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ok but real talk, I saw 1917 again (3rd time, I love it, wow are you guys shocked) and I just…have to take a moment and appreciate the co-writer on the movie, Krysty Wilson-Cairns. Today I took the chance to listen to her on a few different podcasts, talking about this movie and you can really see what she brought to it. I’ve seen a ton of war movies (I find the genre can be really interesting and enlightening, but not all of them are great of course) but what really stood out to be about 1917 was…almost the lack of violence. Of course, there are violent acts, but they aren’t like other war movies. But what you do see in the carnage that war leaves in its wake. Just dead bodies out in the middle of nowhere’s land, rotting for god know’s how long. But not how they got there.
Krysty said that when she was working with Sam (and he reached out to her specifically to work on this movie, so cool. I find it rare to have a female writer on a war movie) that was one of the things they really wanted to show. We know about the violence. But it’s about the waste of life. All these lives brought to an end, for what? They have a great scene (which she said was the hardest to write I believe) on this truck between soldiers asking just that. And it’s these small, quiet moments that show the little touches she brings.
She had this great quote from an interview with Brief Take that said:
Krysty and Sam did a fantastic job showing that aspect of the movie. It’s really incredible and I don’t want to overhype it for people cause that’s happened to me with some movies but…it’s just an incredible movie.
