Dunkirk

Description

Dunkirk is a war film from 2017 written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, and James D'Arcy. The film focuses on the evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, Canada, and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army on the beaches and in the port of Dunkirk, France, between May 26 and June 4, 1940, during the Battle of France in World War II. The music is composed by the award-winning Hans Zimmer. On April 5, 2017, Zimmer revealed that he had nearly completed the score and that it would be finished by the beginning of his Hans Zimmer Live on Tour shows in May. For the sake of intensity, the script was written to fit the auditory illusion of a Shepard tone, which had already been explored in Nolan's 2006 film "The Prestige." Additionally, there was the sound of a ticking clock, that of Nolan's pocket watch, which he recorded and sent to Zimmer to be synthesized.