I'm surprised
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RoyWilliamsbeatsCoachK — 9 years ago(September 10, 2016 05:06 PM)
Well let's wait to see how it is portrayed. It could be made to make Ted Kennedy look sympathetic in that her death was a complete accident and that he spent hours trying to save her. It could be used to try and rehabilitate Kennedy's image instead of tear it down. We will see how they showcase the event and Kennedy's action in it.
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hqahtani — 9 years ago(January 30, 2017 06:17 AM)
A reading of some things the producer says leads to me to believe that. He claims it's about "what he had to go through." It seems like its mostly going to be about how it negatively affected his career . . .
http://freebeacon.com/politics/chappaquiddick-producer-viewers-will-see-what-ted-kennedy-had-to-go-through/ -
Eric-62-2 — 6 years ago(June 05, 2019 04:53 PM)
It turned out to be no whitewash, despite the fact that there was a softening approach to Teddy. The most important thing the film did was show that Mary Jo suffocated, not drowned, and that made his inaction inexcusable. And Joe Gargan's reproach to Teddy before his speech also was where the film by default came down.
Basically the film depicted Teddy as taking the dishonorable way out so he could finally have his father's approval as someone "great". While the film took dramatic license in showing Joe Kennedy still active enough mentally to exercise that control, the underlying subtext I think was brilliant. Yes, Teddy came off with some not completely unsympathetic nuance, but it didn't overshadow the film's ultimate by default negative spin.