Gareth and I will be reviewing Frost/Nixon on Part 47 of the Show. I won’t give away any spoilers re: our thoughts about the pic, (it’s directed by Ron Howard – so not a surprise to know that you’re gonna get middlebrow, well produced entertainment); but I will submit for your approval the astonishing clip at the bottom of this post:
Nixon, desperately trying to keep it all together, moments before he announces his resignation live to the Nation. Fascinating.
(I will say the clip below is far more ‘difficult’ = real, ((of course)), than anything in the film – I had a hard time in Frost/Nixon believing anything we were seeing was close to what ‘really happened’ – for some thoughts on the invented nature of Frost/Nixon click on Elizabeth Drew’s critique of the movie – here’s a typical example from her article:
First of all, the whole arrangement between Frost and Nixon was dubious from the outset. While the script is straightforward about the fact that under their agreement Nixon was to be paid for the interviews (a then-whopping $600,000), a highly unusual arrangement, it omits the even more questionable part of the deal in which Nixon was guaranteed twenty percent of the profits from the sales of the interviews to television stations. Thus, the two purported gladiators were in business together, with a mutual interest in making the interviews interesting enough to make a nice profit.)
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