Lessons learned from the Cowboys vs. Aliens debate

Lois 2022-03-21 09:01:30

The following part is copied from a time netizen. From here, I can see the respect and professionalism of foreign directors in the face of historical events and characters that have long been my favorite.
Think about directors who don't watch Jin Yong, directors who haven't studied the Three Kingdoms, directors who haven't studied Water Margin... The pile of shit people is really blasphemy to the art of film and television!
Not to mention their bullshit sidekicks, those screenwriters who lick hemorrhoids!
Because "Cowboys and Aliens" had a little debate with a netizen, but also learned a lot.
For example, I know that Kubrick has also filmed "Napoleon", but the online introduction seems to be a miscarriage.
But it does not prevent Kubrick from the hard work for this film. Compared with those domestic reptiles, this is a well-deserved director!

"I'm getting ready to make the best movie ever," he wrote in October 1971. "After the filming of "2001: A Space Odyssey," he devoted himself entirely to the preparation and data collection of "Napoleon." Kubrick's wife described the attempt to make "Napoleon" as a project that devoured him. It's not hard to see how this genius of extreme perfection, faced with such a grand, dream-like plan At the time, in addition to writing the script, Kubrick carried out an unprecedented amount of research work, assisted by dozens of assistants and an Oxford Napoleonic expert.

In the process, he accumulated countless historical materials, more than 15,000 scouting photographs, more than 17,000 slideshows of Napoleon's images, and a catalog card sorted by the location and time of Napoleon's most important decades... It is said that , Kubrick built the world's largest Napoleonic database. Everything is ready. When they officially started filming in Romania, the fiasco of another Napoleon film, "Waterloo," thwarted investor Miramax Films, which called for a halt to filming and withdrew its investment. "People are impermanent and changeable, and so is good luck", these words came from Napoleon's mouth. In this way, a great statesman and a great artist in history met for a short time, and they passed by without waiting for everyone to witness. As late as 1987, Kubrick claimed that he still hadn't given up on Napoleon, that he had read nearly 500 historical works for the film, and that he was convinced that a good film on the subject had not appeared.

Ten years after Kubrick's death, a sumptuous tome "Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made" of all the "unfinished" precious historical documents is published by the renowned art book publisher Taschen. The Big Mac book weighs 23 pounds, has 2,874 pages, and is limited to 100 copies. The book contains 10 small books classified according to different themes, such as script, research, costume design, scene design, letters, etc., leading people to taste this mysterious and layered piece cooked by Kubrick from different dimensions A plump Napoleonic pie. "

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  • Ella: If it's all the same, I'd like to ride along, too.

    Meacham: Yes, ma'am. Got a kid and a dog, why not a woman?

  • Doc: I don't know much about boats, but I'd say that one's upside down.