That shot going down the Crater and the camera went along the water. That was sick as hell!!! They could have followed them to the left. Nope, we’re going to do it the hard way
When they left their own trenches and moved across no man's land, that was one of the more chilling parts of the film, seeing all of the dead men strewn about, their horses, death scattered everywhere.
And that was the experience J. R. R. Tolkien took back with him (he served on the Western Front, I believe) when he created the Dead Marshes in the LOTR trilogy.
The whole No Man's Land sequence was almost unbearably tense. And it was simply two guys walking. All it took was the scenery, one-take (or clever editing) and a foreboding score.
I think the score made this scene 1000% more tense. Louder and faster, almost to the point where you’d feel anxious to see what’s on the other side of the trench
In way older movies they didn't have scores for most of the movies, if at all and would have to build suspense through acting and scenery alone. Even without color. The musical score is done masterfully here and ads a building on top of the movie. It's more impactful with the music but even without it some scenes would still do very well without it.
The whole sequence crossing no man's land was when I knew this was going to be a special movie. The commitment to never cutting surprised me, in that it forced the audience to see how these characters deal with a traumatic situation from moment to moment. It grounded the whole thing in a way I didn't expect.
My grandfather was killed in this war in this same year 1917. I have a photo of him and my grandmother on their wedding day, both young and beautiful, unaware of what was to come. When I was a young boy in the 1960s she once told me she still missed him.
@@low5738 Right above me hangs the photo of my great grandfather. He was captured by the British in 1916 and spend 4 years in captivity. If he had died back then, I wouldn't exist. He learned English as PoW and even later in his life he called "Kartoffeln" "potätesle" because in English it's potatoes. Life is crazy.
@@jacobpowers352 Wars don't end when the war is declared over. The affects reach far beyond for not only the lost but those injured as well. Blessings to your family sir.
Yeah, after watching They Shall Not Grow old and seeing how desolate no man’s land really was, I was impressed with how well Sam Mendez was able to recreate such a horrifying wasteland.
One detail that they added that made me happy was how the german trenches were better than the british ones, being less muddy and reinforced with concrete. This was because the german lines were built on a elevated position so it was less damp, and german high command decided to heavily invest into fortifying the trenches because they correctly guessed that the war will enter a stalemate, as opposed to the british who thought trench warfare would be temporary and only made temporary grade fortifications.
The didn't just assume it would be temporary, they full on wanted to make it as uncomfortable for their soldiers as they could to not be advancing. From what I understand, visiting officers would dismantle any improvements made for comfort where they could find them. 'You want out of the mud? Then defeat the Germans!' was the mindset.
The most horrifying thing for me about this movie were those corpses. Those were men once. Ordered to charge in another hopeless assault. And now their bodies lay there, forgotten and rotting away for months, maybe years, before another soldier just happens across them.
Sam: "There are dead things- ...dead faces in the water!" Gollum: "All dead, all rotting! Elves and men and orcses... A great battle long ago... the 'Dead Marshes;' yes, yes! That is the name! This way. Don't follow the lights!" (Sam stumbles on a puddle) Gollum: "Careful now! Or hobbits go down to join the dead ones and light little candles of their own!"
@@greenthunder1000 jeez. Heres the hothead who cant think outside their own brick skull. I mean theres more people who focus on WW2 and its impact and tend to not comment on WW1s impact. Its not necessarily totally forgotten, but its typically overshadowed by WW2. Sorry i didnt write a novel for my original comment so your thick head would not have gotten so worked up over it. My bad
Oh, and it wouldnt just be the bodies, though that likely would be the worst. Those trenches and craterz would have been occupied for months and the accumulation of piss and feces would have been impressive. They would have taken steps to dispose with latrines etc, but sometimes when a soldier has to go and he cant leave his post....
