The whole point of this movie is explained right here.. “into war George.” And he goes right along.. the movie isn’t really about the war but the bravery all the citizens had.. very much deeper than just war.
"But you ain't in the navy" "No, but I did sink a u-boat, and survived the Titanic, so I think I know what I'm doing" In case you didn't know, Mr Dawson is based almost entirely off the story of Charles Lightoller, a retired naval officer and former second officer aboard the RMS Titanic when she sank... he lived quite an eventful life, surviving the titanic, commanding several ships in WW1, and eventually taking his civilian yacht to Dunkirk to pick up British soldiers during the evacuation. His story is a near mirror of Mr Dawson's in this film, right down to the fact that his son was an air force pilot who died in the opening weeks of the war.
I did not know this.. just saw the movie. I assumed there was a reason, I was guessing it was due to his eldest son but this also makes sense. His younger son lying to the soldiers about his dead best friend being his 'brother' was gut wrenching. I'd assumed he was in WW1 based on his age and thus knew the symptoms of 'shell shock'.
He's survived like 3 shipwrecks before Titanic, and once pulled a prank that involves FAKING A FOREIGN INVASION on Sydney harbor by lighting up a beach defense cannon and raising a Boer flag on the fort. And he was once a cowboy in Canada. Interesting person. Very interesting.
Saved many women and children on Titanic, nearly drowned but explosion pushed him away, chimney almost slammed into him, made german zeppelin retreat from his ship, bombed a U-Boat and helped many troops that was evacuating Dunkirk
@nicktimelive649 Good on him. That's war. Killing the enemy, little snowflake. Besides, those U-boats were in British waters, destroying British ships and lives. Lightoller was busy piloting his destroyer with all his skill--he ran it into the U-boat, then ran over it. Rather damaged his British destroyer. As he said, it was up to the sailors on board what they chose to shoot at. In this case it was at the enemy. The German U-boat Captain whined about the incident, but no one paid attention. Don't go on channels about history unless you can take the facts. Lightoller was something you've never seen. A real patriot and brave fighting man.
Fun fact: the boat that they’re using here was an actual vessel that took part in the evacuation. I used to see this very boat whenever I walked to and from school, though I didn’t know it’s history until years later.
Yes your right actually mr Dawson’s son is based on lightoller a son roger and the son that died that Dawson talked about was based on lightollers son Herbert
Just got out of the Eternals and I had forgotten where I had seen Barry Keoghan before. I really liked his costume in the movie. What a talented young actor.
I loved the relationship he had with his son..obvious respect on both sides. Mr.Dawsons understanding of what the soldiers had gone through was heartbreaking, even the one that killed his sons best friend.
As a lot of people know, Dawson was based on Charles Lightoller, who was Titanic's second officer and was at Dunkirk to help evacuate soldiers. While Mark Rylance's performance of the character was superb, I feel like Christopher Nolan missed an opportunity to cast Jonny Phillips (who played the part of Lightoller in the 1997 Titanic film) as Dawson. Would have made for a good Easter egg for those in the audience paying attention, and an unofficial connection between the two films.
I just noticed Mr Dawson flies the blue ensign of the Royal Naval Reserve, rather than the red civil ensign the other little ships flew, only officers of the RNR were entitled to fly the blue ensign
LessCommonKnowledge indeed he was, Mr Dawson’s character was based on Charles Lightoller, who served in the Royal Navy in WWI, and a survivor of Titanic too.
Interestingly, the character Mr. Dawson is based on a real-life participant in the evacuation. Charles Lightoller. He, along with his son Roger and a Sea Scout named Gerry Ashcroft took Lightoller' yacht, the Sundowner oer to Dunkirk and back to Ramsgate, which was the real-life staging area for the Little Ships. In real life, Gerry Ashcroft survived the evacuation. The actor who plays George looks a lot like the real-life Gerry Ashcroft. And if you know the whole story of Lightoller's participation, it is easy to see that Mr. Dawson was based on him.
Anarchist Atheist he was demoted from first officer to second because the original second officer “David Blair” got replaced by chief officer “Henry Wilde”
In the Titanic film by James Cameron Lighthollar is the one who pulls a pistol on some panicking passenger's and yell's "get back I say or I'll shoot you all like dogs".
