NIXON Original Theatrical Trailer

[hopposohot]

RIC YOUNG is best of MAO!!

[oliverarado]

Also one of the best movie soundtracks made by John Williams

[Night5225]

AROO!

[Lufttygger306]

H. R. Haldeman had funny hair

[michaeld5]

@Lufttygger306 LOL, it was a 'flattop.'

[folladordeprostis]

This movie talks about chile 1973?

[michaeld5]

@folladordeprostis I don't think it talks about Chile; but I last saw it over ten years ago.

[folladordeprostis]

@michaeld5 the coup of 73 that nixosn supported

[michaeld5]

@folladordeprostis Right, absolutely.  If Chile gets mentioned, it's only in passing; I should rent this and watch it again.

[2012daveallen]

really nice movie by sir anthony.....he can act in any role

[95Godfather]

i like it that oliver stone shows what richard nixon's past was like

[hasablad69]

Nixon was a crook. He covered up for the criminals in his own organzation - only one President was worse, and the worst president in the history of the Union - George W. Bush - the idiotic, weasel who rigged an entire election.

[batstooge2]

@hasablad69 You sir are a moron and a bigot! Just because you people don't like George W Bush or his father for that matter, doesn't give you the right to accuse them of rigging elections! The fact of the matter is, is that they are good people who earned the most prestigous office in this great world, whether you agree, or disagree with their policies is irrelevent!

[hasablad69]

"Dubya" was not a good man and did not "earn" the office of The President - he rigged the 2000 election and then curtailed the investigation into what happened and the American people laid down and died and accepted such a travesty of democracy.

[batstooge2]

@hasablad69 That is the most ignorant thing i've heard all day well done sir you deserve a prize

[eripr3]

He looks nothing like president Nixon...

[f4ust85]

Stone is a propagandist at the level of Eisenstein or Vertov in the Soviet union, having the outrageous guts to call his work a historical review or docudrama. You must be crazy to call his work "sharp" or objecitve mate, theres probably time to start reading. JFK for example is plain fiction full of false statements, promoting fantasy as facts. Nixon was written with the admitted intention to show all misdeeds, real and "suspected" about the person Stone and his socialist buddies hate the most.

[SocialAssasin]

thats right...if necessary ill drop the big one! fuckin love it

[TheHolandTrip]

Only ONE PERSON that dislikes Nixon???!!!

[TheEJproject]

My favourite film of all time. Its a cinematic modern-day shakespearean tragedy. An emotional experience for both director and lead, its making is a story in itself. The visuals, editing, sound, and stunning acting. Notice in the final hour, everything starts to darken, a defiant yet desperate president and his demons. Its played out like King Lear and only Hopkins could do it. Nixon's final speech and hopkins personal take on it has haunted me for years.

[555paint]

'When they look at you they see what they want to be, when they look at me they see what they are"--talk about capturing the essence of the man and the era!

[Bull1908]

I wonder why they never involved Gerald Ford or Spiro Agnew these two were the Vice-Presidents. I wonder why they never shot scenes with them and Nixon, surely there had to be actors that could and would play the roles. They had to play as much a role in Nixon's life as Haldeman, Mitchell, Ehrichman, Haig or any other cabinet member used in movie.

[TheEJproject]

@Bull1908 Interesting comment and yes i agree. Agnew is seen in a few scenes and appears in a deleted one, but i think Stone's premise was to contain things and concentrate on the Nixon background and the inner circle involved in the conspiracy that befell the man. Stone himself said that the whole film is to emphasize the 'fallen bodies' that took Nixon in and then out of the white house. His brothers, the Kennedy's, and the indicted president's men. The film has its flaws, like its subject.

[hoviharalex]

big film big man

[Bfeist32]

Press 7 wahd he call me

[berner]

"Do you really want this dick?"

WHOA HO HO! Thelma you naughty girl!

[invanz0]

A person shouldnt compare jfk and nixon. As in terms of who was better. Each one was on a completely different level or dimension from each other. They were apart of the same universe, but one thing they both shared unlike LBJ. Was the distrust of the Israelis and Zionist. Why!? How 2 completely different people, characters, beings; Idenify the israelie problem? Prove me wrong. A person cant control the world, because the world defines who exactly they are. Think about it

[invanz0]

@Calsummersishere "how history would have treated him." there would be a silver certificate(no federal reserve debt, and a probabl no economic crisis were in now), no 58,000 american dead in vietnam. No shitty lbj president and gulf of tonkin lie. Bell company would be broke from not making a ton of hueys for the military. Vietnam would be like it is now, Robbert Kennedy would probably still be alive. Your are somewhat correct, but jfk was doing some unique things like disbanding the cia.