I love the hard work, cinematography, score, visual details put into this scene. But what really makes me love it even more is that they decided to go with “Fuck me! They really have gone!” That’s exactly what an enlisted infantryman would say. That’s authenticity right there that brings it home for me, as a Veteran.
rewinded this scene like 5 maybe more beautifully directed, great musical score Thomas Newman never dissapoints (Less than zero, Shawshank redemption, Green mile, American beauty, Road to perdition, Revolutionary road among others) just bravo
Crossing no mans land, the soundtrack is called Gehenna. Youll remmeber the general referring to the rhyme “down to gehenna or up to the throne, he who travels fastest travels alone” Gehenna was a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem during the roman era of occupation. Originally it was the valley where the Judean kings would sacrifice children by fire, since then it was a “cursed place” it became a dump and its where unwanted children were thrown, garbage, dead or dieing people and animals, the fires burned continuously there. Leapers and the homeless went there to eat, it is a depiction of hell. Hence, no mans land. If you die in it, you’d stay there until you were either buried by the dirt or churned to pieces by shell fire, eaten by rats and the buzzards, or if you were lucky enough, recovered if you were close enough and taken to be buried in the rear. It was not a place you wanted to be, shell fire, leftover gas, or even mustard agents strewn through the mud, unexploded ordinance, snipers, MG fire. The dead and dieing, trench raiders, half decomposed corpses. WW1 on a scale was never before and never will be exceeded until the battle of Mageddo, WW2 was world wide BUT ww1 was horrifying for those in it. those who get excited about war have no idea of what is involved with it and what its capable of. Do not dare go there, your eyes see it but your mind cant comprehend it.
The music early on complimented everything so well. It portrayed a very grim and ominous mood to an environment that is the closest thing to actual hell on earth.
The straight finger trigger discipline and high ready position of walking and aiming are a bit of modern anachronisms. It would have been more time period appropriate to have the finger either inside the trigger guard, or behind it. Also, walking with rifle above the hip and pointed forward, stock braced against the body, would have been more appropriate than walking and aiming with the stock in the shoulder. A tactic that was taught back then, where the soldier almost quite literally would shoot from the hip at close distances. So despite the uniforms, props, and setting, one of the biggest sellers of authenticity is also language, both spoken and body. Still, excellent film. If there was one thing that they captured well, was the foreboding feeling and sense of scale. It was incredibly gripping.
when i saw this in theatres this part of the no mans land sequence hit me hard. the music changes at this particular point to help tell the story the landscape of the crater is telling. this is a single, enormous shell that took something like 20 lives. The crater makes you imagine how tragic and powerful the moment of impact was. one hit, immense death. It speaks to the absolute waste and tragedy in war greater than any moment in the sequence. What a masterful scene. Where they can make walking and a hole in the ground bring chills
Just...it looks like they’re in a purgatory...a hellish land, We can only imagine what it was like and what if felt like to physically see that with their own eyes...
I watched this film when it first came out 5 times in a row and this scene scared the fuck out of me worse than any horror movie I've ever seen... I read a lot of first hand accounts from ww1 soldiers and whoever directed this film did a great job.
That bomb crater is absolutely MASSIVE. Maybe it was meant to portray the result of that ultra massive bomb(s) the Brits/Allies detonated after tunneling almost under the Germans. Imagine what it feels like to throw just a mere shovelful of dirt a few feet, then try to multiply the force necessary to propel such a massive amount that high and that far. Not at all an ordinary bomb crater, and quite unbelievably impressive for the set builders to dig and dress.
Or probably a dicke Bertha or those Austrian oversized mortars that were send to the western front. The amount of artillery on that front was just crazy.
I went to a crater on a school trip 20 years ago which was bigger than that would you believe! I think it was Lochnagar Crater. I'll never forget that school trip for many reasons. I grew up a lot with the things I saw there, it's really stuck with me.
The reason a human corpse smells so distinct is all the levels of iron in the body. Idk if you've ever smelled a dead body or large amounts of blood before, but it has a scent like a big bag of coins and rotting flesh.
"No Man's Land is an eerie sight, at early dawn in the pale gray light. never a house and never a hedge, in No Man's Land from edge to edge. and never a living soul walks there, to taste the fresh of the morning air. only some lumps of rotting clay, that were friends of foemen yesterday". - Capt. James H. Knight-Adkin
How the fuck did this lose Best Production Design to Once Upon a Time In Hollywood? The sets on this film are epic in scale not seen since Cecil B Demille was directing
I loved this movie, but one issue I have with it and Saving Private Ryan is how quiet many scenes are. War is an incredibly noisy business. Even if nothing is going on in your area there will be something going on in someone else's and artillery is LOUD. You are going to hear shells falling 20 miles away.
Unfortunately I haven’t seen this movie yet and will eventually so not concerned about “spoilers” but the way this movie was shot is pretty incredible. As for that war itself, I think it is more terrifying than the Second World War. Granted more weapons in that one but tactics were nearly suicidal in the first one.
