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During the Trump era, when the division is intensified and exclusive words fly, I often hear voices saying, “Is the United States supposed to be freedom and an ideal country?” But this frenzy is not a story that just started. I visited California, who was chased by “Red Hunting” during the Cold War about 70 years ago. It is a story that resonates in today's Japan where criticism of the administration hits the slander of “anti-Japan”.
The fall of a selling girl
About 140km northwest from the center of Los Angeles. After continuing to step on the accelerator in one lane on one side of the mountain with no traffic lights, the Rockwood Valley sign was visible. When the noise of the car radio got worse, there was a wooden gate with a ranch sign. When I got off, it turned 360 degrees and the mountains, dry sand, and grass were just spreading.
Did he keep writing in such a secluded dry land and head to prison?
Screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo. A person who doesn't know the masterpiece even if he doesn't know the name. The movie “Roman Holiday” (1953), which starred Audrey Hepburn, was written by him.
But even after his death in 1976, what he wrote for a long time was secret. He won the Academy Award, but was then awarded to another screenwriter who lent his name secretly.
Trumbo was nominated for the Academy Award for Best in 41 years, and as a novelist, won a literary award for “Johnny went to the battlefield” published in 1939, and was a writer of a thirty teenager. It turns dark in the “Red Hunt” under the US-Soviet Cold War.
In the fall of 47, 10 filmmakers such as Trumbo were summoned to the HUAC Hearing Committee. The background of anti-Nazis and support for the labor union as a background to communism was called “anti-American”, and it was strictly asked whether or not to be a member of the Communist Party. Ten people called "Hollywood Ten" refused to testify against the freedom of freedom of the constitutional philosophy and speech and were charged with parliament insults.
To live in Ojai in the southwest of the ranch ...