The Donald Sutherland character X. Is based on Luietenan Colonel Fletcher Proudy. He was communicating with Jim Garrison through the mail. I highly recommend Jim Garrison's book On the Trail of the Assassins
Garrison lied his ass off about the tramps, about the parade route, about Oswald being in the depository doorway, etc. Prouty was a notorious lunatic and fruitcake.
Its a shame the film was financed by an Israeli Weapons trafficker and was designed Specifically to obfuscate the True causes of JFK's murder: Trying to stop the Apartheid Government of Israel from developing Nuclear weapons (numec scandle) and returning stolen Palestinian land.
It is an achievement, but it is all nonsense.. I always point out the odd coincidence in the Tippit killing of both the killer and Lee discarding their jackets.. Because they were the same guy..
Meh, melodramatic acting, lazily mashed together and conflicting conspiracy theories and the hit-you-over-the-head method of plot delivery makes this one of my least favorite Oliver Stone films. I mean there are way too many unintentionally hilarious moments in this movie for me to take it seriously.
@@jonrmartin I don't believe in brainless conspiracy theories, this movie contains true scenes. Not everything in this film is 100% historically accurate, the only thing that matters is that we’re all glad this movie was made.
And Mr. Garrison played the part of Chief Justice Earl Warren who led the "Warren Commission" committee running the investigation of the assassination. Two other interesting personalities were involved with the committee. Representative, later president, Gerald Ford was a member of it, and future US Senator from Pennsylvania Arlen Specter was assistant counsel.
@@StephenLuke No, I just told you who thinks that, and also virtually everybody associated with the case, that's why the jury dismissed it in less than an hour. RIP Clay Shaw 1913 - 1974 Businessman and war hero
The actor playing Jack Ruby was Brian Doyle Murray, brother of Bill Murray. One of the people on Garrison's staff was played by Wayne Knight, who played Newman on Seinfeld. Not long after this movie came out, Seinfeld did an amusing parody of the "back and to the left" speech.
This channel is by far one of the best reaction channels out there we get a full screen to watch the content plus great commentary, and only very few breaks, which are only five seconds the best best.
I was a teenager in the 60's , drafted in '68... the events of that decade was so overwhelming. Thanks for reacting to JFK. Finally, can you imagine if there was social media in the 60's LOL
@@well_i_liked_it Nope. The Genoveses, the CIA..not afraid of cameras. We do not have a zero crime rate now..far from it. School massacres? Not in the 60s.
I've seen those morgue photos and yes it looks like they used the actual morgue photos in the film. Also that Zapruder film footage is brutal - I can still remember the first time I saw that.
The Zapruder film was altered. The story has finally been told of why there are "missing frames" as well as other changes. It is yet another piece of evidence showing there was an active coverup from the government.
I’m so glad you guys watched this! You’re only the second reaction channel to watch JFK. Regardless of whether or not one believes in any of the conspiracies I think everyone can agree that this was a superbly acted, directed and especially edited film. ETA: I also really enjoyed your discussion after the film 👏
one of the ideas that chilled me to the bone-and that I have never forgotten from this film, is when one of the senators during the mr. x section said to someone-and I am paraphrasing but he said-"you don't understand-i know I won't see any of this work that I am doing in my lifetime. this work here is laying the groundwork for the future. this is the change we are trying to put forward. we are in the long game here. and we will win." that blew my mind. I was only about 20, but I honestly hadn't considered such an idea. I didn't even consider a "long game" to make change. I didn't realize how patient people could be to ultimately create this world that they think they want. what really frightens me is that I think we in now in the next phase. all this work that began over 60 years ago, the results are starting to happen now. right now. and omg. what do we do? where do we go? wow. it is very scary.
@@footofjuniper8212 1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 2. Jaws 3. The Fisher King 4. Blue Velvet 5. Wild at Heart 6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 7 JFK 8. The Empire Strikes Back 9. Star Wars 10. Airplane!/Young Frankenstein/History of the World Part 1
Great job reacting and editing a dialog-heavy film. This may be the greatest cast in any one film. For me, the fact that you included John Candy's scenes is a win.
I was in my 3rd grade classroom when the principal announced on the loudspeaker that the president had been shot in Dallas, i was 150 miles south of theere. If i'm still here in 2038 i'll be too old to remember who JFK is. That was the day this country started on it's downhill slide into what it's become today. Another aspect of this story that's relatively unknown is the journalist Dorothy Kilgalen. She was very famous at the time & the only person that was allowed to interview Jack Ruby, during or right after his trial. Shortly after she died nysteriously & the article she wrote disappeared.
