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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 1, 2021 18:51:12 GMT
A great interview with the journalist who worked very closely with Cheney and his people and also was hired as a consultant on the movie. The whole is worth a read, but I especially wanted to leave this Bale mention here: deadline.com/2019/02/vice-movie-ron-dick-cheney-ron-suskind-interview-christian-bale-adam-mckay-oscars-1202557197/RON SUSKIND: So many things were impressive about it. The thing that struck me, knowing many of these actors — and I mean these historical figures — is the extraordinary magic trick Bale does at the center of all this. I know them, but still, a few minutes into the movie, I wasn’t thinking about Dick Cheney, the guy we know. I was living in the skin of Bale. These biopics have been around a long time. Frost/Nixon and Oliver Stone’s W. And you feel, that’s an actor playing this person that I know intimately, which is the way we bond with them in this visual, image-driven era. So you’re thinking, how is Brolin’s imitation of W, as a young man? What’s extraordinary about this movie is how, a few scenes along, you’re with Cheney. It’s the deepest rendering of someone so well-known that I’ve ever seen. What it allows is a fresh start and the chance to say, let me try to understand who this person, really, who is so familiar to me and all of America, and why it matters? That’s what this movie does, and I say that as somebody who has met many of these folks as a reporter.
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