March27,2016
下午一点,天还下雨,有点太阳雨的意思。
就去隔壁电影院看了今年获得奥斯卡最佳影片的spotlight ,这是根据真实事件改编的电影,描述的是波士顿环球时报的几个记者不畏宗教官方阻力和舆论压力,勇于挖掘美国教会的牧师神父性侵男童的系列报道。本片描述的是在他们多年坚持不懈忘我的的追踪采访搜集证据的过程,非常敬业,非常感人,根据统计,世界范围内,天主教会的神职人员牵扯到男童性侵猥亵案的人数到各类神职人员总数的6%,而这其中的绝大多数被教会组织通过销毁证据,转移犯罪神父,买通受害者以及家属等方式大事化小小事化了了,这几名编辑记者可不信邪,顶住各方压力,于2003年把教会隐藏多年的肮脏秘密通过波士顿环球时报的系列报道暴光于天下,仅波士顿一个城市,就有200多名神职人员被绳之以法。。。
影片有几处亮点高潮,是关于记者们善良的对弱者充满同情以及追逐真相不畏强权的勇气,差点儿把老朽的眼泪给感动下来。
非常不错的影片,值得一看!
因为是根据真人真实改编的,每个主要角色都有生活原型。
影片主要演员和他们塑造的生活原型合影:
Rachel McAdams is Sacha Pfeiffer
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Rachel McAdams (left) and Sacha Pfeiffer.
Rachel McAdams rose to fame after her role in 2004’s “Mean Girls” and “The Notebook.” “Spotlight” isn’t her only newspaper-based drama; in 2009, she starred alongside Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck in “State of Play.” Other movies include: “Sherlock Holmes” (2009) and Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” (2011).
Sacha Pfeiffer was a member of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team for five years. She is a reporter covering wealth, nonprofits, and philanthropy. She has also been a senior reporter and host of “All Things Considered” and “Radio Boston” at WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, and a host of NPR’s nationally syndicated “Here & Now” and “On Point.” At WBUR, she won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for broadcast reporting. Pfeiffer was a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University.
Mark Ruffalo is Michael Rezendes
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Mark Ruffalo (left) and Michael Rezendes.
Michael Keaton is Walter “Robby” Robinson
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Michael Keaton (left) and Walter V. Robinson.
Michael Keaton won a Golden Globe for his performance in “Birdman” in 2014. Keaton is known for his work in 1982’s “Night Shift,” and went on to appear in many memorable comedies, including “Johnny Dangerously” (1984) and “Beetlejuice” (1988). He played Batman in Tim Burton’s ”Batman” (1989) and the sequel “Batman Returns” (1992). He appeared in movies such as “The Paper” (1994), a film by Ron Howard, in which Keaton played the metro editor of a New York City tabloid.
Walter V. Robinson, who is the Globe’s Editor At Large, has been at the Globe as reporter and editor since 1972. As a reporter, he covered four presidential campaigns, two presidents and was the paper’s Middle East bureau chief during the first Persian Gulf War. He has reported from 33 countries and 48 states. He was also city editor, metro editor, assistant managing editor for investigations, and editor of the Spotlight Team for seven years. From 2007 to 2014, he was Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University.
Liev Schreiber is Marty Baron
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Liev Schreiber (left), Martin Baron.
Liev Schreiber is currently the star of Showtime’s “Ray Donovan,” in which he plays the title character. He’s also played Cotton Weary in three “Scream” movies, Ted Winter in “Salt” with Angelina Jolie (2010), and President Lyndon B. Johnson in Lee Daniels’s “The Butler” (2013). He was nominated for a Tony in 2007 for his role in “Talk Radio.”
Martin Baron was the editor of The Boston Globe from 2001 to 2012. He is now the editor of The Washington Post. Prior to working at the Globe, he served as executive editor of The Miami Herald.
John Slattery is Ben Bradlee Jr.
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Ben Bradlee Jr (left) talked with John Slattery when “Spotlight” was filming at Fenway Park in 2014.
Boston native
John Slattery began his acting career in 1988, but he made his name as Roger Sterling in AMC’s “Mad Men” (2007-15). He’s appeared in “Desperate Housewives” and “Will & Grace.” He produced and directed the movie “Gods Pocket” (2014), which starred Christina Hendricks and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Ben Bradlee Jr. worked at the Globe for 25 years. He was on the Spotlight Team, and as an editor, he supervised the paper’s State House and City Hall bureaus, oversaw local news, and later was named deputy managing editor. He was the Globe’s national correspondent from 1982 to 1986. He has written several books.