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For a period of time, American cinema was deeply influenced by theater. In the 1930s, the "group theater" transplanted the naturalistic performance method taught by Konstantin Stanislavsky’s Moscow Theater Company to the United States. Kazan was A member of the troupe, by the mid-1940s, he had become the most important director on Broadway in New York. Originally shooting social issues with liberal tendencies, he switched to Tennessee Williams' novel "Train of Desire" after World War II. "Methodology" means that actors use personal experience as the basis for performance, and improvisation is often a shortcut to methodism. Later, the method led by Marlon Brando had a great influence on Hollywood. Kazan once said: "Marlon Brando is a talented actor." A long time ago, Kazan discovered the amazing performance qualities of this young man.
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McCarthyism, a group of anti-communist and extreme right people in the United States headed by Joseph McCarthy, uses unfair assertions and investigation methods to crack down and slander suspected Communists, especially dissidents and critics. These people also printed brochures pointing to Hollywood Entertainment, clearly stipulating that "no slander of private enterprises, no slander of industrialists, no deification of'ordinary people', no praise of collectivism"
In July 1946, the "Hollywood Reporter" appeared in the "Vote for Stalin" column. A series of Communists are pointed out above, and the number is still increasing.
Kazan was summoned to the Committee on Non-American Activities of the House of Representatives and questioned his political relations. Many of his companions turned to "moderate bystanders" and he was surprised and angry, so he regretted being a member of the Communist Party and the appointment of the eight members of the "Group Theater". Those eight people also joined the party, including Oditz, Paula, Strassberg and Lee's wife. This saved his film career and he was therefore not blacklisted. Many people in Hollywood will never forgive him for this. This is not only because he did not apologize at all for what he did afterwards, but more importantly, his indifferent comment: "It 's normal to hurt friends to be sad, but I would rather hurt them at all than hurt myself more. "He even said that submitting evidence has improved the quality of his work. "It's my true thoughts to do all this, and everything before it was a pretentious posture for seventeen years," he wrote in his autobiography "Life" in 1988. " The original movies of my true genius were all made after I gave my testimony. " Therefore, apart from moral condemnation, the blacklist incident did not have too much negative impact on Kazan's career, and even helped his career. beneficial.
At this special historical moment, the "Hollywood Ten Gentlemen" appeared. They held countless protests, were called to countless hearings, and insisted that the accusation of HUAC was illegal. Among the ten Hollywood gentlemen, Dalton Teblanc insisted on fighting, but he did not dare to hire him as a result. So Trump stayed at home, borrowing someone else’s name to write the script. In 18 months, he wrote 12 scripts. Among them is "Roman Holiday", which won the Oscar for Best Screenplay.
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