History Film / NineteenSeventeen

** Blake and Schofield, while searching within the German bunker, collectively let out a panicked RapidFireNo when they find a rat dragging its meal [[spoiler:into a live tripwire, promptly detonating the trap right in their faces]].

* FatalFamilyPhoto: {{Subverted}} with [[spoiler:Blake]] who dies clutching one, but he was already fatally wounded before taking it out. {{Defied}} with [[spoiler: Schofield who does not look at his family's pictures until ''after'' he has completed his mission. He keeps his in a metal case, which he examines multiple times throughout the film, but the audience never sees the actual photos until the last scene.]]

*** Loses Blake who gets stabbed to death by a German pilot.

Notably, the story is told in RealTime, and the film is shot and edited to look as if it were done in [[TheOner one take]][[note]][[spoiler:actually two]][[/note]] à la ''[[Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance Birdman]]'' or ''Film/{{Rope}}''.

* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: An isolated regiment is scheduled to launch a full on attack on their front line. However, aerial reconnaissance has revealed that the Germans are planning to lure them into a massacre. With the field telephones to the regiment's sector cut, the only way to get word to stop the attack is to send two runners, Lance Corporal Blake and Lance Corporal Schofield, to deliver the message in writing. The two soldiers go on a hazardous, harrowing trek through enemy territory, hoping to reach the regiment and stop the attack before it's too late.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"There is only one way this war ends. Last man standing."'']]

* ForTheEvulz: Captain Smith advises Blake to make sure there are witnesses when he gives Colonel Mackenzie the message to stop the attack because Mackenzie might choose to ignore them for this reason.

* HomeByChristmas: DiscussedTrope. Blake mentions early on that command had said that all it would take is one big push and everyone would be home by Christmas. Given that the movie takes place in ''April'', that push either fizzled out some time ago or is a long time coming, and Schofield angrily mocks him for it. [[note]]The Battle of Arras -- the British Army's spring offensive -- began on April 9, 1917, or two days after events in the movie concludes. The characters at one point mention feeling that something big was once again in the air.[[/note]]

* OffscreenAirplanePullup: a disabled German plane flies out of sight behind a hill, presumably to crash - but then abruptly pulls up and crests the hill, to menace Blake and Schofield.

Notably, the story is told in RealTime and shot and edited to look as if it were done in [[TheOner one take]][[note]][[spoiler:actually two]][[/note]] a la ''[[Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance Birdman]]'' or ''Film/{{Rope}}''.

* AgonizingStomachWound: [[spoiler:Blake gets stabbed by a German pilot he'd [[UngratefulBastard rescued from a burning plane]]. Despite Schofield's attempts to get him back on his feet, every small movement makes him scream or groan in agony and he continuously falls back over.]] In the end, there's nothing that can be done to save him, and he dies slowly and painfully while [[spoiler:Schofield]] [[ComfortTheDying stays by his side to ease his terror of death, assuring him that he will finish their mission.]]

* TooDumbToLive:
** [[spoiler:If Blake simply saw reason and listened to Schofield's suggestion to wait until nightfall, then he might have not died.]]
** [[spoiler:Blake's death could have also been avoided if he simply let Schofield kill the German pilot.]]
** [[spoiler:The aforementioned German pilot who knifes his rescuer, doubling as an UngratefulBastard.]]

* FreshClue: More of a suspense trigger than an actual clue. At the German trenches, the two protagonists find a bucket with still glowing coals in it, a sign that the Germans couldn't have left long ago.
* FriendOrFoe: While roaming through the French town and encountering a building up in flames, Schofield sees the silhouette of a soldier walking towards him from it. It's unclear whose side he's on at first, but after a moment, he realizes who he's looking at...and opens fire on Schofield

* FrontlineGeneral: Both General Erinmore and Colonel McKenzie lead their men in the frontline of trenches.

* FriendOrFoe: While roaming through the French town and encountering a building up in flames, Schofield sees the silhouette of a soldier walking towards him from it. It's unclear whose side he's on at first, but after a moment, he realizes who he's looking at...and opens fire on Schofield.

* AdultFear:
** Schofield mentions to Blake that he avoids applying for leave time since he hates the idea of briefly going home, knowing that he has to leave again for possibly the last time and [[spoiler:leave behind his wife and daughter.]]
** Blake's main motivation.
--->'''Gen. Erinmore:''' You have a brother in the second battalion.\\
'''Lcpl. Blake:''' Yes, sir. Is he...\\
'''Gen. Erinmore:''' Alive. And with your help, I'd like to keep it that way. But they're walking into a trap. Your orders are to deliver a message calling off tomorrow morning's attack. If you don't, we will lose sixteen hundred men. Your brother among them.

** The British soldiers in the film, even the officers, seem unprofessional and mostly unfriendly to one another. Probably very accurate, given how long the war had lasted by the time the film takes place. The pre-war professional British Army of 100,000 men (the "Old Contemptibles") had been used up in the opening months of the war, and the British Army in France in 1917 was made up of hastily trained men recruited into "Pals Battalions."

The story takes place on April 6-7, 1917, in the midst of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI World War I]]. With the Germans in apparent retreat, the Devonshire Regiment is scheduled to launch a full on attack on their front line. However, aerial reconnaissance has revealed that the Germans are planning to lure the Devons into a massacre. With the field telephones to the Devons' sector cut, the only way to get word to stop the attack is to send two runners: Lance Corporal Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Lance Corporal Schofield (George [=MacKay=]). Blake has been chosen to deliver the message because he'll have extra motivation: his brother is an officer with the regiment. Having received their orders, the two soldiers go on a hazardous, harrowing trek through no man's land, hoping to reach the Devonshires and stop the attack before it's too late.

-->You need to trust me! ''Jump!''

* TheOner: The movie is largely shot and edited to look like it was filmed in a single take, with hidden cuts happening during moments of darkness or as the heroes pass through a doorway. However, there is actually one visible hard cut in the film, [[spoiler:when the German sniper shoots Schofield's helmet off, knocking him out, and the film cuts to black for a while. This mostly serves as a plot device meant to skip time forward a few hours, one which a non-Oner film would not have a problem with. Also serves as an OhCrap moment to the audience.]]

** [[spoiler:If Blake simply saw reason and listened to Schofield's suggestion to wait until nightfall then he might have not died.]]
** [[spoiler:Again Blake's death could have been avoided if he simply let Schofield kill the German pilot.]]
** [[spoiler:The German aviator, who knifes his rescuer. Doubles with an UngratefulBastard.]]

Notably, the story is told in RealTime and shot and edited to look as if it were done in [[TheOner one take]] a la ''Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance'' or ''Film/{{Rope}}''.

''1917'' is a [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war film]] co-written and directed by Creator/SamMendes and starring Creator/GeorgeMacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, Creator/RichardMadden, Creator/MarkStrong, Creator/AndrewScott and Creator/ColinFirth.

* HighConcept: The clip used for the trailers.
-->'''Gen. Erinmore:''' You have a brother in the second battalion.\\
'''Lcpl. Blake:''' Yes, sir. Is he...\\
'''Gen. Erinmore:''' Alive. And with your help, I'd like to keep it that way. But they're walking into a trap. Your orders are to deliver a message calling off tomorrow morning's attack. If you don't, we will lose sixteen hundred men. [[AdultFear Your brother among them.]]