Vai causar polémica

Deve estrear a 18 de Fevereiro.
Os comunistas vão arrancar os cabelos.
É a história, muito bem contada e melhor representada, do que aconteceu ao argumentista Dalton Trumbo, autor de verdadeiras pérolas do cinema.
Sob a acusação de ser comunista, e verdadeiramente era o filiado número 47187 (lá nos States não sabiam o que era a clandestinidade) acabou por ser preso e perder o emprego, ele e mais um punhado de aspirantes a comunistas.
Após a saída da prisão recomeçou a trabalhar sob nomes falsos até que assinando o argumento de Spartacus debaixo de um pseudónimo (que todos sabiam quem era) Otto chamou-o para assinar o argumento de Exodus com o próprio nome.
E depois JFK foi ver o filme e fez-lhe um público elogio.
O resto é história.
Um filme perfeito que se arrisca a levar para casa um Oscar.
O período McCarthy é encarado como uma zona negra dos Estados Unidos.
A interrogação que se coloca é:
O que seriam hoje se este homem não tivesse existido?

 

Dalton Trumbo won two "Best Writing, Motion Picture Story" Academy Awards during the 1950s but was unable to accept either of them, since both movies' credits had used "fronts" (real people who agreed to take credit for the scripts while Trumbo was blacklisted). The first movie for which Trumbo won an Oscar was the Audrey Hepburn-Gregory Peck romantic comedy Férias em Roma (1953). For this movie, Trumbo's front was Ian McLellan Hunter (who actually was also a screenwriter in his own right); Hunter was also later blacklisted. In 1993, after both Trumbo and Hunter were both dead, the Academy attempted to retrieve the Oscar that had been presented to Hunter and present it instead to Trumbo's widow, but Hunter's son, Tim, himself a director (River's Edge (1986), Tex (1982), etc.) refused to relinquish it, so the Academy instead presented Mrs. Trumbo with a new statuette. On Roman Holiday's 2003 DVD release, Trumbo was credited in place of Hunter. The second movie for which Trumbo won an Oscar was the family drama O Rapaz e o Touro (1956). For this film, Trumbo's front was named Robert Rich; unlike Ian McLellan Hunter, Rich was not actually a screenwriter himself but just a nephew of the movie's producers. The Academy re-presented that Oscar statuette to Trumbo in May 1975, roughly a year and a half before Trumbo's death.