Om du frågar dig varför det saknas mer filmer om det förödande världskriget 1914-1918 så kan manusförfattaren till krigssuccén 1917, som nyligen vann en Golden Globe för Bästa Dramafilm, hjälpa dig med svaret. Krysty Wilson-Cairns förklarade för Cinemablend att kriget upplevs som "stillastående" till skillnad från andra världskriget på filmfronten:
"Here's the thing: it's usually compared against the second World War. [In] the Second World War, you've got very clear villains in the Nazis, just the worst people ever. You've also got movement throughout the land, whereas World War I was literally people entombed in trenches. Like buried six feet underground essentially, for three years, just lobbing munitions at each other and then trying to like move each other inches each way. So it's really hard to tell a dynamic story through that that isn't just trenches and mud."
Hon gick vidare in på vad som gjorde denna krigsskildring så speciell:
"And the good thing about 1917 was we found a specific window of time, April 6, 1917, when a huge swath of land opened up where the Germans had disappeared one morning and had fallen back, and the English didn't know what was going on. You get to really play the confusion of warfare, the kind of madness of World War I, but you get to play it over a proper journey. And so you get a window into all of the war, rather than just trenches and mud."
1917 får svensk premiär den 31 januari. Vill du se Sam Mendes kritikerhyllade krigsfilm? Tycker du också att saknas fler filmer om detta krig?