@@paulwilkinson4073 Lightoller was aged 66 when he went to Dunkirk. His wife knew him so well, she had every faith in his brilliant mind and reflexes. Right before WWII, Captain and Mrs. Lightoller were doing undercover spying on the Germans, with the Royal Navy's approval. The Germans mistook them for a pleasant, retired couple out on their boat. Sylvia Lightoller also piloted their boat. Charles insisted she learn.
"...armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old." and the brave yankees. Thank you America.
When you realize he was the most senior officer to survive the Titanic…then he fought in WWI…you realize this man has seen every horror you can imagine!
Why Nolan didn't just used Charles Lightoller as a character instead of making a fictional one? Mr. Dawson is basically Charles Lightoller in the real events.
Lol George has no idea who mr Dawson really is haha ( Charles lightoller second officer on the titanic sank a u boat and nearly shot down a zeppelin and was regarded as a hero of all of the incidents mentioned
Honestly insulting they changed his name in this movie, lightroller was a straight badass and deserved to be recognized for his bravery. Ehile people familsr eith yistory knew he was at dubkirk this was a chance to make it common knowledge
I wonder why they didn’t just use Charles Lightoller his son Roger, that sea scout and the Sundowner, it would have made the movie A LOT more interesting.
It was better that they named him properly as Charles Lightoller in the film, and had they wanted a proper reference to titanic, they could have named the character properly as Mr. "Jack Dawson "
He was his sons best friend. George seemed to hold Peter and his dad in high regard and ended up whacking his head and dying due to a dumb move by the shell shocked soldier they'd rescued. When they'd rescued the other soldiers and they told him George was 'dead', Peter lied and said to be careful with his body because that was his 'brother' (i.e. brother in arms). His father didn't say anything about that, respecting his sons wishes. His father (Mr.Dawson) also told the soldier who'd accidentally killed his sons best friend to go below and get some food telling him everything was okay.. Basically war is shit.
Jose Dominguez unfortunately there are many films with great music pieces that only appear in the film. They’re not released on the soundtracks. Perhaps there will be a full score of Dunkirk as there was for Interstellar, as apparently before the 2015 Oscars Interstellar’s full score was released. Not sure if such a score will be released later or not.
@JJ Graham If you look at the comments, there's a lot of reasons people keep mentioning Titanic. The character of Mr.Dawson (the name itself should be pretty obvious), is based on Titanic Second Officer Charles Lightoller.
It shows the state of desperation they are in. If you count, there are over 80 life vests in that stack, being loaded onto a boat designed for fewer than 10 people.
Another cool fact, while these characters are all fictional, the Moonstone and her crew were loosely based off the real life motoryacht "Sundowner" , a similar sized boat, which carried 130 men home from Dunkirk and was so heavy she almost capsized returning to port.
Dawson's attitude has tint of defiance in it: his boat is to serve in a war and only he will command it. That means he goes to war with it. His age and inexperience of his crew means nothing.
In real life, Mr Dawson was Charles Lightoller, second officer of the Titanic and a highly decorated destroyer captain from WWI. He had more combat experience that the sum total of every RN office and enlisted on that wharf. The man you wanted to have, despite being 70 years old at the time.
Dawson is probably a reasonably wealthy man, looking at the boat and such. Since he knows George so well, it’s safe to say George’s family is well off too.
He didn't want to give out his boat to effectively strangers so he went out and carried out the orders by himself. It's his boat and he's the captain of his boat.
To add to what others have said: Mr. Dawson's son got killed so he felt he wanted to honor his son by saving soldiers. He was especially insistent on saving Collins, a pilot.
The ships were part of the "small vessels pool", which was a maritime register of civilian ships which could be requisitioned by the admiralty in time of national emergency. During the Dunkrk evacuation the vast majority of ships tha went to Dunkirk were either manned entirely by Royal navy sailors or had at least one or two RN sailors on board. The civilians who stayed with their ships were temporarily given Royal navy pay. The Moonstone and Mr Dawson are based on he story of Charles Lightoller who was an experienced mariner who took his ship the Sundowner to Dunkirk personally and refused to allow any RN personal on board. His story is an exception, as most of the ships had RN sailors
Barry Keoghan (George), aside from being an excellent actor, has one of the biggest, hottest dicks in films. See "Mammal." I hope this doesn't offend him; I love his off-beat face as well.