Everyone is posting about the movie itself, but I wanted to say this was a very good reaction, despite the limitations in the format that you guys talked about. Especially in the discussion afterwards, you hit on a lot of the key points. We all have biases, whether we realize it or not. This is a very in depth topic, it's easy to get lost in it.. and it's easy to ask.. should one care? There can be downsides to caring too much about this stuff. There can also be downsides to not knowing about it at all. You guys already hit on all of these points, swinging back and forth between the positives and negatives of watching a movie like this. One point.. Jim Garrison got nowhere at the end of the movie, but he did inspire Oliver Stone to make this movie.. and here we are watching it and talking about it.. as I said, I thought it was a very good reaction given the limitations.
Well, I think it's one of the worst looking films of all time only topped by Stone's own Natural Born Killers (1994) and Any Given Sunday (1999), this guy just went way OTT as a director. The last ones of his I can watch are Wall Street (1987), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and The Doors (1991) nothing past those.
Donald Sutherland absolutely owned the one scene he was in. In 15 minutes all eyes were on him & he made sure he made every single second count. A masterclass in acting right there & always gives me goosebumps whenever I see it.
If you want to further see what a great job Oldman did, you should watch him side by side with the real clips of the real Oswald. It's a remarkable performance.
For something about the life, rather than the death, of President Kennedy, I highly recommend Thirteen Days, an unusually accurate movie account of the Cuban missile crisis. There you will see a "military-industrial complex" eager to go ahead with nuclear war. They were missing the glory of World War II and disappointed by Korea and the Bay of Pigs invasion, and for them the A-bomb was simply a bigger bomb. The nervousness of the time also gave us a novel and subsequent movie, Seven Days in May, starring Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, about a possible military coup of the United States. Another great movie, suffering the bad luck of being a serious dramatic portrayal of almost the same plot as Dr. Strangelove and overshadowed by it, is Fail-Safe, starring Henry Fonda as the President. These are three great movies which give you some sense of what the mood and the mindset was like in the early Sixties. Grim stuff, but fascinating. As for JFK? It sent me down that rabbit hole for years, but now I think of it as a movie, not about the assassination, but all the doubt and skepticism which arose after the assassination. Thank you so much.
aaah...... actually.... the person you saw playing Bannaster was Ed Asner. he is Jules Asner's father-in-law and was Mary Taylor Moore's boss in her long running hit sit/com on tv. NOT PART OF THE "Odd Couple".
yeah, what I was trying to say was, Walter Matthau was not in this movie. maybe you should 'check out' the movie "Front Page" (a movie in which has both "Odd Couple" actors).
@@samuelmoulds1016 Matthau was in the movie - he played Senator Long when he chatted with Garrison in the plane about Oswald's lack of proficiency with a rifle.
I was a little girl when this happened and I remember seeing it, seeing him get shot and grabbing his neck and I remember seeing Jackie climbing on the back of the car , everyone thought she was trying to get away but it turned out she was trying to grab a part of his head that had been shot off. And I remember the reporter Walter Cronkite telling us the terrible news , I remember how he was so choked up he even took his glasses off. I heard Jackie kept her bloody suit on and when someone tried to see if she wanted to change her clothes she said no because she wanted people to see what they did to her husband!! Little funny thing , I was so young that when they put his body on the plane I thought they were flying him to heaven.. ( saw it all on tv) I also remember a lot of people were crying!!
I was in elementary school when the news broke and first knew something was going on when I saw my older sister who was also in the same school crying outside where I was. I was in the living room with our b&w tv on, when I witnessed Oswald being shot on live TV.
I'm assuming that you guys reacted to the theatrical version that's 3 hours and 8 minutes. There's a director's cut of this film that's about 17 minutes longer. Lots more info but just as mesmerizing.
I always felt the main point of the film isn’t that everyone and their brother was involved, but simply that there were about 100 different ways it could have happened which made more sense than the official story.
Not according to the evidence, which all points right at Lee.. This might be the most vetted dude in history, go learn about him.. Then learn about Charles Whitman, and the hundreds of other lone nuts since..
