The Good, The Bad and The Ugly in the Dunkirk

Rating: 6/10 (22 July 2017)

Christopher Nolan named ten or twelve films that inspired Dunkirk. But why The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is not in his list? 1. At the beginning of the movie, soldiers are walking along the street of an empty city. The same passage of Tuco along the street of the empty city before the shootout with the cowboys of the Angel Eyes. 2. From the very beginning of the film there are no dialogues, despite the fact that the characters meet. And this eye contact dialogue lasts more than ten minutes, as well as in the film about cowboys. 3. Two soldiers run with a wounded soldier on a stretcher, and it's very similar to how Tuco and the Blonde run through the battlefield holding the box with a bomb. And in both cases, the characters pursued another goal. 4. This two soldiers climb to the pier in order to overhear the captain's speech. We see that these two guys are clearly different from the rest of the soldiers with intelligence and ingenuity. It's very similar to how Tuco and the Blonde climbed up the bridge to blow it up. But they had a goal to find a cemetery with gold. They are also clearly smarter than other soldiers. There is an acute feeling that the director uses a list of films to divert attention from the main source of his inspiration.