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How James Bond inspired 1917

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1917 isn’t the first time that Mendes has played with impression of one single, uninterrupted shot. Spectre, the director’s second Bond film, opens with a sequence that tracks 007 as he stalks during Mexico City’s Day of the Dead celebration. Similar to 1917, the scene looks continuous — following Daniel Craig as he watches a parade, enters a hotel, climbs onto the roof, and finds the perfect vantage point for his sniper rifle without cutting away. As Lerman told Looper, “doing that sequence on Spectre had to have something to do with where Sam got the idea” to do 1917. “We had a great experience shooting that opening sequence in Spectre. I think it’s a very strong point of that film in general.”

Like 1917, the Spectre opening is actually stitched together from multiple shots. The five-minute sequence has five shots, Lerman noted, which were filmed over four days. However, thanks to some clever camera work and post-production magic, you won’t notice. To the naked eye, it looks like one uninterrupted take.

Mendes, Lerman, and the rest of the 1917 crew were able to repeat many of the techniques they used on Spectre while filming the war drama, including the schedule. “You rehearse four or five hours, then you shoot it for four or five hours until you get it and you go home,” said Lerman. 

Mendes did the same thing on 1917. Because the production was at the mercy of the weather, the 1917 team needed to have contingency plans in place so that they didn’t lose too much time. “We decided very early on that we would need to have the ability to rehearse, not only that day’s work, but then the following day’s work in case the sun came out,” Lerman said. “We usually rehearsed on a shoot day for four to five hours.”

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