The Animal Crossing: New Horizons fandom has once again used the game’s extensive customization tools to recreate an iconic scene from the movie 1917. 1917 was one of the top contenders of the 2019 films’ awards season. While Sam Mendes’ war drama was able to swipe the Golden Globe’s Best Motion Picture Drama and BAFTA Award for Best Film, it lost out on the Academy Award for Best Picture to foreign, thriller comedy Parasite.
One New Horizons fan tweeted a brief video of another player’s 1917 reenactment. The player grabbed seven friends, and they donned army coats and helmets. They then used barbed wire to create trenches and reenact one of the final and most climactic scenes of the film. To deliver an important message to Colonel Mackenzie, soldier and protagonist, Lance Corporals Will Schofield must hop out from the trenches and run across the battlefield in a cinematic masterpiece. The recreation begins with his fellow soldier telling the player representing Schofield that the only way to get to Mackenzie would be crossing the battlefield. The player then dashes through the battlefield and crosses paths with the other players representing the fighting soldiers.
This 1917 scene is just one of many movies that have been recreated in New Horizons. Viewers have recreated their favorite horror flicks, including Midsommar, The Shining, and Blair Witch Project.
During 1917, two young British soldiers during the First World War, are given an impossible mission: deliver a message, deep in enemy territory, that will stop their men, and Blake’s brother, from walking straight into a deadly trap.
