Play Like Life is a documentary that chronicles the life of film critic Roger Ebert, narrating his upbringing, desires, dreams and the impact he has had in glamorous Hollywood, named after Roger Ebert. Ebert's autobiographical memoir "A Play is Like Life", where we can find more of Roger's life experience. This is a documentary that is a little too long in terms of content and viewing experience. If a quarter of the length is deleted, it may be better for viewing. If you have the patience to endure the trivial life of Roger, who was sick and cut off half of his chin in the opening nearly twenty minutes, and the details of Roger's life that test his endurance from time to time in the film, then you can see this from time to time. Shining Gold in a documentary.
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"You have the blood of these innocent children on your hands, but this is not the whole truth. Many people have It's all covered in blood, and history weeps for it, but the blood is not new, it's a long, long time ago, and then Lady Macbeth found it couldn't be washed away anyway."
This is Roger, 21, 1963 • Ebert's social news commentary on the Birmingham church bombing, the first sentence of his article ("You have the blood of these innocent children on your hands") comes from Martin Luther King, Jr., about this race of the same nature Conflict cases, Roger Ebert reveals the power and pain of social development with a very infectious and connotative writing force, from racial conflict, to history, to human nature.
Words are gifted, and our understanding of news events in our lives comes from our daily reading and thinking. Many times, we also blur the distance between ourselves and the world of light and shadow, but in self-view and In his view, we may be able to find a suitable situation in life.
Roger Ebert's influence does not come only from words, but from himself. He is firmly in front of the trend in print media, electronic media, blogs and Twitter. In 1975, he became the first author to win the Pulitzer Prize for Art Criticism for writing a film review, the same year he co-hosted a long-term collaboration with Gene Siskel on the film critic show Siskel and Ebert. ", this show has swept the United States.
The relationship between Roger and Gene is very intriguing, and it is hard to imagine that two people who were not used to each other could work together for 24 years, and only until the death of Gene Siskel. The two of them were film critics in Chicago, one at the Sun and one at the Tribune, one was a loner, the other lived a playboy life, one was from a third-rate university, the other was Yale's Ph.D., who are repelled by their peers and dislike each other's attitude towards life, they are like fire and water.
When Gene Siskel had brain cancer, he never told his co-worker Roger Ebert, and when Gene couldn't go to work, Roger didn't visit him until he died. They dismantled each other under the show, and even did not give each other any respect during the recording, criticized each other, quarreled frequently, and each other did not understand the necessity of each other's existence; 's golden comment. We always think that with good taste, two people can come together very smoothly, but who would have thought how lasting a competitive spirit is, and at the same time a little bit of dissent may make two harsh people see each other as heretics , This kind of refined truth, since the battle between the sweet and salty tofu brain, it has been a long time since I saw you again.
But after all, after such a long-term cooperation, the two also accidentally formed a symbiosis. Although they have been competing with each other for almost their entire lives, Gene Siskel is always worried that the dashing Roger Ebert will one day Leave the show, and Roger keeps seeing Gene as your unrelated brother who fights with you all day, and resents that Gene didn't tell him he had cancer. (The funny thing about life is that Roger later also had cancer and had half his jaw removed, and he lived 10 years with the Internet and analog voice technology.)
Just how much impact can a TV show have? For some time, "Siskoll and Ebert" monopolized the evaluation of all new movies, and the two hosts became the most famous and authoritative hosts in the United States, sparking a backlash in the academic world, but this show The program has played an important role in excavating the remains and promoting the development of the film.
Roger Ebert gives the puzzle pieces from Hitchcock to Marilyn Monroe transferred to him to the new director just emerging at the film festival; life is broken at Martin Sixes; cocaine addiction is nearly in hospital In the days of being diagnosed with death, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel decided to present a trophy for Raging Bull at the Toronto Film Festival, a trophy that supported Martin Sixes through The days of the Walking Dead; and more than a decade ago, Roger Ebert predicted that Martin Sixes would become America's Fellini. In Roger Ebert's life, he encouraged and discovered countless new filmmakers and films. It was him who made the public more and more aware of such films as Bergman, "Ben-Hur", "Citizen" Kane, Bonnie and Clyde and other pioneering filmmakers and arthouse films.
In the second half of his life, Roger Ebert became a man who faced life more peacefully and still devoted himself to the movie. In the eyes of outsiders, he was painful, unable to speak, and looked strange and ugly. , this man who has lived his whole life in the bizarreness of the movie, finally faced a big joke of life, but at any rate, he has always been backed by a strong family who supports him. It affects so many people's evaluation of movies, and influences the fate of a group of directors and producers who make a living from movies, but when fate befalls us, what can we get from movies?
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