no losers

Dewayne 2022-03-23 09:02:01

As said in the dialogue about cheeseburgers in the film, Nixon and Foster are actually a kind of people, born from humble beginnings, and just use their own efforts to achieve the purpose of getting ahead.
I had seen the original interview transcript a month before watching the film, and Nixon was not as frustrated as the film portrayed. His final confession, I believe, came more from his own relief than how skillful Foster was. If Nixon insisted on Tai Chi, I don't think there is any way for this old fox to "confess".
It seems that it is easy to play Nixon, and whether it is Hopkins or Langella in this film, it is a pity not to get a golden statue. However, in the real interview, Nixon sweated more seriously than in this film, and he was indeed a working people.
Prove two things:
which cheese phone and the leather shoes that came as a gift at the end really matter? I believe it's just a dramatic exaggeration.

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Extended Reading
  • Benjamin 2022-03-24 09:01:59

    The film is based on a real TV interview. Although it is a political theme, the film does not look boring, showing that director Ron Howard's skills are good. Frank Langella, who played Nixon, performed very well, accurately expressing Nixon's psychological changes through some detailed design and superb performance.

  • Junius 2021-12-15 08:01:09

    The preparation for the first 50 minutes is a bit lengthy. The final interview part is very exciting.

Frost/Nixon quotes

  • James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin or deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes great, complex ideas, tranches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot. At first I couldn't understand why Bob Zelnick was quite as euphoric as he was after the interviews, or why John Birt felt moved to strip naked and rush into the ocean to celebrate. But that was before I really understood the reductive power of the close-up, because David had succeeded on that final day, in getting for a fleeting moment what no investigative journalist, no state prosecutor, no judiciary committee or political enemy had managed to get; Richard Nixon's face swollen and ravaged by loneliness, self-loathing and defeat. The rest of the project and its failings would not only be forgotten, they would totally cease to exist.

  • Richard Nixon: You know those parties of yours, the ones I read about in the newspapers. Do you actually enjoy those?

    David Frost: Of course.

    Richard Nixon: You have no idea how fortunate that makes you, liking people. Being liked. Having that facility. That lightness, that charm. I don't have it, I never did.