Gregory Peck and The Big Country

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Gregory Peck (1916-2003) made nearly 60 films for more than half a century. He was married twice in 62 years (remarried the day after his divorce) and briefly had an affair with Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) in "Spellbound" (1945). When he was filming Roman Holiday (1953) in Rome, he fell in love with Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), who was 13 years younger than him. In 1999, Conrad was named the third greatest actress of the century by the American Film Institute, while engrid bergman was fourth. Gregory Peck, and they have worked only once, but with The 25th of Eva jana (Ava Gardner, 1922-1990) is right for The following three films: "The family yan ji" (The Great Sinner, 1949), "The snow mountain au" (The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952) and "long live peace" (On The Beach, 1959). Bo and jana are even better friends, and he receives jana's housekeeper and dog after her death.

Gregory Peck and The Big Country

Gregory Peck was not a "method actor," but he was very particular about acting. He wrote notes on the script and often asked himself questions to try to understand the character. On the screen he was always at his best on the sea, on land, and in the air; To the ancient costume or fashion performance, are heroic; In westerns, it's often fun to shoot, but in comedies it's fun. In addition to acting, he is active in politics and the arts. In the late 1950s he began reading speeches for various cultural programs and worked on the campaigns of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900-1965), Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), and other prominent Democrats. Although he had no political ambitions of his own, he was happy to work for the party he supported and to contribute to his busy schedule.

Gregory Peck took over as President of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in 1967. His tenure was a succession of successes, raising huge sums of money to benefit actors who were old or poor. Before he became President, some Oscar contenders skipped the ceremony, but Gregory Peck went out of his way to invite them to attend. In 1968, Estelle Parsons (1927 -) was performing a play by David Merrick (1911-2000). She couldn't make it to Hollywood, but Merrick couldn't resist bai's pleas and agreed to let the actor go in exchange for bai's coming to New York to present the Tony Award. Parsons won best supporting actress for "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967), directed by Arthur Penn (1922-2010), and bai kept her word.

In fact, the ceremony was nearly canceled that year because of the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). The ceremony was scheduled to take place on the night of April 8, but it came four days after the tragic shooting of king. Black guests such as Sidney Poitier (1927 -) and Samuel George Davis Jr. (1925-1990) all said they would not attend, and most of the others did not want to. After a meeting to discuss what to do, bai decided to postpone the ceremony until after Dr. King's funeral, and to hold it on April 10. It was an unprecedented move, and the academy needed to convince sponsors and film guests from around the world to sacrifice two more days of their time to help complete the annual event.

Gregory Peck and The Big Country

One of The ten western films starring Gregory Peck deserves repeated appreciation for its beautiful cinematography and excellent score (The Big Country, 1958), which runs for 166 minutes. Academy award-winning director William Wyler (1902-1981) shot this big-budget, cassie-gorgeous, grand-setting, and sweeping super-production in the spirit of the anti-western. The film is set in the vast wilderness of the western United States. The five main characters were played by Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons (1929-2010), Carroll Baker (1931 -), Charlton Heston (1923-2008) and Burl Ives (1909-1995). The director took nearly three hours to narrate the plot, which was not complicated. Besides the drama, he was most successful in portraying the characters. Ives also won best supporting actor and golden globe for the film.

The film tells the story of two families fighting over water and different upbringing. Arrogant bratty, dew brigitte jia, his father is called "major", a little proud, and the other landlords alvis always with Charlie and brigitte f (Charles Bickford, 1891-1967). Heston is the secret love calu ranch foreman, and bai is her handsome and gentle fiance, from the sea life to the wild west, and the local more primitive social atmosphere. The result is bai transference falls in love with beautiful strong female teacher zhen xi meng si, after two old people shoot dead, assume the mission that develops big west. Since Jane had inherited a large area of well-watered land from her grandfather, they could build a new home together.

There are many unforgettable scenes in this film, which fully show the director's skill and talent. Bo is a captain who doesn't know how to use a gun, but in order to save the kidnapped Jane, he even agrees to duel with Chuck Connors (1921-1992), the unsavory son of avis. The latter secretly shot the gun failed to hit after being shocked and turned pale, in the bai give up to fight back and ungrateful, even take a gun to shoot bai, was finally shot by the old father with a sense of justice. At the end of the film, the shooting between ivy and bifu was also a step by step. The director used parallel editing to separately depict the two old lines and scold each other. When they were close to each other, they kept laughing at each other.

The film also has some psychological depiction, like heston's love for bika, tai half from lust. Bijia probably hated his prowess and publicity, so she was in love with the elegant and unrestrained bai. In addition, because of the class disparity, if the young lady married a ranch foreman, psychological will have the feeling of self-abasement. On the other hand, heston was naturally only jealous and contemptuous of cypress, so he kept challenging cypress to expose cypress's cowardice in front of bijia. But heston's duel with cypress in the wilderness (the director used a telephoto shot, treating people as ants, to convey the idea of anti-hero) ended in a tie. Two people finally put down enmity, a little sympathetic, temporarily shake hands and make peace.

The producer and director of "The Big Country," William Weller, is a maverick, and his friend bai is a nominally producer (mostly to reduce taxes). After seven people had written the script, Weller and bai were not satisfied either, so bai and the writer who was ultimately in charge changed the script almost every day, confusing the actors. During the shooting, bo and Weller often argued with each other. One time, bo asked Weller to reshoot his close-up, but was refused. When bai shouted, "I'm a producer," Weller immediately sniffed, "nonsense!" Bo was so angry that he walked out of the show and never spoke to Weller again. It took three years for the two men to patch things up.
 
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