"So, we came to Rians Valley today to exchange the soul of that bat demon for the soul of that ghost tiger?"

Three days later, in the Bians Valley, Charlize sat on the front cover of the car with a little boredom, chatting with Charlotte.

"You've been in an inconspicuous antagonistic relationship with the Lord of Hell, and now you're exchanging souls in your hands, just like the story of James Donovan!"

"Bridge of Spies?"

Hearing Charlize's words, Charlotte naturally thought of this movie.

Of course, it's not 2015 yet, and the film based on a spy exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has not yet appeared.

However, the historical facts mentioned by Charlize have already happened in 1960 -

That year, the Cold War was raging.

Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were not as tense as they were during the Cuban Missile Crisis two years later, but they were already very tense.

In this case, the two sides carried out a hostage exchange on the Glinik Bridge in East Germany at that time, thanks to the efforts of a civilian lawyer, that is, James Donovan.

Exchange Abel, a spy captured by the United States, for Gary Powers, the pilot of a US reconnaissance plane shot down by the Soviet Union.

- The name "Bridge of Spies" is precisely from this.

The original script for this story has actually been circulating in Hollywood for some years, however, it has never been filmed.

Needless to say, the period from 1960 to 1972 -

At that time, the poison of McCarthyism in the United States was still there, and the extremely anti-X first FBI director Edgar Hoover was still alive.

— Hollywood people are mostly big-mouthed leftists who pride themselves on criticizing governments — no matter what country they are — but they're more comfortable when it comes to a truly powerful terror like Edgar Hoover.

Later, with the death of Hoover and the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, a series of events gradually faded the ideological problems in the United States, but in the face of huge pressure from the Soviet Union, it was obvious that such films advocating reconciliation with each other were unlikely to have a market.

It was not until the beginning of the nineties, when the Soviet Union completely fell, that the market conditions for making this story into a film gradually matured.

However, just like the poem of Tai Zu on the other side of the Pacific -

"It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord. ”

- Finally, the great United States has defeated the evil enemy, and you can hack each other casually, at this time, you don't preach the greatness of freedom, and what do you do with those who don't?

Although this is not a requirement of the U.S. government, Hollywood filmmakers are still sensitive to the fact that audiences are not interested in this kind of film through their own market sense.

- In this case, this script naturally continues to be pressed in the script library and eats ashes.

Until last year's 911 happened -

"Now there is a wave of reflection in the United States—"

Charlotte explained to Charlize,

"Some people feel that we were too inflated after the victory in the Cold War, so we are ...... now Therefore, they feel that this story of James Donovan may be able to give everyone some inspiration. ”

"That's right!"

Charlize nodded,

"Do you think it's possible?"

"Good idea, but there's a small problem here-"

Charlotte is serious,

"The idea itself is!"

"Huh!?"

Hearing Charlotte's "little question", Charlize was in a daze for a while.

Charlotte, on the other hand, sighed and said,

"Of course, people as individuals can reflect when they feel that they have done something wrong, but when it comes to groups at the national level, it is not so easy to reflect - Germany did not begin to reflect until Berlin was reduced to rubble. What role can a film play in this situation?"

What's more, for the sake of the market, this kind of reflection will definitely be superficial, and finally become a routine story that promotes the spirit of freedom. ”

"It's a big possibility!"

Charlize nodded.

- Also as a practitioner in Hollywood, she naturally understands what Hollywood is all about,

"But according to you, isn't our world very sad?"

"It's not sad. ”

Charlotte shrugged,

"Sally, the world is not what we want it to be!"

"—it is neither white nor black, but gray. ”

"When the world is different from our ideals, we can't complain that the world is wrong, saying that "it's all the world's fault" – that's the way of thinking of children. ”

"All we can do is adapt to the world and then try to transform it into what we want it to be!"

"——Hasn't mankind been like this since the day the fire of civilization was lit?"

Speaking of this, Charlotte sighed.

But there was something he didn't tell Charlize -

To some extent, the fall of the USSR was, for the United States, in fact, a loss.

After all, just like the famous saying on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, "If you enter, you will not be able to fight at home, and if you go out, you will be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will perish."

If a person wants to go up, he needs an opponent.

The same is true for the state.

You must know that when the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union was at its most intense, the Americans were able to send people to the moon;

— and fifty years later, they can't;

It was also that time when Kennedy could say out loud, "Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." ”

-- The spirit of the Americans of that era was far from being comparable to that of the politically correct Americans after the new millennium......

Of course, Charlotte and Charlize, one is a white-skinned and yellow-hearted crosser, and the other is simply a Franco-German South African, and they actually have no sense of responsibility for the development of American society.

Speaking of this, it's just a casual chat because of the story of James Donovan.

As for why they stayed in the wilderness of Bians Valley to chat, instead of immediately having the "exchange" that Charlotte had negotiated with the Lord of Hell, there was also a reason-

"Although I discussed it with the Lord of Hell, this is against the rules of death after all, so in order to complete it, we need to restore the situation as much as possible. ”

Charlotte explains,

"Of course, this also includes time and place. ”

"I see!"

Charlize understood,

"When we sent the ghost tiger to hell completely, it was in the middle of the night, which means we have to wait until midnight?"

"Yes. ”

Charlotte nodded, then rolled her eyes,

"Speaking of which, Sally, we were in this place at the time, and we had done enough of one other thing, do you remember?—— you were lying on the hood of the car, I ......"

"Wait!"

Charlize reacted at once,

"Isn't that what happened after the destruction of the Ghost Tiger? Don't try to lie to me!"

"How could it be a lie to you?"

Charlotte said with a wicked smile,

"Look, we're idle anyway......"

“......”()

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