In terms of profitability, "The Golden Age" cost about two million dollars, and the box office eventually reached more than two million dollars. The total investment of the two films "Schindler's List" and "Life is Beautiful" is about 10 million US dollars.

By the time the Academy Awards were presented in 1947, these two movies had been released for more than three months! The box office is nearly $200 million! In this day and age, it's nothing short of a miracle!

In terms of purchasing power, this figure has basically exceeded the box office of these two films in later generations.

From an artistic point of view, the two movies "Schindler's List" and "Life is Beautiful" are eight streets away from "The Golden Age". "Golden Age" is nothing more than a comedy with the main purpose of appeasing veterans, and if it weren't for the fact that there were too many veterans demobilized after World War II, this movie would not have caused any waves at all.

The discussion of the so-called human nature is extremely weak. Moreover, these veterans were originally victors. Although it needs to be appeased, the area of its psychological shadow is far less than that of the refugees massacred by the Germans. Therefore, its soothing effect is actually not that big.

After all, the soldiers who actually go to the battlefield only account for about a dozen of the total population. And the people threatened by the shadow of war are all. The Jews are just one of the saddest of them all. From the analysis of the audience, we also know who is more powerful in art.

Therefore, the two films "Schindler's List" and "Life is Beautiful" will turn the history of the 1947 Academy Awards upside down. "Golden Age", which could have won seven awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Soundtrack, just sadly won the Best Editing.

The rest of the awards were all won by "Schindler's List" and "Life is Beautiful". Even, even the awards that other movies should have won were robbed by these two movies. Most of the time the ratings. It's just a derby between these two films.

And these two movies have long had a group of smash hit stars. Not to mention, James Stewart, who was originally a good person, became even taller after playing the role of Schindler. Although it's not a little fresh meat in his early twenties, but. After being tempered and baptized by various things, James Stewart's temperament has been unmatched in Hollywood.

It is truly gentle and powerful, broad and vast. When filming the scene where Schindler chooses a secretary among a group of beauties, some little girls are too deep into the scene when they play against James Stewart, and they really start a nymphomaniac. The acting is natural.

Such James Stewart can kill all women from the age of seven to seventy. Even in the cinema. There are also female viewers who go to the cinema to brush up on the box office in order to watch James Stewart a few more times.

If it weren't for James Stewart's self-purity and devotion to religious beliefs, he would have been wiped clean by the women's saliva, and Howard Hughes's playboy name would have been lost.

And James Stewart's friend Henry Fonda is an Oscar statuette who won Best Supporting Actor after starring in Amon in "Schindler's List". This is far more than he is in the Hereafter. won the Oscar for starring in "Golden Pond" earlier.

The most surprising thing is this, though. Among the actors who have something to do with the rest of their lives. With these two films, it was neither James Stewart nor Henry Fonda who became a superstar in one fell swoop. Hedy Lamarr, who starred in Dora in "Life is Beautiful", has just consolidated her status as a first-line movie star.

In these two films, the most outstanding role is that of Helen, a Jewish woman played by Marilyn Monroe and emotionally entangled with Amun, a Nazi German officer. Helen in the original version of Schindler's List. People can only see the cleanliness and kindness in her.

Although she was Amon's favorite, the original version of Schindler's List did not emphasize Helen's charm as a woman. Even though there were a lot of shots in it, Helen didn't wear much. But. When the audience watches, it will not feel that Helen is very sexy.

However, Marilyn Monroe's version of "Schindler's List" is different, although she strictly follows the director's instructions and performs according to Helen's character. However, Marilyn Monroe's own temperament is a temperament full of sensitive words. In the basement, Amon and Helen are alone, and Amon tells Helen incoherently about his struggles and conflicting feelings.

Marilyn Monroe almost unintentionally, she exuded her charm to the fullest! When Helen trembled in Amon's confession, Marilyn Monroe's sexiness conquered almost every male audience who watched the movie. After all, almost every man wants the woman he loves to be gentle with him and sexually appealing in his own right.

Marilyn Monroe fits almost every fantasy of these men. At the moment when Marilyn Monroe was trembling, she was almost Helen in ancient Greek mythology who could make the armies of the two countries fight for ten years without regrets! So, although in "Schindler's List", the role of Helen does not have many scenes. However, Marilyn Monroe won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in one fell swoop with her own unique temperament and decent performance.

And, with this role, he became the world's top superstar! After the release of "Schindler's List", in the United States, all products that were related to Marilyn Monroe were crazy bestsellers. The monthly calendar printed with Marilyn Monroe's photo has almost reached the point where every American man has a book!

When Yu Sheng and Marilyn Monroe were crazy about making US dollars, the international landscape was changing, and the Japanese finally waited for their own recovery opportunity after more than a year of forbearance and delayed strategy. As the Japanese expected, the Americans and the Soviets finally got into a fight.

According to later generations, it was the beginning of the Cold War. The Americans and the Soviets had an awkward quarrel, in fact, it is easy to judge. After all, the two countries have different national conditions and different beliefs. Even if these two points are ignored, when the two superpowers expand abroad, they are separated by only one Bering Strait due to their geographical proximity, and both have interests in Europe. It's also normal to have conflicts.

The direct conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union stemmed from the difference in policy toward Germany. Because the United States and Germany are far apart, and the United States is actually a country of immigrants, there are not a few Germans mixed in the United States. So, the Americans intend to rebuild Germany. Revive the German economy and integrate the German economy into the economic system built by the Americans.

