then boom. He deserved a better death. I cried that he had to die for being a good guy. I guess that was the point but he could had diedfor someone worth saying so it wouldn't have felt so stupid. He took his mission so seriously it didn't make sense that he would risk his life for the enemy.. But more importantly, how did y'all leave out Mark Strong?!?!?!

Cool

Movie at 11:06?

"Free and unified Europe".......what a lot of nonsense and typical of the glib, facile and ahistorical analysis common in the US understanding of world history.

It felt like a never-ending cut scene in a videogame. Props on the cinematography magic, but I like writing better.

Wow here before 1000

If you liked this movie you should watch Peter Jackson's "They shall not grow old". You'll love it!

I remember seeing RUSSIAN ARK on it's release, then the longest single take film ever made, over 45 min. As much as I admire the work of Roger Deakins and Sam Mendes, I could not get involved or go the whole distance of 1917. Primarily because of the dizzying effect of the constantly moving camera. Did the film makers create a rod for their own back in their quest to convey a "real time" experience in minimizing the use of traditional screen grammar of cutting? Much is made of in-camera editing and the avoidance of unnecessary unjustified camera movement, yet ironically and paradoxically, the whole film is shot in almost drone like FPV fashion. The camera in fact never stops moving. For that reason, I cannot help but feel the constant seemingly contradictive and curious statements as regards "justified" camera movement. In the very first scene breakdown of the briefing session, the clever solution to avoid repositioning the camera for a traditional reverse reaction shot, is to have the actors move around while the camera moves in. From then on it's on the move constantly, with sets being painstakingly designed and constructed so as to keep the camera moving just to avoid cutting the running shot or "MOVING" the camera? You can't have it both ways, especially in an intensive dialogue laden narrative drama. An interesting analysis of a flawed philosophical concept from it's inception. Not all Directors are equally gifted at Writing. I may have to revisit 1917, for another attempt to stay the distance, not for the drama, but purely for the technical achievements in all the respective departments.

War Horse isn’t Disney, it’s Dreamworks.

I thought Russian Ark was the first film to be shot in one take

And in a matter of hours it’s gonna be Best Picture 😀

Mark my words: this movie is a masterpiece and it’s going to win Best Picture. If it doesn’t then this comment isn’t going to age well Edit: This didn’t age well

So...we shouldn't watch old war movies? What!!!!

1917 remains films most high masterpiece. Good luck all other film makers. Not sure that one can be topped. It’s the zenith of this type of storytelling.

And then there’s Liam Neeson jumping a fence.

can anybody name the movie at 7:34 for me? thanks in advance :)

1917 is just amazing

Love Peaky Blinders

Eeehh??? What about mister Strong? The main character in "Sherlock Holmes"..... quite a bit more famous,than the " Blake-brother"....