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The idea is absurd: A film about a politician interview from the seventies, who wants to see already? But absurd ideas are the British author Peter Morgan not strange that we know at least since his screenplay for "The Queen" for which he is suddenly out, as it was so well received in the British royal family, when Lady Diana died. Under the direction of Stephen Frears was "The Queen" to a worldwide success, several times for the Oscar was nominated, including Morgan's screenplay. Helen Mirren has him as the best actress even get.
The concept of "Frost / Nixon 'Peter Morgan has been initially considered for the stage. Based on the famous TV interviews between British journalist David Frost and former U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1977, three years after Nixon because of Watergate scandal, was forced to resign. Frost was at that time as a journalistic lightweight, but then he was able to own the Legend of the Nixon forged a kind of confession of guilt to Watergate to elicit.
For his play Peter Morgan designed around the known facts, a framework for action, which should shed light on what happened behind the scenes? how to interview and negotiate geschachert was how was prepared, both of Team Nixon team as well as frost. The goal was a story of two men, where it all went to: David Frost, who urged a spectacular success for the survival of journalism needed, and Richard Nixon, which is absolutely as good, misunderstood the President wanted to present to the end but still a noble man in history taking.
First and foremost, does this mean for "Frost / Nixon": Here are just head and neck, until exhaustion. In the theater, the no disadvantage, on the contrary, and so was Morgan's stage version after the premiere in August 2006 in London celebrated enthusiastically and was soon to Broadway. The medium of film is another matter, and if there the whole time talking, then on the majority of viewers a high deterrent effect.
Director Ron Howard ( "A Beautiful Mind") has the potential still recognized and Peter Morgan asked for the piece in a script to transform what this kind on its sovereign quickly completed. The result is amazing. Indeed, the whole movie long done nothing more than talk? whether now Frost fights with his advisers, Nixon with his or the two men in front of the camera together. But it will never Dröge, because Howard and Morgan tell the story quite immodest than spectacular David-against-Goliath story in which a man go under and the other will triumph gloriously.
Frost and Nixon are both on the brink, they can all win and lose everything, and this film graze in their fear and despair and moves breathlessly from the perspective of the brave, perhaps not sufficiently competent journalists and the arrogant, perhaps, but somehow very likeable Ex-Presidents. "Frost / Nixon" the greatest asset are its main characters, which even at the initial stage of the cast were: Frank Langella as Nixon presents its large, wounded fighters, between decency and unscrupulous pendulum, always convinced of the rightness of his actions. Michael Sheen, of Tony Blair from "The Queen", as the frost is a gearbox between Enlightenment desire and the quest for fame. Together, they create it, that you two hours to her lips stick.
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For six Oscars is "Frost / Nixon nominated, including best director, best screenplay and best actor (Langella). This has perhaps a bit exaggerated if you consider that Nixon's quasi-apology in the interviews, then the world is not so much from the fishing has lifted, as the film would like to believe. But a history lesson as exciting and entertaining for sale? due to Peter Morgan and Ron Howard of the greatest respect. And this film is relevant after eight years of George W. Bush anyway.
Let's see if the could be excused.
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