Whenever actors flag each other with the gun's muzzle I'm never quite sure if it's because they are just stupid actors or because it was period appropriate behavior during the time period or something.
they cannot use telegraphs because both sides can intercept their conversation. So they relied on soldiers as messengers. It's scary to leave the trench but it is also breathtaking to walk across no man's land
I hope someday someone makes a similar movie about the eastern front of Ww1. We have seen so much already about the trenches of the Western Front, seeing the Eastern Front or maybe the southern front would be refreshing
I love this scene, but the camera shows the German trenches before the characters actually see down in them and I really feel like they could've timed that part better. The part I am commenting on is at 2:00. Pause the frame and you can see the Trenches, establishing that there is no one down there before the characters and music establish there is no one. This movie was amazing but I just wanted to point something out. Have a good day!
My question is even if the Enemy base wasn't abandoned why would those 2 go in all by themselves thinking they can over run the several troops that could have still been inside?
You can highkey watch the entire movie on UA-cam hahaha just gotta follow the trail of scenes. But obviously it’s just smarter to rent the movie or get hbo max haha. But I’ve following the rabbit hole to see how far into the movie I can get.
One near thing to note at the gap in the wire; The shell crater has two varieties of helmets. German and British showing both sides had fought over the strategic gap
I saw pictures of this hole but in real life and I was petrified by what bomb they used to make a crater that deep. Scary to think about the noise and huge kaboom felt through the land beneath my feet. Nothing else to do but clench my rifle
That hole was most likely made by a mining operation. During WW1 when both sides were locked in place, both sides resorted the medieval tactic of tunneling beneath the enemy and placing several hundred or thousands pounds of explosives beneath the enemy line and then detonating them. The most famous mining operation of WW1 occurred at Hill 60 near Ypres, Belgium. It was said when that when that mine blew, the sound could be heard all the way back in London. A type of warfare that was largely overlooked during WW1.
Actors, composer and cameraman made this scene incredible.
Incredible is the last word I would use to describe it.
@@TheWelchProductions you're right, words alone cannot describe how amazing this scene is
The Best
@@TheWelchProductions bruh
the last veteran of the great war passed away 12 years ago at the age of 110. They really have gone, and have been for over a decade. lest we forget.
Soon the WW2 veterans too. I was lucky to have seen one 6 years ago. He was well over 90 and I dont know if he'd already passed away
That shot going down the Crater and the camera went along the water. That was sick as hell!!! They could have followed them to the left. Nope, we’re going to do it the hard way
Ryan Wehr i know right it was smooth af
It was most likely a crane, or a track rail setup along the water. It was awesome af tbh.
It is shown and stated how they did it with the camera in extras.
Roger Deakins: **FLEXING**
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When they left their own trenches and moved across no man's land, that was one of the more chilling parts of the film, seeing all of the dead men strewn about, their horses, death scattered everywhere.
can you imagine the bacteria in the watery craters with those bodies?
Ikr and if you look close enough you can see half or almost completely buried bodies in the dirt. That or they are just blown limbs
@@SuperChuckRaney some even used as latrines, literal shit holes of death and decay... like Carlin says "zombie land"
And that was the experience J. R. R. Tolkien took back with him (he served on the Western Front, I believe) when he created the Dead Marshes in the LOTR trilogy.
@@1101millie97 He did. He'd have to have been Russian or German to serve on the Eastern front in WW1.
The whole No Man's Land sequence was almost unbearably tense.
And it was simply two guys walking. All it took was the scenery, one-take (or clever editing) and a foreboding score.
I think the score made this scene 1000% more tense. Louder and faster, almost to the point where you’d feel anxious to see what’s on the other side of the trench
And mangled dead bodies of soldiers
Thanks to Sam Mendes, Thomas Newman, and Roger Deakins
In way older movies they didn't have scores for most of the movies, if at all and would have to build suspense through acting and scenery alone. Even without color.
The musical score is done masterfully here and ads a building on top of the movie. It's more impactful with the music but even without it some scenes would still do very well without it.