[andydufresne87]

Stone talented as he is made a great job, his movies about controversis of the modern american socity are always sharp, methodic, objective, and bruttaly direct (J.F.K, Platoon...). He delievers throught this movie a large amount of informations and characters so it demands knowledged and informed viewers. This movie is a document which showes that the historical moment was bigger than Nixon himself and he was not able to controle it, he even never had the power to do so....

[xX2oscar2Xx]

JFK Was Better He Would Of Done More In The U.S.

[quarf53206]

I saw this when i was in elementary school and i just want to say that Mary Steenburgen gave me nightmares

[TheChapaqua]

Yeah I think even Obama said himself that he thought he'd never win, especially the Clintons. Looks like I'm in good company. Given how Iraq is a free and democratic country? I think it's correct to presume that Saddam Hussain was THE weapon of mass destruction. Where did those 200,000 Marsh Arabs go in 1990? Where did the 75,000 Niorthern Kurds gom in 1991? Oh yeah, Saddam gassed them both with chemical weapons. When of course Saddam wasn't firing Scud missiles at Israel.

[andydufresne87]

@TheChapaqua God may help you....

[TheChapaqua]

@andydufresne87 Yeah you haven't presented any response. Shit or get off the pot. As for your 'healing' President? Yeah Obama's indecisiveness and dithering and prevarication on Libya helps to ensure GOP victory in 2012. He said he wasn't going to stand idly by, and he did. He said Gaddafi should leave office, and he didn't. It's Carter all over again. Why do liberal atheists always invoke the name of God when they don't believe in it? Where is Obama's leadership? There is none.

[andydufresne87]

@mybluecat1 I saw that you deleted it, no problem...

[RenownedRyan]

This is character assassination.

[TheChapaqua]

@RenownedRyan Brilliant film. Ridiculous history.

[PapagenoJuan2]

The greatest movie of a president made!! :D A wonderful performance by Sir Anthony Hopkins :)

[supermorshu]

AAAAAAAROOOOOOO

[bobbobato]

The music is so 1990s.

[lancetop]

Totally my favorite film of all time.

[MrZkinandBonez]

Lol, feel kinda weird seeing this. I just saw Silence of the Lambs, so it's for me like watching Hannibal Lector as Nixon.

[llar87]

Oliver Stone's best movie I'd say

Nixon was such a scheming bastard, but an interesting character nonetheless

[TheChapaqua]

@llar87 As brilliant as flawed. STILL EVEN TODAY HIS ACHIEVEMENTS STILL HAVEN'T REALLY BEEN RECOGNISED.

[pat442389]

@TheChapaqua its funny how Nixon and LBJ were hated but had greatness in their finger tips. ive said before i think they wanted to be loved like JFK or even RFK but they never will be. just as Pat Nixon says in the movie to nixon. but Nixon and LBJ both brought themselves down in the end, but i also think both bit the bulletfor the greater good of the country. unlike reagan and bush who cheapened the office

[pat442389]

@pat442389 and clinton i forgot about his scandal

[hojoleon]

@TheChapaqua yea, totally agree. how true he was. he might of been a little crazy but everything he said is true.

[mybluecat1]

A Shakespearian movie that pays homage to OLiver Stone's unique talent.

[folladordeprostis]

Far right motherfucker just like bush jr

[TheChapaqua]

@folladordeprostis Fra left wing fucker Obama is just like Carter.

[folladordeprostis]

@TheChapaqua Obama is not far left,far left people hate him,you must be a tea party dude,hope palin would be candidate for 2012,to see her defeat aahahahaha

[TheChapaqua]

@folladordeprostis Disagree. The left, mainsream and centerist, have alreay turned on him. Started 18 months ago. With a poll rating of only 47 % his re-election is unlikely. As for Palin? Now that Steele has resigned I would have loved to have seen her be RNC chairman.  As it stands, any Republican candidate would have a pretty strong chance of defeating Obama. I think he's spent the last two tears defeating himself. Your laughter is shallow, stick to the brief..

[folladordeprostis]

@TheChapaqua You said the same in 2008,that a black man would never win,but it happened,with palin as candidate republican will lost,she is dumber than bush jr,where are the WMD??

