Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal

Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal

  • Director: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
  • Writer: Robert Gordon,Tom Graves,Morgan Neville
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: July 31, 2015
  • Also known as: Best of Enemies
    • "Best of Enemies" is a documentary film co-directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville , starring Dick Cavite and Gore Vidal   . It was screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015 .
    The film records the ten-day debate that the ABC invited Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley during the 1968 Democratic and Republican National Congress. It also evaluates the impact of this debate on the future of the television industry and the contemporary era. The impact of the exchange of ideas   .

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    • Release date July 31, 2015
    • Production companies Media Ranch, Motto Pictures, Tremolo Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $892,802

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $50,378

    Gross worldwide

    $892,802

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    • By Rhett 2022-10-08 23:09:42

      When we watch them argue

      In the President Convention of 1968, the presidential candidates of the two parties were fighting for approval. Behind the curtain were the ratings of several TV stations. In such an environment, the debate programs of ABC TV's Williams Buckley and Gore Vidal became popular. The focus of attention inside and outside the industry. This debate that has received national attention has profoundly affected the development of controversial programs. Just as the film itself has also narrated, the...

    • By Garry 2022-10-08 20:06:58

      Best of Enemies

      It's a fascinating documentary about the debates between two distinguished and intellectual minds with directly opposite political philosophy in the era of 1960s, when the rapid popularization of television took place and started to influence the politics, society and the whole world.

      This documentary unveils how Williams Buckley and Gore Vidal certainly changed the television shows from “speaking the same words and seeing the same things” to inter-changing ideas through heated live...

    • By Davon 2022-10-08 16:53:13

      Confidant is easy to get, but good enemy is hard to find

      Compared to the best enemy, I prefer to call it the best opponent. A hand that is at another angle on the same thing or point of view is not a hostile person.

      Calling opponents indicates that this is a contest of equal intelligence, a game of thinking strength, and an engine that spurs one's continuous efforts. We may meet many confidants in our lives, but the best opponents are hard to come by.

      He needs to understand the game you play, understand you, but can stimulate you...

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    • By Adonis 2023-09-30 06:25:59

      We may meet many confidants in our lives, but the best opponents are hard to come...

    • By Green 2023-09-18 09:46:12

      Aside from the partisanship in the United States, the history of the debate between the two is more like a classic case of free speech and public...

    • By Monte 2023-09-03 10:30:57

      TV politics has turned the person who cares most about the image into the hater he hates. The origins of contemporary political...

    • By Ericka 2023-09-03 08:04:19

      It seems that light and invisibility, evil and good...

    • By Kellie 2023-08-31 12:02:12

      The two-player mode alone is...

    Movie plot

    On a television debate program in the United States in 1968, two well-known public intellectuals, Gore Vidal and William F. Barkley, expressed their opinions on current social issues. This game of winning and losing in a head-to-head showdown defines the so-called The public discourse in the media, this kind of spectacle-style argument replaces the actual content, which is a huge impact on the modern media. The two speculators and the...
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    Background creation

    The production of the film was inspired by a pirated CD accidentally discovered by Robert Gordon. When the two directors decided to make the film, they didn't want to make the film from their own point of view. They wanted to make a film about "debate". In order to obtain a wealth of background information, the director did a lot of preliminary research work, and bought all relevant materials from the ABC, and found many precious shots...
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    Movie quotes

    • Christopher Hitchens: The mores of the country were going to hell. And if there was one thing William Buckley cared more about than another thing it would have been that. If we go on like this, abortion will be on-demand, women will have sex with women, the family will be over, the church won't be respected, we will be screwing in the street and frightening the horses, buggery will be legal... And if you'd said all that to Gore, he would've said, Well OK, bring it on.

    • Richard Wald: ABC was the third of the three networks. It would've been fourth, but there were only three.

    • William F. Buckley: [to Vidal] Now, listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll sock you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered.

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