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1. Discuss why you think the film is important and/or why it influenced people

Kerria Bryant

Dr. David Sidore

Perspectives onSociety in Film

17 August 2016

 

Film Background Research

                The multiply award-winning American producer Oliver Stone released the movie JFK in 1991, and forever entered the history of American cinema. This film is perhaps one of the most quality works that were devoted to the events of November 22, 1963, which significantly affected not only the history of the United States but the whole world. JFK has become successful not only due to the interesting scenario and the quality work of the shooting group, but also how strong and soulful, Stone succeeded to demonstrate the power of the American spirit, its steadfastness, and faith in justice.

                The movie JFK identically replicates the events and its consequences that have taken place on November 22, 1963. At 12:30, on Elm Street in Dallas, the country and, in particular, the Kennedy family has experienced the beginning of a terrible nightmare that they could never imagine. At the age of 43, the youngest US President was executed in public. John Kennedy was a reformer who decided to have done with the super powers of the FBI and secret operations of the CIA and to leave the military path behind (Critchlow & VanderMeer 134). Some people said that it is all fault ofthe gangsters, others have argued that the Soviet Union, which at that time was in a state of Cold War with the United States, was to blame. However, Oliver Stone without any fear tries to shed light on the tragic death and the brutal assassination of one of the brightest and most decent presidents in the history of the United States of America.

                This movieis about District Attorney Jim Garrison, which could not live with a comfortable lie who killed the President, and began searching for the truth at the risk of his life. For that truth, the main character as a true patriot is going against his government, because he has not lost faith in the Constitution and democracy. By the end of the film, in a moment of dramatic scene in the courtroom, the viewer realizes that this is not another detective story, it is a movie about the conscience and the inability to live life, ignoring the obvious. This is a film about something called citizenship, patriotism, and the love of the homeland (Ho&Stone 1991).

The visual analysis of the movie gives the basis to note that the image looks very stylish and organized. Not without reason the director of photography Robert Richardson and editors Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia were awarded with Oscar for their labor at the 64^th Academy Awards in 1992 (Riordan 398). Together, they managed perfectly to mount the documentary and stylized like the historical chronicle frames into a single whole. The result of their work was impressive in the 1990s, and even today, in this age of sophisticated technologies, it continues to impress the audience. The investigation of Harrison has been accompanied by continued black-and-white flashbacks, eyewitness accounts, displays of the archiving movies and pictures. Chaotic assembling the film, with frequent changes of frames, short-term transitions from present to past and back, indiscriminate use of zoom and creative work with the lighting make the viewer dive headfirst into events that occurred before, during and after the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Decorated with the 1960s the entire movie with its technologies, interiors, costumes and even smoking pipes, boasts a distinct historical atmosphere of those years.

To summarize, JFKis one of the most controversial and provocative movies in the history of American filmmaking, even today, more than 20 years afterits public premiere. A unique talent of producer Oliver Stone and members of his film crew and the story with enough food for thought are what make this film special to connoisseurs of art and history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

Critchlow, Donald & VanderMeer, Phillip. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print

Ho, K., Stone, O. (Producers), & Stone, O. (Director). (1991). JFK. [Motion picture]. The United States.

Riordan, James. Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, And Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker. Hyperion Press, 1995. Print