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O.J. Simpson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) Therefore, although the production team of "American Crime Story: People v. O.J. Simpson" is first-class-run by ryan murphy, the producer of "American Horror Story", and based on the documentary report of the best-selling Supreme Court reporter and New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin, the cast includes Sarah Paulson played by Cuba Gooding Jr., john Travolta and Murphy and david hume Monk. The latter is hard to see outside Friends-but it is still a great challenge to tell a story familiar to hundreds of millions of viewers in a new way while keeping the details. The title of American Crime Story is somewhat misleading, so it is more appropriate to call it American Case Story, because the narrative in the play begins with a murder case. Reality is more dramatic than the script, and the wrestling inside and outside the court is more confusing than the crime and murder itself. It is enough to tell the truth. Did Simpson kill his ex-wife and her boyfriend or not? This question has not been answered in court, nor will it be answered in TV series. What the trial did was not to restore the truth, but to prove whether the hypothesis that Simpson was killed could be established with all the evidence that could be presented to the court. And TV dramas don't have to poke the answers to unsolved cases. A good story is enough. In the first episode that has been broadcast, this American crime story shows a more objective position than the works of the New Yorker writer. The plot is tense and full, but the perspective is very calm: prosecutors are gearing up, defense lawyers are calmly preparing for war, and ethnic conflicts are brewing. They treat all parties in the case equally and try their best to restore the details. In the play, all the verifiable narratives related to the case are exhausted, and each paragraph adopts the characters' own statements.
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Kardashian (david hume) and Shapiro (john Travolta) O.J. Simpson, hearing that their ex-wife was killed, hung up the phone with the police and continued to sob, which seemed to show that he was not acting-only I knew the truth. In the face of lawyer Robert Shapiro's assurance of "absolutely abiding by the lawyer-client confidentiality agreement", Simpson still vowed that he had never killed anyone. As a defense lawyer, Shapiro maintained professional ethics. However, the history of domestic violence, the blood on the car door, the gloves used to commit the crime, the DNA test results, and a series of abnormal performances after the incident all made Simpson's suspicion even heavier-on the side of the prosecution, there is no need to induce interrogation and fabricate it out of thin air. Numerous evidences and testimonies point the direction of reconnaissance to the suspect. Even the polygraph arranged by Simpson's lawyer showed that he was lying-a fact revealed by a lawyer of Simpson's team many years later. Robert Kardashian, Simpson's good friend and lawyer, has many scenes. Now the most prominent Kardashian family in the United States began to enter the public eye after Simpson's case. Robert Kardashian is not only a good friend of Simpson, but also his family is inextricably linked with Simpson. Jin Xiaomei Kendall Jenner's middle name "Nicole" is taken from the murdered Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole, and Simpson himself is kim kardashian's godfather. The stories excavated from Robert Kardashian's perspective satisfy all the public's imaginations of the stories of star depravity and dog blood killing. When the police asked Simpson to turn himself in, he was lying in the Kardashian family villa with his then girlfriend, the cover girl of Playboy. Hearing that he was going to jail, Simpson threatened to commit suicide with a gun and then drove away from the back door. Audiences all over the United States watched him and the police play a car chase on the Los Angeles Expressway on TV. But regarding the Simpson case, what must be told is not these dog blood stories that are more absurd than Eight o'clock, but all aspects of American social problems that it glimpses. The first episode of American Crime Story is set in 1992 riots in Los Angeles, and begins with the acquittal of a white policeman who beat black Rodney King. Two years later, when the Simpson case happened, the United States was still in the shadow of riots. Simpson's case was not a simple murder case from the beginning, but an outlet to pour out contradictions.
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Defence lawyer Johnny Cochrane (played by Courtney Vance) In order to make the truth of the case clear, the police did not hesitate to perjure themselves. The defense seized the notorious racial prejudice of LAPD led by black lawyer Johnny Cochrane and successfully led the case to racial conflict. Cochrane's first appearance in the play was in the cloakroom at home. He selected a suit from the wall and prepared to take a photo. Obviously, he wants to make a name for himself and turn Gan Kun around. In the eyes of female prosecutor Martha Clark, Simpson's case is an escalating tragedy of domestic violence. After the trial, she undoubtedly wrote a response to Allen dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard University and legal adviser to the defense team. She believes that under the overwhelming evidence, the failure to bring the murderer to justice is the dereliction of duty of the court and the humiliation of the victim. Jeffrey Toobin, the original author, said in an interview that the Simpson case seems to be a religious belief in the United States. "People only believe what they want to believe.". You don't need rational support to believe which statement and discard the rest. When racial prejudice and hatred for the rich are intertwined, people only talk about their positions and are unreasonable. What is the purpose of the trial? Is to judge whether Simpson killed someone and put the fallen star in prison; Or give the police a lesson and tell them how to put their position right? At that time, the jury chose the latter, but whether it was right or wrong, nearly 20 years later, is still inconclusive. American crime stories are not easy to choose a position. With a serious attitude, it tries to guide the audience to reflect on how a case caused the division of the whole country. This is not a suspense story, but a real tragedy.