@@bethanydavis9023 True. Just like "E.T." probably wouldn't have been as big of a tearjerker if it weren't for Williams's orchestra
The whole sequence crossing no man's land was when I knew this was going to be a special movie. The commitment to never cutting surprised me, in that it forced the audience to see how these characters deal with a traumatic situation from moment to moment. It grounded the whole thing in a way I didn't expect.
When they started going down the crater and that soundtrack started playing I knew it was gonna be a hell of a movie
@@Dr_Salt Yes, it was unusually
intense......... but the real thing. ??
There are cuts but they’re hidden.
Kumalala kumalala kumala savesta
@@Daniel-mw7pu very few, though.
LOVED the entire no mans land sequence
So did I it had so much suspense
Loved the entire movie
If there were Germans on the other side they would’ve been shot immediately crossing no mans land
My grandfather was killed in this war in this same year 1917. I have a photo of him and my grandmother on their wedding day, both young and beautiful, unaware of what was to come. When I was a young boy in the 1960s she once told me she still missed him.
That’s so cool. Do you have letters or documents?
@@low5738 Right above me hangs the photo of my great grandfather. He was captured by the British in 1916 and spend 4 years in captivity. If he had died back then, I wouldn't exist. He learned English as PoW and even later in his life he called "Kartoffeln" "potätesle" because in English it's potatoes. Life is crazy.
My great great grandfather was gassed in this war. He died in 1986 due to respiratory complications related to his gassing.
@@jacobpowers352 Wars don't end when the war is declared over. The affects reach far beyond for not only the lost but those injured as well. Blessings to your family sir.
Great story Thank You for sharing
Try to imagine the smell of this ugly place.
Dead bodies, the mud, that's horrific
Already sitting there for about a week just rotting and getting decomposed by birds + bugs.
Smells like......victory
@@MrGW95 Or rather: Smells like stalemate.
something tells me after awhile these guy aren't smelling anything
The skeletons half buried in the ground really shows you how long the front line has been there
or how well fed the rats were
I didn’t even notice that, terrifying
They dug those trenches all over and often ran into piles of bodies.
Sometimes buried by artillery. Sometimes other reasons.
Or rats like @Ganii said. Remember even with the bubonic gone. Where ashes laid embers flare
Based on remaining artifacts, probably the best depiction of no mans land recreated to date.
Yeah, after watching They Shall Not Grow old and seeing how desolate no man’s land really was, I was impressed with how well Sam Mendez was able to recreate such a horrifying wasteland.
One detail that they added that made me happy was how the german trenches were better than the british ones, being less muddy and reinforced with concrete. This was because the german lines were built on a elevated position so it was less damp, and german high command decided to heavily invest into fortifying the trenches because they correctly guessed that the war will enter a stalemate, as opposed to the british who thought trench warfare would be temporary and only made temporary grade fortifications.
The didn't just assume it would be temporary, they full on wanted to make it as uncomfortable for their soldiers as they could to not be advancing. From what I understand, visiting officers would dismantle any improvements made for comfort where they could find them. 'You want out of the mud? Then defeat the Germans!' was the mindset.
@@christopherrogers303 they did assume it would be temporary
@@Sbflls they attempted to force it to be temporary. If there was any assumption, it was thinking that it would work.
The most horrifying thing for me about this movie were those corpses. Those were men once. Ordered to charge in another hopeless assault. And now their bodies lay there, forgotten and rotting away for months, maybe years, before another soldier just happens across them.
Check out France’s Red Zone.
Kumalala kumalala kumala savesta
Sam: "There are dead things- ...dead faces in the water!"
Gollum: "All dead, all rotting! Elves and men and orcses... A great battle long ago... the 'Dead Marshes;' yes, yes! That is the name! This way. Don't follow the lights!"
(Sam stumbles on a puddle)
Gollum: "Careful now! Or hobbits go down to join the dead ones and light little candles of their own!"
Tolkiens ww1 ptsd
Entirely influenced by Tolkien's experiences in WW1.
Dean-Charles Chapman does sound a lot like Elijah Wood as Frodo
Even though Tolkien said that his work wasn't inspired by WW1, it undoubtedly was
@@jamesmcdunn2628 Even though he would never have admitted it.
1:41 THE MUSIC!!!
Name of the track?
It's called gehenna from Thomas Newman (The soundtrack maker of 1917)
WW1 is often overlooked, but the hell these men went through is unmatched. God bless all men who fought in that war. Always remembered
Who the fuck overlooks it? When you think about past wars, there’s 1 and 2.
