The assassination
Was the assassination recreated for this movie?
Yes and it was very well done too.
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Very well done? What movie were you watching? It was necessary to show the assassination, but this version of it was not very historically accurate. If you compare this version of the assassination with the one Oliver Stone recreated for "JFK", there is no comparison--Stone's was much better.
shareYes and in very graphic detail. To be honest, I still can't watch it to this day.
shareAs a big JFK fan and a long time student of the assassination, this scene was not very well filmed. It clearly was not shot anywhere near Dealey Plaza. The landscape in the background is so obviously not Dallas.
I also didn't like the lead up to the assassination scene. In several scenes just prior to the shooting, everytime "going to Dallas" was mentioned, there was a quick cutaway to another scene, almost teasing the viewer that the inevitable was coming. I thought that this was very amatuerish writing on Reg Gadney's part.
Finally, after JFK dies on the operating table, the entire medical staff turns and faces away from the body, AND JUST STANDS THERE!! This was so unrealistic. They worked on the President for less than 60 seconds, and then simply give up and face the other way??? Again, not very good writing on Gedney's part.
A better idea would have been to space out the operating room scenes with calls back to Washington and RFK, to give the impression of precious minutes passing by while the doctors continued to work on the President. It would have been much more historically accurate (since JFK wasn't declared dead until after RFK was called).
Still all in all, I like this movie very much. I saw it when it originally aired in 1983, on the 20th anniversary of the shooting. I also owned an edited version on VHS for many years before finally finding an unedited DVD copy late last year.
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JFK's ER death scene in "Kennedy" was not meant to be realistic.
Think of it as a Greek tragedy, or a psycho-drama experienced by Jackie.
It is like a blur. Time is out of joint. One nurse wrestles with her & the
Dr's pivot and process out like a Greek chorus. -- This scene is about Jackie, not JFK. Blair Brown was phenomenal.
I think it probably was realistic since JFK had a giant hole in the back of his head through which most of his brains had already exited. That would tend to create a certain sense of discouragement among the surgeons for the prospect of reviving him. They probably made a perfunctory effort, understandably, since they were working on the POTUS, while knowing the situation was utterly hopeless. But I doubt they made that clear in the movie since, in the official autopsy photos, that hole mysteriously vanishes (had it been there, it would have pointed directly to the grassy knoll and could not conceivably have been made by a sniper on the sixth floor of the school book depository building). Yet upwards of 40 eye-witnesses have made statements confirming the existence of the giant exit hole through which the brain matter JK tried to retrieve on the back trunk of the limo escaped. Back and to the left, back and to the left...
Leave the gun, take the cannoli...
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Very well done? What movie were you watching? It was necessary to show the assassination, but this version of it was not very historically accurate. If you compare this version of the assassination with the one Oliver Stone recreated for "JFK", there is no comparison--Stone's was much better.
Oliver Stone is so full of propaganda, he makes JOSEPH GOEBBELS jealous.
One of many examples: Oliver Stone could not find a gun to make the gunfire "smoke" from the GRASSY KNOLL picture so he had F/X bellow smoke. How is that for realistic?
Oliver Stone makes me puke.
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Oliver Stone's JFK is all BS. Nearly every "fact" he gives in that film is wrong.
I only got one law. A kid who tells on another kid is a dead kid.
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You can agree or disagree with Stone's political views. Those are irrelevant. However, his attention to detail involving the events in Dealy Plaza are very historically accurate. Sure, he does take some poetic license with some details (for instance, actuallly showing Oswald firing the weapon), but most if not all of the happenings that were caught by still photos and/or the Zapruder film were very accruate.
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Stop lying. I can't stand Oliver Stone. And I'm not a fan of JFK at all. But almost every bit of evidence presented from the prosecution of Clay Shaw is factually correct.
There was some sloppiness in parts. And there are scenes, like the one with Donald Sutherland, that are far less substantiated.
But the hard evidence, which was depicted as hard evidence, was indeed...hard evidence.
This is one of the reasons I don't like the movie, besides the art house treatment of some of the scenes which were bizarrely out of place. Stone combines factual, historically proven events with theory and conjecture and fails to spell out, in big letters so even idiots like the commenter above can figure it out, which is which.