It is the goal of every director to express one's feelings through movies. However, through movies to incite national sentiment, satirize the American government, and express one's political ambitions, he can do it well and succeed. I believe only Oliver Stone can do it... ...the movies "Born on the Fourth of July", "Field Platoon", and "Kennedy Assassination" have become the nightmare of the US government, while "Born to Kill" reflects the deformed social mentality of the United States... If you want to understand the United States, look at him The
first time I watched "Nixon" was when I finished the last statistic of the mid-term exam, and Gamma and I both felt pretty good. We were clamoring in our ears that "Assassination of Kennedy" was the most perfect movie he had ever seen in his life, so we decided to give up that kind of relaxed entertainment film, feel the sublimation of the soul again, and find the last one of Stone, which I never had the chance to watch. Political film Nixon.
But we were all disappointed after watching it, because he didn't have the tightness, passion, or even a full speech of "Kennedy." I was only impressed by the two scenes of Nixon meeting Mao Zedong and Brezhnev, lamenting that Americans would never understand Chinese culture, because those two scenes were too unacceptable to the Chinese, of course I didn't know What do the Russians think of their Brezhnev, but that Mao Zedong... so disappointing!
I watched it again this time because I thought that after sitting in a sultry place for more than three hours that day, I forgot how the movie ended, so I reluctantly watched it again this time. Sitting at home is different. There is no sultry environment like Shangwai, and the mood is flying. This time I can calm down and listen to Nixon's voice in Stone's eyes...
Biographical movies will not be very exciting, but biographical movies restore the human side of the great man, just like Hitler portrayed in "The Destruction of the Empire", he is so human, so he also cried, He can also laugh, be angry, and be kind. He is not like the gray cold, cookie-cutter solemn and unreachable in the documentary. The reason why the film was boycotted by almost all European countries is because that film began to make people sympathize with Hitler. ...
"Nixon" makes me interested in watching it again, because he restores the status of the president, which is almost a god, to the standard of man. This god in American history, until his death, is still among the American citizens. The subject of discussion, the American president who is closest to Lincoln, in his extraordinary life, the United States has experienced the Cold War, the Korean War, the Bay of Pigs War, the Missile Crisis, the assassination of Kennedy, the Hoover shady, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. , 75 years of stagflation, the escalation of the Vietnam War, the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the Watergate scandal... He played a role in almost everything... But Stone is clearly a staunch Democrat, he even played in "Nixon" In the lines, there is such a sentence: All the money on earth cannot defend Kennedy, which not only expresses the director's political attitude, but also expresses Nixon, who was defeated by Kennedy. Helpless, after all, he is only a person.
What impressed me the most was the three-minute meeting with Mao Zedong. The Chinese who played Lao Mao was really bad. He didn't act like he didn't speak. He even spoke Chinese in a mess. I can't forget, I always feel that people like them are men... They own the world, which is what every man wishes to have since he was a child.
Love every word the great men say when they are together.
I remember hearing President Reagan's famous speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate during his visit to Berlin in 1989. At that time, Gorbachev and his Soviet empire were almost exhausted, and Reagan had the courage to speak in front of him. The silent Gorbachev said to the world: Come to this door, Mr. Gorbachev, open this door! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!) I
really want to see Gorbachev's face at that time...
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall, tone Peaceful, without cadence, but the cheers of countless people in the audience announced the decline of Gorbachev and his empire! A weighty speech is not just about the enthusiasm of the speaker, the audience is always a sign of the speaker's success. Reagan's moderate appearance could never connect him with the strong America behind him. He seemed more suitable to be the prime minister of Switzerland... However, the American spirit of the 1980s was created by this kind old man, with a high-profile anti-war harmony. The Star Wars project confuses the Soviets, what the hell are Americans going to do under this old man? In fact, it is clear that Reagan wanted both world peace and the realization of America's ambition: to become world leader. This old man succeeded, using the Star Wars plan to bring down the Soviet Union, and then promised to jointly disarmament and reduce nuclear weapons. It got world peace, and it got the world.
This old man is smart, but not every president is as lucky as him, like Nixon, maybe
he was born at an untimely time ... He was born at an untimely time when the cold war started, if he was in the White House then, now The world will remember the maniac who turned the Cold War into heat.
He was born at an untimely time during the Bay of Pigs War. The failure of the war made all Americans blame the Republicans for this, and he was indeed the Republican presidential candidate at that time.
The campaign against Kennedy coincided with the first televised debate in the history of the United States, which made him lose face in front of the world, not to mention losing face to a thousand-year-old opponent.
And after becoming president?
75 years of economic stagflation did not come at the right time... the
Vietnam War did not come at the right time... the
world situation did not come at the right time...
China's rise was also at the wrong time... the
Soviet Union was strong and he was even more at the wrong time...
internal difficulties and external urgency, Anyway, he was born out of time!
Nixon is legendary because he became the first president to be impeached in the history of the United States, which was a sensation in the history of the United States and rare in the history of the world. Lincoln wasn't impeached because he had gone to war before the Confederates did this, and the best way to preserve the Union at that time was war. And Nixon, in the face of the Democrats' attack, in order to maintain the federal government and the peace of the country, finally gave up the last trump card in his hand. He had the opportunity to become one of the greatest presidents of the United States like Lincoln, but he gave up, Because he also can't imagine what a second civil war, triggered by Watergate, started to deal with political opponents, will turn the United States into.
The movie deals with Nixon's decision to give up the presidency with a lot of calmness. There are no lines, but silence wins. When the national security adviser calmly told him that he only had the last magic weapon - the army, Nixon was stunned. Stayed too... Ha, typical Stone movie!
Stone always makes the audience think that they can change the world, as long as they tell the protagonist what to do... But we can never do it, because movies are movies, it can make people see the world clearly, but they don't know how to change the world . Stone himself said: My job is not to change anything, because it is not in my hands, what I want to do is to make everyone stop being blind, and I want them to see the world clearly.
In fact, he is a great man...
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