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Carp today recommends a classic black humor movie "Wag a Tail Dog" with the theme of the US presidential election. An old film released in the United States in 1997, when I watched it, I thought it was ridiculous, funny, and fun. It turned out to be like this. After watching it, I will think of this movie almost every election year in the United States.
After 9/11, when the U.S. troops sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, I felt that the movie was not just as simple as a comedy, but was also very forward-looking. Entering the Internet age, the self-media gradually replaced traditional media. When I recalled this movie, I discovered that after more than 20 years, the stories in the movie were not outdated, and they were still being learnt and used again and again and repeatedly performed.
The US presidential election has entered a white-hot stage. The current president’s re-election propaganda slogan is "Always follow the winner. Let the United States maintain prosperity and stability. Don't change your horse halfway."
But at a critical moment, two weeks before polling day, the president’s office broke an explosive news that made a national sensation.
A Firefly Girl Scout broke the news to the media that when she was invited to visit the White House, she had a large-scale close contact with the president in the president's office. This news quickly occupied the headlines of major media in the United States, and the current presidential election, which had been leading the way in the polls, was worrying.
After the incident, before the president went abroad for a visit, he left a sentence from the badly-focused campaign team and went to Conrad Brian. Brian is the legendary fire captain and the mysterious catcher.
For those of you who don’t know much about Brian’s character in the movie, you can refer to the role played by Bannon, who made headlines these days, during the Trump campaign. Of course, Brian's status and role are much lower than Bannon.
Brian arrived at the secret office of the campaign team the day before the news was released by the media. Seeing that it was no longer possible to stop the media from reporting this important news, the first order was issued to allow the president, who was already in Beijing to leave for his country, to stay for one more day, on the grounds of resolving the trade dispute between the two sides.
Here again, I would like to emphasize to friends who have never watched this movie. This movie was shot in 1997. The stories in the movie are purely fictitious. Any similarity in the subsequent news is an amazing coincidence. The movie comes first and the other is relevant. news. Before and after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, China made great contributions to stabilizing the regional economy, and there was no fierce trade friction between China and the United States.
In addition, you don’t have to think too much. Whoever loses in this year’s election in the United States has nothing to do with Carp. After all, what I am most concerned about is having more good movies to watch. In the ever-changing political and economic situation of the world, Carp is unable to catch it and has no time to worry about it.
In 1997, the President of the United States was Clinton, and Lewinsky, a White House trainee, broke a "zipper door" in the president's office , and was later impeached but the conviction was not passed. The movie was released a year before the impeachment hearing. Clinton was a Democratic Party and was not a member of Trump. The Democratic Party candidate this year is the grandfather Biden.
The trade dispute with China bought Brian a day , and he flew to Los Angeles overnight to meet with famous Hollywood producer Moss. The senior female assistant of the campaign team on the plane asked Brian about his strategy, and Brian told her concisely that we needed a war.
The female assistant was taken aback, and then Brian said again that as long as the people feel that there is a war, it is enough. The female assistant is still worried about being discovered the truth. Brian told her, "Who will find out? The American people? Who will tell them? What do they know about the Gulf War? It's just a video of a bomb blowing up a building. The building may even be made of building blocks. "
Here is a reminder of those hot-headed sprays, and some comments that need to pay IQ tax, which makes Carp look upset. Obviously speaking about a good-looking movie, it must be divided into the left and right. If the content of this movie touches the sensitive and fragile nerves of some people, teach you a good way. As long as you change the subject of the movie , it still makes sense. This should give you psychological comfort. If you don't even understand this sentence, it's impossible to save by paying taxes.
The Gulf War mentioned in the movie was the one launched by Bush Sr. in 1991. The US Secretary of State held a bottle of laundry detergent at the United Nations. The launch was in 2003.
When the female assistant asked who to start the war against, Brian thought about Albania. The naive female assistant asked why. Brian asked how much she knew about Albania. The female assistant answered that she knew nothing about Albania. Brian got it. A satisfactory answer is that the American people know nothing about this country, which is the best reason.
The Kosovo War broke out two years after the movie was released, and Albania became one of the protagonists of the war, and of course the protagonist was also the United States.
