Nature’s Great Events is a BBC nature documentary series broadcast from 11 February 2009.[1] The British version is narrated by David Attenborough and is being shown on BBC One and BBC HD. It should not be confused with the 1996 Reader's Digest video series of the same name.
In the USA, the series will broadcast on the Discovery Channel under the alternative title Nature’s Most Amazing Events.
Chapman and Maclain Way’s energetic telling of one of baseball’s great, unheralded stories is as much about independent spirit as it is about the game. When Portland, Oregon, lost its longtime minor-league affiliate, Bing Russell—who briefly played ball professionally before enjoying a successful Hollywood acting career—bought the territory and formed a single-A team to operate outside the confines of major-league baseball. When they took the field in 1973, the Mavericks—the only independent team in America—started with two strikes against them. What did Deputy Clem from Bonanza know about baseball? Or Portland, for that matter? The only thing uniting his players, recruited at open tryouts, was that no other team wanted them. Skeptics agreed that it could never work.
But Bing understood a ballplayer’s dreams, and he understood an audience. His quirky, unkempt castoffs won games, and they won fans, shattering minor-league attendance records. Their spirit was contagious, and during their short reign, the Mavericks—a restaurant owner turned manager, left-handed catcher, and blackballed pitcher among them—brought independence back to baseball and embodied what it was all about: the love of the game.
- J.N.
导演认识了两位“朋友”。他与他们之间的交往构成了这部片子。开始,他并没有一个明确的计划要制作一部纪录片,但随着时间的推移,他开始有目的和他们交“朋友”。“朋友”们奇迹般地允许导演进入他们的生活,他们吸毒也贩毒的生活。
纪录片的制作者和被拍者之间到底应该是一种什么样的关系,这部影片给出了它的解释。
The director himself (who’s also a journalist) encountered in an interview a small group of people who, despite all odds, willingly invite him into their world of drug use and peddling. That’s how “Using” was born.
What exactly is the relationship between a filmmaker and those being portrayed, “Using” has the answer.