国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

Culture

Upcoming documentary on Sino-US relations

By Wang Kaihao ( China Daily ) Updated: 2015-09-17 08:08:16

Upcoming documentary on Sino-US relations

US filmmaker William Mundell says his documentary Better Angels is more dramatic than analytical. [Photo provided to China Daily]

"The mystic chords of memory ... will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

With this, US President Abraham Lincoln ended his first inaugural speech in March 1861, with his country on the verge of civil war.

A documentary, tentatively titled Better Angels, is scheduled to be released in the United States and China more than 150 years since that speech in a bid to invoke its spirit of tolerance and forward-looking ideals at a time when relations between the two countries face some challenges.

According to William Mundell, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Mundell's son, who is making the movie, about two-thirds of the shooting is complete, and with $2.5 million in private funds from the US and Canada, it is likely to be out in the first half of next year.

The movie, which will show aspects of Sino-US relations, intends to have audiences in both countries reconsider the relationship in a new light, the producer says.

"It's not like a traditional documentary on the US-China relationship, which is typically monopolized by talking heads," William Mundell, 55, tells China Daily in Beijing. "It's more dramatic than analytical."

About 250 people have been interviewed to date for the documentary, including former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, Chinese real-estate tycoon Wang Jianlin, Chinese policy-makers and government scholars, and entrepreneurs from both countries.

But, William Mundell says, ordinary Americans play the main role in looking at Sino-US relations through the lens of daily life, and how they can break down barriers between the two countries.

For example, the documentary records the account of Memo Mata, an American soldier who fought in Iraq, but was disillusioned by life in the US. Later, he found a fresh start in Shanghai, where he now works as a teacher and a successful American-football trainer for children.

"He has found his version of 'the American Dream' here," says William Mundell, who turned emotional while recalling this story from the documentary.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

 
Editor's Picks
Hot words
Most Popular
 
...
建昌县| 荣成市| 同德县| 佛教| 井陉县| 顺平县| 香港| 桦南县| 鸡西市| 鲜城| 正宁县| 丰顺县| 利川市| 讷河市| 沙河市| 台江县| 广昌县| 柏乡县| 安龙县| 南阳市| 交城县| 来宾市| 平和县| 陇西县| 南召县| 岳普湖县| 保靖县| 陈巴尔虎旗| 古蔺县| 五常市| 石泉县| 淮南市| 岐山县| 龙泉市| 澄江县| 锦州市| 柘城县| 延川县| 苏尼特右旗| 安仁县| 吴堡县|