Bernie and Frost Nixon
I saw a pretty hilarious film in cinema called "Bernie." AK, you might like it as you are from Texas. It was totally humorous to anyone from TX because it focused on small-town Texas life when one of the notables is murdered. The problem was: the woman who got murdered was a well-known crank that no one liked, and the murderer was a well-known Christian man that everyone loved. The townspeople were fighting to get on the jury so they could NOT convict the guy. It is based on a true story out of Carthage, in E TX, and some of the actual townspeople appeared in the film. The murderer, Bernie, is played by Jack Black, but he does an incredible job, he doesn't act like a buffoon at all. The mean woman he murders is played by Shirley McClain, and she also does a nice job. The slice of TX life is hilarious, but the story itself is sad, because of the crime and the consequences of it for Bernie.
Still, I enjoyed the film and would give it at least 8/10.
On DVD, I saw a film called Frost/Nixon. Back in the 1970's, US President Richard Nixon was forced to resign from office under threat of impeachment because he had been involved in an illegal plot to plant listening devices in the headquarters of the opposition party, and then involved in paying hush-money to cover up the crime. It was a very dismal time in U.S. history! After his resignation, the VP Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon from any and all crimes he may have committed. But still the USA wanted to know exactly what had happened and what his involvement was.
In Australia was British talk-show host David Frost, a slick young guy desperate for global fame. He somehow convinced Richard Nixon to give his first post-presidential interviews to him, to David Frost. It was a big coup, but it also cost him millions because no network in the USA would pay for his interviews because he wasn't known as a real news reporter but as more of a flashy goofball.
The film focuses on how Frost made the interviews a success, and how with the help of political experts and through a radical change in his approach and interviewing skills, he managed to get extraordinary comments from Nixon that illuminated the whole situation, the extent of his involvement in the crimes and cover-up, his attitude about the legality of the presidency's actions, and much more.
The actors who played Frost and Nixon were both superb, and the story was quite entertaining. There was an occasional language issue.
I saw a pretty hilarious film in cinema called "Bernie." AK, you might like it as you are from Texas. It was totally humorous to anyone from TX because it focused on small-town Texas life when one of the notables is murdered. The problem was: the woman who got murdered was a well-known crank that no one liked, and the murderer was a well-known Christian man that everyone loved. The townspeople were fighting to get on the jury so they could NOT convict the guy. It is based on a true story out of Carthage, in E TX, and some of the actual townspeople appeared in the film. The murderer, Bernie, is played by Jack Black, but he does an incredible job, he doesn't act like a buffoon at all. The mean woman he murders is played by Shirley McClain, and she also does a nice job. The slice of TX life is hilarious, but the story itself is sad, because of the crime and the consequences of it for Bernie.
Still, I enjoyed the film and would give it at least 8/10.On DVD, I saw a film called Frost/Nixon. Back in the 1970's, US President Richard Nixon was forced to resign from office under threat of impeachment because he had been involved in an illegal plot to plant listening devices in the headquarters of the opposition party, and then involved in paying hush-money to cover up the crime. It was a very dismal time in U.S. history! After his resignation, the VP Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon from any and all crimes he may have committed. But still the USA wanted to know exactly what had happened and what his involvement was.
In Australia was British talk-show host David Frost, a slick young guy desperate for global fame. He somehow convinced Richard Nixon to give his first post-presidential interviews to him, to David Frost. It was a big coup, but it also cost him millions because no network in the USA would pay for his interviews because he wasn't known as a real news reporter but as more of a flashy goofball.
The film focuses on how Frost made the interviews a success, and how with the help of political experts and through a radical change in his approach and interviewing skills, he managed to get extraordinary comments from Nixon that illuminated the whole situation, the extent of his involvement in the crimes and cover-up, his attitude about the legality of the presidency's actions, and much more.
The actors who played Frost and Nixon were both superb, and the story was quite entertaining. There was an occasional language issue.
