However, David Foster is obviously much luckier than him.
In 1977, the young David Foster was looking for a career turnaround: his television shows in London and Australia enjoyed a wide audience, but he never managed to own a table in the "Sardi`s" restaurant in New York. More importantly, Foster has not really been accepted as a member of the "upper society", even though the gap is only a few minutes away.
God gave him a chance, and that was Richard Nixon, who was about to call for a curtain call. David Foster will not let go of this opportunity.
But the shoulders of giants are not so easy to step on, everything is more difficult than expected.
Nixon looked down on the opponent in front of him. Foster was just a fledgling clown to him. He mocked his feminine Italian leather shoes, mocked his "pre-marital sex" with Miss Coolchi, and mocked him at a loss. Pretending to be calm, and his ridicule almost completely destroyed the fragile self-confidence that his opponent had built up so hard.
Before the final round came, Foster and his team defeated Nixon 0-11.
This seems to be a war without suspense, and the losing party will be ruined and never stand up.
Richard Nixon never pityed his enemies, this is the secret of his ascent to the pinnacle of power in the past few decades. But facing this handsome young man, he hesitated. At the celebration banquet on the eve of victory, when everyone was full of ambition, he appeared so worried, and this worry may not have much to do with David Foster, and his worry is more likely to come from his own soul. dialogue.
When the red-eyed gambler who lost his entire net worth was about to collapse, the balance of fate tilted.
Nixon called Foster, and the call that started with a "cheeseburger" changed everything.
Nixon's think tank certainly did not expect this change, because it came without warning. Nixon and Foster, two seemingly different people, how could they have such a sympathy? However, Nixon opened his heart to this unfamiliar man, and it did not all come from the power of alcohol: perhaps Nixon saw another himself in Foster. Both of them were once insignificant, and both were once climbing the starting line of the social ladder. They are far behind others, have been ignored by famous families, have worked hard but no one applauds, even if they are in a high position, they still can't get rid of the faint inferiority.
He knew the cruelty of this war, and he could even more predict the loneliness of the loser. Maybe he didn't call his opponent to let his opponent give it a go, but objectively, he had this effect.
Because of the talks before the war, the ending was firmly locked. "Obstruction of justice, Watergate's cover-up operations, entanglements with former campaign assistants", etc., have become less important. The important thing is that Richard Nixon is willing. Open your heart, even if the think tank reminds him: "Unplanned revealing of your heart will lead to devastating consequences", even if the opponent in front of you is nothing but a fame and fortune who wants to borrow his superiority. The old man has been struggling with self-torture for a long time, and he is reluctant to hide behind the think tank to "continue to deny everything."
At the end of the interview, Nixon got into his car tiredly, his political career was over, and he left an era that did not belong to him without nostalgia.
Foster was lucky enough to win the war, Nixon chose to lose at his feet, maybe he just appeared in front of the lonely giant at the right time, and Nixon happened to be infatuated with his personal charm, but this kind of explanation seems like pale and weak.
Maybe there is another explanation.
Perhaps: the conversation about the "cheeseburger" was nothing but a crazy conjecture of Talk show host on the verge of collapse, and the final success was just a strategic victory of Foster's first suppression, and Nixon himself did not understand this at all. everything.
Perhaps: Richard Nixon had terrible amnesia, and afterwards he couldn’t remember the true content of his “speaking truth after drinking”, so the last moment of the film’s confusion: He took the pair of Foster gave him Leather shoes made in Italy, standing by the sea for a long time.
He was guessing what the "cheese burger" meant by Foster told him. It was definitely not just the obvious difference from his "Hawaiian burger"...
Then he fell into self-blame, regretting that he was in the end. Be a real man back for a moment.
And Foster’s world is another scene. His portrait was published on the cover of Time and Newsweek. He also got a table in the "Sardi`s" restaurant he dreamed of. The new The world opened the door to him.
The postures of the winners are the same, but the losers have their own sorrows. Tian Wenhua, who was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday, certainly does not remind people of Nixon in 1977, even though they were all forced to confess guilt before a nation.
But when she was young, she was not a favored Foster, and who knows what kind of Nixon fell in front of her. When all the past is gone at any time, leaving behind a lonely figure lying in the dark wasteland...
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