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Pics From The Set Of ATONEMENT!! WWII Era Devastation, Carnage, And Standing Around!!
Stevo sent in some pictures from the set of director Joe Wright's adaptation of ATONEMENT.
The film stars Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, and Vanessa Redgrave & is based on a novel by Ian McEwan (you can read more about the book "http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038572179X/sr=8-1/qid=1156351931/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5018787-1415867?ie=UTF8"
target=parent>HERE. Wright recently directed Knightley in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
It's impossible to gauge the final product based on such snapshots, but I'm really liking the vibe of these images. The look of the project feels...right. What do you folks think?
This top image is of Dunkirk, by the way...
THANK YOU for your time and effort, Stevo!
ATONEMENT should begin its U.S. release 'round August of next year.
target=parent>HERE. Wright recently directed Knightley in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
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Bring on Spielberg and Hanks' sequel to Band Of Brothers!!!
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as a loose philosophical sequel to Starship Troopers, except set in the past. i'm not quite sure how they're going to make that work.
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Aug 23, 2006 1:16:04 PM CDT
So this is about Operation Dynamo? About time we get...
by iamjack'suserid
...some British aspects of the war. Dunkirk was a rough one, with the Germans giving the Brits a boot out to the sea.
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...if Optimus Prime in this?
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No I really can't.
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WW2 ended decades ago! Get the fuck over it already!!
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One of the main characters in the novel takes part in the retreat to Dunkirk. But it's not really a story about Dunkirk or the war at all.
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Let the wounds heal before making these stupid movies.
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Hollywood goes back to the 1939-45 well... I *would* like to see a modern day or futuristic 'what if' flick where the Nazis won the war. That would be cool. Make it happen Hollywood. Now!
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Talk about perfect casting! I wonder if she had to gain wieght to get the part?
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Shes just another competent pretty face. Nothing special and her trouble to actually emote on screen may hinder any real future plans she may have as an actress
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Looks more like WWI costumes and vehicles to me...
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Lucas might send the boys round to 'buy you out'... Also you might get yourself into some F/X and F/X 2 The Deadly Art of Illusion style hijinx. Where is Bryan Brown these days...?
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A lot of people loved it; a lot of people were very pissed off come the end. I wonder how the film will adapt this most tricky aspect of the novel.
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Should've checked around before making a bonehead comment. Go about your business...nothing to see here...
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Keira has a naked swordfight with a giant Nazi dinosaur. Who says WWII is boring?
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Waiting for someone to mention she's the sexiest tomboy beanpole -_-
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That's ok man. I was going to post the same thing. I still think it looks like WWI actually.
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which I Profoundly disagree. He said that he would never shoot outisde the uk and would only use british casts and crews. Well when hollywood comes calling with the enormous paycheque for his services. He like all other brit film makers, will shoot american movies with american casts and crews, in the US and under the hollywood system. I hate that sortof jingoism from the brits. Hollywood is where things are done and get made. the brits dont have any studio system.
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Guys and geeks I have just got back from the set in Redcar England. it's just finished shooting and I can tell you, it's fucking amazing. Joe Wright the director just thanked us for our time and told us the shots we filmed will take your breath away. I was an extra on this movie, it has been a long few days for what I belive to be three shots in the movie, but its been worth it for the experience. I will not spoil it but yesterday we did a four and a half minute shot were the camera follows the actors through the set on the beach with no cuts. there was a lot of crew there from saving privite ryan. trust me it shud be special, with the sun setting behind us..watch out for the guy sat on a parked motor bike playing cards...its me, somthing I will never forget.
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The book is great. One of the best i've read. Modern classic. Ian McEwan is off the hook, yo. Fo shizzy.
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Glad you enjoyed yourself. Will you sign my internet? Glad its lovely, will it tell a great story in a great way? I hope.
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I loved the book up until the very end, which seemed like such a tacked on, unnecessary "gotcha". I am excited to see how it is handled in the film though.
