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Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
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According to a BBC article, in order to achieve one aspect of the film's extraordinary visual style, Christian Dior stockings were stretched over the camera lens to achieve a soft focus.
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In the DVD commentary, director Joe Wright said for the assault scene, he instructed Benedict Cumberbatch to leave his underwear on. A digital butt was then added to make it appear that Cumberbatch does have his underwear down and his bare behind showing.
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The Dunkirk street scenes and generator room scenes were filmed on Grimsby Docks.
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In the DVD commentary, director Joe Wright reveals a lucky fluke that got caught on camera during the scene just before Robbie (James McAvoy) discovers the school girls' massacre. At the point where he removes his helmet, the weather was cloudy. As he looks up the sky, the sun started shining, and then got cloudy again the moment he put his head down.
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Since Atonement is a novel about novels, it shouldn't be a surprise that it's based on another novel. Specifically, McEwan cribbed the plot in part from Henry James's 'What Maisie Knew', another story about a child who gets involved in an adult sexual relationship that she doesn't understand.
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The distinguished English actor John Normington, a veteran of stage and screen, has a minor role as a vicar but sadly died before the film's UK release.
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Keira Knightley stated in an interview with Graham Norton that when herself and James McAvoy filmed the love scene in which their characters have sex against a bookshelf, that a voice was heard during filming shouting "Keira! Wank him off!" to which the actress had replied "Okay! No problem."
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Local government in Redcar gave permission for a bandstand to be erected and for a shipwreck to be placed on the beach for authenticity. A number of houses along the beach front were painted to suit the era. The cinema, which looked the part already, merely had an advertisement painted on the side of the building to complete the set dressing. Everything was undone after filming was complete and Redcar seafront now looks like a normal seaside town again.
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The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Costume Design.
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It took about 3 weeks to prepare the beach and sea front area, having all street furniture removed, tons of sand brought in to cover the promenade, road and pavement, boarding up of all sea facing windows and installation of ferris wheel, band stand and army vehicles etc. After nearly a week of rehearsals for the extras, actors and crew then the actual filming it took a over two weeks to put everything back to normal all for 5 minutes of screen time.
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This movie includes 3 actors from the Emmy-winning programme Game of Thrones (2011). This includes Tobias Menzies who portrayed Edmure Tully, Alfie Allen who played Theon Greyjoy and Nonso Anozie who starred as Xaro Xan Daxos.
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As Robbie is hauled off by the police and his mother frantically yells "liar" while running up the road, Briony peers from a staircase landing through a window decorated with figures in stained glass. The figure in the window Briony stares through is labeled Matilda. This is an allusion to a famous children's poem by Hilaire Belloc entitled "Matilda", whose first line runs, "Matilda told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp and stretch one's eyes". By the end of the poem, Matilda has burned to death, having called wolf one time too many.
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This was the last HD DVD release by Universal Studios.
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Joe Wright had wanted Keira Knightley to play the role of Briony in her late teens, but Knightley immediately liked the character of Cecilia, and also wanted to get away from playing girls on the brink of womanhood and play a more mature character for once.
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Only eight U.K. military ambulances from WWII remain, and Atonement made use of them all.
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The movie playing in the Dunkirk theater is Port of Shadows (1938), whose plot concerns a deserting soldier trying to get out of France.
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Vanessa Redgrave (Older Briony) is the former mother-in-law of the producer Robert Fox as he was married to her daughter Natasha Richardson from 1990 to 1992.
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The only film that year to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, but not at the Producers Guild of America Awards.
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