National Treasures.

Clarabelle 2022-04-19 09:01:50

George Clooney directed the film himself.
I was deeply moved after watching it.
Tears were shed many times.
Some people think that this piece is like a running account.
Not really.
First of all, I really like the soundtrack in the film.
Especially the da march at the end of the credits.
The sonorous rhythm of the 2/4 beat reminds me of the symphonic works that appeared in various anti-war films.
I believe that many people who have seen the French classic comedy La Grande Vadrouille will still remember the film's black humor satirizing the tragic Nazi war.
And George Clooney also used this technique in this film to express what the film wanted to convey.
But this film is more serious and tragic.
The greatness of this comedy is that although the three parties of France, Britain and Germany were in the war, they did not use many casualties to show the tragic war.
This is the difference between the two pieces.
In the film, when I saw the war zone camp and remembered the children singing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas from the gramophone, I burst into tears like a Monuments Man in the shower.
And seeing so many precious paintings burned down by the Germans makes my heart feel like a tear.
Nowadays, many famous works of art in major foreign museums are circulated because there were such people who shed blood and sacrificed for the inheritance of art.
Let's take a look at the Yuanmingyuan of the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace.
After the baptism of war, many collections have long been in exile.
And Yuanmingyuan disappeared.
Why?
Many old photos prove that after the Yuanmingyuan was burned down, most of the buildings were still in ruins and not as broken as they are now.
There are also many older generations living around the Yuanmingyuan, and there are stories like this in Beijing - after the fire of the Yuanmingyuan, many common people, bandits and even the eunuchs who guarded the park entered the park to smash and loot the treasures that were not seriously damaged and exquisite carvings. building.
I can't bear to think about what a deformed country this is.
Don't say what feudal society persecutes people's thoughts.
Do you wish there was no period of feudal rule?
Did the people smash and loot when the feudal dynasty fell?
This behavior is outrageous!
Our cultural heritage has not been destroyed in the hands of barbarians!
We do it ourselves!
This kind of heartache cannot be compensated and measured with money to repair the Yuanmingyuan!
Why are many foreign collectors reluctant to return Yuanmingyuan artworks to China?
Because China gives foreigners the impression that it has always shown due respect to the real works of art!
Because the Chinese people have never felt a deep sense of responsibility for the protection of their own culture since ancient times!
This is the tragedy of this country.
I know that during the Anti-Japanese War, a group of cultural guardians of the Palace Museum transported cultural relics to Taiwan for protection, but in the end, many of them failed to return to Zhao.
I think the country has not paid attention to the importance of those cultural relics.
So now people don't want to return it.
It's too late to realize all this.
They are still indifferent to the essence of their own country's culture.
How could there be a group of Americans who are so concerned about the culture of irrelevant countries and countries like the group of Americans in the film?

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The Monuments Men quotes

  • Frank Stokes: You can wipe out an entire generation, you can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they'll still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it's as if they never existed. That's what Hitler wants and that's exactly what we are fighting for.

  • James Granger: Stop, stop. Stop. I seem to have stepped on a land mine... of some sort.

    Frank Stokes: Why d'you do something like that?

    James Granger: It was a slow day.

    Frank Stokes: Well, I wouldn't move.

    James Granger: I'd like to at some point.