Subtitle of this chapter: I told you that Comrade Wallace is a Scotch!

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"Famineorphans..." The movie master read out his name, and Mr. Griffith looked at the title again, "for4114irishgirls?"

"Famineorphans, Chinese name "The Orphan of Famine" is the second film produced by DreamWorks in 1921. This is an epic film based entirely on real history and tells the tragic experiences of young women during the Great Famine in Ireland in the 19th century."

"It has two versions: silent film and audio film, all directed by film master David Griffith, while the screenwriter is Mr. Yuan Yanshu. The main characters are Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish (Lillian's sister), Eva Huntel (Eva Chandler's stage name), Marlen Dietrich, Pearl White (translated as White Pearl in Chinese), Luis Brooks and other Hollywood actresses." (Author's note: The last three are female stars who have been popular from the silent film era to the audio film era.)"

"The Lonely of Famine caused a sensation in the United States and the entire world at that time. With a shooting cost of three million US dollars (this number is doubtful, there is a saying that it only cost less than one million US dollars) and it won nearly 30 million US dollars in North America alone."

"What is this concept? Based on the average ticket price of two dollars at that time, the equivalent of 15 million viewers entered the cinema to watch the movie, and the national population of the United States in 1921 was only 100 million. This broke the box office record of 10 million US dollars in Griffith's own "The Birth of a Country", but this record was soon broken by DreamWorks itself."

"Since 1845, late potato blight has swept across Ireland, which is a staple food for potatoes, causing the largest famine in Ireland's history. By 1852, in these seven years, the population of Ireland under British rule had dropped by nearly two million, accounting for one-quarter of the total population! In addition to starving death, the number of people who died of illness also included about one million Irish people who moved overseas due to famine."

"At that time, Ireland was still under British rule, and Britain was at its peak of Victoria and had completed the Industrial Revolution. It was recognized as the world factory. Britain was ahead of the world's trend in colonies, political systems, economic development and other aspects. It was a huge colonial empire with nearly a quarter of the land and nearly a quarter of the population on earth. Britain was a symbol of prosperity, development and civilization in that era, and its national strength was the best in the world."

"Even four years before the Great Famine, Britain tried every effort to open the door to China and sent warships from India to launch the First Opium War. And at this time, Britain was fully preparing for the first World Expo in human history. However, they were indifferent to the unprecedented Great Famine in Ireland, allowing the disaster to spread and the Irish people to throw their bodies all over the field."

"By 1848, the land of Ireland had been ravaged by the terrible famine for more than three years, and the death toll from the famine had reached nearly one million, one in five of which died in poor conditions. The workhouse was overcrowded, with harsh environments, typhoid fever, cholera, scurvy and other diseases. Earl Grey, then the colonial minister, decided to send the girls in the Irish workhouse to Australia. He hoped that this plan would kill more than one thing: young girls could avoid hunger and live on new lands; the originally crowded workhouse environment could be alleviated, and Australia was in short supply of women after decades of exile as a criminal, and urgently needed young women to reproduce, work and take care of housework."

"In 1848, the first ship to transport Irish girls arrived in Australia. Between 1848 and 1850, 4,114 Irish women were sent to Australia. Most of them were between 14 and 20 years old. After months of bumpy seas, they arrived in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, bid farewell to their hardships and welcomed unknown fates in a foreign land."

"In this program, the girls come from the workhouse, and at least one of their parents died or were abandoned and left on the streets. The selected girls must be young, single, obedient, healthy and immune to smallpox. They are known in Australian records as "famine orphans."

"At that time, there were a large number of Irish people who fled to North America due to famine. The poor people traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on the cheapest ships, which were extremely poor in conditions, providing passengers with only a small amount of water, food and space. The passengers' mortality rate was often as high as 30%. Compared with their fellow countrymen who went to North America, the famine orphans were much luckier on their journey. Thanks to the close supervision of government agencies such as the Irish Poor Law Commission in Dublin, the London Colonial Land and Immigration Commission and Australian authorities, as well as years of experience transporting criminals to Australia, the orphans had less than one percent of the mortality rate during their voyages."

"However, the arrival of the orphans has triggered strong hostility among local Australian residents..."

"The artistic and commercial success of "The Lonely of Famine" is obvious to all. It established David Griffith's lofty status in the history of world cinema, and also made DreamWorks, which had only filmed two movies, become the largest and most successful film company in the world at that time. The greater impact is that this film has caused the anti-British sentiment among the United States and the relations between the United States and the Commonwealth countries (mainly the United Kingdom and Australia) to deteriorate rapidly."

"So much so that after the Pearl Harbor incident, a large number of people within the United States only agreed that President Roosevelt declared war on Japan and was unwilling to become an ally of Britain to fight against the two Axis powers of the Third Reich and Italy. In order to adapt to public opinion, President Roosevelt declared war on all Axis powers, but had to delay his military deployment in Europe."

"Doudu, the s value increases by 40%, entering a 90% high alert area..."

"Dangdangdangdang, given that this script is original by the host, the s value is reduced by 20%.

That’s right, this "The Lonely Girl in the Famine" is actually our original script of Master Yuan!

He has not done nothing in the past two months, and has been working all day long to engage in the Sino-US-German triangle. Instead, he racked his brains to conceive this movie that will be called "super tear gas" in the future. As he expected, "The Lonely of Famine" set off an anti-British craze in the United States and even the whole world!

Well, Yuan Yanshu doesn’t want to copy it, the problem is that he can’t copy it!

Speaking of movies that stir up anti-British sentiment, there was a later film called "Brave Heart". The protagonist William Wallace is a Scottish person. Of course, this is not suitable.

And the Irish themselves have never made movies about the Irish famine, and even fewer novels. Even James Joyce, the author known as the greatest writer in Irish history, wrote stream of consciousness novels like "Ulysses".

By the way, this novel is now serialized in the American magazine "Foot Review". And because of its publication "Ulysses", "Foot Review" is about to be found guilty of being accused of publishing obscene works by the New York City government.
Chapter completed!