"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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Dith Pran: [during the fall of Phnom Penh] Sidney! No more fighting! No more war!
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Sydney Schanberg: Cambodia. To many westerners it seemed a paradise. Another world, a secret world. But the war in neighboring Vietnam burst its borders, and the fighting soon spread to neutral Cambodia. In 1973 I went to cover this side-show struggle as a foreign correspondent of the New York Times. It was there, in the war-torn country side amidst the fighting between government troops and the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, that I met my guide and interpreter, Dith Pran, a man who was to change my life in a country I grew to love and pity.