@@greenthunder1000 jeez. Heres the hothead who cant think outside their own brick skull. I mean theres more people who focus on WW2 and its impact and tend to not comment on WW1s impact. Its not necessarily totally forgotten, but its typically overshadowed by WW2. Sorry i didnt write a novel for my original comment so your thick head would not have gotten so worked up over it. My bad
Best scene in the entire movie, hands down. Also the best track in the whole soundtrack as well. This movie is a masterpiece.
So many good scenes, the night window is just as good
@@benjaminrodriguez-garcia5776
Thanks Ben ...! I mean it.
Need more ww1 movies like this ASAP
I’ve written one called The Basket Case 😎
@@hr0727 drop that shit I want to watch it
And Korean War
The entire time watching this movie this thought lingered in my head:
"Imagine the smell."
Oh, and it wouldnt just be the bodies, though that likely would be the worst. Those trenches and craterz would have been occupied for months and the accumulation of piss and feces would have been impressive. They would have taken steps to dispose with latrines etc, but sometimes when a soldier has to go and he cant leave his post....
@@jamesbutler8821 Piss and shit is nothing compared to a decaying body
I love the hard work, cinematography, score, visual details put into this scene. But what really makes me love it even more is that they decided to go with “Fuck me! They really have gone!” That’s exactly what an enlisted infantryman would say. That’s authenticity right there that brings it home for me, as a Veteran.
My favourite part from the movie
rewinded this scene like 5 maybe more beautifully directed, great musical score Thomas Newman never dissapoints (Less than zero, Shawshank redemption, Green mile, American beauty, Road to perdition, Revolutionary road among others) just bravo
Criminally underrated movie.
"Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, he who travels fastest, travels alone."
Interesting tidbit: the foreboding piece that plays here is called "Gehenna"
Crossing no mans land, the soundtrack is called Gehenna. Youll remmeber the general referring to the rhyme “down to gehenna or up to the throne, he who travels fastest travels alone” Gehenna was a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem during the roman era of occupation. Originally it was the valley where the Judean kings would sacrifice children by fire, since then it was a “cursed place” it became a dump and its where unwanted children were thrown, garbage, dead or dieing people and animals, the fires burned continuously there. Leapers and the homeless went there to eat, it is a depiction of hell. Hence, no mans land. If you die in it, you’d stay there until you were either buried by the dirt or churned to pieces by shell fire, eaten by rats and the buzzards, or if you were lucky enough, recovered if you were close enough and taken to be buried in the rear. It was not a place you wanted to be, shell fire, leftover gas, or even mustard agents strewn through the mud, unexploded ordinance, snipers, MG fire. The dead and dieing, trench raiders, half decomposed corpses. WW1 on a scale was never before and never will be exceeded until the battle of Mageddo, WW2 was world wide BUT ww1 was horrifying for those in it. those who get excited about war have no idea of what is involved with it and what its capable of. Do not dare go there, your eyes see it but your mind cant comprehend it.
Judean kings haven't changed much since
It doesn’t matter the movie, just throw Deakins and Newman together and you are settled!
I'm afraid it's not as simple as that.
The music early on complimented everything so well. It portrayed a very grim and ominous mood to an environment that is the closest thing to actual hell on earth.
The straight finger trigger discipline and high ready position of walking and aiming are a bit of modern anachronisms. It would have been more time period appropriate to have the finger either inside the trigger guard, or behind it. Also, walking with rifle above the hip and pointed forward, stock braced against the body, would have been more appropriate than walking and aiming with the stock in the shoulder. A tactic that was taught back then, where the soldier almost quite literally would shoot from the hip at close distances. So despite the uniforms, props, and setting, one of the biggest sellers of authenticity is also language, both spoken and body.
Still, excellent film. If there was one thing that they captured well, was the foreboding feeling and sense of scale. It was incredibly gripping.
when i saw this in theatres this part of the no mans land sequence hit me hard. the music changes at this particular point to help tell the story the landscape of the crater is telling.
this is a single, enormous shell that took something like 20 lives. The crater makes you imagine how tragic and powerful the moment of impact was. one hit, immense death. It speaks to the absolute waste and tragedy in war greater than any moment in the sequence.
What a masterful scene. Where they can make walking and a hole in the ground bring chills
Gnarliest scene of the whole film imo. Chilling.
