Chris Nolan's Dunkirk Trailer: 8 Reactions You Need To Know
1. Too Many Troops To Handle
The other significant problem with Christopher Nolan is that he casts a generous amount of celebrities, only to convert some of them into castaways, or even castoff faces with no meaning and no purpose. Examples of this subtly spread all over previous films, mostly when the director went from small, innermost projects to big-budget scientific extravaganzas, presumably reaching a new blatant point in Interstellar: Topher Grace’s role limited to being the kiss target for Murph, Wes Bentley’s to being the damp squib (literally), Casey Affleck’s was soon forgotten, Matt Damon’s was ludicrous and we could go on and on about it.
The fact is, well-known actors shine with the likelihood of strong, substantial performances serving as pillars for ethos, and it doesn’t help that we see them shrivel up into negligible cameos. Dunkirk is coming with at least four luminaries, an incipient star, and a party full of potential other central characters; required ingredients for a successful The Thin Red Line effect, for better or worse.
We need a miracle, Mr. Nolan, we really need it.