[stephenwinkler]

NIXON'S THE ONE! Greatest Republican president we ever had. I just wish he was in the White House today, instead of Bozo the Clown.

[Gmancrap]

He lied to the whole country along with your boy Ronald reagan 

[stephenwinkler]

@Gmancrap

I do not know, who told you, that Reagan is my boy. Kind of a naive assumption you are making.

[Gmancrap]

Not really that far fetched seeing as how you have a nazi poster for you're youtube account. So I can assume you are already a little emotionally shook up.

[stephenwinkler]

@Gmancrap

Actually, I believe that Ronald Reagan was a great president and I do like Reagan a lot. However, Nixon's the One! The young girl in the Nazi poster looks a lot like my mother. My mother as a member of the National Socialist Party bureaucracy saved the lives of many Jews. My mother supported the National Socialist program for the Autobahn and the Nazi plan for the construction of highways and buildings. She was opposed to the Final Solution and the death camps.

[Gmancrap]

Yeah, I'm sure you have that nazi poster up there because it looks like your mother. Because every normal person has a nazi poster on their wall or in their room right? That's normal to you right?

[stephenwinkler]

@Gmancrap

Depends what you consider normal. Some people only consider normal, if you are in complete agreement with them. If you have a difference of opinion, then they consider you abnormal.

[TheMrCFH]

Nixon is shown as a crazy lunatic in futurama

[johnadams8000]

You know, this man gets such a bad rap, but Nixon wasnt as bad as everybody says he is

[Nelsonwmj]

Nixon was a President haunted by paranoia. He knew how to play the political game without necessarily being immoral, had geopolitical foresight to help China enter the modern world, and could have been so much greater if he hadn't been so paranoid about everyone around him. He might have had enemies, but he had more friends before Watergate, and that ruined any chances of America having one of her greatest 20th century president serving out office successfully. An epic movie, a great president.

[dwood37]

On last point I want to make. Although I am a Democrat, I think Nixon's policies where incredibly progressive. One mustn't forget the record: EPA, OSHA, Pension reform, changing federal Native American policy towards self-determination, Affirmative Action and the Philadelphia Plan, SSI, Title IX. One can argue that he was more progressive in terms of domestic policy than Ford, Carter, the Bushes, and Clinton. Nixon, yes, called for universal healthcare in his last State of the Union address.

[AllTerroristsMustDie]

@dwood37 Don't forget he repeatedly told his advisers that he believed in Keynesian economics. I think Nixon got a terrible rap because of his personality deficiency (i.e. extreme paranoia) and -- more obviously -- Watergate. He could've been a great president had he not engaged in Watergate (or, more cynically, had he burned the frakking tapes!) All in all, he was a great man riddled with personal foibles which, in the end, got the best of him. I don't agree with him fully, but he was good.

[dwood37]

BEST theatrical trailer--EVER!!! I must say, I was a student at Harvard when then this movie came out and it was nothing like watching this film in Harvard Square when Hopkins, as Nixon, referenced that Kissinger can take his "posterior" back to Harvard Yard! :) Of course he used the expletive in the film. I was watching it with an older friend from Braintree, MA, who still had in her living room a framed bumper sticker that read: "Don't Blame Me..I'm from Massachusetts."

[tubewatch59]

I love James Woods as Haldeman! I first recoiled at the thought of Anthony Hopkins playing the Nixon part. But you know, he's a pretty great actor, and soon enough he has you convinced... I did resent the way in which Hoover was protrayed though. In Nixon, most of the characters were treated fairly with a few exceptions. In "W" it was the reverse!

[mynameisjim93]

Too bad it wasn't accurate. Dismissing Mrs. Nixon from the table? Really? President Nixon would have never done that to his wife. He loved her and his family so much and they were great sources of strength for him in tough times. Oliver Stone should be ashamed for dramatizing this great family's struggles and misleading the American public, maligning Richard Nixon and his family still today.

[GlorifiedTruth]

John WIlliams, who can be a real hack, did a great job with the music for this film.

[tubewatch59]

"Nixon" is one of my favourite films. I don't agree with all of what Oliver Stone tried to imply, but I think the film was fascinating and fair to (almost all) the characters.

On the other hand, "W" was abyssmal. Gone was the feeling of trying to get into the mind of the major characters. W was a hit job intended to produce a desired political outcome. I had hopes for W, but was dissappointed.  The difference between these films makes it hard to believe they're the work of the same man.

[GlorifiedTruth]

@tubewatch59 - Yeah... the timing of the release of "W" was awfully suspect. I didn't bother watching it for that reason.