The navy was going to take their ship and go themselves, but Rylance's character wanted to go himself because his son died in the war and he felt owed something. Truly heroic.
@@AtreidesFan24 Plus, one of his remaining sons, Trevor, had been rescued a couple of days before. And his dead son Brian had explained to him earlier that a Stuka has to raise its nose before the gunner can fire.
Mr. Dawson, is actually Charles Lightoller, surviving second officer of the Titanic and a destroyer captain from WWI. Highly decorated, sank one u-boat and spent the war engaging German destroyers and torpedo boats in the Channel. He was far more experienced than any junior office the RN would have put on the boat. Best man for the job.
You are talking about a director that wanted to only use practical effects in the film. So the production is limited on resources. That's why the beach looks like it has maybe 8 or 9000 troops on it instead of the 300,000.
Hey guys, I just started creating short films with twists in Nolan's style pretty much. I'd love you to review my film called "Rope", tell me what you thought about it.
Damn civilian risking people's lives because he wants to be cos-play a hero...his crappy little boat would have been able to save more troops under the supervision of the military. This war tourist risked lives so he could boast about it in the pubs with the other backward peasants, illiterate pig-herders and uncultured bumpkins. An American captain would have already been saving troops on his own initiative but, then again, American troops wouldn't have been so cowardly and inept that they needed to cower on the coast in total defeat. An American expeditionary force of the exact same size would have broken the german army and been occupying Berlin before the week was out.
You obviously have no idea who Mr. Dawson is based on Mr. Dawson's character is based on Charles Lightoller Charles Lightoller was the second officer on the Titanic and the only senior officer who survived the sinking. He saved many lives on Titanic during the sinking. Later he fought in WW1 as a commander in the British navy. He later retired and during WW2 he sailed his yacht to Dunkirk to assist in the evacuation of Dunkirk as depicted in this film. He was an experienced sailor and navy commander and he clearly knew what he was doing. The man was a true hero so have some respect.
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The whole point of this movie is explained right here.. “into war George.” And he goes right along.. the movie isn’t really about the war but the bravery all the citizens had.. very much deeper than just war.
Ans he died by being pushed by a crazy soldier
Nice to see someone who gets it.
“i’ll be useful sir”
THE BEST QUOTE EVER
What every young boy dreams of being...
Well second “ they’ve asked for the moonstone they’ll have her” that’s first in my opinion
Mr Dawson was based of a real person named Charles Lightoller who was an officer on the Titanic
You mean the most señor surviving
officer of Titanic?And the last man to climb the RMS Carpathia?
@@orchichris628 Yeah. Lightoller is in Dunkirk.
He almost died by being sucked down by a water vent and got shot back up by a boiler explosion
Also he was demoted from rank because of a new officer coming on board
And his other son dies too, in 1944 😭😭😭😭
"But you ain't in the navy"
"No, but I did sink a u-boat, and survived the Titanic, so I think I know what I'm doing"
In case you didn't know, Mr Dawson is based almost entirely off the story of Charles Lightoller, a retired naval officer and former second officer aboard the RMS Titanic when she sank... he lived quite an eventful life, surviving the titanic, commanding several ships in WW1, and eventually taking his civilian yacht to Dunkirk to pick up British soldiers during the evacuation.
His story is a near mirror of Mr Dawson's in this film, right down to the fact that his son was an air force pilot who died in the opening weeks of the war.
LOL
I did not know this.. just saw the movie. I assumed there was a reason, I was guessing it was due to his eldest son but this also makes sense. His younger son lying to the soldiers about his dead best friend being his 'brother' was gut wrenching. I'd assumed he was in WW1 based on his age and thus knew the symptoms of 'shell shock'.
The Arctic Gamer in the words of Jeremy Clarkson, “he was a Telegraph obituarist’s wet dream.”
In the movie Titanic, he’s the officer loading only women and children, the one with the posh British accent.
