The occasion for this latest round of historical jousting is the release of Clooney’s new film The Monuments Men, which details Allied efforts to rescue art works from the Nazis during World War II. His comments infuriated London’s provocative mayor, Boris Johnson, himself a classics scholar and author, who shot back that Clooney’s position on the issue was similar to that of the Nazis portrayed in his film.
克鲁尼新片《古迹卫士》的上映引发了本轮历史争议，这部影片描述的是二战时期从纳粹手中拯救艺术品的联合行动。克鲁尼此番言论却激怒了火爆的伦敦市长及古典学者兼作家鲍里斯·约翰逊，他反唇相讥讽刺克鲁尼在此问题上的立场与影片中描述的纳粹非常相似。