Favorite Movie about a President
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Howard Brazee
>Secret Honor....... Frost/Nixon is crap
Could be, I haven't seen it. But your review doesn't tell me why.
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Michael O'Connor
I think my favorite portrayal of a real President may have been Brian
Keith as Teddy Roosevelt in "The Wind and The Lion" or Gary Sinese in
that Harry Truman movie from the mid 90's There have been a number of
lesser known good portrayals of Nixon, including Dan Hedaya in "Dick"
and Bob Gunton in "Elvis Meets Nixon". It was kinda cartoonish, but I
always thought Donald Moffat absolutely nailed LBJ in "The Right
Stuff".
S D
the top one man show ( as Mr. President ) profanely ranting about his
enemies.
william
> Secret Honor....... Frost/Nixon is crap
Does the Zapruder film count?
William
www.williamahearn.com
tomcervo
After a LONG wait, I think Washington has been nailed, twice. Jeff
Daniels and David Morse gave a very good impression of a big man whose
deliberate manner makes stupid people think he's dumb. I liked
particularly the way it finally registered on Paul Giamatti's John
Adams that Washington had good sense and absolute integrity, and a
capacity to wield absolute power combined with a distaste for it,
something rare in politics.
moviePig
Rare and/or legendary, if not apocryphal or extinct...
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Captain Infinity
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Captain Infinity
TT
That would get my vote too. :)
It's nice, nothing special but an enjoyable one with Sigourney Weawer.
Mark
> Secret Honor....... Frost/Nixon is crap
I'll agree with that. The play was mildly interesting, the film
distorted reality beyond all recognition.
I'm not sure there is a good movie about a real American president. At
least not one I can think of off the top of my head.
Mark
LOL. Thanks for the BIG laugh ... not sure if it was intentional.
Madara0806
> Secret Honor....... Frost/Nixon is crap
Fictional president: SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964)
Real Presidents: THE PRIVATE FILES OF J.EDGAR HOOVER (1977):
FDR (Howard da Silva), JFK (William Jordan), LBJ (Andrew Duggan),
Nixon (Richard M. Dixon)
Sol L. Siegel
news:dssjg5tq0lutthk6v...@4ax.com:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:20:48 -0500, for...@webtv.net (S D) wrote:
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>>Secret Honor....... Frost/Nixon is crap
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> Could be, I haven't seen it. But your review doesn't tell me why.
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Secret Honor (1984) is a no-budget tour de force by actor Philip Baker Hall
and director Robert Altman, adapted from a (longer) one-man play. The
premise is that sometime in the late 1970s Nixon is cassette-taping an
addendum to his memoirs, and as the evening progresses he gets drunker, the
undeleted expletives flow more freely, and the narrative becomes a stream-
of-consciousness rehashing of his life and career, with Richard Nixon some
embodying a nation tearing itself to pieces during the nearly 30 years that
coincided with his political career.
The thing was shot during a vacation break at the University of Michigan,
in a dormitory common room, in 16mm, with a moving camera that constantly
swoops down on its lone subject, allowing him no escape even within the
confined space. Hall doesn't resemble Nixon that closely, but after a
while he carries us with him. A sad, frequently funny and often very scary
movie. There's a tricked-up ending that's a lot more theatrical than
dramatic (there's a difference), but it does work. BTW, since it was never
blown up to 35 for theaters, it looks better on disc.
Haven't seen F/N yet.
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