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《古迹卫士》
This is the fifth film directed by George Clooney.
Set during World War II, a team of middle-aged scholars, led by art historian Frank Stokes (Clooney), are sent by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt himself to enter the war zones of Europe to do what they can to save the Western art Hitler has been collecting to fill his planned Fuhrer Museum in Germany.
There’s strict art expert James Granger (Matt Damon), architect Richard Campbell (Bill Murray), sculptor Walter Garfield (John Goodman), French art dealer* Jean Claude Clermont (Jean Dujardin), art historian Preston Savitz (Bob Balaban) and British art wingman* Donald Jeffries (Hugh Bonneville); they’re joined by a young man, Sam Epstein (Dimitri Leonidas), a German Jew who will translate and drive.
Arriving on the beach at Normandy in July 1944, the men find that people don’t understand them. Many feel that risking* any life for art is absurd*. In Paris, they learn that the national collection is safe but that huge collections of mostly Jewish-owned art were taken away following orders. It turns out that the Russians, coming from the East, are also trying to find the art and try to keep it for themselves. But where is it? Stokes knows some of the cities where it’s been hidden but not the exact locations*. Then Claire Simone (Cate Blanchett) comes to help.
Unwilling to help the American team at first — because she thought that they’d just take it all home — she finally changes her idea.
It turns out the loot* is mostly hidden in mines, so it comes down to a race between the Americans and both the Nazis, who would rather burn Picassos* than have them fall into Allied* hands, and the Russians, who consider it money.
To the argument that, “No piece of art is worth a son’s life,” the film proposes the opposite because great art should live on as an eternal* reminder of what a civilization stands for.
The film looks fine, and some good CGI (computer-generated imagery) work provides convincing* scenes of wartime ruin. (SD-Agencies)
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