The Killing Fields Tidbits
2022-05-23 18:15
Supporting actor Spalding Gray wrote a one-man show about his experience in making this film, and then made another film Swimming to Cambodiabased on this .
Haing S. Ngorbecame the first Southeast Asianactor to win an Oscar.
The Coca-Cola factory in the film originally envisaged a Pepsi factory, but Pepsi later refused to appear in the film.
The actor of DithPran is the Chinese doctor Haing S. Ngor. Haing S. Ngor was originally an overseas Chinese doctor in the era of the Khmer Rouge terror in Cambodia. He escaped the bloody Khmer massacre and fled to the United States
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The two protagonists of the film do have their own people. They are the "New York Times" reporter Sidney Shanberg and the protagonist of his article Dieter Plan
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Extended Reading
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Sydney Schanberg: Life isn't a '40s movie. You can't just get on a God damn plane and make the whole *world* come out right!
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TV Interviewer: How do you respond to accusations that you and other journalists underestimated the brutality of the Khmer Rouge and so share responsibility for what happened in Cambodia afterwards?
Sydney Schanberg: We made a mistake. Maybe what we underestimated was the kind of insanity that $7 billion worth of bombing could produce.