Line #12 Trivia/Dunkirk


1	* AuthorsSavingThrow: Nolan confirming that the film will have "little dialogue" has seemed to win over people who felt Nolan's previous films relied too much on expository dialogue.
2	* CaliforniaDoubling: Some parts of the Netherlands doubled for Dunkirk, while the real town of Dunkirk was used as well.
3	* DarkhorseCasting: Creator/ChristopherNolan decided to cast young and unknown actors for the beach setting after hearing first-hand accounts of the evacuation that revealed how young and inexperienced the soldiers had been.
4	* DawsonCasting: George is 17, while the actor who plays him, Barry Keoghan, was 23 at the time of filming.
5	* DuelingWorks: With ''Film/{{Darkest Hour\|2017}}'' as both films are based on the Dunkirk evacuation. However, while ''Dunkirk'' is focused on the soldiers who were evacuated from the town, ''Darkest Hour'' focuses on Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the events at home. In a way, they complement each other instead of being rival productions.
6	* DyeingForYourArt: Much publicity came from Music/HarryStyles cutting his long curly hair short for his role.
7	* ExtremelyLengthyCreation: Nolan first had the idea for the film in 1992, but sat on it until he had experience making big-budget films (he took a similar approach with ''Film/{{Inception}}'', but without such a long interval). Production and post-production took a fairly typical length of time for a film of this scale.
8	* FakeBrit: Irishmen Creator/CillianMurphy and Creator/BarryKeoghan both use English accents.
9	* FakeNationality: [[spoiler:Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard plays Gibson, a French soldier disguised as a British one.]]
10	* FakeScot: Englishman Music/HarryStyles portrays a Scottish soldier.
11	* HeAlsoDid: After over a decade of exclusively directing sci-fi and superhero films, Nolan returned to more grounded and realistic territory with this film (indeed, being a reasonably historically accurate film based on real events it's his most realistic film so far). It also contains ''far'' less dialogue than his usual [[SpeechCentricWork dialogue-heavy]] films.
12	* ProductionPosse:
13	** Creator/ChristopherNolan has worked with Creator/CillianMurphy and Creator/TomHardy in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' and ''Film/{{Inception}}''. It is, however, his first film since ''Film/{{Insomnia}}'' not to feature Creator/MichaelCaine onscreen[[note]]he does have a voice cameo however[[/note]]. Nolan's uncle John also played in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', and has a cameo in ''Dunkirk'' as the blind old man who welcomes and congratulates British soldiers after they make it home.
14	** Music/HansZimmer does the music for the film, making this his sixth collaboration with Nolan.
15	** Hoyte van Hoytema returns as the cinematographer, having previously worked with Nolan on ''Film/{{Interstellar}}''.
16	** This marks the seventh time for both Lee Smith as an editor and Nathan Crowley as a production designer on Nolan's films. In a twist of surprising irony, he was also the Editor for the similarly acclaimed ''Film/NineteenSeventeen''.
17	** Nolan's wife Emma Thomas produces, as with the rest of his films.
18	* StarMakingRole: For newcomer Creator/FionnWhitehead. Music/HarryStyles is already known as one of Music/OneDirection's members, but ''Dunkirk'' is his first acting role. Barry Keoghan also rose to fame with this film, along with ''Film/TheKillingOfASacredDeer''.
19	* StuntCasting: Nolan claims that he had ''no idea'' that Music/HarryStyles was famous in another medium before he cast him, though whether you believe that is up to you.
20	* TaughtByExperience: When Dawson informs his son about shell shock (PTSD), he knows what he is talking about. Dawson is based upon Charles Lightoller. In case the name doesn't ring a bell, Lightoller was the senior surviving officer from the sinking of ''Titanic''. He was also a serving naval officer in World War I, having sunk at least one German submarine.
21	* UncreditedRole: Creator/MichaelCaine has a voice-only role as the flight leader of the three Spitfires, which is uncredited. Note he also played an RAF fighter pilot in ''Film/BattleOfBritain'' almost 50 years earlier.
22	* VoiceOnlyCameo: Creator/ChristopherNolan's regular collaborator Creator/MichaelCaine.
23	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Nolan initially wanted to make the film without an actual script, using the chronology of the evacuation to make up each scene on the spot.

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