1917 (2019) - Blake Dies 

It’s also shock

Well it is pretty obvious. I mean your brain needs blood pumping to live as well as oxygen. Once you have blood loss your time is up

@@youtubeisfullofnerds5767 Shock is the state of insufficient blood flow to the tissues of the body as a result of problems with the circulatory system. Initial symptoms of shock may include weakness, fast heart rate, fast breathing, sweating, anxiety, and increased thirst. This may be followed by confusion, unconsciousness, or cardiac arrest, as complications worsen. TL;DR yes, it's called shock.

Imma add a little science to provide a clearer picture on physiology of the amazing human body. The body has many system and particularly to the blood system, it is a enclosed system with valves facing downward to prevent potential flush back. It is a safety mechanism to ensure blood traveling in one direction. When a foreign body disrupts the closed system, the pressure in the system would be greater than the pressure that exist outside of the body. One way view this is, imagine you have a tire that has a hole. The air escapes when you attempt to put more air into the tyre as the system is no longer enclosed and the pressure of the system is no equal to the environmental pressure. Therefore, the level of oxygen acquired from the lungs is insufficient to oxygenate the brain at its normal capacity. Furthermore, the person experiencing low level of oxygen, the pituitary gland would provide signals delivered via blood to the adrenal gland and ask it to secrete noradrenaline. It is ultimately futile and the brain is starved of oxygen, whilst the person has lots of noradrenaline in their system, everything they feel may be a numbing sensation. The body tries everything in its arsenal to ensure survival. With the level of blood loss and reduction of red blood cells (oxygen carrying cells), the body throws the entire kitchen sink. It tries to release noradrenaline via pituitary gland through the blood stream, the body sends signal to the spleen to produce more red blood cells to replace the lost cells, the remaining red blood cell (platelets), rushes to the wound site and attempts to clog the wound site. Just want to point out, this version has been simplify greatly. But boy do I love science/physiology of the human body. Actually hated it when I started learning it. It was one of my weakest areas. Now I miss it!

@@HelioPopTart Thank you for the explanation! Really appreciate it! You’re too kind

Definitely, I was so focused on his dialogue it took a second later to realise Blake died.

It's such a subtle way/natural like way of dying that in movies, they groan and tilt their head to the side but I loved this way.

As a combat medic Its still something i never get used to

I missed it lol

@@rogvedits8091 That’s me every time one of my friends horses at my horse riding dies and I think “NO NOT ANOTHER HORSE!” I’m pretty close to them

It was an absolute genius move. For the first quarter of the film Blake is portrayed as the driving force of the mission, he’s the one with the personal connection to the end goal, he’s the one called upon by name to do it, he knows the way there, he’s the one who shows no hesitation, cinematically, he’s _visually framed_ as the main character. As an audience, we’ve been trained to recognise all these as indicators for the lead character and it lulls us into that familiar assumption. Scho is the one who suffers a potentially fatal injury twenty minutes in and is seemingly marked for death early on, he’s the one being dragged into the situation by Blake, he very nearly dies in the bunker and is saved by Blake, further cementing the latter as the lead hero, he’s addressed secondarily by the officers assigning them the mission, and is often in the back of the shot. Again, plenty of recognisable signs there. And yet, watching it again, I noticed that Scho shows a lot of signs of being a quiet survivor from word go. Of the two of them he’s always the one questioning the situation and their approach to it. He’s more experienced, he has more respect for the danger they’re facing, he’s less emotionally compromised than Blake, and comes to his rescue multiple times, stopping him from getting carried away, breaking up the fight he almost gets himself into at the start, insisting he himself goes first over the top, he even has food stashed in anticipation of lean rations. Perhaps most tragically he tries to argue they should put the German out of his misery but is swayed by Blake’s insistence that he go get him some water. Where Blake is driven by his heart, Scho thinks ahead more, has more situational awareness. Yes he’s following Blake into this, but he’s quietly training him to be more aware of his surroundings as he does. Equally, Scho would have even got as far as he did if it wasn’t for Blake. They make a perfect duo, both pushing and pulling each other forwards in the journey, their characters complimenting each other in an amazing dynamic. Both are equal in their immense bravery and courage, and after he loses Blake, Scho does take on more of his friend’s emotional drive. Scho is forced to carry on alone but Blake’s spirit is very much with him. This twist is one of my favourites in all of cinema, and it does come seemingly out of nowhere and packs an incredible punch, but I would argue that it’s set up very subtly before anything even happens. Quite possibly my favourite visual message in the entire film is in the opening shot of them both sleeping. Blake enters the frame first, Scho second. It’s Blake who’s name we learn first, and he literally pulls Scho into it, already setting up what we think is going to be the dynamic. Yet looking again, Scho is upright and fully in the foreground, filling most of the frame, his face clear to see, Blake is flat on the ground behind him with his face covered, reminiscent of the dead. Though Blake appears first, it’s Scho who we _see_ first. He’s already, literally, framed as the main character before anything even starts. And when you get the to final shot and realise this whole thing was bookended by these two mirroring shots of Scho leaning against a tree with his eyes closed….it all falls into place. This started out as a paragraph and ended up as a novel haha! I just can’t help it, I watched it again last night and it’s impossible not to wax lyrical about it for days afterwards. This film is a masterpiece of visual, verbal and emotional storytelling.

