In recent days, I have been recommending the movie "Foster Conversations with Nixon", which I think is a movie comparable to "The Queen".
About this movie, the introduction of Tumo is like this:
This is a movie about two men. One is Nixon, needless to say. The second is David Frost, who was originally a British entertainment variety show host, Playboy. When Nixon resigned, Frost, on a whim, decided to do a TV interview with Nixon and offered to pay $500,000 for it ($500,000 in 1977 was a lot of money). When Nixon heard the news, he asked his assistant, "Can the fee be raised to $550,000?" The final negotiation resulted in $600,000, which was 250,000 more than the second-placed CBS offer.
After Nixon resigned, he relied on giving speeches everywhere to make money. He felt that Frost was an entertainment show host and was easy to fool. He tried to take this opportunity to restore his reputation and come out again. Even if he could not continue to be in politics, at least he could earn more speaking fees. And Frost is purely for money. Most of his $600,000 is borrowed from friends, which is an investment. But when he sold this talk show to the three major American TV networks, he was rejected. Everyone was not optimistic about him, thinking that he was not an opponent of the cunning Nixon and could not ask anything. Frost had to invest another $2 million to produce the show himself and sell it when it was ready.
According to the contract (yes, this kind of interview is pre-contracted), the interview will be divided into 4 parts, each 90 minutes, respectively talk about Nixon's personal history, US policy, foreign policy and Watergate incident. Frost knew very well that in order to sell the show well, Nixon had to openly admit that he was wrong. After Nixon resigned, Ford, who succeeded him, exempted Nixon from being tried, and he never admitted his fault publicly. The American public was very dissatisfied with this.
Frost recruited two detectives to help him gather information and prepare for the challenge. He used a gimmick to deliberately attend a film premiere the night before the interview, and said in an interview that he hoped the interview with Nixon would be "a series of harmonious sounds." He hoped to use this to numb Nixon, but Nixon was unmoved, and the first interview completely dominated, giving Frost a slap in the face.
Frost realized that the opponent was too strong, and immediately discussed countermeasures with his assistants, improved his methods, and continued to fight. I don't want to write more about the plot after that, and it will be a spoiler if I continue to write it. However, although I am not a professional film critic, no matter how ugly pigs are, they are mammals. I must not be humble, and I strongly recommend everyone to watch them. This movie is the highest level of "dramatic art", whether it's director Ron Howard or the two actors are amazing, it's your loss if you don't watch it.
As for the result, everyone must have guessed. Frost finally forced Nixon to publicly admit that he was wrong. This was the only time Nixon publicly admitted his mistake. Frost's interview became America's top-rated political talk show, and it remains so to this day. Needless to say, Frost made a fortune.
The above is the text of the motorcycle.
I am most interested in a detail. Because Nixon was a politician, he had to wear black lace-up shoes. He despised the Italian leather shoes that Foster wore without laces. So when the two people confronted for the first time, as soon as they got up, Nixon provocatively said to Foster, don't you feel frivolous wearing this? Gave him a marvel.
However, at the end of the movie, the winner Foster is going to give Nixon a gift, which is a loose Italian leather shoe.
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