The murder of the Royal Hotel can be described as vivid and colourful from the main lineup to the content. In addition to the Hammer Brothers, the film also stars Dakota Johnson, the sexy heroine of Fifty Degrees trilogy, jon hamm, the handsome actor in the classic American TV series Mad Men, Jeff Bridges, who won both the Oscar and the Golden Globe Award, and Cynthia Avery, the winner of both Tony Award and Grammy Award. Even xavier dolan, a French beauty teenager, director and actor who is very popular at Cannes Film Festival, made a guest appearance.
The director of this film is versatile Drew Goddard, who directed the classic horror film "The House in the Woods" and served as the screenwriter of "The Rescue of Mars". The murder of the Royal Hotel is also the second work written and directed by Gundam after a lapse of six years. It was the cabin in the Woods that excavated the "Hammer Brother" who almost left Hollywood at that time.
In addition to the strong lineup, the most wonderful thing of the film lies in its suspenseful plot and countless metaphors behind it.
The murder of the Royal Hotel adopts a nonlinear multi-line narrative structure. Through flashbacks and crossing parallel story lines, you will find that there is a huge secret behind everyone. They gathered in a lonely hotel with a dark history. They were suspicious and hurt each other. You'll never guess who the next person will be.
The background of the story is 1969. As we all know, the United States at that time was in a turbulent period of great change, plunged into the Cold War and faced with the great influence of the Vietnam War. It was also an era full of fascinating contradictions. As gundam said, "that era was like a Petri dish." "Those idealistic idols (Kennedy) fell in front of them and were erased by the times, and then a completely opposite person (Nixon) took over everything."
The shadow of war, anarchism, racial conflicts, political struggles, and the gossip of "big men" in that era can all be seen in the film.
For example, President Nixon's speech on "Vietnam War" appeared in the movie. The real identity of the hotel staff is actually a sharpshooter in the Vietnam War, because that war killed a total of 123 people and became his eternal nightmare.
The main scene of the film, the full name of the Royal Hotel in Lake Tahoe, also has a real prototype, that is, the Karneva Hotel across Nevada and California.
Just like the photo wall showing its glorious history in movies, for a long time, carn Wawa was a place connecting celebrities and rich people at that time, and was notorious for drinking, gambling, sex and scandals.
Carn Wajian was built in 1926, which was originally a celebrity resort in the romantic jazz era. During the Great Depression of 1930, after the news that the famous actress clara bow owed 13000 dollars came out, caneva Casino became famous overnight and became an entertainment mecca.
Dean martin, a famous American actor and singer, even sang in song: Half in California with Judy, telling the story that he met the unknown Judy Garland here. 1930s, Garland, who was only 13 years old at that time, was discovered by MGM scouts while performing in Karneva, and she embarked on the road of child star.
In addition to Martin and Garland, there are many names on carn Eva's celebrity frequent visitor list: the daughter of Garland and director Vincent Minelli, and liza minnelli, who later won an Oscar for karaoke; American film and music superstar Frank Sinatra and his famous singing group "rat pack"; Comedian Tony Curtis and his wife janet leigh, who are famous for their passion; There is also the eternal sexy goddess Marilyn Monroe, of course, John F. Kennedy, who was elected president 1960, and his brother Robert Kennedy, who is the Minister of Justice. ...
It is said that President Kennedy and Monroe often meet in carn. In order to avoid being discovered by the media and paparazzi, it is said that Karneva laid a secret passage directly from the heliport to here. There is even gossip that Monroe spent the week before her death in this hotel.
In the film, the mysterious atmosphere of this hotel is revealed through secret passages with cameras, double mirrors peeping into every room and countless bugs.
This also has a historical background to follow. 1960, Italian immigrant Sinatra and his mafia boss friend Sam Giancana (called "Momo") bought carn tile together. The latter is one of the prototypes of the film The Godfather.
There has always been a "conspiracy theory" that Kennedy's death is related to the Momo Mafia. It has been rumored that in the US presidential election of 1960, it was under Momo's operation that Kennedy successfully entered the White House. Later, after Kennedy was elected, he failed to fulfill his promise of "relaxing the policy toward the mafia", and the two men also had a dispute.
Many people think that this movie, in which jon hamm plays an FBI agent, has been looking for a hotel voyeuristic movie about Kennedy and Monroe. However, considering that Kennedy was assassinated as early as 1963 and the shooting time was 1968, such a guess is not reliable.
It is quite possible that the protagonist of that movie was Martin Luther King, the leader of the black movement at that time. Historically, Martin Luther King offended Hoover, the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Hoover secretly assigned FBI agents to follow up the investigation. They stumbled upon the fact that Martin Luther King embezzled public funds and went whoring in the hotel where he was traveling, and recorded all this on tape.
In the second half of the film, billy kee, played by Brother Hammer, is the prototype in reality. What's more, it is Charles Manson, a perverted murderer who founded a cult in the 1960s. The most sensational crime committed by Manson's family is to kill sharon tate, the actress wife of the famous director roman polanski, who was pregnant for eight months, and her partner. A bloody scene in the film seems to allude to this terrible tragedy-and this story will also be presented in Quentin's annual masterpiece Once Upon a Time in Hollywood this year.
At the end of the film, Billy Lee and his men disappear, which indicates the final decline of the crazy hippie movement.
The final confession of the hotel brothers who suffered from the Vietnam War marked the embarrassing end of the war and was also a wordless pain left in the hearts of generations.
Finally, the surviving fake priests and frustrated black female singers threw the movie that everyone wanted into the fire, which means that the civil rights movement will not be hindered by despicable tricks;
The hotel became a fire, and a secret monitoring point was reduced to ashes, which declared the end of the era when Hoover and even the Nixon administration used eavesdropping as a political weapon.
America's1960s left too many mysteries, puzzles and puzzles, but after all, this era full of turmoil, subversion and change is tearing everyone apart crazily, and will finally see a new era on the stage.