を対 : = 朝 1 0 H R ー S す 0 P H E R N 0 [ A N ' S G R E A す W A R B Y E 凵 Z A B E R M A N No れ , 46 , as built 0 career making smartfilms 市砒 are so blockbusters. His 10thfeature, Dunkirk, the British-American director's most ambitious yet. He spoke t0 TIME 0b0 砒 how 0 れ d why he made thisfilm OW H ー S 10 R ー C A R E S E A R C H Ⅳ 0 〃 0 れ d va Hoytemapored overphotos た e these as well as newsreelfoo tage れ d firsthand accounts. But 市 avoided direct replication. ' ア ou come up with 0 language 市砒沁 not self-conscious 0 れ d thatfeelspure, ” says va れ日 0 ア tema , ツ ou enter 0 scene andjust believe れ . ' part Ofthe national DNA. lt's in your bones as a Over the past decade, you've made movies BritiSh person. You receive the story first in its that take place ⅲ the DC Comics universe, more mythic, somewhat oversimplified terms. within the human subconscious and 0 収 t in The more you find out about the reality ofthe space. Why come back tO earth, tO history? Dunkirk is one Ofthe great untOld stories in evacuation, the more you find out ab out the modern C1nema. Having made a trip on a small me ssy historical truth of the thing. boat across the Channel about 25 years ago, the roughness ofthe water, the sheer physical DO yo 収 think there's a particular reason challenge of making that crossing—but without why the story hasn't been 亡 01d ⅲ film? Yes, I dO. What I realize in retrospect is this is anyone dropping bombs, without traveling a British 61m ー it has no Americans in it—but f intO a war zone—cemented in my mind an ま extraordinarily high level 0f admiration for the it needs the Hollywood studio machine t0 be able to make something technically on the people wh0 ⅲ 1940 just got 0 Ⅱ those little boats scale that's necessary tO dO this storyjustice. and came over tO help the soldiers. l've always seen Dunkirk as a universal story, something that anybody could relate to. But Growing up ⅲ Britain, what was your the reason why it hasn't been made before is it perception Of the events at Dunkirk? ln Britain, you grow up with this story. lt's really requires such massive resources. 41