[tubewatch59]

@GlorifiedTruth

Yep. You didn't miss much with W. I was at least hoping for some (rather biased) drama. but it was mostly the demonizing of Bush's advisors and staff. And (of course) they made fun of Bush, big time. It just wasn't plausible. But I'll say one thing in it's favour - I thought they treated the Laura Bush character with some respect. Pity they didn't do that for anyone else on Bush's team. (But I guess that was the intention of the filmaker.)

[thedrizzle16]

Oliver Stone's best movie!

[sheshavingababy]

AWESOME!!!!! SHOULD HAVE DONE 120 MILLION AT THE BOX OFFICE!

[Utharas]

=(

He isn't very similar in appearance or voice. OH well, he seems to still portray him very well.

[ChrisZimny]

This looks really good, I'll have to watch it. ANyone know how long it is?

[ParkJongBum]

I think Nixon(1995) is epic, great and documentary. Oliver Stone didn't criticize, blame, just shows who is Richard Nixon, how he think and feel. After I saw this film, I think Richard Nixon much better than Obama???? Well, I don't know what Americans really think.

[samm1809]

@ParkJongBum we'll have to wait and see stone's film "Obama" before we figure that one out XD

[11CGOD11]

Hopkins should play Gordon Brown.

[superbu1]

Interesting. The Kissinger line, "In one stroke, the balance of power has shifted to our favor" does not appear in the final film. I don't even recognize the scene.

Also interesting to see the reverse angle on Pat's line, "Then I'll be there for you." In the final film, the camera is on her face on the line, with Nixon's back to the camera.

[superbu1]

Interesting. The Kissinger line, "In one stroke, the balance of power has shifted to our favor" does not appear in the final film. I don't even recognize the scene.

Also interesting to see the reverse angle on Pat's line, "Then I'll be there for you." In the final film, the camera is on her face on the line, with Nixon's back to the camera.

[Lovetogolf2005]

Quit fuckin with a great president, he got us out of Vietanam! He got us into China!

[Nelsonwmj]

@Lovetogolf2005 Yeah and if the US is not careful about it, soon China will get into the US, and democracy as we know it will go out of the window, no matter how twisted it already is in present-day America.

[Lovetogolf2005]

Ron Howard and Oliver Stone can kiss my GOP ASS!

[Duke1966]

Bad american english, great actor. Same as Ralph Fiennes. Many great english actors have really difficulties with american accent.

[ParkJongBum]

@Duke1966 You can recognize Anthony Hopkins' bad english? Wow. I can't. May be I'm a foreigner. Even does english actors have difficulties with american accent? Heidi Klum, she's German but she speaks perfect American accent. isn't it?

[robtru84]

I love the last scene where nixon talks to JFK portrait. very touching

[longhornsandcowboys]

Best biopic ever about one of America's most brilliant - and most fatally flawed - presidents.

[invanz0]

whats the name of the song?

[spagandtuna]

Not a great movie, but surprisingly, it's a very good one, and Hopkins' performance is fairly engrossing and will absorb your attention. Also, Stone does show empathy for Nixon. The only puzzlement here is that I can't reconcile the public face of Pat Nixon with her performance here.

[v19d]

Who knows if Richard Nixons father had found oil on the lemon farm then Richard Nixon and heirs would had been a billionaires by now or broke. Abraham Lincoln didn't create departments that caused the outsourced of American Jobs and created the Obama presidency.

[88mphsss]

he sounds like fuckin M. Emmet Walsh a couple times. Sorvino nails Kissinger, i didn't even know it was him. i didn't freakin recognize him.

[declancf]

do you know the name of the music playing in the background?

[hlimkb]

hopkin is a good actor,

he played hitler, hannibal lector etc

all first rate

[JayArgonaut]

An underrated classic from Oliver Stone's catalogue. The extended Director's cut is even better. Only an epic piece of film-making like this could make you feel compassion for what is on the whole, a hated man in American history.

Nixon's daughters condemned the film without even seeing it. Stone said they should've watched it first before forming an opinion and he was right because the film humanises their father far more than anyone ever expected.

Brilliant film about a very complex man.

[hivernales]

Great director, great actor: Oliver Stone and Anthony Hopkins!

[oliverarado]

"they can't impeach me for bombing Cambodia, the President can bomb whoever he likes!" classic line! one of the best films ever

[daehllaw]

I knew about this movie for years and just watched it today. A truly brilliant movie, the scene when Nixon prays with Kissinger is heart breaking. Well done Sir Anthony!

