MAJOR goof
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jones7418 — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 02:31 PM)
The major goof is that Redford took so many liberties with the truth. Who does he think he is, Oliver Stone? Sweet performance by Fiennes and loved the eye candy that is Mira Sorvino. I wonder, was Stempel really the huge a$$hole the movie made him out to be?
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Eric-62-2 — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 04:14 PM)
Frankly, Redford would have been advised to create a fictional character for the part he gave to Goodwin. To compress things by turning a real life figure, Goodwin into something he wasn't is the thing I find most dishonest about the movie. A fictional character could have represented the needed composite type character for dramatic purposes but Redford I suspect did this to Goodwin based solely on the fact that because Goodwin became an anti-war activist who turned on LBJ (after being a speechwriter for him) there was this undercurrent of tapping into what Redford sees as the saintliness of 1960s leftists.
Redford's defense I'm sure would be the "fake but true" line of thinking he tried to further push when he recently played Dan Rather and tried to turn that liar who committed the greatest act of journalistic malpractice in recent memory (a real case of FAKE NEWS) into a hero. -
Eric-62-2 — 9 years ago(January 02, 2017 08:38 PM)
Goodwin's book does not go into the major details about the scandal, only his own role which was mostly after the fact. The book "Prime Time And Misdemeanors" by Joseph Stone (the man who did the actual investigation) is where you'll find more of the inside story of what happened in this investigation.
What Redford did was the equivalent of saying the bench player who hit .230 in limited play was the MVP of the team for the season! -
Eric-62-2 — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 07:36 PM)
Joseph Stone says otherwise.
http://articles.mcall.com/1994-10-09/features/3012206_1_herbert-stempel-charles-van-doren-quiz-show