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* CreepyCrows: One clip shows a magpie [[MagpiesAsPortents (just one, fittingly)]] investigating a group of wounded men--perhaps to see whether they're still alive.
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* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Several soldiers admit to lying about their age in order to join up.
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* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Several soldiers admit to lying about their age in order to join up. (One recounts being ''pressured'' to lie about his age, by one of the "white-feather brigades.")
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** British soldiers in the film unanimously describe the captured Germans as good people who were really [[NotSoDifferent no different from themselves]]. They note how the Germans were relieved to be captured and often volunteered as stretcher-bearers without being asked.
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** British soldiers in the film unanimously describe the captured Germans as good people who were really [[NotSoDifferent [[MirroringFactions no different from themselves]]. They note how the Germans were relieved to be captured and often volunteered as stretcher-bearers without being asked.
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** [[TheSpeedOfSilents Adjusting the reel speed]] for all the footage since it was all shot by hand. Conventional projection speeds had rendered motion either ridiculously sped up or slowed down for decades, but they took the time to find what looked like the right rate of motion.
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** [[TheSpeedOfSilents Adjusting the reel speed]] speed for all the footage since it was all shot by hand. Conventional projection speeds had rendered motion either ridiculously sped up or slowed down for decades, but they took the time to find what looked like the right rate of motion.
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* PrefersRocksToPillows: One soldier recounts how when he got home, he slept in a bed for the first time since joining the army. When his mother brought him tea, she found him sleeping on the floor.
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The film focuses on the common British soldiers' experiences rather than providing a detailed overview of the war. The visuals rely on archive footage that has been digitally restored and {{colorized}} in an attempt to show the war as the soldiers saw it. Instead of traditional documentary-style narration by presenters or historians, the film only uses the recorded voices of numerous British veterans who were interviewed about their experiences. Sound effects and voice acting are also added to the war footage to provide an immersive experience.
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The film focuses on the common British soldiers' experiences rather than providing a detailed overview of the war. The visuals rely on archive footage that has been digitally restored and {{colorized}} given {{colorization}} in an attempt to show the war as the soldiers saw it. Instead of traditional documentary-style narration by presenters or historians, the film only uses the recorded voices of numerous British veterans who were interviewed about their experiences. Sound effects and voice acting are also added to the war footage to provide an immersive experience.
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-> ''"Between 1914 and 1918, a global conflict changed the course of history. The people who experenced it did not live in a silent, black and white world."''
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-> ''"Between 1914 and 1918, a global conflict changed the course of history. The people who experenced experienced it did not live in a silent, black and white world."''
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The film focuses on the common British soldiers' experiences rather than providing a detailed overview of the war. The visuals rely on archive footage that has been digitally restored and colorized in an attempt to show the war as the soldiers saw it. Instead of traditional documentary-style narration by presenters or historians, the film only uses the recorded voices of numerous British veterans who were interviewed about their experiences. Sound effects and voice acting are also added to the war footage to provide an immersive experience.
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The film focuses on the common British soldiers' experiences rather than providing a detailed overview of the war. The visuals rely on archive footage that has been digitally restored and colorized {{colorized}} in an attempt to show the war as the soldiers saw it. Instead of traditional documentary-style narration by presenters or historians, the film only uses the recorded voices of numerous British veterans who were interviewed about their experiences. Sound effects and voice acting are also added to the war footage to provide an immersive experience.
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* {{Colorization}}: The film was meticulously restored from the original documentary footage, and they made the effort to match things like the uniform colors to what they could find in the archives.
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** Adjusting the reel speed for all the footage since it was all shot by hand. Conventional projection speeds had rendered motion either ridiculously sped up or slowed down for decades, but they took the time to find what looked like the right rate of motion.
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** [[TheSpeedOfSilents Adjusting the reel speed speed]] for all the footage since it was all shot by hand. Conventional projection speeds had rendered motion either ridiculously sped up or slowed down for decades, but they took the time to find what looked like the right rate of motion.
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** A soldier notes how the German Snipers would shoot but intentionally avoid hitting anyone.
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** A soldier notes how the German Snipers snipers would shoot but intentionally avoid hitting anyone.
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* SameContentDifferentRating: The DVD is rated 15 in the UK and 12 in the Republic of Ireland.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: It's briefly mentioned that the Saxons and Bavarians generally disliked the Prussians.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: It's briefly mentioned that the Saxons and Bavarians generally disliked the Prussians.Prussians.
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*** Then they dug through the Imperial Archives to find filed paperwork associated with said unit around that time.
*** THEN they confirmed the date the film was shot to match it with the propaganda speeches in the archives. Miraculously, they found a speech that matched up with the recording date!
*** ''THEN'' they could begin recording audio for the speaker on screen.
*** THEN they confirmed the date the film was shot to match it with the propaganda speeches in the archives. Miraculously, they found a speech that matched up with the recording date!
*** ''THEN'' they could begin recording audio for the speaker on screen.
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*** Then Next they dug through the Imperial Archives to find filed paperwork associated with said unit around that time.
***THEN Then they confirmed the date the film was shot to match it with the propaganda speeches in the archives. Miraculously, they found a speech that matched up with the recording date!
