I worked on the set while filming Ruby here in Dallas. Played a few bit roles, even a secret service agent in the motorcade, I am the guy who looks right at you after the shots are fired at JFK. I turn my head in anger and disgust after the shot is fired. Filled in a bit as JFK also, but the new actor did a good job as well, his first film. Aside- the film is worth seeing, a good and solid tear-jerker all the way. RussJFK says hello and go rent this flick!!
shareI think it's cool that you worked on this film, if for no other reasons than it's cool to work in movies and almost anything regarding the topic of JFK's assassination is inherently interesting.
I say "almost anything" though, because this wasn't. This movie was profoundly dull and poorly crafted. The dialogue was droll, the acting was hackneyed, the score was contrived and the cinematography was unoriginal. I only tracked it down because I will be making my first visit to Dealey Plaza this coming weekend and have been interested in soaking in everything on the story that I can get my hands on. Quite frankly, the ONLY thing I found to be of any value in this film was Sherylin Fenn's dancing scenes. I know it's shallow of me, but she is unbearably sexy and her slinking around onstage was the only enjoyable part of the movie.
Hey Brian, hope you enjoy your Dallas visit. Also go to the Memorial JFK Plaze and see the Conspiracy Museum across the street, not just the Sixth Floor. Good stuff to see and on a different scale. You can tell them at the Conspiracy Museum, RussJFK sent you. They have my contact info. Fun.
shareI'm sorry to say that I couldn't disagree more. I've been talking about renting or buying this for years and I finally did. I'm glad I didn't pay very much for it. I watched it last night and was extremely disappointed. It takes forever to get moving and could have been shortend at least 20 minutes without losing anything important. Danny Aiello was fabulous but he always is regardless of the part.
Early on I recognized David Duchovny as a Dallas cop inside the Carousel Club but he never appeared again. That's very odd considering he played Officer J.D. Tippit, which isn't revealed until the credits. Was he in other scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor (such as Oswald murdering him)?
I know a lot about Jack Ruby and he was both a Mafia mannabe and a cop wannabe as portrayed in the film. He was well known at the Dallas Police Department and was at a press conference there the evening of the assassination. Earlier in his life he had some contact with the Mafia in Chicago and was known as Sparky. The idea that he was supposed to murder Castro is pure foolishness.
Oswald hands the rifle to Diego, who shoots JFK? No matter what scenario you believe at the very least pretty much everybody believes that Oswald did shoot at JFK. Notice I say shoot at as opposed to shoot. In the film there were 2 guys up on the Grassy Knoll. I think they may have actually been there.
I wish I could say that I liked the film but I don't. There's way too much fiction and not nearly enough facts.
"No matter what scenario you believe at the very least pretty much everybody believes that Oswald did shoot at JFK."
Not sure what scenario's you are referring to but the ones that I find credible all have Oswald...well...shooting noone. Please remember that after over forty there has not been a single piece of credible evidence that Oswald fired a gun. He did after fail the parrafin test that day and none of the guns were even tested to see if they had been fired. Also, why would you hire Oswald (not a good shot) to pull off an impossible shot. Another point is that Oswald was photographed at the base of the TSBD. He is there leaning out. Which is good because he 90 seconds from when the photo was taken to walk up the steps and buy a coke so that he be discovered by the Dallas Police...not clear who says he fired but I think there little to no evidence for this assertion...many people feel he was a patsy...just like he stated.
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For a "common sense overview of the events and theories surrounding the case,"
see http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131456&page=1
and http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/Jfk-conspiracy/Myers_new.txt
and http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/faq.txt
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I liked the movie. I can't understand the low rating.
shareIt is pretty good as a movie. It fails as a "doumentary" to many posting here. It is obviously a work of fiction. Had all the names been changed, say it was called The Freddy Filmore Story instead, there wouldn't be so much grousing about it.
shareBut why make a completely fictional film and slap a real person's moniker on it except to make money? That's a cheap shot Hollywood does way too often. If it had a title like the one U mentioned or "Pats Portable Pots" nobody would give a fart aboot it. As in no one would see it except for fart lovers.
A hydrocephalic takes pleasure in milking his cranial harp.
You are right, TDF, it is done all the time and to good effect. The Godfather, for example, based it characters on real gangsters. Other films about assassination have gone to the screen with fictionalized names.
And, as I said, it was not a documentary. Speculation is what these movies are about. Oliver Stone's JFK from the year before was about taking known facts and characters and and filling in the gaps with speculation.
This is not a great film, although it has some good parts to it, effort was made. Movies like it and Stone's movies are out there to make money and maybe move people to look again. I mean the Average Joe, not the people who live and breathe conspiracy theories.
Maybe this title should not have been made since it was bound to get people upset. Or maybe it should have had that catch-all banner: Based on actual events.