"The Killing Fields" is based on the "Khmer Rouge" occupation of Phnom Penh as the real historical background. An actor named Bruce Robinson adapted this article into a 300-page script, and took the script to find the best Oscar in 1982 David Putnam, the producer of the film "Chariot of Fire", wanted Putnam to comment. Putnam sent the script to many directors and asked them to talk about their ideas. In the end, a little-known director named Roland Joffe impressed Putnam. Jofi told Putnam that he didn't want to make a simple war film. He wanted to tell a promising story through war and massacre, horror and blood-the friendship between the two protagonists as brothers and better than brothers
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The Killing Fields Creative background
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Extended Reading
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Al Rockoff: Anything I eat's gotta be absolutely dead. That is why I can never eat an oyster. I read somewhere that they put that lemon juice on them just to stun them. What's the difference?
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U.S. Consul: I will be damn glad to get out of here. This thing has dragged on too long for it to end in all sweetness and light. And after what the Khmer Rouge have been through, I don't think they're going to exactly affectionate toward Westerners.