***''THEN'' Finally, they could begin recording audio for the speaker on screen.
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-> ''"Between 1914 and 1918, a global conflict changed the course of history. The people who experenced it did not live in a silent, black and white world."''
-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrabKK9Bhds The film's trailer]]'''
-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrabKK9Bhds The film's trailer]]'''
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: One of the most galling memories recalled by one of the veterans is of coming home at war's end and having his father arguing with him over the details of the conflict when only one of them was actually there.
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* ShownTheirWork: In the accompanying "making-of" material at the end of the film, Peter Jackson chronicles the process of making the film, including:
** Parsing through hundreds of hours of film footage and interviews with soldiers and splicing them together to give the average Tommy's experience from enlistment to demobilization.
** Adjusting the reel speed for all the footage since it was all shot by hand. Conventional projection speeds had rendered motion either ridiculously sped up or slowed down for decades, but they took the time to find what looked like the right rate of motion.
** Colourizing the film using Jackson's own collection of WWI uniforms and snapshots he took of the French and Belgian countryside - sometimes even the exact locations where footage was filmed - for colour reference.
** Capturing sounds from Jackson's collection of WWI artillery pieces and drilling exercises by the New Zealand Army.
** Recruiting professional lip readers to interpret any dialogue captured in the footage, then hiring British voice actors from the same regions those soldiers came from to provide authentically accented voiceovers.
** The lengths the team went through just to create the "pep talk" scene. A reel of film that has been used in multiple documentaries in the past 30 years shows a company of soldiers in a line, listening as an officer reads something off a paper to them- but it's a silent film, so no one has known what he was saying since the film was shot over a hundred years ago. The whole team basically reverse-engineer the audio of the scene:
*** First they identified the unit listening to the speech based off their uniforms.
*** Then they dug through the Imperial Archives to find filed paperwork associated with said unit around that time.
*** THEN they confirmed the date the film was shot to match it with the propaganda speeches in the archives. Miraculously, they found a speech that matched up with the recording date!
*** ''THEN'' they could begin recording audio for the speaker on screen.
** Parsing through hundreds of hours of film footage and interviews with soldiers and splicing them together to give the average Tommy's experience from enlistment to demobilization.
** Adjusting the reel speed for all the footage since it was all shot by hand. Conventional projection speeds had rendered motion either ridiculously sped up or slowed down for decades, but they took the time to find what looked like the right rate of motion.
** Colourizing the film using Jackson's own collection of WWI uniforms and snapshots he took of the French and Belgian countryside - sometimes even the exact locations where footage was filmed - for colour reference.
** Capturing sounds from Jackson's collection of WWI artillery pieces and drilling exercises by the New Zealand Army.
** Recruiting professional lip readers to interpret any dialogue captured in the footage, then hiring British voice actors from the same regions those soldiers came from to provide authentically accented voiceovers.
** The lengths the team went through just to create the "pep talk" scene. A reel of film that has been used in multiple documentaries in the past 30 years shows a company of soldiers in a line, listening as an officer reads something off a paper to them- but it's a silent film, so no one has known what he was saying since the film was shot over a hundred years ago. The whole team basically reverse-engineer the audio of the scene:
*** First they identified the unit listening to the speech based off their uniforms.
*** Then they dug through the Imperial Archives to find filed paperwork associated with said unit around that time.
*** THEN they confirmed the date the film was shot to match it with the propaganda speeches in the archives. Miraculously, they found a speech that matched up with the recording date!
*** ''THEN'' they could begin recording audio for the speaker on screen.
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* BroadStrokes: Jackson quickly decided to make a very generalized view of the western front experience, using no specific dates or names, to give a better feel of being in the middle of it. The battle sequence near the end is an amalgamation of accounts from numerous battles across the entire war, with Jackson reasoning there wouldn't be that much difference being in such a battle in 1914 or 1917.
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* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: "They shall grow not old, as we that are left behind grow old." It's a line from the 1914 poem "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon, which is used in the "Ode of Remembrance" at WWI memorials. Note the small change between the original poem and the film title.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "They shall grow not old, as we that are left behind grow old." It's a line from the 1914 poem "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon, which is used in the "Ode of Remembrance" at WWI memorials. Note the small change between the original poem and the film title.
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''They Shall Not Grow Old'' is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne documentary by Creator/PeterJackson released in 2018 in commemoration of the centenary of the war's conclusion.
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''They Shall Not Grow Old'' is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne UsefulNotes/WorldWarI documentary by Creator/PeterJackson released in 2018 in commemoration of the centenary of the war's conclusion.
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* FireBreathingWeapon: One soldier's account describes his comrades' first encounter with a German armed with a flame thrower.
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* FireBreathingWeapon: One soldier's account describes his comrades' first encounter with a German armed with a flame thrower.flamethrower.
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** British soldiers in the film unanimously describe the captured Germans as good people who were really no different from themselves. They note how the Germans were relieved to be captured and often volunteered as stretcher-bearers without being asked.
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** British soldiers in the film unanimously describe the captured Germans as good people who were really [[NotSoDifferent no different from themselves.themselves]]. They note how the Germans were relieved to be captured and often volunteered as stretcher-bearers without being asked.
