![]() ![]() Though he told Mendes many bloody stories, it was this image that lingered: a tiny soldier set against the vastness of a war. The filmmaker had mined the concept from his grandfather who fought in the war at 17 and who, at dusk one day, ran a message across the barren landscape. Mendes had titled the project 1917, a simple name for a seemingly simple concept: two British soldiers carry a message across No Man’s Land, warning of an enemy trap. And behind him was director Sam Mendes, then in the early stages of his boldest production and beginning to wonder whether he was making a terrible, terrible mistake. Behind them, a white-haired man with a long face and a puffer jacket strolled along, cradling a camera, trying to fit the boys into a single frame. ![]() In January, on the rainy fields of Salisbury Plain, two young men dressed in WWI infantry uniforms walked and muttered, walked and muttered, holding scripts. ![]()
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