And a case where having "but one ten thousand of the men in England that do no work today" did make the difference. Apologies to Lord Westmoreland.
I NEVER knew about Charles Lightoller's Dunkirk involvement UNTIL now. From the Titanic to Dunkirk, what an AMAZING life.
He's survived like 3 shipwrecks before Titanic, and once pulled a prank that involves FAKING A FOREIGN INVASION on Sydney harbor by lighting up a beach defense cannon and raising a Boer flag on the fort. And he was once a cowboy in Canada. Interesting person. Very interesting.
@@agarlicsorbet6482 he also commanded two destroyers in ww1, almost brought down a german zeppelin, and so much more.
Dude was the real deal
Saved many women and children on Titanic, nearly drowned but explosion pushed him away, chimney almost slammed into him, made german zeppelin retreat from his ship, bombed a U-Boat and helped many troops that was evacuating Dunkirk
And survived ww1
@nicktimelive649 Good on him. That's war. Killing the enemy, little snowflake. Besides, those U-boats were in British waters, destroying British ships and lives. Lightoller was busy piloting his destroyer with all his skill--he ran it into the U-boat, then ran over it. Rather damaged his British destroyer. As he said, it was up to the sailors on board what they chose to shoot at. In this case it was at the enemy. The German U-boat Captain whined about the incident, but no one paid attention. Don't go on channels about history unless you can take the facts. Lightoller was something you've never seen. A real patriot and brave fighting man.
Fun fact: the boat that they’re using here was an actual vessel that took part in the evacuation. I used to see this very boat whenever I walked to and from school, though I didn’t know it’s history until years later.
1:17 Dawson seeing the young Navy members take over the ship becomes a much more powerful moment after you know the ending.
If you know who mr Dawson is based off then that is really true aswell
Moonstone is based of the Sundowner
Mr. Dawson is based of Charles Lightoller, The only Senior Officer of Titanic that Survived its sinking
Yes your right actually mr Dawson’s son is based on lightoller a son roger and the son that died that Dawson talked about was based on lightollers son Herbert
3rd Officer Herbert John Pitman, 4th Officer Joseph Boxhall and 5th Officer Harold Lowe survived as well
@@Lord_Merterus but they were Junior Officers
Just got out of the Eternals and I had forgotten where I had seen Barry Keoghan before. I really liked his costume in the movie. What a talented young actor.
They've asked for the Moonstone, they'll have her. And her captain. And his son.
and George
and the life jackets....and that George!
And Hans Zimmer's amazing soundtrack
And my axe!
Whoops sorry, wrong film.
I loved the relationship he had with his son..obvious respect on both sides. Mr.Dawsons understanding of what the soldiers had gone through was heartbreaking, even the one that killed his sons best friend.
As a lot of people know, Dawson was based on Charles Lightoller, who was Titanic's second officer and was at Dunkirk to help evacuate soldiers.
While Mark Rylance's performance of the character was superb, I feel like Christopher Nolan missed an opportunity to cast Jonny Phillips (who played the part of Lightoller in the 1997 Titanic film) as Dawson. Would have made for a good Easter egg for those in the audience paying attention, and an unofficial connection between the two films.
Agreed.
I just noticed Mr Dawson flies the blue ensign of the Royal Naval Reserve, rather than the red civil ensign the other little ships flew, only officers of the RNR were entitled to fly the blue ensign
That would indicate that he was a retired RN or RNR officer.
he was...
I saw one theory that said given Mr. Dawson's age and his familiarity with shell shock, he may have been a great war veteran.
LessCommonKnowledge indeed he was, Mr Dawson’s character was based on Charles Lightoller, who served in the Royal Navy in WWI, and a survivor of Titanic too.
神推しあしゅりん not just survivor if you know he’s amazing backstory
It’s kind of sad that George dies though
CalvinV7 holy shit that's what came to my mind when I read this comment. Was about to type this
Interestingly, the character Mr. Dawson is based on a real-life participant in the evacuation. Charles Lightoller. He, along with his son Roger and a Sea Scout named Gerry Ashcroft took Lightoller' yacht, the Sundowner oer to Dunkirk and back to Ramsgate, which was the real-life staging area for the Little Ships. In real life, Gerry Ashcroft survived the evacuation.