Mines was the night window scene
@@jtgd thank u lol
Just...it looks like they’re in a purgatory...a hellish land,
We can only imagine what it was like and what if felt like to physically see that with their own eyes...
I watched this film when it first came out 5 times in a row and this scene scared the fuck out of me worse than any horror movie I've ever seen... I read a lot of first hand accounts from ww1 soldiers and whoever directed this film did a great job.
The score is what did it for me, all that build up for the final reveal.
The music for this scene is amazing just perfect epicly legendary
This music is so haunting. It's basically the same piece that reprises and hits crescendo in the "Night Window" scene.
Still amazed that they did the whole movie in one continuous shot. Well done.
This entire movie was absolutely incredible. This is one of my favorite war movies.
I was so stressed I’m this scene because of the music.
This scene best visualizes Otto Dix's horrific WWI art in any movie I've ever seen.
That bomb crater is absolutely MASSIVE. Maybe it was meant to portray the result of that ultra massive bomb(s) the Brits/Allies detonated after tunneling almost under the Germans. Imagine what it feels like to throw just a mere shovelful of dirt a few feet, then try to multiply the force necessary to propel such a massive amount that high and that far. Not at all an ordinary bomb crater, and quite unbelievably impressive for the set builders to dig and dress.
I was just thinking that. Building a set is one thing, but digging all these massive fuck-off holes is crazy. This movie was brilliant
Or probably a dicke Bertha or those Austrian oversized mortars that were send to the western front.
The amount of artillery on that front was just crazy.
I went to a crater on a school trip 20 years ago which was bigger than that would you believe! I think it was Lochnagar Crater. I'll never forget that school trip for many reasons. I grew up a lot with the things I saw there, it's really stuck with me.
Even if we assume they made a lot of cuts, its hard to imagine how they managed to shoot a lot of those scenes, so beautifull!
Loved how it was filmed in one continuous shot
Scarier than any horror movie of the year.This one scene
This sequence is basically us nowadays going out for food supplies during quarantine.
Except, you know, without the piles of putrefied human corpses everywhere.
It was actualy how our parents go to school everyday
I loved this movie, there’s no other words to truly describe that.
Imagine being in a trench and shelling the enemy only to go over and find that the enemy trench in abandoned.
"THERE! THAT'S THE FRONT LINE!" Maybe they should be quiet when approaching enemy lines???
I can smell the decaying bodies through my screen. Its a unique smell, different from any other animal. idk why, but its just different.
The reason a human corpse smells so distinct is all the levels of iron in the body. Idk if you've ever smelled a dead body or large amounts of blood before, but it has a scent like a big bag of coins and rotting flesh.
@@magentuspriest Like visiting an old cementery after two or three days of rain, I guess.
All who knew it and lived it are gone. We will never truly know the terror of battle a century ago.
The music was great
It's like playing a video game but you're watching it live.
1:33 "Hey buddy, need a hand?" Seriously, I laugh because it's so horrific.
Hell is not fire. Hell is mud. An ocean of mud.
The music really sets the mood
What a privilege it is to be a man and get shamed into being slaughtered.
"No Man's Land is an eerie sight, at early dawn in the pale gray light.
never a house and never a hedge, in No Man's Land from edge to edge.
and never a living soul walks there, to taste the fresh of the morning air.
only some lumps of rotting clay, that were friends of foemen yesterday".
- Capt. James H. Knight-Adkin
The only reason why I liked this video is because this movie stopped me from becoming a soldier
Just imagine walking 10 feet in no man's land it's still terrifying.
The music though.
The build up in the music is legendaty =0
The ambience of the music in this scene, the horrors of war was an average day for these men
How the fuck did this lose Best Production Design to Once Upon a Time In Hollywood? The sets on this film are epic in scale not seen since Cecil B Demille was directing
I loved this movie, but one issue I have with it and Saving Private Ryan is how quiet many scenes are. War is an incredibly noisy business. Even if nothing is going on in your area there will be something going on in someone else's and artillery is LOUD. You are going to hear shells falling 20 miles away.
When he put his hurt hand in the corpse was the first time that I ever gasped out loud in a theatre.
Unfortunately I haven’t seen this movie yet and will eventually so not concerned about “spoilers” but the way this movie was shot is pretty incredible. As for that war itself, I think it is more terrifying than the Second World War. Granted more weapons in that one but tactics were nearly suicidal in the first one.
