Frost/Nixon

[Maltin]

This film opens the London Film Festival on 15 October.

As it is based on a stage play, I thought it might just be the 2 of them talking, but the trailer is now online and it looks rather good.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/frostnixon/

I know a lot of people here don't seem to like Ron Howard and Michael Sheen seems to be doing lots of impersonations in his career (Kenneth Williams, Tony Blair, David Frost, Brian Clough etc.) but the play was meant to be very good and I am looking forward to this.

Anyone see the play?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

This film opens the London Film Festival on 15 October.

As it is based on a stage play, I thought it might just be the 2 of them talking, but the trailer is now online and it looks rather good.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/frostnixon/

I know a lot of people here don't seem to like Ron Howard and Michael Sheen seems to be doing lots of impersonations in his career (Kenneth Williams, Tony Blair, David Frost, Brian Clough etc.) but the play was meant to be very good and I am looking forward to this.

Anyone see the play?

No, but I saw the original interviews.

 

[Maltin]

No, but I saw the original interviews.

That was the other thing that I was going to ask, but forgot .

Were they good?

 

[Maltin]

Looks like some of them are on YouTube:

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

That was the other thing that I was going to ask, but forgot .

Were they good?

Depends what you mean by good. I hate/hated Nixon, so my opinion might be coloured.

 

[Maltin]

Depends what you mean by good. I hate/hated Nixon, so my opinion might be coloured.

I suppose, what I meant was, were they interesting? Are they worth watching?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I suppose, what I meant was, where they interesting? Are they worth watching?

Sure they're interesting. They are an exhibition of a liar and a fraud, who is attempting to avoid being cornered by a suave and skilled inquisitor, who has the advantage of not being deferential in the way that an american journalist would have.

It's good theatre.

 

[Maltin]

I have not got around to seeing Oliver Stone's Nixon yet. Anyone got any views on that film also?

Interestingly, in the same year that another film on Nixon comes out, Oliver Stone releases W. about the current president.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=258595&highlight=bush

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I have not got around to seeing Oliver Stone's Nixon yet. Anyone got any views on that film also?]

It's too sympathetic to Nixon.

Nixon was Bush with brains, and a gigantic chip on his shoulder.

 

[FiFi]

It's too sympathetic to Nixon.

Nixon was Bush with brains, and a gigantic chip on his shoulder.

*Shudder*

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

*Shudder*

We vowed to dance in the streets when he was finally kicked out of office, and dance we did.

Bush is stupid. Nixon was evil.

 

[Ranu]

Yer man sounds more like Ian Paisley than Nixon.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yer man sounds more like Ian Paisley than Nixon.

Nixon played his cards a bit closer to the chest than Paisley.

 

[Dhimmi]

Sure they're interesting. They are an exhibition of a liar and a fraud, who is attempting to avoid being cornered by a suave and skilled inquisitor, who has the advantage of not being deferential in the way that an american journalist would have.

It's good theatre.

Quite. I believe Frost was the first experience Nixon had of a quite hard and direct interviewer, and Frost reckoned it was Nixon's first realisation that the game was up.

 

[Biglittlefish]

I seen the play and was a little disappointed. The Nixon performance especially, seemed like a parody. Howard is also the hack of hacks.
That said it looks better in the trailer. I was in the very back row of the theatre so maybe could not pick up on the subtleties of Langellas performance. Also Peter Morgan is a excellent writer.

Could go either way.

Stones W is also playing

 

[Biglittlefish]

Eh I haven't seen the interviews but from what I remember of the play Frost wasn't much of an interviewer.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Quite. I believe Frost was the first experience Nixon had of a quite hard and direct interviewer, and Frost reckoned it was Nixon's first realisation that the game was up.

I know. Delicious!

That man was such a horrible cunt.

 

[Dhimmi]

Yep. There's a brief moment when Nixon gave Frost a look which marks it clear I think.

I think he even makes Bush Jnr look moderate, and Kissinger and Agnew were grade A shits as well. The only "name" associated with him who I've any respect for is Ford.

I was very young when the whole Watergate thing kicked off but I remember it surprisingly well.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yep. There's a brief moment when Nixon gave Frost a look which marks it clear I think.

I think he even makes Bush Jnr look moderate, and Kissinger and Agnew were grade A shits as well. The only "name" associated with him who I've any respect for is Ford.

I was very young when the whole Watergate thing kicked off but I remember it surprisingly well.

Ford pardoned Nixon.

 

[Detroit City]

Ford pardoned Nixon.

only because that was part of "the deal"...don't confuse it with "the new deal"

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

only because that was part of "the deal"...don't confuse it with "the new deal"

I'm sure there was a deal. Doesn't let Ford of the hook for being a prime shit, though.

And a clumsy one, at that.

 

[Part 2]

I've seen some of the original interviews without knowing much of the background to it.

Does the film go into that or is there a good (readable) Nixon biog or definitive book about the time?

 

[Dhimmi]

Ford pardoned Nixon.

Ahhhh, well that part I didn't remember.