The actor who plays George looks a lot like the real-life Gerry Ashcroft. And if you know the whole story of Lightoller's participation, it is easy to see that Mr. Dawson was based on him.
@@ioanlightoller4934 true. Charles Lightoller was also the second officer of the titanic, and the most senior member of the surviving crew.
Anarchist Atheist he was demoted from first officer to second because the original second officer “David Blair” got replaced by chief officer “Henry Wilde”
The old guy is Charles lighthollar from the titanic
The most senior officer to survive
The last officer and last person to get on the rescue ship carpathia
In the Titanic film by James Cameron Lighthollar is the one who pulls a pistol on some panicking passenger's and yell's "get back I say or I'll shoot you all like dogs".
@@Apollo890 thank goodness that never happened irl!
@@paulwilkinson4073 Lightoller was aged 66 when he went to Dunkirk. His wife knew him so well, she had every faith in his brilliant mind and reflexes. Right before WWII, Captain and Mrs. Lightoller were doing undercover spying on the Germans, with the Royal Navy's approval. The Germans mistook them for a pleasant, retired couple out on their boat. Sylvia Lightoller also piloted their boat. Charles insisted she learn.
Did anyone else get reminded of Edmund Pevensie from the Chronicles of Narnia when they looked at George (the black haired boy)?
Jalaras Studios yes!
Oh my goodness yes
Nah, i'm looking at Joker
Kenneth More did a superb job of playing Lightoller in a Night to Remember. And Douglas Bader.
hats off to the brave Brits 🇬🇧
"...armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old." and the brave yankees. Thank you America.
Ian Heier America had nothing to do with Dunkirk
Harley O’keefe that is true
I wish they called Mr. Dawson Lightroller instead, seeing as how he’d entirely based on him. Would’ve made for some cool dialogue.
Suppose,because he is based off Charles lightoller who had a life better than any movie ,believe me
Swear they should have had a backstory talk about titanic
I hate it when they call Charles Lightoller Dawson but we need to honor Charles!! He did a great job!
Charles Lightoller, from Titanic to Dunkirk. Legend.
When you realize he was the most senior officer to survive the Titanic…then he fought in WWI…you realize this man has seen every horror you can imagine!
"Maintain speed and heading Mr. Lightoller." 😉
Of course the struggles were great and the sacrifices were immense, but without them all, our history would now be much different.
Brilliant scene in Weymouth. Barry Keoghan is superb as George. I live in Exeter, Devon, only 55 miles west of Weymouth.
Hans Zimmer is a god
Edge of my seat....
01:58 that shot tho...
So Aegon really went away on ship
The Sundowner ship that Lightoller (Dawson) is shown piloting is still in existence I believe.
Why Nolan didn't just used Charles Lightoller as a character instead of making a fictional one? Mr. Dawson is basically Charles Lightoller in the real events.
1st officer murdoch would be proud of lightoller ( mr Dawson)
Lightoller. The man who bravely served Titanic, WW1 and WW2.
"Into war, George!"
"I'll be useful, sir."
Fuckin right on, George.
I like the play on words with the ships name. The original was the sundowner and the fictional version is the moonstone
It's interesting that you can see the Pavilion in the background at about the half minute mark considering the building wasn't constructed until 1960.
Lol George has no idea who mr Dawson really is haha ( Charles lightoller second officer on the titanic sank a u boat and nearly shot down a zeppelin and was regarded as a hero of all of the incidents mentioned
Honestly insulting they changed his name in this movie, lightroller was a straight badass and deserved to be recognized for his bravery. Ehile people familsr eith yistory knew he was at dubkirk this was a chance to make it common knowledge
I wonder why they didn’t just use Charles Lightoller his son Roger, that sea scout and the Sundowner, it would have made the movie A LOT more interesting.
Coulda been money issues and stuff
Token Asian And rights?
I love how they have a modern tug in the background-
I watch Dunkirk and Titanic nerd in me didn't know this was Charles lightoller Dude survived Titanic and both World Wars. Damn
When he got on the boat, I just though 'awh he shouldn't have gotten on the boat'
It was better that they named him properly as Charles Lightoller in the film, and had they wanted a proper reference to titanic, they could have named the character properly as Mr. "Jack Dawson "
I love living in weymouth its so nice to see everything
I was confused through the whole film. I thought George was Mr. Dawson's son as he and Peter were so friendly with him and knew him so well.
