In fact, it was at the airport bookstore, a place full of success studies and historical biographies, that Master Qiao harvested this story. While waiting for the plane, a book titled "Guardians of Historic Sites: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History" attracted him. After a few glances, he and the producer invited the original author to quickly create Such a treasure hunt movie of World War II.
There was indeed a special group in the US military during World War II called "Monuments Men". After Germany was defeated and surrendered in May 1945, this group almost composed of art historians found a huge warehouse with a large number of paintings and statues in the castle in the village of Aschbach. These artworks were specially transferred here to avoid Allied bombing. They and other treasures discovered by later generations a few days later belonged to two notorious art dealers who took advantage of the fire and robbed the Jews.
Of course, when Mr. Joe sang the praises of heroes of the motherland, these authentic Michelangelo, Rubens and Picasso looted from Ghent, Bruges, and Paris, France, became broken jars. The painter's head of state eagerly ordered the destruction of the treasures. Therefore, this also opened a very traditional Hollywood rescue mode for the film. The enemies of the monument guards composed of literati are not only the dead-end Nazis, but also an ideological enemy who joined the battle for cultural relics-the Soviet Red Army.
Mr. Joe’s team is indispensable for Matt Damon. He has been playing around in various genres of movies, plus Jean Dujardin, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Hugh. Bonneville and Cate Blanchett look like another group of "Eleven Arhats." However, the easy jokes of old friends making jokes about each other seem to have become dispensable and expired condiments in this drama about serious art. It is tasteless and it is not a pity to discard them. On the contrary, high-volume characters and philanthropist clichés that have been extinct in mainstream Hollywood movies for many years are flooding uncontrollably. Master Joe, who has not finished reading the original novel, who was originally critical of American politics, somehow composed such an American red song that sacrificed his life for the great art of mankind. I believe that leaving it at the White House Spring Evening is It couldn't be more appropriate.
Fortunately, the movie really leaves the audience with such tender moments that are deep in human nature. On Christmas Day 1944, in the depths of the snow-covered forest on the Western Front, Bill Murray was bathing in the military camp. Bob Balaban found an abandoned record and turned on the phonograph to play a Christmas song that almost condensed the air. The war should be over. When it came to the debriefing time after the mission, President Roosevelt knew that someone had died in the Bruges church for the statue of Michelangelo's Virgin and Child. He asked Mr. Joe, the captain of the monument guardian, how he paid such a price for a piece of art. does it worth?
After many years have passed, some veterans returned to this church with their grandsons, meditating for a long time in front of the white statue of the Virgin and Child. Life is gone and art is eternal, but it will not leave behind the hero's name to protect it. The movie is only here, it can be regarded as a moving moment beyond the airplane reading.
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