{"id":4982,"date":"2020-01-24T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bracketyackrc.wpengine.com\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2020-01-24T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T13:00:37","slug":"1917-a-one-shot-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4982","title":{"rendered":"1917: A One-Shot Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Charissa Roberson<\/em><\/p>\n

At first glance, the most impressive aspect of Sam Mendes\u2019 new film \u201c1917\u201d is its appearance of being one long tracking shot. The film follows two young British soldiers in WWI, who are tasked with delivering a message which will save hundreds of lives. As they cross miles of treacherous territory, the camera appears to follow them without pause for the full two-hour runtime. Although this is not actually the case, the film\u2019s many segments are edited together seamlessly. In order to achieve this one-shot effect, the creators of \u201c1917\u201d rehearsed for six months prior to shooting, as star George McKay shares in an interview with Rotten Tomatoes. Every movement of the actors had to be choreographed in relation to the movement of the camera\u2014and, with no help from editing, any mistake would result in having to start the entire sequence over again. As director-writer Mendes says in a behind-the-scenes featurette, \u201cThe challenges of prepping this movie are the challenges of prepping a normal movie, times about five.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, despite the astounding technological accomplishments of \u201c1917\u201d, one of the most amazing aspects is that you hardly notice the one-shot technique at all. Far from being just for show, the tracking camera serves the story incredibly well. \u201cIf you told it in a conventional way,\u201d says producer Callum McDougall, \u201cI don\u2019t think you would have felt the energy.\u201d Instead of cutting scenes short or using editing to relieve intense moments, the audience is forced to live through every movement as the soldiers do. \u201cFrom the very beginning, I felt this movie should be told in real time,\u201d says Mendes. \u201cEvery step of the journey, breathing every breath with these men.\u201d Full of poignant emotion, breathtaking cinematography, and raw humanity, \u201c1917\u201d pulls you in from the moment it begins until the credits roll\u2014and even afterwards, the experience of seeing this film is not easy to shake.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Charissa Roberson At first glance, the most impressive aspect of Sam Mendes\u2019 new film \u201c1917\u201d is its appearance of being one long tracking shot. The film follows two young British soldiers in WWI, who are tasked with delivering a message which will save hundreds of lives. As they cross miles of treacherous territory,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}