Default: Yorker Nope, George was a friend of Peter.
He was his sons best friend. George seemed to hold Peter and his dad in high regard and ended up whacking his head and dying due to a dumb move by the shell shocked soldier they'd rescued. When they'd rescued the other soldiers and they told him George was 'dead', Peter lied and said to be careful with his body because that was his 'brother' (i.e. brother in arms). His father didn't say anything about that, respecting his sons wishes. His father (Mr.Dawson) also told the soldier who'd accidentally killed his sons best friend to go below and get some food telling him everything was okay.. Basically war is shit.
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Isn't the Dawson the guy from the LA Noire meme? "They was workin' on the tyres. That's all that was took!"
Hahahaha
He later proved to be extremely useless
Sad very very sad but let’s try not to admit that
That's kinda besides the point, no?
Anyone here from the infographics show?
Our ship Lusitania lol I’m here from a channel called yarnhub I watched all of the titanic and Dunkirk videos anyway
fuck infographics.
I still don't understand why they insisted on changing his name from Lightoller to Dawson
They changed the name from Lightoller to Dawson because even the decent big-budget movie makers are idiots.
1:58 Fortis flight
Whats the music playing between 0:00 - 0:45? Just cant find it anywhere. Its amazing!
Not released anywhere. It's unlikely we will ever hear it isolated.
Mikhail why so?
Jose Dominguez unfortunately there are many films with great music pieces that only appear in the film. They’re not released on the soundtracks. Perhaps there will be a full score of Dunkirk as there was for Interstellar, as apparently before the 2015 Oscars Interstellar’s full score was released. Not sure if such a score will be released later or not.
Oh, that's the man from The Outfit.
After Churchill victory at the Parliament, Lord Halifax resigned his Parliament place to save Britain's boys himself
I can't that was Charles Lightroller
Titanic Old man
Yes he’s based on Charles lightoller and his son is based on Charles’ real son roger
@JJ Graham If you look at the comments, there's a lot of reasons people keep mentioning Titanic. The character of Mr.Dawson (the name itself should be pretty obvious), is based on Titanic Second Officer Charles Lightoller.
@JJ Graham It does, Mr. Dawson was based of Titanic Officer Charles Lightoller, who had taken part of the Dunkirk Evac.
I’d absolutely REFUSE to call Lightoller Mr. Dawson, and the Sundowner Moonstone.
Why didn’t you stay behind George 😢
1:00
Lifejackets are having a lot of odd focus in this scene. Is it just me or something is actually implied?
It shows the state of desperation they are in. If you count, there are over 80 life vests in that stack, being loaded onto a boat designed for fewer than 10 people.
“Some men across the channel at Dunkirk need taking off.”
*looks at huge pile of lifejackets*
“Some men?”
DC Caleb "Some men" he responds with slight irony. I get it now, thanks everyone
Another cool fact, while these characters are all fictional, the Moonstone and her crew were loosely based off the real life motoryacht "Sundowner" , a similar sized boat, which carried 130 men home from Dunkirk and was so heavy she almost capsized returning to port.
Also if you look in the top left hand corner you can see the navy officers slowly moving their way down the pier towards them.
Dawson's attitude has tint of defiance in it: his boat is to serve in a war and only he will command it. That means he goes to war with it. His age and inexperience of his crew means nothing.
In real life, Mr Dawson was Charles Lightoller, second officer of the Titanic and a highly decorated destroyer captain from WWI. He had more combat experience that the sum total of every RN office and enlisted on that wharf. The man you wanted to have, despite being 70 years old at the time.
Samuel Adams yes he was more trained than the navy asking for his civilian yacht
Is Dunkirk a sequel of the 1997 Titanic? Because of Lightoller.
Nah, it just happened that Lightoller had taken part in Dunkirk
True everyday heroes
Why did everyone dress so formal back then? (the professions that were more laborious)
Dawson is probably a reasonably wealthy man, looking at the boat and such. Since he knows George so well, it’s safe to say George’s family is well off too.
