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1917 film by Sam Mendes

American Beauty/Skyfall

WWI story filmed "all in one shot" sort of.  Can't have been too many shots, though there are a few times when you can tell they're reloading film.  (Screen goes black after one explosion and the protagonist is knocked cold . . . screen goes watery blue when he goes over a waterfall and stays underwater and out of view).

Amazing filmmaking, sets.  What a challenge!  Pretty mundane plot though.  Two soldiers need to get a message to a major to avert a charge-of-the-light brigade disaster.  They face a series of dangers (mines exploding, airplanes, Germans). One dies, the other gets the message to the major in time to keep the second wave of assault from taking place and thus saving many lives, but not all of them (21st century, not 1950.)

Saw this at Majestic Bay matinee.  would never have made it on TV

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