Frank Langella, who plays Nixon, is said to look more like Brezhnev, but the real Nixon is a bit more burly. When I watched the movie, I didn’t realize that this old man was an actor. He was not imitating a lonely stepped down president, a paranoid old man who had low self-esteem in his childhood, and a paranoid old man who wanted to be at the highest level of power but was overturned by angry sentient beings. Political leader of the country.
He is him.
The turning of the eyeballs, the slight raising of the eyebrows, every twitch of the corner of the mouth, the slow pace, the slightly bowed body, the confident smile, the proud wave, the unconcealable domineering...
These are not the performance, but One person incarnates another person, emanating from within.
Because of Frank Langella, I would rather believe that this is a documentary.
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