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Academy award-winning filmmaker Clint Eastwood has teamed up with actor Leonardo DiCaprio on J. Edgar, a biopic of the former FBI head, J.Edgar Hoover, who died in 1972. The film focuses on J.Edgar's controversial personality. It follows him as he made the Federal Bureau of Investigations2 into one of the country's most powerful agencies and became one of the most powerful political figures of his time.
The plot spans more than 50 years, eight presidencies3 and three wars. It portrays4 Hoover as a Macchiavelian figure who believes that the end justifies5 the means.
He systematically6 collects information on U.S. citizens and politicians. No one is above suspicion.
J.Edgar: "Do you remember that file we created on his wife?"
Helen Gandy: "Mrs. Roosevelt?"
J.Edgar: "You make a copy for me please?"
Tolson, J.Egar's no.2: "Is that legal?"
J.Edgar: "Sometimes you need to bend the rules a little in order to keep your country safe."
Clint Eastwood some parts of the film are dramatic license7. But, he says, much about Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation1 and the power it wielded8 is corroborated9.
"He was a very important figure, the top federal cop, and he probably was the most powerful guy in the country," Eastwood says.
The film alleges10 Hoover collected information on political figures like President John F. Kennedy, with wire taps.
It shows him using the transcripts11 as political leverage12. Motivated by his fear of communism, Hoover tries to convince Attorney General Robert Kennedy to step up political surveillance of Americans.
Bullying13 aside, the film portrays Hoover as a public relations expert who mingled14 in Hollywood and exaggerated his achievements.
But Eastwood also shows him as a visionary, whose forensics led to the arrest of the likes of John Dillinger, a notorious gangster15 of the 1930s.
And the film digs into Hoover's emotional make up. We see young J. Edgar idolizing his mother who fuels his ambitions.
Hoover's deputy, Clyde Tolson, is shown with the FBI head to the end.
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, that after he wrote the screenplay for Milk, about gay activist18 Harvey Milk, he became intrigued19 with Hoover.
"I had just done the whole story how coming out of the closet and embracing your nature can give great hope, and I wondered what's the other side of that," Black explains. "And I felt we potentially could benefit from learning and creating this cautionary tale about a man who denied love."
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1 investigation | |
n.调查,调查研究 | |
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(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究 | |
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n.总统的职位( presidency的名词复数 );总统的任期 | |
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v.画像( portray的第三人称单数 );描述;描绘;描画 | |
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证明…有理( justify的第三人称单数 ); 为…辩护; 对…作出解释; 为…辩解(或辩护) | |
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6 systematically | |
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7 license | |
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许 | |
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手持着使用(武器、工具等)( wield的过去式和过去分词 ); 具有; 运用(权力); 施加(影响) | |
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9 corroborated | |
v.证实,支持(某种说法、信仰、理论等)( corroborate的过去式 ) | |
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断言,宣称,辩解( allege的第三人称单数 ) | |
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11 transcripts | |
n.抄本( transcript的名词复数 );转写本;文字本;副本 | |
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12 leverage | |
n.力量,影响;杠杆作用,杠杆的力量 | |
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13 bullying | |
v.恐吓,威逼( bully的现在分词 );豪;跋扈 | |
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14 mingled | |
混合,混入( mingle的过去式和过去分词 ); 混进,与…交往[联系] | |
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15 gangster | |
n.匪徒,歹徒,暴徒 | |
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n.传闻( rumor的名词复数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷v.传闻( rumor的第三人称单数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷 | |
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n.方向,目标;熟悉,适应,情况介绍 | |
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18 activist | |
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19 intrigued | |
adj.好奇的,被迷住了的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的过去式);激起…的兴趣或好奇心;“intrigue”的过去式和过去分词 | |
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