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There are eight people in the Chicago Seven Gentlemen
These people are divided into several groups: the campus white left elite represented by Hayden/Little Freckles. They are actually the same people as DA Yucerf: elites within the system who agree with the concept of progress in their hearts. In the movie, Freckle is the only one who stood up to pay tribute to the judge. The judge also said that you have a bright future within the system. Sure enough, Hayden was elected to the California House of Representatives six times and married three wives including Hollywood star Jane Fonda to become an elite within the system.
The hippies represented by Abi Hoffman/Porat, they walk alone, openly laugh at the system, and use grandstanding to attract attention to advance the concept of progress. They cosplayed the judge and the Chicago police in the court, mocking the judge (because the judge had the same name as Hoffman and simply called Dad), they were cynical, and regarded secular success as dung. In the end, Hoffman died of an overdose of phenobarbital (the police closed the case by suicide). His good friend Jerry Rubin was hit and killed by a car while crossing the road, begging for Ren Deren.
The staunch anti-war religious figures represented by bald David Dellinger, they oppose all violent wars, even World War II. They are a group of people who are pure in concept and pragmatic in action. Because Dellinger and Dillinger (Chicago bank robbers, the protagonist of the movie "Public Enemy Number One") similar movies also made homophonic stalks.
There are also two Akalin people who play soy sauce. They were pulled in purely to make up the number. Is it because Seven Gentlemen are better than Wuren?
Finally, there is Hill, the chairman of the Black Panther Party, a black activist who has been armed and pursuing racial equality by reselling the Red Book from Chinatown to Berkeley. The magic is that although the Black Panther Party has declined, the chairman himself has survived to this day.
This group of seemingly unrelated people, for the common goal of the anti-Vietnam War, came together during the Chicago Democratic Convention and was charged with complicity in rioting.
In 1968, just like 1848 before 2 Jiazi, the world was turbulent. There was a May storm in France, there was an anti-war movement in the United States, and there was Prague Spring in the socialist camp. Therefore:
1968 presidential election
On the Republican side, the person with the most votes in the primary vote was actually Reagan, who is now considered a saint, but his influence from California was limited, so Nixon won the nomination in the end. Mi Rongni's father also participated in the primary election.
The Democratic Party was in a mess. First, LBJ announced that it would not participate in the election because it was too unpopular. Then McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy fought together, because the Kennedy family had a good relationship with the Chicago Mayor Dai's family. Many people believed that Bobby would win the primary election after Joe Dy's family. However, Bobby was assassinated in June and finally got a man. Frye came out and lost the election.
Back then, there was a third-party power. Wallace of Alabama (the one who blocked Martin Luther King at Selma, not the one who was talking and laughing) won several southern states, so he finally fought a close match.
The Republicans narrowly defeated California and Illinois, and the Democrats narrowly defeated Texas, which is exactly the opposite.
It is said in the movie that the Mayor of Chicago and the Chicago police deliberately provoke bloody clashes, but what good does this do to Mayor Dai, the leader of the Democratic Party?
Trial process
The filming was relatively boring. It is said that the defense summoned a large number of literary and artistic people to testify in court. There were singers offering songs and Ginsburg poetry recitations. It was very lively and there was no performance in the film.
The Chairman of the Black Panther Party was muzzled for several days instead of only one day as in the movie.
The most successful portrayal of the film is Judge Hoffman, a symbol of the system, who combines rigidity, ignorance, arrogance, prejudice and ignorance.
judgment
Except for the two arrested Akalin, who were all sentenced to five years in jail, but the prosecution gave up after the appeal court overturned the original sentence.
The defense lawyer and the defendant were sentenced to four years in prison for contempt of the court, but after appeals, they were found to be contempt of the court but no one was sentenced to imprisonment or fined.
The appeal process is not shown in the movie.
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After 28 years, the DNC was held in Chicago again. David Dellinger and Hoffman's sons went to the scene again and were arrested again by the Chicago police. The mayor of Chicago was Old Dai's son Xiao Dai.
appendix
David Dellinger's obituary in the New York Times .
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