Thematically, you have a guy who has it all, doesn’t realize he has it all, gets reminded how lucky he is and then has a shot at redemption. There’s something about that theme that really resonates with me. At some point, I wrote a draft of a screenplay, and I merged the...
Chiang also had to be held at gunpoint before he’d agree to stand up to Japan, which had taken slice after slice of Chinese territory after discovering that Chiang was not willing to seriously fight them. Officially the Kuomintang-Communist Civil War resumed in 1946 after failures to get a ...