Hell, aliens from Mars, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or even Frankenstein's monster were more likely suspects in this crime than Oswald. Even so, there are still some failed abortions, posing as human beings, out there who still believe the findings of the Warren Commission Report - a 26 volume, 16,000 page document which none of these half-wits have ever read. But, they still eat it all up like Grandma's Sunday supper. I'm reminded of a quote, which despite me being a card-carrying athiest, I believe comes from the bible - "There is none so blind as he who will not see."
@@SeanATX The way most people view Occam`s razor has become quite annoying. Instead of concluding that most of the time the simplest explanation is the correct one, they`ve gone to believe that the simplest one is always the correct one. That is of course, ridiculous and yet a lot of people think this way.
Saw this movie as a young teen when it first came out (in the UK) I didn't know anything about the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and very little about Vietnam. So I read everything I could get my hands on and I'm still lost in the rabbit hole 30 years later!
I haven't read anything fictional (though I'm sure a lot of people say any JFK conspiracy is fictional) I'm wondering if it's worth a read, though.@@ennesshay5040
One of my favorite parts of this movie is during the Sutherland scene and flash backs we see General Y on the phone "We're going." "When?" "In the fall. Probably in the South. We need you to come up with a plan." "I can do that." So dark and scary but I love it.
I'm so glad you two chose this movie! I remember just coming out of college and landing a job at Forbes Magazine when this movie came out. I mentioned seeing the movie to my boss (middle aged white guy) and he railed at how horrible it was for Oliver Stone to release such a film that had so many inaccuracies and lies - it hit an immediate nerve. And I think it hit a nerve because it's so good. Jim Garrison may have been crazy as a loon, but his search for truth - even if he never finds it - is the true power of the movie and Costner's Garrison reminds me so much of Jimmy Stewart's Mister Smith goes to Washington. He's the everyman that's as lost as we are, and he will sacrifice his own comfort to find that truth. I absolutely love this film and no other RU-vidr has reacted to this but you two. Thank you. And congrats on your baby ;)
Yeah, I get that. The movie's "offensive" because it's _convincing_ and I guess any good journalist would probably at least _hope_ that people are convinced by accurate reporting rather than great acting, editing, sound design etc. (good as it is, the movie is pretty much a case study in the power of rhetoric over truth)
A great film, but it all needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Oliver Stone admitted he threw all the main theories into one story, and took major liberties with characters. Great movie though. Thanks for reacting! ✌️
What kind of "grain oil sslt" are you talking about? The kind that murders a sitting president, or the kind that uses all the powerr and propaganda to fool dupes into believing Lee H. Oswald did it all by himself. . .
@@kingfield99 Well... That's of course, a very American view, on the event. For me, as an European, it makes a lot of sense. Especially because I have an outside perspective on the events and am aware of the “Pentagon Papers”. If Kennedy had access to this Pentagon study (and this is likely because Eisenhower was also aware of it), then it was also clear to him that a war in Southeast Asia was unwinnable. And why fight a war when you know the war can't be won? The dog is buried there! But for an American, such a thought is a nightmare, that four presidents, from both major parties, were clear that Vietnam was a huge mistake and the war was fought anyway. Your republic, Sir, is rotten and that Donald Trump asshole could be its gravedigger. One could now ponder how long the Roman Empire continued to function after the Roman Republic had defacto collapsed. The problem is that you Americans are not nearly the caliber of the Romans. You are not even worthy of being called a pathetic copy of the Romans. Got it so far...?
If he had taken liberties with the evidence itself, then some salt might be warranted. But as it turns out, one of the biggest inaccuracies is the boxes of weapons going thru Banisters office had French writing on them, not Spanish. 🤔
I was in grade school the day Kennedy was shot. My teacher was weeping. I remember crying walking home after early dismissal. I watched Oswald get shot by Ruby on live tv. It was horrifying and the beginning of my radicalization during the sixties. Years later i fell down the rabbit hole of JFK conspiracy theories. There’s a reason the CIA and FBI refuse to release thousands of pages about JFK’s assassination in the National Archives. Why? Appreciate your screening and, as always, your critiques and intelligent discussions afterwards.
Thanks for watching this one! Oliver Stone is one of my favorite directors of all time. Please watch Natural Born Killers starring Woody Harrelson and RDJ, based on a script from Quentin Tarantino.
TBR and Samantha, you guys did an excellent job in your reaction to this movie! What CAN you say, as a reactor, when your eyes or minds are being opened to previously unexplored possibilities? I always enjoy your reactions and in this case, particularly, your comments. Great Job!
