Darkest Hour (2017)

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What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Pan: 2 lines the maker said so ×2

  1. career (career): Pan ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Wright says Pan's failure and his own doubt are what made the doubt-ridden Churchill script resonate.
    “I had made a film called Pan, which had lost about $100 million, and had been slated, really, by most everyone, and I was suffering my own crisis of confidence”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:02:29 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Andrei Tarkovsky: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Andrei Tarkovsky ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Wright wants his work called cinematic and cites Tarkovsky's 'sculpting in time'.
    “as Tarkovsky put it, sculpting in time.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:15:27 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Anna Karenina: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Anna Karenina ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Darkest Hour's stripped-back look is a reaction against Pan and Anna Karenina.
    “as a kind of reaction to what I've been doing before, including Pan, but also, you know, Anna Karenina and movies like that.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:04:41 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Max Richter: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. craft (craft): Max Richter ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright speaking of his own film on the show). Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Max Richter.
    “I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Nils Frahm: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. craft (craft): Nils Frahm ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright speaking of his own film on the show). Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Nils Frahm.
    “I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Philip Glass: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. craft (craft): Philip Glass ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Wright aimed for a cinematic equivalent of minimalist music by Richter, Frahm and Glass.
    “I wanted to try and achieve some kind of cinematic aesthetic equivalent to that music.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:08 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Black Mirror (TV episode directed by Wright): 2 lines theme ×1 career ×1

  1. career (career): Black Mirror (TV episode directed by Wright) → Darkest Hour. A Charlie Brooker script of people talking in rooms re-engaged him, and Darkest Hour arrived while he shot it.
    “whilst I was out in South Africa shooting the Black Mirror episode, Darkest Hour came across my desk”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:04:10 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Dunkirk: 2 lines contrast ×1 industry ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Darkest Hour → Dunkirk. Wright avoided watching Dunkirk until his own film was done, then found both going minimalist.
    “I purposefully didn't watch the film until I'd finished ours.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:19:59 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Pan: 2 lines career ×2

  1. career (career): Pan → Darkest Hour. Wright says Pan's failure and his own doubt are what made the doubt-ridden Churchill script resonate.
    “I had made a film called Pan, which had lost about $100 million, and had been slated, really, by most everyone, and I was suffering my own crisis of confidence”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:02:29 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Andrei Tarkovsky: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Darkest Hour → Andrei Tarkovsky. Wright wants his work called cinematic and cites Tarkovsky's 'sculpting in time'.
    “as Tarkovsky put it, sculpting in time.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:15:27 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Anna Karenina: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Darkest Hour → Anna Karenina. Darkest Hour's stripped-back look is a reaction against Pan and Anna Karenina.
    “as a kind of reaction to what I've been doing before, including Pan, but also, you know, Anna Karenina and movies like that.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:04:41 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Ben Mendelsohn: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Ben Mendelsohn → Darkest Hour. Mendelsohn played King George VI in Darkest Hour, a bit too in control compared to the stutter.
    “he was King George, the, the, the 6th in Darkest Hour.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:36:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Bruno Delbonnel: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Bruno Delbonnel → Darkest Hour. With DP Bruno Delbonnel he developed a simple, honest, truthful style.
    “together we we developed a style that was trying to just be as simple and as honest and as dramatic as possible”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:23 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Dario Marianelli: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Dario Marianelli → Darkest Hour. He sent Marianelli a photo of Oldman walking as Churchill, to write music with a TikTok tempo, before shooting.
    “I took a picture of Gary walking as Churchill in one of those early sessions and sent it to Dario Marianelli.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:10:08 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Gary Oldman: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Gary Oldman → Darkest Hour. Wright cast Oldman for Churchill's essence rather than his look, over more obvious choices.
    “you can fake the exterior, but you can't fake the interior necessarily, Gary had the essence.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:09:49 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Joe Wright: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Joe Wright → Darkest Hour. Wright thinks film is like music, happening in time, and gives actors rhythm notes by singing them.
    “Film for me is most like music.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:06:18 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Max Richter: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Darkest Hour → Max Richter. Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Max Richter.
    “I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Nils Frahm: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Darkest Hour → Nils Frahm. Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Nils Frahm.
    “I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Philip Glass: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Darkest Hour → Philip Glass. Wright aimed for a cinematic equivalent of minimalist music by Richter, Frahm and Glass.
    “I wanted to try and achieve some kind of cinematic aesthetic equivalent to that music.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:08 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

The King's Speech: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Darkest Hour → The King's Speech. Mendelsohn's king did not stutter as much as Colin Firth's Oscar-winning version.
    “famously the character that Con Firth won for the Oscar for.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:37:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)

