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Samson 2022-09-10 20:22:10

2016 American movie "All the Way": I used to have little interest in this purely political biopic, but recently it has become more accepted. Is it because I am getting older? However, this film is purely for Bryan Cranston's Tony Award. The stage play was changed into a movie so quickly, so that audiences who can't see the old white on the stage can enjoy his presidential performance. The most powerful point is the shaping of the image, temperament and voice. At the beginning, it was almost impossible for people to recognize it as Bryan Cranston, and that smooth southern accent is really not easy, but I don't know if it has not changed. In the stage play, although there are many nuanced performance passages, I always feel that his dynamic is a little too big, and it is obviously a performance more suitable for the stage, so that I am a little tired and out of this way after seeing it. play. As for Anthony Mackie, he only gets crushed. How to draw that face, based on his expression, he can't act like Martin Luther King, but the shaping of his voice is a bit of a breakthrough. Apart from the performances, there is really not much to watch in this film. Although it is said that Americans are the country that entertains political topics the most, this story is a bit too faithful to reality and has no climax. It is said that Politics is war, but there is neither gunpowder nor suspense and tension. There are conspiracies, but they are all edge balls.

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All the Way quotes

  • Lady Bird Johnson: Would you like some more gravy?

    Sen. Richard Russell: Oh, Lady Bird, it was delicious, but I just couldn't possibly, no. Thank you.

    Lyndon B. Johnson: Hey, what about me? Aren't you going to offer me any more gravy?

    Lady Bird Johnson: Oh, honey, I'd like to, but I can't.

    Lyndon B. Johnson: Bird's got me on a diet. Got Zephyr there in kitchen weighing my plates for every meal. Ridiculous!

    Sen. Richard Russell: [Snarling] Your wife doesn't want you to get too big for your britches. An entirely understandable concern.

    Lady Bird Johnson: [as Johnson smiles smugly, Lady Bird leaves the room] I think I'll see how Zephyr coming with that cobbler.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson: Clausewitz said "Politics is war by other means."... Bullshit. Politics is War... Period. You know how you win a campaign, by not losing it. I only lost one election my whole life. The son of a bitch stole it from me in the final seconds with a handful of fake votes, I will carry the pain of that with me to my dying day. But I'll tell you what, nobody will ever do me that way again, It'll be some other way.