This movie can be used as a screenwriting textbook. It is not to teach screenwriters how to screen, but how to be a good screenwriter. That is to work 7 days a week and write 18 hours a day like Trombone.
I remember a sentence from the WeChat circle that you have worked hard enough to fight for talent. Comparing with Trumb, this sentence is especially applicable to me who is a lazy cancer patient. Trombeau was 50 years old when he did this. Before that, he wrote the popular "Long Live Mrs.", a good Hollywood screenwriter who became famous. But living in a villa, enjoying a private lake and garden, he was sympathetic, incited Hollywood screenwriters to strike, and joined the American Communist Party.
The defeat on the battlefields of Vietnam and North Korea made the Americans a little panicked. They generalized their malice against the Soviet Union and the CCP into a panic against the communist forces in the United States. Of people are blacklisted. Ten playwrights such as Trombeau were summoned by Congress. Trombeau’s decision was to make the ten gentlemen not respond positively to Congress’s queries, choose an avoidance strategy, and joked to win the government lawsuit with the old fox’s slippery head. In the end, ten Hollywood gentlemen went to jail for contempt of Congress, and those who were blacklisted could not continue to participate in screenwriting work even after they were released from prison.
It was in prison that Trombeau truly understood that naive political enthusiasm could not change anything. His battlefield was on the big screen, and his weapons were his own works. The playwright changes the world with the typewriter in his hand.
After he was released from prison, he first signed his friend's name on the script "Roman Holiday", and then found a small film company from the underworld and wrote the script under various pseudonyms. Until a few years later, his two works won Oscars. Award, courageous producers and directors in the circle came to him, and he wrote the popular "Spartacus" and "Exodus". Trumb said that if there is a blacklist, there is a black market.
Even President Kennedy at the time went to watch "Spartacus" and praised the film's good filming. Trumbeau finally walked from the underground to the ground, and the blacklist was in vain. Trombeau, who stood in the spotlight again, began to fight back. Those diehards who advocated investigations of non-American activities were finally gone, until HUAC died in 1969.
This movie is also a civic education lesson. Today, there are still some places in the world repeating what happened in that era. The guys who abuse power are still making scapegoats and trampling on those who work hard to make a living. They were eventually sent to prison. A country that follows democracy and freedom cannot deprive a handful of alternative voices. Both the extreme left and the extreme right come from our fears. The extreme right or the extreme left brings irreversible harm to ordinary people. People pay their lives for this. Even life.
One of the ten gentlemen was a worker-born writer. He suffered from cancer, his wife was away from home, and he was deeply jailed. He felt resentful and wanted to sue the government again after he was released from prison. Bo has been persuading him to write a good movie about gorillas, and this is "King Kong"!
This particularly neat and slightly offensive work made me reconfirm the American-made brand. The Hollywood screenwriter and production are particularly reliable. The player who plays Trumb is the old white of "Breaking Bad". This is a particularly enjoyable movie, with humorous lines and great sentences.
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He did the life he wanted to have: Don't die too young, too poor and alone.
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