Exclusive: 1917 director Sam Mendes explains why he wanted to tell a real-time battlefield story: “It was fundamentally an emotional choice.'
Mendes also provided some more insight into the story: “It is set in northern France during the spring of 1917, just at the point the Germans had retreated to the newly built and massively fortified Hindenburg Line. The British troops woke up one morning to find that the Germans had simply disappeared.
Designing the locations required just as much precision timing as the script for each set piece to connect. “Every location had to be exactly the correct length for the scene. We had to walk every step the characters would take long before we designed the sets and built them. I’ve never rehearsed a movie for as long, or in such detail.”
Most of the film was shot on Salisbury Plain in southern England, the same sloping grassland region where Stonehenge stands. “But we also shot at Glasgow docks in Scotland, on the River Tees in the north of England, and constructed nearly a mile of trenches at Bovingdon Airfield near London,” Mendes added.
To keep the cast and crew on track, the filmmaker said, two scripts were needed: “One with dialogue, descriptive prose, screen directions, the usual…and then an additional script made up entirely of schematics and maps—showing exactly where the camera would move and when, where the actors would be moving, which rig we would be shooting on and how we would move from one location to the next.”
Mendes will be at New York Comic Con on Thursday for a panel further showcasing how they pulled it off.
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