[dwood37]

Truly the BEST movie trailer of all time!

[Kodierschweinchen]

imo one of the best movies from the 1990s

[Calsummersishere]

Nixon could have been a great President and Clinton could have been a great President, The media in this country is no good.

[davleuv]

I totally agree with you.

[MountDoomPictures]

1:28 and the smile on his face after!

[MyBruno555]

"when they look at you they see what they want to be, when they look at me they see what they are"--says it all, perfectly captrues nixon era.

[RJY4356]

Most of this trailer must have been form outtakes or things they filmed just to make ads from.  Many of those scenes or lines are not in the actual movie, or are said in a different tone. Trailers a re always somewhat deceptive.

[Cloudjumper]

Gee that was a great movie

[robtru84]

The last scene with him talking to the JFK portrait made me cry. I loved that scene

[Calsummersishere]

One reason why JFK was so loved is because he was murdered and became a martyr.

Had JFK lived and served a full 8 years, I wonder how history would have treated him.

[truecinema]

@Calsummersishere THANK YOU! Finally someone gets it!

[Nelsonwmj]

@Calsummersishere Finally someone who has a brain and is not a blind Democrat supporter.

[vccstudents]

@Calsummersishere JFK had his flaws, too. People forget JFK botched Bay of Pigs. In addition, JFK cut taxes like Reagan, but JFK was praised while Reagan was reviled in the press. JFK said fifty years ago, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." Thirty years ago RONNIE said, "Government is not the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem." Now NOBAMA says, "Ask what the government can do for you!" NOBAMA HAS 729 DAYS TO GO!

[JohnnyMac2237]

@Calsummersishere

Good points but he want murdered because he was the last non figure head president. He family did not require his money to become re-elected. That is why we have devolved into a crony capitalistic Wall Street political structure because those in power are up for grabs.

Aside from him not entering Cuba and making the CIA accountable (at the time not today) for their missions ge was deemed unacceptable.

It is the Greatest American tragedy to have our President stolen from us.

[pat442389]

ive always felt that the ghost of kennedy lumed over the presidencies off LBJ and NIxon. i feel like both LBJ and Nixon thought they would be loved like JFK and that things would be easy. i feel that their own egos and the burden of power destroyed both men and their administrations. but i could be wrong thats just how i feel

[Nelsonwmj]

Perhaps Kennedy was too good for himself, his country and the future presidents. Nixon and LBJ found his shoes too big to fill...

[RJY4356]

@pat442389 I hope he haunted the shit out of LBJ who many think had Kennedy killed. There is a persuasive case for that story. Nixon was about the smartest President we've had and was very competent at the job, save for all his paranoia that led to his downfall. LBJ was just a crooked politician rotten to the core.

[Calsummersishere]

why are all the interesting politicians flawed in certain ways? say what you will, Nixon was one interesting person!

[samuraix64]

you don't rule this counrty, you serve it

[FGD135]

haha, look at this child!

[FGD135]

Nixon was far from perfect, but he came from nothing - NOTHING- to rule the greatest country in the world. An impressive, and complicated figure, who will be remembered for a long time to come.

[RaikenXion]

This is one of the best Political thrillers out there. I really like this film, the script, dialogue is really sharp, clever, I really like how Hopkins portrays Nixon too, he may not portray him exact, but what actor can totally match their subject perfectly. Great trailer also, is this the official one? I need to get this film again, cus my DvD version isnt the "Directors Cut" and so doesnt have the extra deleted scenes with Nixon meeting Director of CIA Richard Helms.

[EagleFly26]

Yup, this was the official trailer.

[KMAN6000]

Nixon was not a warmonger he was indeed a peacemaker

[rodney280]

and beef tastes like chicken

[CaptainRon0001]

I like the fact that Nixon and Kennedy were rivals, It kinda reminds me of the light and dark struggles that plagues us as humans and our mythology, but as having never seen the film, I can't say whether or not, it ends with him overcoming these obstacles although I doubt it does, considering what I learned in class.

[FGD135]

Nixon was a great American.

[AJ4POPE]

How Byronic... How Shakespearian.

[AdArmand]

God, I ADORE Anthony Hopkins. He's so clever - he takes risks. They don't always work. When he fails, he fails GLORIOUSLY.

[Ballerfella2007]

Hopkins was excellent in this movie.....Oliver Stone did an excellent job in this movie a true must see.