First, great job editing. It's such an underacknowledged aspect of reaction videos, but it's such an enormous undertaking, normally, never mind for a movie like this!! Secondly, I didn't once notice your reaction being anything below the great, enjoyable reaction quality that we regularly get from you guys. It's one of the things most of us love about your channel. Quality reactions (and discussions) that adjust to the individual movies - because you're actually absorbing, contemplating, and thinking about the movie. Lastly, I do hope you don't see big differences in numbers based on these concerns you have about some movie reactions. I just love your selections and have never been disappointed in your videos. So, I always hope to see such a variety of interesting, and different, films.. And I hope you're never penalized by that, via the algorithm or the view count (at least, not to an extreme that makes it not worth your time). Much love from me and the ElectricLady! 😄
Thank you for reacting to this film. It is one of the most influential films in my life. When this movie came out in 1991 I was 11 years old. I will never forget my mom renting the double VHS from the video store and watching it with her all the way through absolutely enraptured by the filmmaking and story telling. We got to the end of the 3-hour film and I asked her if we could rewind the tapes and watch it again. We did. We spent 6 1/2 hours that night digesting this story. I have never trusted the government since. Soon afterwards I found a Paperback copy of Jim Garrison's book, On The Trail Of The Assassins in a thrift store and I read it over and over again. Then I gradually started reading other books on the assassination. Fast forward 30 years and I have an entire library dedicated to The JFK thing. It never gets old. It only gets deeper and deeper. Welcome to my world TBR. Lol😂
@@Jekyll_Island_Creatures well my mother passed away a couple years ago, we had different ideas but some of the same, we both agreed it was more than 1 shooter but that was not just because of this movie. there is alot more about many theories, and not just about JFK.
Honestly, I’ve been obsessed w/this movie (and all things JFK) since the theater. Y’all did a GREAT job - your reaction was flipping perfect. Don’t second guess. Well done. For real.
Love this movie, and your reaction. Just remember, it IS just a movie. Some of it really is just fiction. But it's fun to look into all of the theories.
I was 12 when this happened. I heard with my own ears Oswald say "I didn't shoot anybody!" AND "I'm a Patsy!"and watched Jack Ruby shoot him on live TV! The great Conspiracy of the Assassination was to create a Maze of Conspiracies, impossible to untangle ....
I saw this movie, IN a theater, a couple weeks after it came out. As you two said, didn't feel at all like 3 hours...and we went to a 10 p.m. showing! lol Afterward, we were like, crap, it's 1 a.m.!
Although this is a great movie from a movie making basis. Oliver Stone definitely took some liberties with the story as he is known to do. There were however a good bit of people who hated JFK for various reasons. The Cuban Missile Crises, The Bay Of Pigs, and not wanting to expand in Vietnam. The feelings he was a bleeding heart who was weak. But the conspiracy theories are interesting to think of.
Glad you two got to watch this. I saw this in theater when it came out. I waa a freshman in highschool and went with my girlfriend. Another great Oliver Stone flick with heavy duty true conspiracy is Snowden.
Gotta love an Oliver Stone flick. The movie make's you think twice about what you thought you knew. It's a very well made movie. And remember guys, conspiracies happen everyday in all corners of the world. All it take's is more than 1 person to conspire.
yeah, I was soooh afraid his part in the movie was going to ruin his acting career! I mean, I was afraid every time he was in another movie people would say, "LOOK! There's Lee Harvey Oswald!"