The two came to Moss’s Los Angeles mansion. The ace producer is indeed an old gang, who is much more on the road than the female assistant. After talking a few words, they understand the intention of the boss Brian. After hearing Brian promised to be re-elected as the president , Can appoint himself as the ambassador of a certain country, Moss readily accepted this difficult task.
The vigorous and resolute Moss immediately began to raise the flag and convene people. Soon after, the ace music, props, costumes, screenwriting, photography... all Hollywood elites rushed to Moss' home overnight. Hearing the war surrounding the president's needs, everyone came out one after another, and the exhausted Brian fell asleep peacefully on the side.
There is a place here that is realistic. The production model of Hollywood commercial films is basically spelled out bit by bit like in the movie. Only commercial films, art films and independent productions still belong to the category of author films. A creative G point is the starting point of the film, and on this point, the creative team worked hard, and finally conceived a commercial blockbuster.
In the movie, Moss has repeatedly complained that the producer does not have an Oscar. This is indeed very unfair. Movie fans will remember the star most easily, and then they will pay attention to the director, and then they will pay attention to photography and screenwriting, and even special effects and special effects. Costume props can leave a deep impression on the audience. But few viewers can remember who the producer of a movie they like is. For example, everyone knows Leonardo DiCaprio, but few people know that he is the producer of "The Aviator," "The Wolf of Wall Street," and "Orphans."
In fact, all the main creators of the film are called by the producer. Before the film enters the shooting scene, the complicated and complicated preparation work is led by the producer, and it is the director who has the final say after entering the scene.
Another interesting part of this scene is that after the professionals came and expressed the results he wanted, Brian basically stopped participating in the creation of this war and went to sleep. For young friends, if the boss appoints a project to himself, he must do it himself, take the trouble to participate in the project, and find a chance to fire the boss. Such an industrious boss does not know that letting his subordinates go to sleep while working means that the company will not have much future, and it will be a waste of time to do it for a long time.
Moss found a girl who looked like Albanian and ran around the studio holding a plastic bag.
Then Moss sat next to the computer editor and added the elements he wanted to this video little by little. After a while, the war was raging and the walls were ruined. In a messy Albanian village, a panicked girl hid in her arms around a cat, her eyes revealing endless fear and sorrow.
This part of the movie is now a bit out of date. Think of Ang Lee's "Gemini Killer", this late-stage technique is really too pediatric. But outdated refers to technical means. Moss's creativity is not outdated at all. This popular video created by Moss will appear on the news screen time and time again in Kosovo, Iraq, and Syria.
Moreover, the current self-media era is much more convenient than before. It is not difficult for a video to be forwarded hundreds of thousands of times to the mobile phones of more than one billion people in an instant.
The news of a serious humanitarian crisis in Albania quickly occupied the headlines of major media. The American people had heated discussions on how to liberate the suffering Albanian girls, and whether the president really slept with the American Girl Scouts. , Everyone left behind and no one cared anymore.
People like hot news, and hot news can easily be replaced by another hot news . The so-called public opinion can be laughed off for people with a little bit of media knowledge. The practice of Brian and Moss is basically the same truth as the mathematical formula, applicable to all countries, all media, and all times.
As long as it can be easily incited by public opinion, it can basically be concluded that this is an ignorant, fearless, innocent and lovely person. What these people have in common is that they can easily believe what they see and hear, but they never think for themselves.
The Albanian girl was received by the President of the United States at the airport. In order to arrange the scene where the president took off his coat and put on his grandmother in the cold rain, Brian checked the national weather forecast, and then let the president fly to the rainy airport.
Everything is going well. Not only has the girl scout crisis resolved, but the president's approval rating has also risen. It is a pity that the indifferent CIA ran out and kicked it. Albania has no nuclear weapons, no extreme terrorists, and no humanitarian crisis. Under the pressure of the CIA, the White House had no choice but to announce that the threat of war was lifted. This news was originally prepared by the president, but it was announced before the polling day, which disrupted the rhythm of Brian and Moss.
