Nigel Farage urges "youngsters" to go see Dunkirk, things obviously backfire

Perhaps not quite the publicity Christopher Nolan has been looking for

Published: Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 10:40 am

Fox News contributor Nigel Farage took to Twitter on Tuesday night to encourage "youngsters" to go and see Christopher Nolan's epic World War II movie Dunkirk.

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However, his earnest attempt to praise the film has fallen upon deaf ears.

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Pretty soon, parodies of the former Ukip leader's tweet were doing the rounds on the site, which is probably not the reaction he was anticipating. Isn't Photoshop fun?

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I urge every youngster to go out and watch Chocolat wow what a movie

— Christopher Hooton (@ChristophHooton) July 26, 2017

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Still, there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?

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Ben AllenOn Demand Writer, RadioTimes.com

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