[QAndJMovies]

great movie

[southerncajuncharm]

Good? No. Entertaining? Yes!

And I cant stand Nixon.

[esb84]

Nixon and Hopkins are actually both aroung 5'9'', (or Nixon was 5'9'').

[rmm413c]

Actually, esb84, Nixon was 5'10 1/2'', not 5'9'', and I've read that Hopkins is only about 5'7'' (although I believe I've also seen the claim that he's 5'8 1/2'' -- seeing him next to others, however, I believe the 5'7'' claim). At any rate, Nixon was clearly taller than Hopkins (maybe almost 4 inches taller).

[esb84]

I'll take your word for it. I haven't met either one, I just looked it up online so I could be wrong. In any event it isn't all that important to me, but I appreciate the correction. Nixon had a slouched-posture so I guess that made him look shorter.

[rmm413c]

I guess it doesn't really matter--clearly, Hopkins didn't resemble Nixon physically in any other way either (except for the wig and fake teeth I guess). He did a fine acting job, but didn't remind me of Nixon at all. I suppose in a fictional film the the quality of the acting is the more important thing. I just hope no one takes it for history. It's a good film, though.

[esb84]

Yeah he did a pretty good job, and the movie was a lot more accurate than JFK.

[alexman24893]

call me crazy but i thought stewie from family guywas based on hopkins, what a actor.

[grumpytosnowwhite]

That line near the end, when he looks at JFK's picture...it gave me goosebumps when I first saw it. So perfectly and ironically fitting and eloquent.

[ChipPeterson1991]

Hopkin's looks nothing like Nixon. Better choices at the time would have been Jon Voight or Jack Nicholson.

[davleuv]

Hopikins may not have looked like Nixon, but he sounded like him.

[ttfreckleton]

That's the longest trailer I've ever seen. But I suppose the film does go for 3 hours.

[lesassassins]

great movie. hopkins gives an amazing performance. very well directed.

[thechallenger9000]

Oliver Stones a great filmaker. But I'm confused as to what the controlling ideas of his biopics are?

But "W." And "JFK" were really well done and this looks good.

[mavrick316]

I thought it was a great movie back when it came out. Too bad the American public isn't into these kinds of films.

[kirababy35]

never heard of it

[wbaker7]

i really miss the imperial presidency

[thisisverytrue]

The clip shown at 4.02 is one of the three key speeches in the film, whether or not he ever actually said it: "When they look at you they see what they want to be -when they look at me, they see what they are...". In the actual film, John Williams' musical cue for this scene is tremendous and can be heard in it's entirety on the CD soundtrack item: 'I am that sacrifice'. The great piano-cue heard at 0.14-0.28 and the track as a whole is also on the soundtrack CD. Brilliant.

[sarnow76]

It's a great quote.

[invanz0]

@thisisverytrue john williams on born on the fourth of july put me on my knees. Even tho i was sitting. Salvador music stuck in me good. Also platoon. Shit oliver knows how to pick em

[TheChapaqua]

@thisisverytrue No, that speech never occured. Though one can only imagine what was going through his mind on his final night in power.

[pjvb9050]

Great movie.

[DerAdventurer]

In my opinion, after having studied Nixon for over a year, I don't think he was anything amazing for America, but truly deserves respect for his positions on markets, leadership and the China issue - which I'd consider the best thing he ever did! The movie is great and Hopkins shows us he's a very talented artist! *claps standing for anthony Hopkins*

[wbaker7]

well there is somethig else that made him special for America-he represented the bitterness and anger of the USA lower middle class against the elite. That motivated much of his life--for good and bad. It was the driving force that made him come back many times and also brought him down. There was a dark side to the USA middle class and RN captured it perfectly because it rested at the core of his own being in a way JFK never could. Tom Wicker titled his bio of RN "One of Us" for a reason.

[wbaker7]

my point is captured perfectly by Stone at the end of the film---RN says to the JFK painting "When they look at you they see what they want to be; when they look at me they see what they are."--captures the core of RN but also the core of his middle class base at the time who allowed their darker instincts to emerge...in repsonse to civil rights,forced integration, Warren court, anti war protests, a belief that law and order was disintegrating cuz of liberal courts etc. RN captured that spirit

[DerAdventurer]

Thank you for your comments. And about that scene, gosh, it's emblematic!!!! You can feel his feelings through his eyes, when he says it!

[OperaOfViolence]

Brilliant film!

[SarLei94]

Love this movie! =)