Oliver Stone's Jfk
Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) is about the assasination of United States president John F. Kennedy as he passed through Dealy Plaza in Dallas Texas on the 22nd of November, 1963. This film seeks to raise concerns that had been building up for some time about the nature of Kennedy's murder. It is a film that seeks to raise a new myth surrounding the assassination that will, in Stone's own words, "interpret history in order to create lasting universal truths...Our film's mythology...hopefully...will replace the Warren Report, as Gone With the Wind replaced Uncle Tom's Cabin, and was in turn replaced by Roots and The Civil War." (pg. 201, The Cinema of Oliver Stone) The Warren reprt is the official investigation that took place regarding Kennedy's murder which concluded that Kennedy was killed by "lone nut" Lee Harvey Oswald who acted alone in the murder and was in turn killed by vigilante Jack Ruby who was also acting alone. Though this is the official conclusion reached in the case it has been suggested that, even before the movie was made "depending on whose poll you quote, between 55 and 75 percent of Americans today believe there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy." (Dr. Grover B. Proctor, Jr., The Saginaw News, D
In the film we are shown Garrison's growing dibelief as we see him (played by Kevin Kostner) poring over a volume of the Warren Comission report. As someone who wasn't going to accept whatever was fed to him. The Zapruder footage is in colour so perhaps this is why Stone chose to portray what he thought to be truth in colour. Other characters in the film were less true-to-life and were made up of composites of more than one person involved in the real-life conspiracy. She says in her JFK analysis: "Numerous characters, for example, smoke throughout the film, 'blowing smoke' and putting up 'smoke screens' to hide behind. Another true-to-life character in the film is Brian Ferrie (Joe Pesci). He was killed during the Garrison investigation and his death is one of the many questionable deaths surrounding the case/conspiracy. Had this role been played by an unknown actor, one might have not realized who the character was in the later scene with Garrison and therefore would have missed some of the relevance of the information given. A further blurring of reality and fiction in this film is the use of real historical footage as well as footage recreated by Stone to look real. Ferrie was a former airline pilot who also allegedly conspired with Bannister and Shaw. Garrison was the District Attourney of New Orleans at the time of Kennedy's murder who, 3 years after the murder actually took place, began to have suspicions that the Warren commision had not found out the entire truth. This image or the glasses implies the fact that many chose to remain blind to the fact that many witnesses to the murder and people who were invoved in the conspiracy were 'coincidentally' killed before or after they had a chance to contribute their evidence to the investigation.
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