Louis B.Mayer: Founding of MGM
A man for whom the words family values had real meaning. Motherhood, the Stars and Stripes and God were equal parts of a lifelong strategy that would establish Metro Goldwyn Mayer as the industry's dominant film factory, from the silent era through the talkies revolution. While the other early moguls were simply trying to make the best movies they could, young Mayer was an ideologue intent on using the power of the new medium to exert what he considered the proper moral influence on the American public.
路易斯·B·梅耶尔：米高梅的创立
一个家庭价值观对他有真正意义的人。母亲身份、星条旗和上帝是毕生战略的平等组成部分，这一战略将使麦德龙·戈德温·迈耶从默片时代到有声电影革命，成为电影业的主导工厂。当其他早期的大亨们只是试图制作他们能做的最好的电影时，年轻的梅耶尔却是一个理论家，一心想利用新媒体的力量来施加他认为对美国公众有适当道德影响的东西。
Write an essay within 250 words, stating the story of a famous film star, using metaphor and simile.
写一篇250字以内的短文，用比喻和比喻的方式讲述一位著名电影明星的故事。
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God wasn't L.B.'s co-pilot; he was his senior partner, reaching out to remove those who dared get in L.B.'s way. With a host of prize winning and profitable films, MGM's decline as Film Factory No.1 was almost imperceptible. But in the postwar years, the Mayer formula of sentimental family fare and glossy romantic productions was wearing thin.
The golden years of the moguls were coming to an end too. The government forced the industry to divest its lucrative theater chains, and top stars and directors were demanding the profit participation that Mayer had always denied them. Mayer was forced to accept writer-producer Dore Schary in Thalberg's old job. But the liberal Schary found L.B. an overbearing and stultifying influence. A…
But as praise and profits soared, a conflict was building between Mayer and his brilliant production chief Thalberg. An intense perfectionist who never lost his schoolboy looks, Thalberg oversaw MGM's record-breaking hits: Anna Christie, Ben Hur, Grand Hotel, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Wizard of Oz.
Thalberg was increasingly resistant to playing Andy to Mayer's Judge Hardy. Thalberg felt entitled to an equal share. For his part, L.B. had begun to resent the prevailing opinion that Thalberg was the genius behind MGM's achievements, and Mayer the engineer who kept the plant humming.
MGM was divided between Mayer loyalists and "Thalberg people", and by the time the strong-willed, weak-hearted Thalberg collapsed and went to Europe for treatment, he and his…
Meanwhile he was cashing in on his conviction that morality sold. Mayer was defining American society according to his fantasies. He took his responsibility for American values so seriously that when Rooney, a precocious womanizer and partygoer, got out of hand, he was overheard screaming at him, "You're the United States! You're Stars and Stripes! Behave yourself!"
与此同时，他正在利用自己的道德信念大赚一笔。梅尔是根据他的幻想来定义美国社会的。他非常认真地对待自己对美国价值观的责任，以至于当早熟的花花公子、派对狂鲁尼失控时，有人听到他对鲁尼大喊:“你是美国!你是星条旗!规矩点!”
The president of MGM rushed from around his desk and knocked down his million-dollar meal ticket.
Having learned not to say "ain't" or use double negatives or drop his Gs, a more polished L.B. found a new role model in Herbert Hoover. An ambassadorship to Turkey was dangled, but Mayer chose to oversee his studio's triumphant transition from silence to sound: "Garbo Talks!" The Mayers did claim the privilege of being Hoover's first guests at the White House.
米高梅的总裁从办公桌旁冲了出来，把那个能为他赚一百万美元的人打倒在地。
在学会不说“不是”或使用双重否定或放弃他的话之后，一个更优雅的L.B.在赫伯特胡佛找到了一个新的榜样。一个驻土耳其大使的职位悬着，但梅耶尔选择监督他的工作室从沉默到声音的胜利过渡：“嘉宝会谈！”梅耶斯夫妇确实声称自己是胡佛在白宫的第一批客人。