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When Anthony Hopkins was cast as Richard Nixon in Oliver Stone’s bio of the 37th President, many were leery of the casting choice. I myself pictured Hopkins doing a combination of Nixon and Hannibal Lecter: “I’m not a crook — and if anyone thinks so, I’ll eat their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti …. SLURP!!” However, Hopkins does do a gracious job and disappears into the role without becoming a standup comedian’s caricature. Even though Nixon does and says vile things throughout the film, the audience unruffled has sympathy for the character — even those like me who found the loyal Richard Nixon dispicable.
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Stone portrays Nixon as a tragic figure who had the intelligence and the electoral mandate to elevate himself and his administration to greatness, but let it all dawdle away by becoming bogged down in the quagmire of Watergate. Nixon complains incessantly about how the Kennedys are everything he is not. However, it becomes positive that his hatred of the Kennedys is based as grand on his loathing of himself as on any right scorn shown him by the “Eastern establishment.”
Stone, as in JFK, takes determined liberties with Nixon’s memoir and acknowledges as mighty in a disclaimer before the yarn begins. Even those who have President Kennedy was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy, for example, would procure it hard to absorb that Richard Nixon was alive to, even tacitly, in the place to destroy JFK. Stone also takes liberties with his portrayal of Richard and Pat Nixon’s marital relationship. Even though some incidents are no doubt good, it’s sparkling distinct that some scenes between the two are conjecture on Stone’s fraction.
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However, these are minor quibbles. Nixon is a penetrating, titillating biography that both portrays him as a ruthless, vicous, paranoic lunatic and a character who elicits sympathy from the audience. The supporting cast is unbelievable and includes James Woods, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris, David Hyde Pierce, Annabeth Gish, Kevin Dunn, J.T. Walsh, Powers Booth, Paul Sorvino, Edward Herrmann, Larry Hagman, Dan Hedeya, Tony LoBianco, Bob Hoskins, E.G. Marshall, David Paymer, Tony Goldwyn, Fuyvush Finkel and Saul Rubinek. However, the standout supporting player is Joan Allen as Pat Nixon who is a plain ringer for the traditional First Lady. Allen’s portrayal shows the emotional afflict Mrs. Nixon endured tedious the seemingly placid facade she presented to the American public. Coupled with Hopkins’ Nixon, it’s an acting tour de force that carries the film.
After all the vile things he does during the course of the film, Nixon, the night before his resignation, is reduced to staring at a portrait of his idolized archenemy John F. Kennedy and proclaiming that “… when they inspect at you, they look what they want to be. When they ogle at me, they survey what they are.” Even the most die-hard member of Nixon’s enemies’ list can’t succor but feel pity for Richard Nixon during this scene. It’s a gargantuan achievement by Oliver Stone to manufacture this bitter, snide and miserable man proper of the audience’s sympathy at the same time we disdain him.
Oliver Stone’s spellbinding insight into the Nixon administration is not for everyone’s delight. The closest thing to a “JFK” sequal, ‘Nixon’ rolls all the players into a ball of naughtiness & takes it from there. Hard to maintain up with if un-familiar with the facts surrounding the ‘watergate-scandal’, but if you know your homework it’s alot of fun. Expedient casting,I must say, Stone started this account legal after “Natural Born Killers” so it has all the internal flare of film-making. Mammoth enjoyment on DVD, this film IS very under-rated,losing ‘Best Picture’ oscar to Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart”… you can search for how not everybody wants this film around in the long-run. Thumbs up!
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