Titus & Eric Cook discuss Dunkirk, the new Christopher Nolan movie--the sources of heroism, patriotism, & prudence Nolan is working with. We talk about Churchill's speeches, the Homeric view of war, & the epic scope of movie-making. About sound design & the musical quotation from Elgar's Nimrod. About the range of forms of heroism on display in the story. About one of the strangely British heroes portrayed in the movie, Charles Lightoller, who had been second officer of the Titanic when she sank, before Dunkirk!
