A Thread about the film JFK

Why don't we drop this subject. It's one thing to engage in badinage with all these youngsters, but this sort of thing could be So. Easily. Misunderstood.

More champagne!

Here's to the New Frontier. Camelot in smithereens. I'll drink to that.

I've seen enough in this place to write a book.

A week after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Kennedy's widow, Jackie Kennedy, was interviewed by Theodore H. White, an interview that ran in the December 1963 issue of Life magazine. In the interview, Jackie stated that the show's original cast recording had been a favorite bedtime listening for her husband (who had been Lerner's classmate at Harvard University),[16] and that his favorite lines were in the final number: "Don't let it be forgot/ That once there was a spot/ For one brief, shining moment/ That was known as Camelot".[17] She also made a direct comparison to the Camelot storyline, saying, "There'll be great presidents again... but there'll never be another Camelot." The veracity of her claim about her husband's love of Camelot has been disputed.[18]

>:(

I always lock my files!

Don't fuck this one up!

There's a lot of smoke there, but there's some fire.

this murder of JFK...you better believe it's gonna make the papers tomorrow morning, boys

Grace, put another kettle on the oven. I think me and the boys have some more work to do tonight at this kitchen table

Suddenly got curious about what movie Lee Harvey Oswald was watching when he was arrested. Turns out to be WAR IS HELL (1961) which is now, incredibly, a lost film. This conspiracy goes all the way to the top!

— Shadowplay (@dcairns) June 10, 2022

Look at how close they got to De Gaulle.

to xyzzz's point:

I'm watching JFK again months after I revisited ORDINARY PEOPLE & KLUTE & my goodness, we really don't talk about Donald Sutherland remotely enough, do we?

What he can do in a scene - even just a key line read like "what did *we* think?" in ORDINARY PEOPLE - wow. pic.twitter.com/Z9qNqbBeT7

— Jen Johans (@FilmIntuition) November 21, 2022

Forget supporting actor. Sutherland deserved to win fucking best picture in 1991

With Edward G. Robinson he's the best actor never to earn an Oscar nomination.

Surprising...Should have been up for Invasion of the Body Snatchers, though they'd never give an acting nomination to a film like that.

Robert De Niro – Raging Bull as Jake LaMottadouble-dagger
Robert Duvall – The Great Santini as Lt. Col. Wilbur "Bull" Meechum
John Hurt – The Elephant Man as Joseph Merrick
Jack Lemmon – Tribute as Scottie Templeton
Peter O'Toole – The Stunt Man as Eli Cross

Preferably over De Niro and Lemmon. Nominate him twice.

no word yet, but they say it’s in the head.

we got out near the geese, and only then did we realize we had forgotten our shotguns! stupid right? so, uh, of course, we didn’t get any geese.

what is the matter with this family hahaha???

Didn't Hoover say something about leaves falling in November?

as a former fbi man, it’s— it’s difficult to accept this.

what is the matter with this family hahaha???

― difficult listening hour,

one of Oswald's charmingest moments

Vietnam started for real and there was an air of, I dunno, make believe.

Dulles, by the way, was General Y's benefactor.

I got out in '64. Resigned my commission.

Dey should give'em a a medal for killin' Kennedy!

Gary Oldman no longer believes Stone’s conspiracy theories but he did at the time of the movie. So did I but I was 17 to be fair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP50JfsJ9zU

Ah always lock mah files!

Watching this movie for the first time. Is this off the record, Daddy-O?

Cockle-doodle-doo!

i got no reason to lie to you. i'm already in jail.

People like to act more important than they are. Especially in the….homosexual underworld.

Time just stands still he-ah. Like a snake. Sunnin' itself on the road.

this is a truly insane thread

reactionary proto-Q movie is good because it’s entertaining

this is a truly insane thread

― k3vin k., Monday, January 2, 2023

Very, very few people know about this, okay

As crazy as your mama

The way some ilxors drop quotes from this movie, fully expecting that everyone else on the thread will instantly recognize the quote and know what scene it references, not quoting to to make any point, but simply for the communal enjoyment of recalling that scene to mind, reminds me of how deep-dyed fans of The Princess Bride communicate with one another.

Somebody's got to tell the truth around here, Aimless, cuz the Government sure ain't doing it.

I'm not sure why you're here playing Sam Scold.

this conversation is best kept out of the everyday bustle of this board

It'll be off the record, omar. A quiet little chat between gentlemen.

We're going to Antoine's with the kids!

Nah, not scolding. anyone can see that all you are doing is what I described, sharing communal enjoyment among a group who clearly has watched it so often they've memorized large parts of the script and take delight in quoting it. but yes, I knew that drawing a parallel with the princess bride would draw a wince, because fans of JFK probably loathe it, but the parallel is apt in terms of behavior.

we’re thru the looking glass here people

That's some bullet.

Aimless, have you never done this sort of thing yourself?

(searches memory) To the best of my recollection, no.

But you must consider that a) I am on the more extreme end of the introvert scale, b) I spent a very large amount of my 20s totally wrapped up in poetry, greek and latin literature, instead of popular culture, and c) for all the past 36 years my life has been so involved with various family crises that popular culture has only reached me indirectly, to the point where, although I know Madonna exists, you could play me any song by Madonna and I couldn't connect her name to it. Yes, I am that much of an oddity.

I'm pretty sure I need not say more than what I said above, but I feel compelled to add that unlike the vast majority of ilxors, when I was growing up there were no VCRs, no cable movie channels, so the phenomenon of watching and rewatching favorite movies to surfeit simply didn't exist, and first through non-existence, then poverty, and then bychoice I have quite literally never had cable television or streaming in any home where I've lived up to the present minute.

This is not a brag. I understand that this places me well outside the bounds of cultural norms. That's neither a feature nor a bug in my estimate. It just makes me abnormal in a way that I find very acceptable and doesn't seem to adversely affect my general well-being. I wish the continual family crises hadn't been so central to my life, but I don't really miss the presumed benefits of having consumed mass quantities of popular culture, post-1972. I get along OK.