frost/nixon

couldn't find a thread for this already. saw it last night and was pleasantly surprised. its not a popcorn film but a great character study finely acted. not sure it is best picture but it could be best actor for nixon guy. tony blair was good too as david frost. odd to see a major movie about a tv presenter i remember mostly from 'through the keyhole'. lloyd lol

one thing i don't understand is how much fiction is involved. i mean obviously the interviews we're real but all the stuff behind them? how was the writer able to get the info or did he make it up for dramatic effect? research required.

trailer:

i liked it, but knowing nothing about the history made me wonder how accurate it really was

It's a movie. You should already have some general inclination as toward its accuracy before you watch it.

  Panoptimist said:

It's a movie. You should already have some general inclination as toward its accuracy before you watch it.

lol ok. i know that watergate happend, and i know nixon was interviewed. maybe i will read a book before i see a movie next time.

  beneboi said:

  Panoptimist said:

It's a movie. You should already have some general inclination as toward its accuracy before you watch it.

 

lol ok. i know that watergate happend, and i know nixon was interviewed. maybe i will read a book before i see a movie next time.

Sometimes textual discussion sucks...

...what I actually meant was based on the fact that its a movie you can guarantee there's a primacy of entertainment over any attempt to maintain "accuracy." I'd rather read the book than watch a movie anyway. I don't watch movies/tv, and in the event I do it's solely for entertainment purposes.

  Panoptimist said:

...what I actually meant was based on the fact that its a movie you can guarantee there's a primacy of entertainment over any attempt to maintain "accuracy."

i understand this, which is why im interested to learn more of the actual events that took place

  Panoptimist said:

I don't watch movies/tv, and in the event I do it's solely for entertainment purposes.

So you figured out their use right? Thats step one.

Nixon was awesome, Frost was questionable, wouldn't watch a second time.

  Yegg said:

Nixon was awesome, Frost was questionable, wouldn't watch a second time.

do you mean the portrayals? frost was pretty close to how frost was

I meant the acting.

I also watched this the other day. Worth watching. Also worth tracking down the original interviews.

If you liked W, you'll probably like this.

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  Yegg said:

Nixon was awesome, Frost was questionable, wouldn't watch a second time.

 

do you mean the portrayals? frost was pretty close to how frost was

 

I've actually been hearing the Frost character was just as good if not better than the nixon portrayal.

I've actually been hearing yegg is wrong

I thought the casting for all the parts was excellent, and that for me was the best part of the film. I don't know anything about Watergate (apart from that my dad cut Carl Bernstein's hair) so I wasn't bothered by accuracy, but found it a very engrossing film nontheless. Frank Langella was great, and I would agree with those that say his portrayal was the stronger of the two. Again, I'm going only on the performance not likeness.

the two guys played the characters in the play version for a good while so both had lots of time to perfect them.

my wife hasnt said anything yet but i'm sure she hated how the female character was so useless and underdeveloped

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

one thing i don't understand is how much fiction is involved.

much

saw it about a month ago. extremely well done me thought.