I recently watched two different versions of Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk. One was in the form of a fan edit called "Finest Hour," which combined footage from the movies Dunkirk and Darkest Hour (the latter focusing on Churchill's participation during the Dunkirk evacuation). In that edit, the scenes from Dunkirk were changed so that all events in the film proceeded a linear fashion instead of jumping back and forward in time between the different groups of people during the evacuation. Having enjoyed your MCU:AC work (and soon planning to check out your other edits), I would like to see an edit that only has the linear footage from Dunkirk as presented in "Finest Hour" with possibly one or a few different scene presentations from the "Finest Hour" timeline depending on how you view the timeline of that movie while researching the order of events. I also watched Dunkirk with my own self-imposed plan that I call "Operation: Anthology," where using my PS4 I was able to record the timestamps of all events that transpired within the three stories known as "1. The Mole, 2. The Sea, and 3. The Air." I then proceeded to re-watch the movie with the three numbered segments/stories separated from each other (and presented in the order of mole, sea, and then air due to the numbers each story was given in addition to their unique timespans) instead of constantly cutting between the different regions during the evacuation up until the last 5-10 minutes of the movie. The last 5-10 minutes or so of the movie is what I would label as "4. Conclusion," where we see the epilogues of all the characters involved across all three stories while one of the characters reads Churchill's speech as multiple different scenes are played out. I watched the last 5-10 minutes uninterrupted and with no rearranged timestamps instead of sticking with my anthology order up to the ending credits since I felt that the speech being spoken across all the different characters in the movie was a more powerful moment than if it was restricted to the segment/story that the character reading the speech originated in (especially since it would be awkward to cut the other footage of the characters in the other stories at the end while keeping the audio of the speech since we don't have complete footage of the character in his respective story reading the entire speech by himself to complement the audio of the speech, and so in my opinion it's better to just keep the cutting between the stories while the entire speech audio plays out in the last few minutes before the credits). If you would wish to create a more unique edit of Dunkirk instead of using the linear style presented in "Finest Hour" minus the footage from Darkest Hour, then I would be interested to see a "Dunkirk: Operation Anthology" edit from you, which would effectively treat the mole, sea, and air as three separate short films (while also including some same scenes across all stories when characters in their original stories cross up with characters from the other stories around the middle to the end of the movie prior to the epilogue) set within and around Dunkirk plus the speech epilogue at the end to show together the fates of all characters involved in the three stories during the evacuation and conclude the three stories by then cutting between them during a speech that is thematic with the characters and hope we see across all the stories. If you're not interested in Dunkirk and/or the styles/edits I suggest for that film, then that's fine. I'm just suggesting this to you because your Marvel Chronology had me hooked on the potential fun to be found on retelling stories according to timelines and other styles of order. If you want to talk to me more about how I would frame events within the anthology order, then feel free to do so.
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Both Dunkirk and Darkest Hour have been on my watch list for ever! When I get around to watching them I'll message you and we can discuss the possibility!