Hey-o to Dan and Sam. Great job reacting to one of the most intricately thought-provoking films ever made and one of my most personal favorites from one of my favorite filmmakers. By the way, Dan. The person at 17:46 -17:48 and 27:40 - 27:44 whom you called "an alien" is Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, whose namesake led the government investigation known as the Warren Commission who concluded Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy by himself (even though now more than ever those findings don't hold legitimacy no more). But what's even more surprising is Earl Warren was played by the real-life Jim Garrison, whose book On The Trial Of Assassins was one of two historical novels {the other being Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs} which the movie was based and who Kevin Costner portrayed. Also, another real-life person who was in this movie was Perry Russo who provided testimony in Garrison's actual investigation that connected Clay Shaw with David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald. Russo plays the patron at the bar who was clapping and cheering that Kennedy had died. Other bonus trivia is that director Oliver Stone spent $3 million of the film's $40 million budget to have the real Dealey Plaza restored to what it looked like back in 1963. The producers had to pay a substantial fee to the Dallas City Council have police hired to reroute traffic and close streets for three weeks. Stone had only ten days to shoot all of the footage he needed. To accomplish he used seven cameras (two 35mm and five 16mm) and fourteen different film stocks. A big challenge during production was filming at the former Texas School Book Depository since the actual vantage point is known as the Sixth Floor Museum and the rest of the building is now the Dallas County Administration Building and the area of the window where Oswald was accused of shooting Kennedy from is sealed behind large-pane display glass. Because of this, $50,000 had to be paid to put someone in the sniper perch window and were only allowed to film at that particular location between certain hours with only five people on the floor at one time >> the camera crew, the actor playing the gunman, and director Oliver Stone himself. One of the producers for the film said in an interview one difficulty that was extremely arduous was restoring the Depository to resembling the way it looked back then. Five months of negotiation with the Dallas city officials was spent just to accomplish this. Additionally, Jasper Garrison (Jim Garrison's oldest kid in the movie) is played by Sean Stone, the actual son of Oliver Stone. Plus, the newscaster of the television special that unjustly discredits Garrison's investigation is played by Bob Gunton, who played Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption, which you two watched on the channel a couple years back. I also remembered he also had a role in the movie Demolition Man, which was also viewed and reacted to as well. Thanks to you both for experiencing and expressing your thoughts on this cinematic masterpiece and one of the most important projects that helped draw widespread public attention to one of the most if not the most unanswered tragedy of the last century. Take care. 👍🙂
It's an incredible film. Saw it multiple times in theater. Saw it again for the re-release. Watch it pretty regularly. I'm glad you did this reaction. One of Oliver Stones' best films, even if It's not incredibly accurate. The Actors crushed it on every level. Thank you again for this reaction.
I’m so grateful you’re reacting to this classic. As I’m seeing this, I’m not sure if you’re watching the theatrical cut or the Director’s Cut. I hope that if you’re interested there are two specific documentaries that focus on the JFK assassination as well as Jim Garrison’s investigation. They are: - The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes (which has interviews with the real Jim Garrison.) and - Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (compares the real events with situations that the film dramatizes).
This is a movie where Kevin Costner plays a guy who becomes immersed in a mission, but no one believes in him, and it threatens his family life and his marriage. Unlike The Untouchables, a movie where Kevin Costner plays a guy who becomes immersed in a mission, but no one believes in him, and it threatens his family life and his marriage. Which is also unlike Field of Dreams, a movie where Kevin Costner plays a guy who becomes immersed in a mission, but no one believes in him, and it threatens his family life and his marriage.
Nobody believes Costner in Field of Dreams? Did you watch any of the scenes with his family? His wife (Annie) bent over backwards to support him despite her brother's threats. His daughter (Karen)... "You look real to me." And this was a film when Kevin Costner was on screen far more with his wife and family than the other 2 movies mentioned.
Well done for watching this. It's one of my faves but definitely needs more than one watch to absorb all the details. I think you did pretty well on the editing, to keep the plot fairly watchable for those of us who know the movie 😁 I really hope you venture into ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, (1976) with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman followed by the more recent THE POST (2017) which looks at the same Watergate issue from a different angle. Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep are both in it, you can't go wrong with it! They are great investigative/conspiracy/dramas.
I saw this movie in the mid to late 90's and it did to me what the red pill did to Neo in the Matrix. There were times when I wished that I could go back to living a blissful life of ignorance, but now I wouldn't have it any other way. Think of all the history since this movie came out that might actually have a different perspective that we would ignore if all we listened to was one source of information. The one thing that I didn't want to believe was that our government was capable of lying to its citizens, not to mention everything beyond the lying. I would have taken it at face-value that other governments were lying, but not ours. This movie was an eye-opener for sure. Other movies that contributed to a different look on life have been John Carpenter's They Live, 1984, The Matrix, Wag The Dog, Minority Report, and The Truman Show. Once you start diving into these things, you start to wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes. My eyes have definitely been opened at one point (Red-Pilled) and I have to question things instead of just take them all at face-value. Good luck with your searches and we'll see you on the other side.
"Can you just have a series of unfortunate events?" Yes, it is possible. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which started World War I, was one such instance. He had survived the initial attempt but a series of events occurred in the aftermath that brought him back within the path of one of conspirators who finished the job and kicked off the first World War.
