Anyone may encounter adversity, because "good flowers don't bloom often, and good times don't always exist". Adversity is actually divided into big and small, but everyone feels not small when they encounter it. Because the encounters of big people are often extreme adversity, otherwise it will be solved in an instant, while the encounters of small people, even small adversities, are proportionally big enough for them—because they can't handle it. Some people were not great at first, but when faced with adversity, they refused to admit defeat regardless of their proportions, "crossed tirelessly, and fought back uncontrollably" (as sung in Li Zongsheng's "The Hill"), and finally left. After coming over, in this process, he coped with adversity and cultivated himself as a big man.
Dalton Trumbo, a Hollywood screenwriter who is good at finding excitement in long stories and quickly writing good scripts, encountered great adversity in the 1940s, 50s and 1960s: Americans feared communism the most. In the era, he was a staunch communist and never hesitated to express publicly. When people don’t really understand something that didn’t exist before (especially thoughts), they either fear or love it; no matter if that thing is right or not, as long as there are mostly fearers, then people who love that thing will be affected. The persecution has been repeated in history-Trumbeau was persecuted in this way and was eventually sentenced to 11 months in prison.
In 2015, there was another biographical film, "The Imitation Game", the story of the computer genius Turing, to see how people persecuted a homosexual at that time...
The persecution of Trumbeau did not only come from the U.S. government. It also came from the entire society of the United States at that time. The US government sentenced him to 11 months in prison. After his release, Trumbeau had to face another "judgment." The Hollywood Film Association blacklisted Trumbeau and many left-wing screenwriters and banned film companies. Use scripts written by screenwriters in these blacklists...
(Trump and his wife at the 1947 hearing... It didn’t take long for him to
Imagine a sudden amputation when you are in good health—whether it is an amputated arm or a leg—how painful it is? Trumbeau is equivalent to suddenly cut his tongue. A thoughtful person can't speak, and no one can read it when he writes it...
Unemployment, divorce, suicide... This is the ending of many of Trumbeau's companions. Trumbo didn't fall in the end, he didn't give up. When he was released from prison, he said this sentence:
... We'll do what every else doesn't think we could do.
... We do what everyone thinks we can't do.
To make money to support the family, let the wife and two children live well-nothing is more important than family. What is most lacking in Hollywood? The most lack of a good script, so Trumbeau knew he couldn’t have nothing to eat—he was simply a machine, with a typing speed of 80 words per minute (seeing his two fingers flying on a mechanical typewriter), and he worked 18 hours a day , I woke up and typed on the workbench, and when I was tired, I soaked in the bathtub and then typed... A high-quality script was produced in a week or two. Talents should be more diligent, he wants to take back the time robbed.
"Roman Holiday" (Roman Holiday, 1953) was written like this, yes, it is the "Roman Holiday" you know. What should I do if I am on the blacklist? Borrow someone else’s name, share the account with them, and ask for one... the other person knows Trumbeau’s talents, and was shocked by such a proposal. Why would you be ashamed to have a name by yourself?
Trumbo not only managed the income himself, but also helped a group of editors who were blacklisted and unemployed like him. The strategy is also very simple, collectively create anonymously, mass-produce, and then in order to avoid the eyes and ears, let the film company come to pick it up or send its own children to send the script... The
true talent is visible to others, and cannot be hidden by oneself. There are all kinds of people in this world, and they are not afraid when someone is afraid. There are two rough guys, the two brothers, who set up a film company called King Brothers, which specializes in B-level films. Of course, they also lack a good script, otherwise, who would only make B-level films? Others dare not use Trombo, they dare. Later, people from the Hollywood Film Association came to threaten the two brothers. The two brothers are not vegetarians. They picked up a baseball bat and "slapped" the grandson who was initially arrogant...
The great thing about Trumbo is, He clearly distinguished that a movie is a movie, and an ideology is an ideology. Even if these two things overlap in a few cases, they are different if they are different. Therefore, when he writes the script, he writes the script well, never entraining private goods. He didn't want to be a fighter deliberately, he just didn't give in mentally. What makes him most warm is that he understands that there is a family besides ideals, and family is the most important thing.
