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Não há muitos filmes conhecidos sobre a Primeira Guerra
Mundial, comparando com os que há sobre a Segunda.
Sam Mendes, o realizador de 1917, durante muito tempo guardou uma ideia sobre um mensageiro de guerra inspirada no seu avô (Alfred Mendes), que combateu na Primeira Guerra Mundial e era um mensageiro entre postos. Eventualmente, decidiu começar a investigar e, com a coescritora Krysty Wilson-Cairns, encontrou um ponto na história da guerra que poderiam utilizar para não só fazer um filme diferente e cativante como também homenagear todos aqueles que lá combateram.
A história passa-se em 1917 quando dois soldados, Scofield
(George Mackay) e Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), têm a missão de em menos de 8
horas levar uma mensagem para outro posto para impedir o ataque planeado aos
alemães, que fizeram uma retirada estratégica, e salvar 1600 vidas, incluindo a
do irmão de Blake. Para isso, têm de atravessar descampados e trincheiras
inimigas e esperar não sofrer nenhuma emboscada. É um enredo fundamentalmente
simples, que com o trabalho de todos os outros departamentos funcionou
perfeitamente bem.
Roger Deakins foi o diretor de fotografia deste filme, e é
considerado um dos melhores nesta profissão, e como cinematógrafo defende que
“temos de construir uma jornada para a câmara que seja tão interessante como a
jornada do ator”. Para trabalhar com a ideia de Sam Mendes, Deakins
apercebeu-se de que a câmara iria seguir os atores até um certo ponto e por
isso nunca poderia fazer o movimento de andar para trás. A solução que arranjou
foi realizar movimentos de 360º, que não fariam um visível corte brusco. Ganhou em 2020 o Óscar de Melhor Fotografia.
1917 é um filme sobre uma amizade e o que acontece com ela. Blake é o coração do filme, é quem põe o enredo a acelerar. É um filme forte e o facto de parecer que somos transportados para dentro dele, que seguimos aqueles dois homens, torna-o ainda mais próximo da realidade.
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ENGLISH
There are not
a lot of known movies about the World War I, comparing to those about the
Second.
Sam Mendes, the
director of 1917, kept an idea about a war messenger inspired in his
grandfather (Alfred Mendes), who fought in the World War I and was a station
messenger. Eventually, he decided to investigate and, with the co-writer Krysty
Wilson-Cairns, found a point in the war history that could be used not only to
make a different and captivating movie but also to honor those who fought
there.
The story
takes place in 1917 when two soldiers, Scofield (George Mackay) and Blake (Dean-Charles
Chapman), have less than 8 hours to deliver a message to another post to stop
the attack that is planned, because the Germans made a strategic withdrawal,
and save 1600 lives, including Blake’s brother’s. To do that, they must go
through enemies’ open fields and trenches and hope to not suffer and ambush. Fundamentally
it is a very simple plot, that with the work from all the departments worked
out perfectly fine.
1917
was filmed with the “one shot” idea, in other words, to have just one scene,
with no interruptions or cuts, because Sam Mendes wanted the audience to feel
the best way possibly what is was like to be in the shoes of a soldier in the
trenches. Of course that it was not really filmed in one shot, but all the transitions
were studied to have that effect, and each scene could last up to about 10
minutes of film without cutting, almost like mini films. So, everything had to
be perfectly synchronized, the actors, the cameras, and the effects, and because
of that the preparation before actually start filming lasted about 6 months. There
were build models in scale for every place, because if one scene had 8 minutes
without cutting, the path of the soldiers had to match with exactly that time. After
studying the models, the sets had to be made from the scratch, knowing the
movements of the actors and considering that it had to have space for all the filming
equipment to go with them, the light angles and that no location ever repeats.
Roger Deakins
was the director of photography on this movie, and is considered to be one of
the best in his job, and as cinematographer he always says that “you have to
construct a journey for the camera that is as interesting as the journey of the
actor”. To work with Sam Mendes’ one shot idea, Deakins realized that the
camera would follow the actors to a certain point and because of that it could
never move back. The solution was moving 360 degrees, which would not make a
visible hard cut. It won in 2020 the Academy Award for Best Photography.
1917
is a movie about a friendship and what happens with it. Blake is the heart of
the movie; he is the one who keeps the plot going. It is a very strong movie,
and the fact that we feel like we are transported into it, that we are following
those two young men, makes it even more close to reality.
TRAILER:
(Imagens | Pictures: https://www.noticiasdeleiria.pt/a-inspiracao-perto-de-casa-1917/ ; https://www.omelete.com.br/filmes/criticas/oscar-1917-critica-negativa ; https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/isabela-boscov/1917-lanca-a-plateia-no-desespero-da-guerra-sem-pausa/ ; https://nofilmschool.com/stabileye-stabilizer-1917 )
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