If you thought Christopher Nolan's upcoming Dunkirk was a war movie, the critically acclaimed director is here to tell you you're wrong.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Nolan discussed the film's PG-13 rating. After all, with a war movie comes plenty of gore, so how can a film about Germany's invasion into France have such a tame rating? Well, according to Nolan, it's not actually a war movie:
"All of my big blockbuster films have been PG-13. It's a rating I feel comfortable working with totally. Dunkirk is not a war film. It's a survival story and first and foremost a suspense film. So while there is a high level of intensity to it, it does not necessarily concern itself with the bloody aspects of combat, which have been so well done in so many films. We were really trying to take a different approach and achieve intensity in a different way. I would really like lots of different types of people to get something out of the experience."
Nolan called Dunkirk a "very experiential" film that he hopes will "really put you on the beach where 400,000 people [were] trapped":
"[W]e came upon the notion of creating a very experiential film, one that rather than trying to address the politics of the situation, the geopolitical situation, would really put you on the beach where 400,000 people are trapped, surrounded by the enemy closing in and faced with annihilation or surrender. The fact the story ended with neither annihilation nor surrender makes it one of the greatest stories in human history."
War movie or not, this one looks like it'll be a doozy.
(H/T The Associated Press)
