Donald Sutherland's memorable performance in Oliver Stone's JFK - part 2

[jefferson17399]

JFK was murdered

[nethoser]

An acting clinic put on by an old pro. A fucking tour de force. [APPLAUSE]

[Madisonrvr]

Everytime i watch this scene i'm just captivated by sutherland's performance here-- acting at its finest.

[ayebour]

I've gone nuts trying to find out the name of the viloin song in this scene, does anybody know???? It's also played at the end fo the film, but it doesn't appear in the JFK Sountrack lists.

[fuggybootnling]

The Donald Sutherland sequence in JFK might be my favorite scene in any movie...ever. Thanks for posting this!!!

[richnfamous59]

@fuggybootnling i agree. it's not only perfectly played, but also perfectly cast. he makes Costner look a bit wooden :)

[mhks68]

@richnfamous59 Perhaps Costner is "playing wooden" to make Donald's performance that much better! Truly great actors make each others performance better!!

[TheLiviaRules]

@fuggybootnling Absolutely. The most important and powerful scene in the history of film. Sutherland should have gotten the Oscar nomination for this film, not Tommy Lee Jones. No scene has ever done a better job of showing who and what really controls the government.

[cangarillo89]

Reagan with Platoon. he probably got a pretty good picture of his 2nd in command. being that prescott was at that time overtly opposing the "establishment", he maybe figured his son would make a better sinister figure.

[cangarillo89]

4:14 the character is kept in the dark and his face never shown. i think it´s a fairly good impersonation of George H.W. Bush. do you know if this is intentional? of course, Bush sen.´s political career only started a year later in 64, so there s no way he could have participated at the meeting alleged by the movie. this would only be consistent with the large array of false conjectures made by stone and his team. but stone´s already demonstrated he objected the retaliatory military style of

[TheLensSolution]

@cangarillo89 False conjectures? I think you're talking about the Warren Commission and the Lone Nut theorists. Most of what Stone suggests has been proven or is very likely. I think the character in the dark is meant to be Lyndon Johnson. And as for George H. W. Bush, he was in Dallas that day and was already well-connected to powerful people (and may have even already been in the CIA). The fact that his official political career didn't begin until later is irrelevant.