In fact, I don't know much about the Watergate incident, and I don't have much impression of President Nixon. The audience for this film has always been narrower in terms of political themes. Adapting it as a real theme is too dramatic, and it is a bit anticlimactic. The large part of Frost's preparations for funds at the beginning of the story ends briefly. Nixon's defeat ended hastily.
The most critical part of the dialogue, its wonderful level is really addicting. Nixon's old fox, Pu, appeared calm and composed, holding Foster in his palm and playing with it. At that time, Foster still put his mind on the preparation of funds. As a British, he did not see this interview as the last chance to seek justice like an American, but more just to pursue business success. The two American counterparts on the team were outraged. But in the process of the conversation, he gradually came to know Nixon's cunning and toughness, scheming and arrogant. He was a master and came prepared. Foster began to be defeated like a mountain. He let Nixon hold on to an irrelevant problem for nearly half an hour without any gain. He made the staff even convinced by Nixon's charisma. Colleagues scolded. He avoided and denied it until, before the last interview, when he got a call from Nixon.
The fictional phone call in this novel is the turning point of the whole play. During the phone call, for the first time, Nixon made it clear that he would fight to the end. Word by word, Nixon, who was familiar with politicians, wanted to climb up at all costs. The phone call woke Fox up, and he finally understood that there was no way to avoid this war without gunpowder smoke. This was a battle of personal reputation and the final indictment of the Watergate incident. If Nixon gets off the hook here, he will be honorably recorded as president in the annals of history, and the American people will forever lose the opportunity to ask the truth, and they need to know if their president has ever put his rights above the law .
In the final dialogue, it can only be said that Frank Langella's acting skills are too superb, such a close-up facial close-up, a trace of expression will not let go of the eyebrows. Nixon's leisurely, after the plan was disrupted, he tried to intimidate the other party, but was really provoked anger, tough defense in the tug-of-war, to reveal his heart... In the end, when Nixon said "I disappointed the American people", his expression At a loss and in decline, he finally accepted to step down from the stage.
The actor Frank Langella is not very familiar with. I checked the wiki and found that he participated in the 97 version of Lolita... Han, it seems that he was the old man who made me infatuated with a beautiful voice and broke my wish...
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