"Nearly" suicidal? They were absolutely suicidal.
This movie was so good.
Is no one going to point out that amazing camera shot panning the water like that still haven't figured out how they did that
Camera mounted on a drone.'
...then the soundtrack is dubbed.'
Feels like when Frodo and Sam made it into Mordor lol.
Tolkien served in the Lancashire Fusiliers and was at The Somme. That's why LotR is the way it is.
This move is a masterpiece
i remember watching this the week it came out, high as fuck, this scene had me tweaked out
I was talking my buddy's ear off about Defense in Depth and the Hindenburg Line
Now that’s how you shoot a scene
Every war is a nightmare. This was hell.
I still haven't seen this film. Not sure if I'm ready.
Whenever actors flag each other with the gun's muzzle I'm never quite sure if it's because they are just stupid actors or because it was period appropriate behavior during the time period or something.
they cannot use telegraphs because both sides can intercept their conversation. So they relied on soldiers as messengers. It's scary to leave the trench but it is also breathtaking to walk across no man's land
We just watched guys walk through the mud for 2min. That was pretty much it.
they made me wait an entire 2 minutes for 1 frase woooww
I don't even want to imagine the smell of that water.
I hope someday someone makes a similar movie about the eastern front of Ww1. We have seen so much already about the trenches of the Western Front, seeing the Eastern Front or maybe the southern front would be refreshing
Normal People seeing two soldiers walking on mud
Me: thought it was the Call of Duty lobby
The leading over into the Huns trench was horrifying. Not knowing whether the Bosch is there or not.
A fucking masterpiece
Just remember, when you walk the battlefields of WW1, you're likely walking over tens of thousands of bodies that were simply swallowed by the mud.
I loved this movie it felt more like a horror movie the first act when they were crossing no man's land
How the hell did they get that long tracking shot across the water? Insane cinematography
Roger Deakins magic
I love this scene, but the camera shows the German trenches before the characters actually see down in them and I really feel like they could've timed that part better. The part I am commenting on is at 2:00. Pause the frame and you can see the Trenches, establishing that there is no one down there before the characters and music establish there is no one. This movie was amazing but I just wanted to point something out. Have a good day!
Charlipez It was pretty obvious. Otherwise they would’ve been mowed down not even half way through.
Yeah but they didn't know that as they made they're way to the top of the trench
What’s the soundtrack in this scene called? I really like it
Gehenna
Maybe some day, if we try real hard, in a few years we’ll all see a Hellscape like this near our home town. 👍
If someone says that this is not one of the most impressive scenes they have seen, slap them in the face.
My question is even if the Enemy base wasn't abandoned why would those 2 go in all by themselves thinking they can over run the several troops that could have still been inside?
The whole point is they knew it was a suicide mission if the germans had not in fact left that's why it's scary
DAT PIANO
Amen
I cannot even begin to imagine how awful places like that smelled.
You can highkey watch the entire movie on UA-cam hahaha just gotta follow the trail of scenes. But obviously it’s just smarter to rent the movie or get hbo max haha. But I’ve following the rabbit hole to see how far into the movie I can get.
Me and my mate playing Hell Let Loose sniper duo
One near thing to note at the gap in the wire; The shell crater has two varieties of helmets. German and British showing both sides had fought over the strategic gap
What’s the song tho
“Gehenna”
What bomb made that crater?
It's a mine crater. Made by tunneling underground and setting off large amounts of explosives beneath the enemy lines or defenses.
@@WiseSnake You live up to your username, thanks.
I saw pictures of this hole but in real life and I was petrified by what bomb they used to make a crater that deep. Scary to think about the noise and huge kaboom felt through the land beneath my feet. Nothing else to do but clench my rifle
Don't forget the screams pretty sure they didn't
That hole was most likely made by a mining operation. During WW1 when both sides were locked in place, both sides resorted the medieval tactic of tunneling beneath the enemy and placing several hundred or thousands pounds of explosives beneath the enemy line and then detonating them.
The most famous mining operation of WW1 occurred at Hill 60 near Ypres, Belgium. It was said when that when that mine blew, the sound could be heard all the way back in London. A type of warfare that was largely overlooked during WW1.
What is the name of the song in the background?
“Gehenna”