Sundowner* not moonstone
It's the fictional version
So why did Mr. Dawson actually leave without getting checked out by the navy?
He didn't want to give out his boat to effectively strangers so he went out and carried out the orders by himself. It's his boat and he's the captain of his boat.
Mikhail didn’t the other sailors commander their own boats when you see them later in the movie, though?
I assumed many of them did the same thing Dawson did and either refused to let Navy commander their boats or leave before being checked out.
To add to what others have said: Mr. Dawson's son got killed so he felt he wanted to honor his son by saving soldiers. He was especially insistent on saving Collins, a pilot.
The ships were part of the "small vessels pool", which was a maritime register of civilian ships which could be requisitioned by the admiralty in time of national emergency. During the Dunkrk evacuation the vast majority of ships tha went to Dunkirk were either manned entirely by Royal navy sailors or had at least one or two RN sailors on board. The civilians who stayed with their ships were temporarily given Royal navy pay. The Moonstone and Mr Dawson are based on he story of Charles Lightoller who was an experienced mariner who took his ship the Sundowner to Dunkirk personally and refused to allow any RN personal on board. His story is an exception, as most of the ships had RN sailors
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1:04 What's the music name?
i think it might be “Mole” by Hans Zimmer
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Why George jump into the boat? Looks like he is afraid of the officers.
Barry Keoghan (George), aside from being an excellent actor, has one of the biggest, hottest dicks in films. See "Mammal." I hope this doesn't offend him; I love his off-beat face as well.
I didn't get this part, why did they leave the navy behind?
The navy was going to take their ship and go themselves, but Rylance's character wanted to go himself because his son died in the war and he felt owed something. Truly heroic.
ok I wasn't sure if that is what happened. Err not sure if it was the right call though. That kid got killed.
That was George's choice to go and it was an accident. Mr. Dawson couldn't control that.
@@AtreidesFan24 Plus, one of his remaining sons, Trevor, had been rescued a couple of days before. And his dead son Brian had explained to him earlier that a Stuka has to raise its nose before the gunner can fire.
Mr. Dawson, is actually Charles Lightoller, surviving second officer of the Titanic and a destroyer captain from WWI. Highly decorated, sank one u-boat and spent the war engaging German destroyers and torpedo boats in the Channel. He was far more experienced than any junior office the RN would have put on the boat. Best man for the job.
3400 sorties were flown by the RAF, 140 pilots died at Dunkirk
3 planes, really?
You are talking about a director that wanted to only use practical effects in the film. So the production is limited on resources. That's why the beach looks like it has maybe 8 or 9000 troops on it instead of the 300,000.
@@gnranger I love Nolan but he made the wrong choice here.
@@gnranger Dunkirk needed cgi. By god, it needed it. But Nolan apparently hates cgi
into war, george.
Ok, what is he saying here? 1:26
They've had asked for the moonstone they we will have her and her captain and his son
Weymouth xxx
Hey guys, I just started creating short films with twists in Nolan's style pretty much. I'd love you to review my film called "Rope", tell me what you thought about it.
To Valhalla
George was not useful
Which is besides the point.
Damn civilian risking people's lives because he wants to be cos-play a hero...his crappy little boat would have been able to save more troops under the supervision of the military. This war tourist risked lives so he could boast about it in the pubs with the other backward peasants, illiterate pig-herders and uncultured bumpkins. An American captain would have already been saving troops on his own initiative but, then again, American troops wouldn't have been so cowardly and inept that they needed to cower on the coast in total defeat. An American expeditionary force of the exact same size would have broken the german army and been occupying Berlin before the week was out.
You obviously have no idea who Mr. Dawson is based on
Mr. Dawson's character is based on Charles Lightoller
Charles Lightoller was the second officer on the Titanic and the only senior officer who survived the sinking. He saved many lives on Titanic during the sinking. Later he fought in WW1 as a commander in the British navy. He later retired and during WW2 he sailed his yacht to Dunkirk to assist in the evacuation of Dunkirk as depicted in this film.
He was an experienced sailor and navy commander and he clearly knew what he was doing.
The man was a true hero so have some respect.
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