@@westminsterabbey.6916 youre very articulate!! that's exactly how i felt about it and you put it into words

@@aishwaryac8720 thank you! ☺️ it’s great to hear you share my thoughts and I managed to put them into words. The comment I was replying to articulated it wonderfully as well, it’s what set me off haha

@@aishwaryac8720 I will add that their dynamic is more subtle and complex than I made it sound in my first description though. As I watched it last time I saw how the balance shifted between the two from minute to minute, Blake taking the lead as the initiator, then Scho stepping into the foreground and deciding their next move or approach. They share the lead with amazing harmony for those first 50 minutes, each bringing their own input and working fluidly together. Although all those signs of Blake being the “main” one are there underneath it all, our boys are set up as a team from the start, and that team dynamic settles in, and we settle into it, as we watch how well they work together. By the time they reach the farmhouse we’ve grown attached to the idea of this team making it through together, because they need each other to move forward. And that’s why Blake’s brutally sudden death is such a kick in the gut. That’s why we feel as though we’ve been left cold and alone with Scho as the ambient music, that’s been running quietly beneath the scene for the last ten minutes, goes silent when Blake stops breathing. As a side note, I love that the scenery literally starts crashing down around them at the very moment Blake starts to show signs of confusion from blood loss. It’s the first real sign that he’s leaving Scho on his own, and Scho’s world as he’s known it for too short a time begins to disintegrate in the flames brought by the German who took his friend and sole support from him. God damn I could write a novel about this film….

Well you're wrong there... He was never the protagonist at all...

I’ve heard (rumored) that they did not use makeup or special effects for this; that Blake’s actor was hyperventilating and acting so panicked he actually got that pale.

@@Penultimeat I wouldn't be surprised. That happened to me once when I had a severe panic attack. Feels like your chest opens up and tightens at the same time. It's not very pleasant but yep, pale follows shortly after.

@@aaronomahony same thing happens to me when my blood sugar is low

@@aaronomahony I had them since 2018 and I get panic attacks every time everyone mentioned No Mans Land to me. I literally cried in public and I don’t usually do that but I want my grief heard out

@@nicolelawless3199 hope you'll feel better xx

I browse YT everyday just for that scene to be uploaded

@@bilalustun8959 and the running scene

@@nithinravi4401 and the river scene

I cried when I saw him rubbing his hand against the grass later on to clean the blood. Its an amazing amazing metaphor of the insanity any war carries

@@mascaltzone7 I had a meltdown and the whole audience came over to help me because I lost it. I didn’t want my grandmother to see it but she was with me

During my nose bleedings, I forgot everything and then I realised how much blood was lost and I start freaking out. I cry every time I look back at how much blood I’ve lost onto that tissue and I hold onto it

That fact that they also made him actually scared of dying adds to it. Because being scared of death is just human nature, it is much better than if he was to be an ”I’m not scared of death, It is my duty” kind of character.

Reminds me of Caparzo in SPR

Especially in London stabbing city

There are a lot of people who are actually tough irl, like that marine in vietnam who was shot multiple times but still kicking vc's butt and manages to survive.

@Deddi Nainggolan John Wick was as ridiculous as it gets. But fun to watch

@Deddi Nainggolan isnt that the point of john wick? Making an extremely overpowered character while still showing a lil bit of vulnerability?

Clearly haven’t seen the film

@@youtubeisfullofnerds5767 Erm what?

@@youtubeisfullofnerds5767 How so SOB?

I’m always scared every time I’m bleeding out because I bled out in my car once a day before my birthday. It got everywhere

@@youtubeisfullofnerds5767 Ay man eight months ago you gave us this wacky comment, can you explain a bit

Your comment made me tear up damnit

Neither did I. Me and Nanny were holding hands in grief and she was comforting me anyway because Nanny had never seen the real side of me before and now she has

@@nicolelawless3199 Films are a great way for people to allow people to express themselves.

@@MR.ICE. I never want to do that publicly but I did on Remembrance Sunday and I’d feel so lost without the war now

Never mind the fact he's somewhere between 18-21

Reminds me of Caparzo in SPR

I also cried. Me and Nanny were holding hands in grief that night. Nanny is the one to go too for revealing what’s going on in my life and she completely understands

You save someone from death... ...he stabs you

No shame in crying. Good movies do that

@@MagnusAnand 1917 absolutely ruined me and my love for it has returned

@Elend Fiasco wow😯 they did a really good job

From what the director said, this is all good acting. No make up artist had to do anything with him going so pale.