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She'd make a good Fuhrer.
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Had to be said.
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and not to Bryan Singer. BA-BAM! http://tinyurl.com/po8py. OK I'm bored.
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but enganged will do to!
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"tommy boy beanpole"? maybe tomboy. chris farley was hardly beanpole-ish.
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hehe I actually thought the same thing at first, man. I think what threw us was the Tommy (English) helmets, which didn't evolve much in design from the first World War. You have no excuse on the vehicles, though. Those are definitely WW2 pedigree. WWI's primary mode of transport on the battlefield was still train and horseback (basically, the Civil War with machine guns).
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...*I* thought they were WWI, too. When I first saw them. Even said it out loud.
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I wasn't piling on!
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just calm down man, don't get all excited and stuff
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Consider me the most NickToon-addled, PSP-bloodshot 11 y/o pop culture sponge that ever caught repeat matinees of Chicken Little and Hoodwinked...
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Just a preemptive strike and shit ...
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I'm not asking for The Patriot 2 (esp with Mel's recent baggage), but from the Boston Massacre to John Paul Jones, the material for great, stirring movies is there.
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a jealous vindictive bitch of a girl who does something bad to her older sister and the man her sister loves. The war really is only a backdrop to the story. The jealous vindictive bitch of a girl also has a schoolgirl type crush on said man.
Then the jealous vindictive bitch of a girl grows up a bit and feels BAD about what she did..that's what the book is all about, they way she feels BAD about what she did and how she tries to make amends. -
Those do look like WW1 "Doughboy" uniforms. Those sure aren't WW2 helmets. I just saw Blue Max recently and was BLOWN AWAY. Graphic depiction of World War 1 both on the ground and in the sky. And for a 1966 film, a surprising amount of blood. If you're sick of WW2, rent Blue Max. I swear the dogfights were the most epic I have ever seen.
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... including their helmets and uniforms. I remember reading that the American prisoners in the Phillipines being rescued by U.S. Army Rangers couldn't recognize the Rangers as Americans at first, because the uniforms had changed so much since their capture.
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really? until this talkback, i've never heard of anyone who didn't love it. yes, the ending isn't, uh, conventional (to use non-spoilerish terms) but it's pretty much the entire point of the book. without the ending, it'd be just another wartime romance period-drama.
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Hitler as a young boy.
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will Kiera be using her 'trademark' mock british accent? 'cause if she is then I'll steer well clear. Personally speaking, to an englishman, there is nothing more grating to my ears than the la-dee-daa english accent effected by modern britsh actors (see Kiera and Orlando specifically). I once heard Kiera speak in her normal dialect and I thought it was beautiful adn ,get this hollywood movie hacks, actually understandable. not everyone outside of the uk would require britsh actors to overpronounce every f'n syllable and speak like the queen!!
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...every single american actor that starred in a film had to adopt the U.S. equivalent of Queens English. British people have beautiful dialects most of them really nice to listen too with the exception of a few!
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"I *would* like to see a modern day or futuristic 'what if' flick where the Nazis won the war"...Besides the shitty Philidelphia Project 2, there was that HBO movie Fatherland. It takes place in 1960s Germany. Germany won the war in Europe and forced America into a stalemated truce. If I remember the plot vaguely, some guy discovers evidence of the final solution (which was covered up). Germany is on the eve of a new trade treaty with the US or something like that, which Hitler is really eager to sign, so keeping the solution stuff under wraps is critical. Guy ends up being on the run from SS and even his own kid, who turns him in like all loyal citizens are expected to do.
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Check out the wartime photos of British soldiers at Dunkirk on the website below, and you'll find that the helmets used in the movie are correct.
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I agree that the whole point of the novel is summed up in the ending, but i feel like the way that it was handled was a little tacked on. I love it otherwise, and even love the idea of the ending. BUT I don't think McEwan presented the twist in an effective way.
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