In this way, there will be one more puppet to balance the European countries and the Soviet Union, and there will also be one more market for dumping products, and it will also have a good reputation. The Soviets, however, did not think so. The Soviet Union advocated sanctions and repression of the Germans, and sooner or later the Germans could not be revived.

In this way, contradictions arise. Although neither the Americans nor the Soviets intended to fight each other again at the end of World War II. Let the little brothers pick up the cheap. Even Japan, after Stalin took over the four northern islands, let the Americans occupy them. However, if the hot war is not fought, the confrontation between other parties will arise.

In 1946, the former leader of the British, Winston Churchill, visited the United States. He delivered the Iron Curtain Speech, which will remain for posterity: "From Szczecin on the Baltic Sea to Dilaste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has been drawn across the European continent. ”

This "Iron Curtain Speech". It was considered by later generations to mark the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. However, Winston Churchill's influence is now far less than it was during the war. As a politician, his remarks were nothing more than an echo of the attitude of the Americans.

The expression of the attitude of the Americans towards the Soviets is the most famous and symbolic. On February 22, 1946, George Kennan's "8,000-word telegram" from the U.S. Embassy in the Soviet Union. In this telegram, George Kennan clearly set out a strategy for containing the Soviet Union.

Subsequently, US Special Adviser to the President of the United States, Clark, presented to US President Harry S. Truman a report entitled "Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union." He advocated that the United States unite with European countries to contain the development and expansion of the Soviet Union. As long as there is a hostile relationship with the USSR. can all get the assistance and support of the Americans. This report represents the attitude of almost all Americans.

Therefore, on March 12, 1947, the day before the 19th Academy Awards, US President Harry S. Truman delivered a message to the joint session of both houses of the United States Congress, declaring: "All countries in the world today are faced with the choice of two different ways of life, a liberal system based on the will of the majority, and a totalitarian regime based on the will imposed on the majority, and the policy of the United States must support the minority of the people of those free countries who resist the armed forces......"

And, Truman stressed: "Wherever it is, whether direct or indirect aggression threatens peace, it is related to the security of the United States." ”

This message marked the beginning of the Truman Doctrine. This is the first US foreign strategy with a global strategic nature. This is where Americans' foreign policy begins to shift.

The Soviets had to target the policy of the Americans, beginning an active defense. While restoring and developing the economy, we should develop heavy industries related to the military in a limited way, give prominence to the construction of the national defense industry, and reorganize the operational command system, so that the equipment and quality of the entire army will be rapidly improved in order to cope with the Americans' attack on the Soviet Union.

However, such a policy also laid the groundwork for the deformity of the economic development of the Soviet Union in later generations. Due to the contempt for the development of light industry and people's livelihood, the economy of the Soviets collapsed rapidly in the later period. Therefore, it is not a clever trick.

This change in the foreign policy of the Americans is great news for the Japanese.

I have to admit that although the Pacific island chain occupied by the Japanese is not large, there are not many resources. It is only enough for the basic requirements of a country's survival, and there is very little capital to expand outward. However, it has to be admitted that the position of the Pacific island chain occupied by the Japanese is excellent.

To the north, there is Russia, to the west, is the Chinese mainland, the heart of Asia, to the south, through the islands of Southeast Asia, and even all the way along the Pacific islands to New Zealand and Australia.

If the Americans want to invade Asia, the best way to do so is to use Japan as their shield. By the time all the attacks were weakened by Japan, a chain of Pacific islands, and transmitted to the United States, it was already the end of the crossbow, and there was no power to speak of.

Therefore, although the Americans also know that the Japanese have a ruthless personality in their bones, they are not easy to control, and they are not loyal to their masters. Always thinking about counterattacking the American boss. However, when the Soviets were rapidly rising, Asia had entered a period of stable development, and the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization was about to exert its strength again, the Americans had no other choice. The only option is to support Japan.

In 1947, when Truman's address was published, Americans' policy toward the Japanese began to change, both economically and militarily.

In the very beginning of the post-war period, in order to destroy the industrial production system of the Japanese, the Americans formulated the post-war compensation method of "demolition compensation". The essence of this method of reparation was to dismantle the more advanced machines in Japan's factories with higher production capacity and ship them back to the United States as war reparations from the Japanese to the Americans.

Without machines, even if there are corresponding skilled workers and talents, it is impossible for the Japanese to produce weapons that can compete with the Americans, or even products that can compete with the Americans in the market.

After the establishment of the Truman Doctrine, two investigation teams, Stleko and Dureppa, successively inspected Japan, and then established a policy of raising the level of Japanese industry and easing and gradually stopping compensation for demolition and relocation. In this way, the industrial system of the Japanese can be regarded as basically preserved.

At the same time, with the consent of the Americans, the Japanese government, in order to save the Japanese economy, enacted the "Temporary Material Supply Adjustment Act," which designated 250 kinds of products of means of production as notification materials. Anyone who needs these supplies must apply to the Japanese government, and after obtaining approval, a certificate of distribution will be issued before they can be bought and sold.

Although the power of this material control is limited, and the daily ration of rice per person in Japan's large cities is only 297 grams, it is still much stronger than when Japan's economy collapsed after the war. At the very least, fewer people are starving to death. It is possible to ensure that a part of the labor force will be retained in Japan.

On this basis, the Japanese began to control the price system. At the same time, it began to concentrate funds and restore the development of basic industries. In January 1947, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was formally established with the funding of the Japanese government. In March 1947, the Japanese Government formulated the "Priority Table for Lending and Lending Industrial Funds" to make unified arrangements for all funds at hand to ensure the needs of key industrial sectors. (To be continued.) )

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