Just when Brian and the female assistant were downcast and thought the situation was over, Moss excitedly proposed the "Old Shoes" action plan. A brave American veteran was trapped behind enemy lines in a military operation in Albania, and the president personally directed the rescue operation.
I've seen this good show several times, and it seems that World War II, Vietnam War, Kosovo, and Iraq have all happened. Carp can't tell whether he has seen it in the movie or in the news. Since this "Wagtail Dog" has been seen here, there is really no difference between the movie and the news. Anyway, I think Stallone and Mark Wahlberg performed well, and the enhanced version of the beautiful girl Jekasi Lynch during the Iraq War is more dramatic, and the acting skills are not lost to the two predecessors.
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Brian randomly selected the name of a soldier from the list provided by the military, and then the picture of the soldier wearing a sweater full of holes appeared in the American media. The hole in the sweater is full of articles, it is the Morse code "Be brave, mother".
Moss asked the folk master to compose a song about old shoes overnight, which was made into a record in the 1930s and put in the National Library of the United States. Then the sexy female assistant of the presidential campaign team lay on a reporter's bed and watched TV and said inadvertently, "Be brave, mom" isn't that lyrics? The dedicated reporter got up from the bed and, despite the exhaustion of the night, found the old record that had just been produced in the National Archives. This song instantly became a popular song sung in the streets and alleys.
Moss found a broken shoe in the trunk while the iron was hot, and asked Brian to throw it on the tree with him. Although Brian was a little bit inexplicable, but out of complete trust in Moss ability, he gladly accepted to hang the broken shoe on a tree. .
The streets of the United States are full of broken shoes and become a beautiful landscape. Although it smells not very good, the effect is much better than the yellow ribbon. In addition to the visual, it also has the impact of smell.
The U.S. military handed the missing veteran to Brian's hands, and the three of them were a little dumbfounded when they saw the other side's weird look and shackles. It turned out that this old shoe was secretly detained by the military for twelve years, charged with raping a nun. Not taking medicine is very serious, and taking medicine does not seem to be mentally ill at all.
The three of them were worried about the old shoes being received by the president. The leak of the house happened to rain overnight, and the plane crashed in a storm. The three of them finally walked out of the wilderness and came to a grocery store after a arduous night with old shoes that looked ignorant.
When contacting the relevant departments to come to rescue, the old shoes found the fat girl in the grocery store. It just so happened that the medicine for the old shoes had just been eaten. Hearing the scream of the fat girl in the room, the grocery store owner picked up his rifle and rushed over. Hearing a gunshot, Moss hurried to check it out. He fortunately told Brian that his old shoes were still alive, but before the voice was over, the second gunshot came from the house.
The disappointment that fell short caused Brian and the female assistant to completely collapse, but Moss was still fighting spirit and rewritten the script again on the spot.
"No matter where the bravest people are, this great land will be free forever." In the tragic song, the president personally presided over a grand memorial ceremony for the old shoes.
Brian's twists and turns of trapping operations finally came to a successful conclusion. With an approval rate of 89%, there is no suspense about the president's re-election. It's a pity that the three-person team who supported each other stumbling all the way had an infighting. Moss was unwilling to hide behind the scenes again, determined to announce to the media what he had done these days. Brian tried his best to persuade him, but Moss was determined to get his own honor back.
Seeing "good words can hardly persuade a damn ghost", Brian silently watched Moss leave under the escort of several sturdy men behind the curtains.
Soon after, the news reported that the famous filmmaker Moss died of a heart attack while sunbathing by the swimming pool.
The key part of the news is often true. Moss is really dead. This is not a lie. It is enough for a truly smart person to be able to distinguish which part he needs to know, and listening to too much bullshit is a waste of life.
Barry Levinson, who won an Oscar for Best Director for "Rain Man", took only 29 days to shoot the film, which is about the same time as Moss's masterpiece in the movie. The efficiency and quality are amazing. . This speed may have a lot to do with the starring role. It is estimated that Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro didn't give the director too many chances of NG.
A very classic one, I highly recommend it to everyone.
Finally, the producers of this film are Mike De Luca and Robert De Niro. They pay the most sincere tribute to the great talented producer Moss.
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