The story background of the movie The Battle of the CIA

Stuart Donderson, the director and screenwriter of this film, came up with the idea of making this "Battle of Seattle" after reading a book with the theme of globalization published in 2002. In fact, as early as 2000, a reporter made the Seattle incident into a documentary "30 frames and one second: 2000 Seattle WTO Ministerial Conference", which recorded the turbulent scene at that time in detail. The reporter also interviewed the leaders of several important protest teams at that time and asked them to express their opinions. As far as the incident itself is concerned, this documentary has obviously been presented quite accurately.

In addition to restoring the incident, Tonson actually filmed the Seattle War for another purpose, that is, to describe people from different classes and see the whole incident from their perspective. In the film, the director does not convince the audience with the political significance and factual comments of the event, but hopes to let the audience draw their own conclusions by means of stories. So this movie will not be as documentary as "30 frames a second". Donderson said, "I think the most basic prerequisite for making a good film is to create people who can be touched by the audience as soon as they reach out-people with distinct personalities, representing different positions and from different classes, not just selecting representatives from the intellectual or political circles. Pay attention to conflict and drama and downplay politics. What I want to do is to make a really good movie, a movie with strong visual impact. I hope that the audience can leave something in their minds after watching the movie. "

Donderson's idea was supported by his girlfriend, Charlize Theron, a famous Hollywood actress. Theron gave a lot of advice and did some work with Donderson. Donderson will accompany her whenever he has time when he is doing research. After the script was completed, Theron wanted to play the heroine of the film, Lu, one of the demonstrators, but after consideration, Donderson finally refused to agree to Theron's request and only asked her to play the role of a reporter in the film. With the joining of Oscar-winning actress, the attention of the film has been greatly improved.

Judging from his past resume, Donderson seems unable to win such big stars as ray liotta and Woody Helson. Donderson said that he had to go through the agency before he could find an actor to make a movie. First, give the script to the brokerage company, let them pass it on to the actors, and ask them to show it to the actors, because the director wants the actors to join and so on. This is because the people in the brokerage company will politely agree, and then they may throw away the script as soon as they turn around, because they will not take the trouble to transfer the script of low-budget movies to the actors. Woody Haeerlson's appearance in this film is mainly due to the personal relationship between Donderson and him. Donderson said that Woody often goes to his house for parties. Once, he told Woody that he was preparing a film recently, and then told Woody his shooting ideas. The character actor was very interested after listening to it. Then Donderson gave him the script directly. Soon, Woody agreed to star in the film. Donderson still felt very proud when he talked about it, because he knew Woody too well and knew that he would definitely take the film, so he played a trick and pretended to casually mention the plan to him. "If I don't know him, I can't tell him about it."

Theron and Woody joined the film one after another, and all the other actors were in place soon. With the support of two Oscar-level figures, it was much more convenient for Donderson to find investment, and finally he got $8 million to make this film. Although the main stars are all big names, they all star in the film at friendly prices, so in the end, spending a little money is enough to finish the film.

From the beginning, Donderson planned to film the Seattle Battle in the style of Flight 93, so he chose the photographer Barry Akrod who had worked with paul greengrass and the British realistic movie master ken roach to be in charge of the film. Although the investment is not much, it is obvious that Charlize Theron should make a lot of efforts to get first-class staff, besides the personal charm of Donderson. After the film was finished, the South African beauty accompanied Dong Desen to attend film festivals everywhere to help promote the copyright of The Battle of Seattle. With her publicity, the film attracted more and more attention.