Bhul Bhaye Maaf Gara
During the 1930's, in response to the Great Depression, and the rise of fascism, thousands of Americans joined the Communist Party of the US (CPUSA). The US even allied with the Soviet Union during WW…
Bhul Bhaye Maaf Gara
During the 1930's, in response to the Great Depression, and the rise of fascism, thousands of Americans joined the Communist Party of the US (CPUSA). The US even allied with the Soviet Union during WW II and even more Americans joined the CPUSA. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, a long-time champion of worker's rights becomes a member of the Party in 1943. The cold war changed everything and cast a new light of suspicion on American Communists. Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) is a screenwriter whose talent places him among the elite of Hollywood. In 1947, he lived in a lavish mansion north of LA. However, his outspoken support for organized labor, and his membership in the Communist Party of the USA draw the contempt of staunchly anti-Soviet entertainment-industry figures such as columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and actor John Wayne (David James Elliott). Hopper openly says that the strikes are sponsored by the Communists using Trumbo and Edward G Robinson as their puppets. Trumbo tries to build his views about an idealistic world into his scripts, which are often rejected by actors and directors. Trumbo believes in peace and prosperity for everyone and espouses a more human face of capitalism where the workers get a share of the profits. Trumbo is married to Cleo and has daughters Nikola (Elle Fanning) and Chris (Mattie Liptak). J. Parnell Thomas (James Dumont) heads the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953. Thomas believes that in the Cold War, the Soviets are hatching a conspiracy to corrupt democratic values and to bring about an overthrow of the nation. John Wayne addresses the Motion Pictures Association of America and says that US won the world war to protect its democratic values. Trumbo confronts him and says that he and all his "Communist" friends served in the war, while John Wayne himself never left a movie set. Louise B Mayer (Richard Portnow) offers the highest paying screenwriter contract in the world to Trumbo, but asks that he maintain a low profile. Buddy Ross (Roger Brat) is Trumbo's manager and agent. Trumbo is one of 10 screenwriters subpoenaed to testify before the United States Congress regarding alleged Communist propaganda in Hollywood films. Thomas argues that movies are a powerful propaganda medium, and Hollywood is currently infused with Communist traitors. They refuse to directly answer questions, confident that even though they will get jail time from a lower court, but a liberal majority on the Supreme Court will overturn the convictions for contempt of Congress upon appeal. The Supreme Court is a 5:4 liberal majority and they believe that the committee is unconstitutional and want it killed. Arlen Hird (Louis CK) is one of the 10 writers, who is more radical in his views. He tells Trumbo that while Trumbo talks like a radical, but he lives like a rich man. At the committee hearing, Trumbo demands to be shown evidence basis which he has been accused of being a Communist. Arlen is diagnosed with cancer. Predictably, the 10 are charged with Contempt of Congress and their case would to trial. Hedda Hopper forces the studio bosses to fire the 10, now called the Hollywood 10, by threatening to expose their own German pasts. As a result, the MGM studio boss is forced to tear his 3-year contract with Trumbo & fire him by saying that no studio boss will engage a worker with links to the communist party. Edward G. Robinson (Michael Stuhlbarg) a famous actor who has not worked for several months due to his convictions, also supports the cause, and sells Vincent van Gogh's 1887 painting the Portrait of Père Tanguy to raise money for their legal defense fund. To keep his house running, Trumbo is forced to get his other writer friends to sign their names on his scripts & split the take 30:70 with them. The unexpected deaths of Justices Wiley Rutledge and Frank Murphy ruin Trumbo's plan to appeal to the Supreme Court. The replacement of a liberal Supreme Court Justice condemns each of them to spend time in prison. In 1950, Trumbo serves eleven months in Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky where he meets J. Parnell Thomas who was convicted of tax evasion. As the Hollywood Blacklist expands to exclude more liberals from working in the industry, Trumbo and his comrades are abandoned by Democratic actor Edward G. Robinson and producer Buddy Ross (Roger Bart), who disavow them to protect their careers. Trumbo's prison term eventually finishes, but he remains blacklisted and his finances - and family life - become increasingly strained. He resorts to giving the screenplay for Roman Holiday to his friend Ian McLellan Hunter (Alan Tudyk), to take credit and a share of the money, and eventually the Academy Award for Best Story. Selling his idyllic lakeside home and moving to a house in the city, he goes to work as a pseudonymous screenwriter for the low-budget King Brothers Productions, also farming out the writing of B-movie screenplays to fellow blacklisted writers. He puts his wife Cleo (Diane Lane) and teenage children to work as his support staff, adding to domestic conflict. King Brothers' film The Brave One, an original story by Trumbo under a pseudonym, receives an Academy Award he cannot claim. His blacklisted friend Arlen Hird (Louis C.K.) dies, destitute, but an attempt by Hopper's allies to intimidate the head of King Brothers to fire Trumbo fails completely. Over time, industry suspicion of Trumbo's ghostwriting develops, but he is careful not to confirm it. In 1960, actor Kirk Douglas (Dean O'Gorman) recruits him to write the screenplay for his epic film Spartacus, and director Otto Preminger (Christian Berkel) recruits him to script Exodus for him. Both publicly credit Trumbo as the screenwriter despite Hopper's futile efforts to intimidate Douglas into dropping Trumbo. By 1960, to Hopper's despair, the effectiveness of the Blacklist has been broken to the point where newly elected US President John F. Kennedy publicly endorses Spartacus and Trumbo and others are able to begin rebuilding their careers. Ten years later in 1970, finally receiving his due accolades from Hollywood, Trumbo speaks about how the Blacklist victimized them all: those who stood by their principles and lost their jobs, and also those who compromised their principles to keep them.
