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Eileen 2022-03-21 09:02:00
Movie Notes "Frost/Nixon"
I remember the first time I watched "Conversation with Nixon" when I was very young. At the age of elementary school and junior high school, I would keep an appointment with the best movies of the movie channel every Saturday night. For me at that time, it was one of the few opportunities for me to...
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Kiley 2021-12-15 08:01:09
The best movies are all gray
The best movies are all gray.
There are no heroes, no contradictions, no value judgments of right and wrong, no moral preaching of right and wrong, only one thing: fate. Either escape or fight, and if there is a logic script that says you die, you will have to hit you to death.
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James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin or deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes great, complex ideas, tranches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot. At first I couldn't understand why Bob Zelnick was quite as euphoric as he was after the interviews, or why John Birt felt moved to strip naked and rush into the ocean to celebrate. But that was before I really understood the reductive power of the close-up, because David had succeeded on that final day, in getting for a fleeting moment what no investigative journalist, no state prosecutor, no judiciary committee or political enemy had managed to get; Richard Nixon's face swollen and ravaged by loneliness, self-loathing and defeat. The rest of the project and its failings would not only be forgotten, they would totally cease to exist.
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Richard Nixon: You know those parties of yours, the ones I read about in the newspapers. Do you actually enjoy those?
David Frost: Of course.
Richard Nixon: You have no idea how fortunate that makes you, liking people. Being liked. Having that facility. That lightness, that charm. I don't have it, I never did.