"The Brave One" (The Brave One, 1956) was a huge success and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay. As a result, all mankind has never seen the guy signed by "Robert Rich"...Look at this pen name! The last name is "Fu". Everyone began to speculate that this "rich carrot" is probably Trumbeau.
In 1960, when director Otto Preminger filmed "Exodus" (Exodus, 1960), he insisted on Trumbeau's authentic signature, which allowed Trumbeau's amputated limbs to grow back.
In the same year, Kirk Douglas was against the crowd and invited Trumbo to write the screenwriter for his new movie "Spartacus". When "Spartacus" (1960) was released, Kennedy publicly stated that It's an extremely wonderful movie, and Trumbeau really got rid of the shackles of that blacklist.
By the way, Kirk Douglas’s son is Michael Douglas, who is the protagonist of "Basic Instinct" (1992). The most recent movie he participated in is "Ant-Man".
Trumbeau was thus made into a legend by adversity. When everything becomes history, it is difficult for us to judge what Trumbeau would be like without that adversity, and whether it would be the legend we can see today.
When describing adversity, people prefer to use the word "resistance". I read too many history books and biographies, but I think it is more appropriate to use the word "cooperation". When a person comes out of adversity and looks back at the adversity, behind the surging undercurrents may be an opportunity, an opportunity to create a legend. History has always been like this, it is like a river, from time to time inexplicably produces a vortex, most people are involved in the vortex, buried at the bottom of the river, but there are always some people who "cooperate" with the undercurrent and walk out a way out. It became a legend.
Trumbeau’s strategy is actually not unique to him. Looking closely at all the people who have emerged from adversity in history, they are basically the same:
they are very talented; talent is a little bit not enough, it must be a lot. ;
They are more diligent because of their talent, and they are more unwilling, afraid, unwilling to waste a little life;
they love family, that is the hope of life;
they treat friends, that is the connection and evidence of their existence in the world;
they are focused to do can do, the most important thing to do best;
they fight it, not what people or what group of people, but that the owners have become the victims of the whirlpool of history;
they eventually from I walked out of adversity...
When such a person walked out, the right or wrong in the past is actually not important anymore, only one thing is important: they walked out.
"Trumbo" is my favorite movie of 2015. As for whether it can win an Oscar, it doesn't really matter. In the last ten years, it has been proved that the Oscar judges are basically self-righteous guys who are out of touch with the world. The score of this movie on IMDB is not high, only a poor 7.5 points. Movies are originally a market dominated by young people, and box office and scoring have never always been positively correlated with quality. Young people in the United States today are more concerned about the more fashionable justice of "fighting for the rights of homosexuals"-surely there is nothing wrong with it. History? It has always been something that most people don't like to examine.
There are many old actors in this film. The characters in the story are mostly Hollywood big names at the time, and they look quite alike. The bridge section of the King Brothers round baseball bat is very brilliant and powerful, and it can definitely scare the opponent, but the shot is actually careful. It will never hit people so it will not commit a crime...
Several things not mentioned in the movie
Tron Bo once wrote a special letter to his son, talking about the benefits of masturbation, saying that it is a good way without feeling guilty.
Trumbo said in an interview that everyone has the right to express, whether it is a good idea, a bad idea, a weird idea, or a disgusting idea... Not only that, people also have the right to be wrong.
In the movie "Spartacus", Trumbeau’s script is based on Howard Fast’s novel of the same name, who is the winner of the Stalin Prize...
Stills
Trumbeau’s wife, Like all people who love life, "have stunts"...
Of course, you can't live without the creation in the bathtub...
The lens of typing with two fingers is absolutely indispensable...
You can be exhausted, but you can't starve to death. In addition, the board is covered with paper, which is the basic working method of the creator... In fact, it is the same today.
Director Otto Preminger insisted that Trumbeau be signed by his real name in his new movie...
Trumbeau saw his name appearing on the screen, old tears!
Frank King was scared, how could he be afraid of threats?
Supplement
wn.com made a column: "How Dalton Trumbo and other blacklisted writers quietly racked up '50s Oscar wins", there are more than a dozen video files worth checking out, including "Dalton Trumbo interviewed by Stan Bohrman "...
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These videos are actually more exciting than the movies. After all, the movies are about this person.
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