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Harry Styles

Disciplines:
acting
music

Summary

Harry Styles is a British pop star and actor who rose to fame with One Direction before launching a successful solo career, and who played Alex in Christopher Nolan's 'Dunkirk'.

Core Contribution

Styles's Alex — the soldier who suspects Gibson of being German and refuses to let him onto the minesweeper — provides 'Dunkirk' with its most uncomfortable moral argument: survival instinct produces its own form of cruelty.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Pop-star casting as Nolanesque misdirection (casting the world's most famous pop star as an anonymous soldier without special treatment — the film refuses to give Styles a heroic moment, using his fame to make the anonymity even more forceful)

Notable Works & Achievements

Dunkirk

Don't Worry Darling

My Policeman

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

British pop music traditionTV talent show circuit

Contemporaries & Peers

Fionn Whitehead Aneurin Barnard Tom Glynn-Carney

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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