Darkest Hour behind the scenes gags

2021-11-25 08:01

In order to truly reflect the atmosphere of Churchill’s time, the film’s screenwriter Anthony McCarten set up a special work schedule for himself, simulating the historical timeline, which lasted 8 days and wrote a 16-page script.
Through his efforts, McCarten obtained the minutes of the cabinet meeting of Churchill during the war.
During the filming of the film, John Hurt, who was originally scheduled to play Prime Minister Chamberlain, died of pancreatic cancer. Due to his serious illness, John Hurt never filmed a scene, but the film paid tribute to him in the credits.
In order to create a low-ceiling bunker scene, the crew has been planning for several months.
Gary Oldman spends at least 4 hours putting on makeup every day on the set, and shooting more than 50 days continuously, for a total of 200 hours of putting on makeup.
After Gary Oldman arrived at the scene, he opened the props books at will, all of which were able to fake meeting records and diaries.

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Austin 2022-03-22 09:01:33

Still like watching Joe Wright's play. This film needs to be changed to a director, so I can't watch it at all. After I found out that such a terrible script was written by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of "The Theory of Everything", I suddenly understood. Plus a little drool over Ben Mendelsohn's King.
Edmond 2022-03-22 09:01:33

In fact, it is the British version of "The Founding of a Nation", more refined and more human. Churchill demonstrated the political art based on rhetoric. If words have power, it is only because these words express what other people want to say and can't.