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Jean 2021-12-20 08:01:05
Under the dark scenes of anti-communism in Hollywood, a leftist writer used a pen as a weapon to say no to banning and persecution. The film was made smoothly, but the legendary first made its mark. Who would have thought that there is such a story behind "Roman Holiday"! The villain played by Grandma Helen makes people shudder, and Lao Bai teaches Xiao Li another lesson: the old drama bones are...
Trumbo Comments
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Niki Trumbo: [about their neighbor] He knows. He sees Kirk Douglas coming in and out of here. And Otto Preminger and his Rolls. He's an idiot. But he's not stupid.
[Trumbo chuckles]
Niki Trumbo: Has he called the FBI? Congress? No, because everything they can do, they've already done. That Oscar belongs to you. Get it!
Dalton Trumbo: My God! You're nothing like me. You're worse.
[Niki smiles]
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Dalton Trumbo: The blacklist was a time of evil.
Dalton Trumbo: And no one who survived it came through untouched by evil.
Dalton Trumbo: Caught in a situation that had passed beyond the control of mere individuals.
Dalton Trumbo: Each person reacted as his nature, his needs, his convictions, and his particular circumstances compelled him to.
Dalton Trumbo: It was a time of fear.
Dalton Trumbo: And no one was exempt.
Dalton Trumbo: Scores of people lost their homes.
Dalton Trumbo: Their families disintegrated. They lost!
Dalton Trumbo: And in some...
Dalton Trumbo: Some even lost their lives.
Dalton Trumbo: But when you look back upon that dark time, as I think you should every now and then, it will do you no good to search for heroes or villains.
Dalton Trumbo: There weren't any.
Dalton Trumbo: There were only victims.
Dalton Trumbo: Victims, because each of us felt compelled to say or do things that we otherwise would not.
Dalton Trumbo: To deliver or receive wounds which we truly did not wish to exchange.
Dalton Trumbo: I look out to my family sitting there, and I realize what I've put them through. And it's unfair.