The Soloist: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): The Soloist → Darkest Hour. On real-life stories: you cannot change events, so The Soloist got a smaller ending of friendship; Darkest Hour seeks truth over fact.
    “you're not necessarily wanting the facts, you're wanting the truth, and they sometimes are different things”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:12:20 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Ben Mendelsohn → Darkest Hour. Mendelsohn played King George VI in Darkest Hour, a bit too in control compared to the stutter.
    “he was King George, the, the, the 6th in Darkest Hour.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:36:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Pan → Darkest Hour. Wright says Pan's failure and his own doubt are what made the doubt-ridden Churchill script resonate.
    “I had made a film called Pan, which had lost about $100 million, and had been slated, really, by most everyone, and I was suffering my own crisis of confidence”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:02:29 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Pan → Darkest Hour. After Pan he decided he was not cut out for big studio movies and wanted to return to his wheelhouse.
    “I realized after Pan that I wasn't cut out necessarily for the kind of big studio movies, and I wanted to return to something that was closer to my wheelhouse.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:03:05 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Black Mirror (TV episode directed by Wright) → Darkest Hour. A Charlie Brooker script of people talking in rooms re-engaged him, and Darkest Hour arrived while he shot it.
    “whilst I was out in South Africa shooting the Black Mirror episode, Darkest Hour came across my desk”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:04:10 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): Darkest Hour → The King's Speech. Mendelsohn's king did not stutter as much as Colin Firth's Oscar-winning version.
    “famously the character that Con Firth won for the Oscar for.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:37:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Darkest Hour → Anna Karenina. Darkest Hour's stripped-back look is a reaction against Pan and Anna Karenina.
    “as a kind of reaction to what I've been doing before, including Pan, but also, you know, Anna Karenina and movies like that.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:04:41 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Darkest Hour → Dunkirk. Wright avoided watching Dunkirk until his own film was done, then found both going minimalist.
    “I purposefully didn't watch the film until I'd finished ours.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:19:59 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

craft (6)

  1. craft (craft): Darkest Hour → Max Richter. Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Max Richter.
    “I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Darkest Hour → Nils Frahm. Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Nils Frahm.
    “I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Darkest Hour → Philip Glass. Wright aimed for a cinematic equivalent of minimalist music by Richter, Frahm and Glass.
    “I wanted to try and achieve some kind of cinematic aesthetic equivalent to that music.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:08 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Bruno Delbonnel → Darkest Hour. With DP Bruno Delbonnel he developed a simple, honest, truthful style.
    “together we we developed a style that was trying to just be as simple and as honest and as dramatic as possible”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:23 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Joe Wright → Darkest Hour. Wright thinks film is like music, happening in time, and gives actors rhythm notes by singing them.
    “Film for me is most like music.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:06:18 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Dario Marianelli → Darkest Hour. He sent Marianelli a photo of Oldman walking as Churchill, to write music with a TikTok tempo, before shooting.
    “I took a picture of Gary walking as Churchill in one of those early sessions and sent it to Dario Marianelli.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:10:08 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Dunkirk → Darkest Hour. Wright says success is not finite and more good films mean more audiences.
    “success is, you know, is not finite.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:20:18 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Darkest Hour → Andrei Tarkovsky. Wright wants his work called cinematic and cites Tarkovsky's 'sculpting in time'.
    “as Tarkovsky put it, sculpting in time.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:15:27 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Gary Oldman → Darkest Hour. Wright cast Oldman for Churchill's essence rather than his look, over more obvious choices.
    “you can fake the exterior, but you can't fake the interior necessarily, Gary had the essence.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:09:49 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (theme): Darkest Hour → Black Mirror (TV episode directed by Wright). Both are scripts of people talking in rooms, which challenged him to find cinema in conversation.
    “it was men in rooms talking to each other, the creative challenge of that thrilled me.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:04:10 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): The Soloist → Darkest Hour. On real-life stories: you cannot change events, so The Soloist got a smaller ending of friendship; Darkest Hour seeks truth over fact.
    “you're not necessarily wanting the facts, you're wanting the truth, and they sometimes are different things”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:12:20 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Darkest Hour: The opening: Churchill is heard before seen, in a dark room until a servant opens the curtains.
    “you hear him before you see him.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:08:08 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Darkest Hour: Wright says he sent Marianelli a photo of Oldman walking as Churchill and asked for music from it.
    “you should write a piece based on this photograph.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:10:17 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Darkest Hour: English newsreel style: a wide shot of a street that holds until a man crosses the road, then cuts.
    “a wide shot of a street and it holds and then a man crosses the road and then it cuts.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:14:06 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Darkest Hour: Wright researched at the Imperial War Museum on a Steenbeck; German, French and English newsreels each have a national style.
    “A nation has its style.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:14:21 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Darkest Hour: On set he plays Major Lazer; Oldman as Churchill danced to Bubble Butt.
    “We played Major Laser bubble butt a lot.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:17:40 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Darkest Hour: 500 extras sang Hey Jude at 7:30 a.m. before Oldman arrived, so he walked into a swell of cheering.
    “the entire room sang together, the Beatles, hey Jude.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:18:06 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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