The highlight of this movie is not only the gorgeous lineup. Each of the three first-line stars has the ability to act in a single play, and the explosive power of the combination goes without saying. Radford's director and Portman's soundtrack also complement each other, especially the appearance of the latter brings the charm of "there is always a scorching sun" to every turn and every climax of the movie. However, no one thought that after the film was released at the end of 2000, the 60 million US dollars invested in the film was almost lost in half, and it ended in a dismal 38 million box office.
Behind the box office failure, the issuing company could not shirk the blame for the unfavorable market promotion, and one of the important causes of its failure in promotion was being caught. This is the case with Bega Vance, played by Will Smith. The portrayal of this black man with inexplicable power in the film has aroused criticism from the media. They believed that the director deliberately portrayed fellow Africans as servants who served the whites towards success, so the film became a subject of scrutiny among black groups.
There shouldn't be racist words in movie works. In the context of some legendary dramas, whoever is a god with boundless power, who is a mortal person with naked eyes, borrows from the creator's whim. It happens that some good people who have watched a few movies put a trademark on a black friend who has been a god several times, and the name is: Miraculous Black Slave. Once this label is posted, the audience will have to take a seat when they see a black man who knows magic. If this black man is an almighty god like God (such as Morgan Freeman's "Fake God"), if he condescends When a white man is a servant, his name is a bit like a beggar (Beggar), then friends who have a sense of generation will immediately have the idea of humiliation.
In fact, as early as when "Return to Glory" was still a novel, the original author said that he wanted to borrow a novel about golf to introduce modern people to the important Hindu classic "Bhagavad Gita", Bagger Vance (Bagger Vance). The name of Bhagavad Gita was transformed from the English name (Bhagavad Gita) of Bhagavad Gita, and Bega's letter combination is by no means a hint of a beggar, but can be used as a baggage solution.
"Bhagavad Gita" is an Indian epic written in ancient Sanskrit. It records the dialogue between Kshatriya Prince Arjuna and Heidian on the battlefield before the battle of Kullu. In the dialogue, Arjuna expressed the idea that there are relatives and friends in the enemy camp and they do not want to fight, and Hei Tian persuades that under the existing social system, everyone should do their best without selfishness and fully convert to God. .
Juno, played by Matt Dimon, is the incarnation of Arjuna in novels and movies. After returning from the battlefield, he originally wanted to abandon the original earthly appeal and banish himself in alcohol, but Bega Vance appeared It strengthened his determination to devote himself to the game and guided him into the realm of "forgetting things and me, and the unity of nature and man". The scenes such as the long-distance stadium and the swaying grass, etc., which are drawn closer in the film, are an excellent interpretation of this "realm of yoga" that abandons desire.
The author made Bega Vance appear in the play with a black complexion, which also has meaning. "Bhagavad" has the meaning of god in Sanskrit, but it is the title of Buddha in Buddhism. The name of the god that appears in the Bhagavad-gita is Hei Tian. Sanskrit (कृष्ण) means black, because black can absorb the seven colors of the spectrum, which means that Hei Tian has the ability to attract everything. Therefore, the "black" of Will Smith and the "black" of Hei Tian are represented here as a symbolic relationship, which has nothing to do with whether the author and director are emphasizing their own racial superiority.
Maybe "Return to Glory" can only blame myself for the wrong time, or blame the Indian uprising on it for being too deep. If in today's era when the talk show host can freely use Obama to open up, maybe a magical little black man will no longer be able to sink such a masterpiece, right?
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