Movie questions 1

1. What questions.

What are you reviewing?
I am reviewing the movie Frost/Nixon

What is it about?
The movie is mostly about the Watergate scandal and the role that was played by Richard Nixon.

What is the plot or storyline?
Richard Nixon resigns from presidency in 1974 after the Watergate scandal. In 1977, he gives a series of interviews to David Frost hoping to give a new breath to his political career. The British host on the other hand whishes to get Nixon to admit his guilt. Both sides try to manipulate the interviews to their advantage.

What is the theme?
The theme of the movie is politics and corruption.

What is the director's purpose?
The purpose of the movie is to transfer a very good play to the big screen.

What genre or classification does it fit?
Frost/Nixon is a true story-based historical movie.

What is the tone?
The tone is very serious.

What is the point of view?
The narrator is omniscient. For example, while some scenes show David Frost trying to keep his project alive even if he has lost his sponsors, other scenes show Nixon walking back to his car after an interview with a satisfied look on his face.

What is the mood.
The mood is quite dramatic, maybe even solemn.



2. Who questions.

Who wrote, directed, or acted it?
The movie was written by Peter Morgan and directed by Ron Howard.

What else have they done?
Peter Morgan contibuted as writer in eight movies. He was also the executive producer of two other movies. He worked for several television series.
Ron Howard is an actor and director who also produced two movies. He played in a dozen of movies and directed over twenty, including Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code

Who are the main characters in the story?
The two main characters are Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) and David Frost (Michael Sheen)

Who is the intended audience?
The movie is rated ''R for some language''. It would entertain people who are interested about modern american history and politics.

Who has said what about this?Why?
Most reviews were positive. For example, Kenneth Turan from the L.A. Times says that Frost/Nixon is the best work of Ron Howard's career, basically because it is well written, well played, well directed and because it is thrilling and involving.
A few critics wrote somewhat negative reviews about the movie, however. Ty Burr of the Boston Globe notes the good acting from the co-stars, but he also says that ''In the name of dramatizing history, Frost/Nixon sacrifices it.'' He also deplores the fact that people keep ''kicking around'' Richard Nixon three decades after the events and 14 years after his death.


3. Where and when questions.

When does the action take place?
The action takes place in 1977, three years after Nixon's resignation.

Where does the action take place?
The action is mostly concentrated on the set where the interviews are shot.