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Frost / Nixon

  • 19-01-2013 1:31am
    #1
    dd972
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    Remember this film a few years ago, and all the big hoo haa about it, if you reexamine it, why would Richard Nixon give a rats arse about some little Limey coming over to interview him ?

    It may have been a big jizz in the pants moment for David Frost but the way the film was marketed as if it was some sort of clash of two titans was ridiculous. Now Nixon / Chomsky, that's a different kettle of fish.


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  • #2
    Sixtus
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    dd972 wrote: »
    Remember this film a few years ago, and all the big hoo haa about it, if you reexamine it, why would Richard Nixon give a rats arse about some little Limey coming over to interview him ?

    Because that little limey was paying him substantial amounts of money for the interview. Nixon was broke.
    It may have been a big jizz in the pants moment for David Frost but the way the film was marketed as if it was some sort of clash of two titans was ridiculous.
    It was portrayed as nothing of the sort, and was nothing of the sort in reality. Nixon picked Frost because he felt the interview would go softer with a easier lighter celebrity journalist, and Frost saw this as a chance to punch above his weight. Nixon saw this as a chance to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the American public with a interviewer he could easily outwit.

    Parallels to certain cyclist in the media this week?

    It seems we were watching two different movies?
    Now Nixon / Chomsky, that's a different kettle of fish.

    Did you know Chomsky referred to Nixon as "Our last liberal President"?

    http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/641730/if_nixon_were_alive_today,_he_would_be_far_too_liberal_to_get_even_the_democratic_nomination


  • #3
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    Agreed.

    Nixon always planned to apologise for/admit his mistakes - they were carefully planned before the interviews were filmed. He knew that the American public would never accept him unless he owned up a small bit. And yes, it was Frost because he was offered a f**k load of money.

    http://www.cracked.com/article_17326_6-movies-based-true-story-that-are-also-full-****_p2.html


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