The make up department don't do cinematography.

How did they do that if it's one shot though?

@@monxx15 according to the movie director, the actor really was in character, and it all absolutely mind blowing acting.

But he literally did know the way he didn't lie

@@MrDominator824 I think what the OP maybe moreso means is that, nobody could have told Blake with 100% certainty that he would get to his brother. But with someone dying in your arms, basically laying out their dying wish to you, even if there was 0 hope, you would tell them it will happen. I think that is what the OP means. Whether true or not, you would not want to strip somebodies final seconds of the hope they have.

My dad told me the story when his friend stepped on a land mine on the front line (Bosnian war), both of his legs got blown off and while they were carrying his friend on the stretcher, he was asking my dad when are they going to play soccer again. He died before they could get him to the field hospital. Something that in normal situation your brain cannot comprehend.

blood loss likely from an nicked or severed artery, brain stops functioning properly after severe blood loss and death is very quick. i’ve seen it happen many times with car accidents. theres pretty well much nothing you can do if you cant stop the bleeding and get more fluids into them, and theres just no time.

it is! the screenplay mentions it

I noticed that too

That's how I took it.

No shit

I didn't expect to laugh when clicking on this video but here we are

You're making jokes. A man is dying and you're making jokes about it

@@joeshittheragman6252 calm down Karen

@@MeowSau r/whooooosh

@@joeshittheragman6252 i'm tired of everyone pretending it's not fun-nay!

Me too ): But i wonder what woyld happen if instead the first guy died from the german camp instead of him..

Pretty cry :D

My grandmother and I cried as we held hands in grief bracing myself for the worst even though I knew it would happen

And that s y the enemy desoverse no mercy

@@danielplayle5663 yup. 😭

@@danielplayle5663 jesus, thats a bit harsh

They didn’t want him to die in vain. I’m glad they did the right thing. I remember yelling in grief at this scene. Nanny and I were holding hands in grief

@@nicolelawless3199 yeh.

but you probably shouldn't, because a few embers isn't the same as "the scenery literally starts crashing down around them"

@@DaveDexterMusic alright then, disintegrating. Better? Can I write my book now, professor?

@@westminsterabbey.6916 completely over analyzing. I think things are falling apart due to an airplane crashing into it, but ok

@@zach2197 On the face of it yeah, that’s exactly what’s happening, but I’m pretty sure if you asked the director he’d tell you that was the intention, to emphasise that feeling of things falling apart, and if it wasn’t, I’m sure he’d agree it’s a pretty fortunate coincidence the way things lined up. We’re talking about a film here. A film written and created on purpose. This is a scene set up, rehearsed and filmed intentionally for the purpose of telling a story. I’m willing to bet very little of it is random happenstance.

@@westminsterabbey.6916 nerd

Lol

prolly to hold his breath tho so it looks like he (obvs) doesnt breath 😂

For me it was how pointless it was. The German pilot was in no shape to fight, or escape, and yet he chose to continue to fight and kill, and in turn be killed for absolutely nothing. It achieved nothing, it was a pointless end to two lives. I think it's kind of a commentary on the futile nature of war, and the absolute insanity that was the first world war.

I remember my grandmother and I holding hands in grief and I literally cried for 10 minutes after this. 1917 makes me so exhausted

Well he was... up until this point of the movie

@@joetigris1238 If you go back, there are actually camera angles and lighting in specific scenes that make it clear that Schofield is the main character

Same with me. I dreamt about that and I felt heavy at night not being able to feel anything and that was horrible. I hope this dream never returns

Agreed.

Funnily enough I think it killed him too 😃

That’s how heavy my nose bleed was 3 years ago and I nearly had First Aid because it wouldn’t stop

sorry for your loss lad ❤

RiP to your dad bruv, he's at peace

Haha Just yesterday I was talking about how similar they look.

And it’s his birthday after mine

Exactly🥲

Most did. He appeared to be the youthful "protagonist" who would outlive the older, grim, slightly more experienced soldier. Instead the exact opposite happened.

Especially as Frank got crushed in the German camp

Me too - since he was the one with the brother and that bond was mentioned more than once in the trailers

I thought this too, but with what happens later he definitely would have died

@@dreambug8831 yes..

George Mackay never dies in movies and I’ve never seen him die yet

Its to show that war is brutal and that it can kill anyone at anytime

Totally agreed even though this scene traumatised me

I knew it was coming but wow I still cried

I expected it but as you said not that early. I just screamed and the way everyone looked at me because they knew the War was affecting me again

😂😂😂😂😂

thanks for you service lando

And he had the strength to do that because he realised there was no messing around

I knew Blake’s death was coming but not this early, my goodness