Bhul Bhaye Maaf Gara
Drama
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During the 1930's, in response to the Great Depression, and the rise of fascism, thousands of Americans joined the Communist Party of the US (CPUSA). The US even allied with the Soviet Union during WW II and even more Americans joined the CPUSA. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, a long-time champion of worker's rights becomes a member of the Party in 1943.
The cold war changed everything and cast a new light of suspicion on American Communists. Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) is a screenwriter whose talent places him among the elite of Hollywood. In 1947, he lived in a lavish mansion north of LA.
However, his outspoken support for organized labor, and his membership in the Communist Party of the USA draw the contempt of staunchly anti-Soviet entertainment-industry figures such as columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and actor John Wayne (David James Elliott). Hopper openly says that the strikes are sponsored by the Communists using Trumbo and Edward G Robinson as their puppets. Trumbo tries to build his views about an idealistic world into his scripts, which are often rejected by actors and directors.
Trumbo believes in peace and prosperity for everyone and espouses a more human face of capitalism where the workers get a share of the profits. Trumbo is married to Cleo and has daughters Nikola (Elle Fanning) and Chris (Mattie Liptak). J.
Parnell Thomas (James Dumont) heads the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953. Thomas believes that in the Cold War, the Soviets are hatching a conspiracy to corrupt democratic values and to bring about an overthrow of the nation. John Wayne addresses the Motion Pictures Association of America and says that US won the world war to protect its democratic values.
Trumbo confronts him and says that he and all his "Communist" friends served in the war, while John Wayne himself never left a movie set. Louise B Mayer (Richard Portnow) offers the highest paying screenwriter contract in the world to Trumbo, but asks that he maintain a low profile. Buddy Ross (Roger Brat) is Trumbo's manager and agent.
Trumbo is one of 10 screenwriters subpoenaed to testify before the United States Congress regarding alleged Communist propaganda in Hollywood films. Thomas argues that movies are a powerful propaganda medium, and Hollywood is currently infused with Communist traitors. They refuse to directly answer questions, confident that even though they will get jail time from a lower court, but a liberal majority on the Supreme Court will overturn the convictions for contempt of Congress upon appeal.
The Supreme Court is a 5:4 liberal majority and they believe that the committee is unconstitutional and want it killed. Arlen Hird (Louis CK) is one of the 10 writers, who is more radical in his views. He tells Trumbo that while Trumbo talks like a radical, but he lives like a rich man.
At the committee hearing, Trumbo demands to be shown evidence basis which he has been accused of being a Communist. Arlen is diagnosed with cancer. Predictably, the 10 are charged with Contempt of Congress and their case would to trial.
Hedda Hopper forces the studio bosses to fire the 10, now called the Hollywood 10, by threatening to expose their own German pasts. As a result, the MGM studio boss is forced to tear his 3-year contract with Trumbo & fire him by saying that no studio boss will engage a worker with links to the communist party. Edward G.
Robinson (Michael Stuhlbarg) a famous actor who has not worked for several months due to his convictions, also supports the cause, and sells Vincent van Gogh's 1887 painting the Portrait of Père Tanguy to raise money for their legal defense fund. To keep his house running, Trumbo is forced to get his other writer friends to sign their names on his scripts & split the take 30:70 with them. The unexpected deaths of Justices Wiley Rutledge and Frank Murphy ruin Trumbo's plan to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The replacement of a liberal Supreme Court Justice condemns each of them to spend time in prison. In 1950, Trumbo serves eleven months in Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky where he meets J. Parnell Thomas who was convicted of tax evasion.
As the Hollywood Blacklist expands to exclude more liberals from working in the industry, Trumbo and his comrades are abandoned by Democratic actor Edward G. Robinson and producer Buddy Ross (Roger Bart), who disavow them to protect their careers. Trumbo's prison term eventually finishes, but he remains blacklisted and his finances - and family life - become increasingly strained.
He resorts to giving the screenplay for Roman Holiday to his friend Ian McLellan Hunter (Alan Tudyk), to take credit and a share of the money, and eventually the Academy Award for Best Story. Selling his idyllic lakeside home and moving to a house in the city, he goes to work as a pseudonymous screenwriter for the low-budget King Brothers Productions, also farming out the writing of B-movie screenplays to fellow blacklisted writers. He puts his wife Cleo (Diane Lane) and teenage children to work as his support staff, adding to domestic conflict.
King Brothers' film The Brave One, an original story by Trumbo under a pseudonym, receives an Academy Award he cannot claim. His blacklisted friend Arlen Hird (Louis C.K.) dies, destitute, but an attempt by Hopper's allies to intimidate the head of King Brothers to fire Trumbo fails completely. Over time, industry suspicion of Trumbo's ghostwriting develops, but he is careful not to confirm it.
In 1960, actor Kirk Douglas (Dean O'Gorman) recruits him to write the screenplay for his epic film Spartacus, and director Otto Preminger (Christian Berkel) recruits him to script Exodus for him. Both publicly credit Trumbo as the screenwriter despite Hopper's futile efforts to intimidate Douglas into dropping Trumbo. By 1960, to Hopper's despair, the effectiveness of the Blacklist has been broken to the point where newly elected US President John F.
Kennedy publicly endorses Spartacus and Trumbo and others are able to begin rebuilding their careers. Ten years later in 1970, finally receiving his due accolades from Hollywood, Trumbo speaks about how the Blacklist victimized them all: those who stood by their principles and lost their jobs, and also those who compromised their principles to keep them..