I can't think of a bigger compliment that you could've given to this movie than your assertion that it should be required viewing for everybody. I wholeheartedly agree.
Obviously!!! It is a true story in certain parts! Especially the part where Rose Ceramie was thrown out of a vehicle by two gangsters who worked for Jack Ruby, Guy Banister pistol whipping Jack Martin, Lee Bowers was killed when his car left an empty road and struck a concrete bridge abutment near Midlothian, Texas, and Eladio del Valle getting murdered on February 22, 1967, on the day David Ferrie died.
From a distance I can share a movie with friends, never thought I’d enjoy this style of entertainment, and here I am a fan since 1000’s and I truly truly enjoy your channel , and I appreciate your time no hard work…and thanks for opening up with us and taking a risk and a chance by sharing an open opinion and review … I think your analysis is so on point and I am amazed at how quick you’re on plot……and your love for cinema is so gratefully admired
Just a remarkable cast. A wonderful movie, not at all meant to be taken completely literally, but it certainly begs a few questions. Excellent choice. I hope it was worth the long edit!
There’s a funny self-own in this film: the scene where they’re timing how fast three shots can be fired they actually fire the rifle _faster_ than the “impossible” speed they’re skeptical about, and certainly faster than the time Costner reads off of the stopwatch. Doesn’t prove anything either way of course since it’s a movie, just funny that they didn’t notice when editing. Typically films have things like a five second countdown that somehow takes half a minute of dramatic close-ups and music, but here they were too fast even for what the film’s based on let alone the dramatic reenactment
Gary Oldman also portrays Oswald actually firing the three shots at two different points in the film, complete with recoil, and both times he does it even faster than Jay O. Sanders does dry firing the rifle despite obviously struggling a little with the stiff bolt action. Nobody in the entire film takes more than 5.6 seconds to fire three shots.
John Candy proved his legendary status and acting prowess in this short but memorable performance in JFK. He is recognizable in appearance but a chameleon in his role. Underrated has a dramatic actor, but he solidified his range in this masterpiece of a film. Thx for reviewing this movie!
His character Dean Andrews Jr. said: “You got the right ta-ta, but the wrong ho-ho” in real life from archived footage of him in a documentary about the making of the film.
yeah, Candy says my favorite lines in the movie when he stands in a crowded restaurant and shouts, "You crazy, just like your Mama!!! Which only goes to show it's in the genes!!!"
The beauty and rewarding part of being a conspiracy 'theorist' is that you learn who the monsters in this world are and you learn to spot both evilness as well as those good people with strong moral compass & integrity ..; both involved in the battle between good & evil and how this battle for now, is still ruling our societies, while we are mostly occupied with the daily routines. I am not ashamed to want to know the truth. These type movies hopefully will put more people on that path looking for answers. Loved your reactions to this gem. Great movie, which depicts the many enigmatic layers to this whole event.
jfk is one of the 2 most obvious cases of "true conspiracy" in u.s. history. the other took place almost 38 years later, and we're not supposed to even specify the date that we should "never forget".
FYI- The guy that played Chief Justice Earl Warren is the real Jim Garrison, Kevin Costner's role. If you're really interested in this movie, there was a lot written about it when it came out. Oliver Stone took considerable liberties with the historical facts, but it's a real conspiracy that does have some validity.
When this movie came out, I was just astounded and couldn't believe what I saw. As I've gotten older, I have realized this movie has every conspiracy theory piled on top of conspiracy theory and it's a big conspiracy casserole. There was a documentary in the late 90's that had a computer recreation of Dealy Plaza and the angle of the shots that line right up from the book depository and show the so-called magic bullet went in a straight line. It was Oswald and Oswald only.
Documents declassified during the Trump administration showed Oswald had an FBI handlers. "The intelligence community has 6 ways from Sunday to get even." - Sen. Chuck Schumer in reference to Trumps criticism of the CIA.
This movie while incredibly cast and acted, is just fiction. Stone himself admitted that he put all the theories and critics of the Warren Commission into the character of Jim Garrison. The Kevin Bacon character, Willie, was not a real person in real life, he was based on 3 different people. Great fun movie, but anyone who studies the actual case knows that it's a package of unfathomable lies. Glad you watched it!
Masterfully made movie but I do highly recommend watching Lemmino’s or Sean Munger’s JFK videos here on RU-vid as an anti-dote to the, well, bunk that this film heaps on the viewer
