"I am not a Christian, nor a Muslim; I do not ask God, nor follow Allah. My belief is very simple, and that is the U.S. Constitution."
The chase light hit the stadium stage, baking Stephen Meyers' young and confident face. He stepped into the chess game, standing behind the microphone like the biggest queen, thinking that he was the god who decided the wind and the outcome. The game of politics is extremely exciting and interesting for passionate young people who have nowhere to throw their fists in peaceful times. However, he was just auditioning for Ohio Democratic primary candidate Mike Morris, who was Morris' press spokesman, a pioneer who was generous in talent and desire.
This invincible chess piece appeared at the beginning of George Clooney's latest directorial work, whose real name is "March 15th". In the next 90 minutes, unfortunately, he found himself in a big game of chess. And it's a little chess piece that has no ability to speak and is manipulated everywhere. As the opening film of the competition unit of the 68th Venice International Film Festival, it may also be able to open another big game of contemporary film chess. As for whether the film itself will become a short-lived vanguard like Stephen, it has to be seen in The fighting situation with other powerful pieces in the following days.
The mechanism of the election, the details of democracy, and the language barrier are quite a hurdle for the numerous Chinese-language media at the scene. After the film, several mainland media people tried to exchange some points that they did not understand, but found that the other party was equally confused. This reminds me of last year's US mid-term elections. When my old classmate who taught at China University of Political Science and Law flew to San Francisco, he was questioned by customs, "Why did you come here?" The classmate replied confidently: "Observe Mid-term Election" observation). The customs officer threw out a cold sentence: "I don't understand, can you understand?"
Politics, even to those involved, is hard to understand. It is always a big game of chess, a masquerade ball, flattery and intrigue. When Morris (George Clooney), the center-left Democratic candidate in the film, in order to escape some symbolic responsibility and give the public a loud and easy memory, he really said "I When I only believe in the "US Constitution", Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the think tank of his staff, let out a disgusting sneer, but when Morris looked back, he was very accustomed to stand up. Thumbs up: "Well said, buddy!" Clooney's election campaign unfolds in the style of a direct film (a documentary created by the Maysos brothers that puts the client in an anxious event and ignores the camera lens), showing the object of It was Stephen (Ryan Golins), the young and progressive press officer, who gave him an office romance.
Showing up late at night as a call from a government department, a seemingly beautiful love quickly becomes involved in a political conspiracy, and direct movies quickly become traditional thrillers. So we can further give the plot the most classic Shakespearean conspiracy and revenge structure. Clooney's Hollywood acting partners, like the real president's team, came on stage, each pushing Stephen's chess piece into a corner.
The film is based on Beau Willimon's Broadway play "Farragut North" (Farragut North), who served as Democratic candidate Howard Dean's in the 2004 US presidential election Democratic primary. The campaign staff, the stage play was also created based on his experience. In fact, as early as 2007, George Clooney began to prepare for the filming of the film, "As Obama was elected, people were generally optimistic about the political situation at that time, in contrast, this film seemed cynical and out of place, so we Decided to put the filming on hold for a while. As a result, within a year, the optimism was evaporated by reality, and the time came to make this film.”
In this way, George Clooney himself is very much like the press officer Stephen in the film, full of expectations for the fresh Obama era and then into doubt and even disappointment. Disappointment with the policy, however, will never let over-the-top gamblers leave the political chess game. Frustrated with conspiracy theories, using movies as a medium and star popularity appeal, George chose to start a simple and straightforward American political anatomy operation, and the terrible politics are still interesting and exciting.
As for the obvious gap with Chinese audiences, the planned mainland distributors are obviously confident to try to overcome them, such as changing the English name "The ides of March" (original translation "March 15") to "The President's Killing", which is aligned with the general mass market. Even an English-language media commented that such a film is suitable for substituting into the political situation of countries around the world. Italians can think about whether they should continue to follow the US system in the depression of the euro zone, and non-democratic countries can have a corresponding comparison. .
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