A documented screenplay of the Oliver Stone film, complete with historical annotation, with 340 research notes and 97 reactions and commentaries by Norman Mailer, Tom Wicker, Gerald R. Ford, and many others. "It's a lesson in craft to watch JFK on video while reading along, charting what got cut, softened, and rethought." -Entertainment Weekly
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Exhilirating and thought-provoking,
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This review is from: JFK: The Book of the Film (Applause Screenplay Series) (Paperback)
Possibly the smartest screenplay ever written for an American political film. People tend to respond to this movie according to their own beliefs and conspiracy theories, instead of respecting the brilliant technique with which screenwriters Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar bring these familiar events to new life. Not for the literal-minded, perhaps, but a brilliant construction, a movie that shakes up assumptions and makes you think. Worth a second look, on video and on paper.
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an epic, the least to say.,
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Among all the stories which popup every day, this is one story that we should tell our children exactly how and why it happened, the book as the movie did, presented the whole enigma in such a fantastic realistec way, you feel actually living with the characters breathing with them, at times joining in discussions... the complexity and huge number of names and sides in the story means it is not for teatime at all, you really need to concentrate well with this one.
The event was a tragedy no question about it, and what the late Mr.Garrison tried to do was to prevent what we are witnessing now a days by disclosing the truth, to tell the truth is a courageous mission, to stick to it and face such enormous powers ready to do any thing even kill the president is even harder. I do recommend that we should have a copy of this story whether as a book or as film, for the sake of history which is always twisted by the claws of the most powerful .
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"Even The Shooters Don't Know",
This review is from: JFK: The Book of the Film (Applause Screenplay Series) (Paperback)
"JFK, The Book of the Film "is really an extraordinary achievement....The screenplay incorporates practically every rumor, fact, factoid, and theory regarding the events of November 22, 1963. Almost every line of dialouge is meticulously footnoted.... The second half of the book is a compendium of op-ed articles both in defense of and attacking (as in the case of Tom Wicker, Alexander Cockburn, et al) both Oliver Stone and the film. At times these attacks seem both humorless and hysterical ("hey guys..it's a MOVIE!") Though the book is ten years old, I find myself taking it off the shelf every six months or so to browse both the screenplay and the media barrage surrounding it. A great book!
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Credits run in counterpoint through a 7 to 10 minutes sequence of documentary images setting the tone of John F. Kennedy's Presidency and the atmosphere of those tense times, 1960 through 1963. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
assassination material, fence shooter, getaway pilot, fatal head shot, second floor lunchroom, pristine bullet, neuromuscular reaction, contest against the externally directed, backyard photos, assassination buffs, acoustical evidence, book depository, triple underpass, rifle tests, assassinations committee, single bullet theory, propaganda assets, originating body, former executive assistant, acoustics evidence, trade mart, autopsy photographs, depository building, magic bullet theory, lone nut Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, Oliver Stone, President Kennedy, Clay Shaw, New York, Lee Harvey Oswald, Dealey Plaza, Jack Ruby, Lyndon Johnson, Trail of the Assassins, The Washington Post, White House, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Clay Bertrand, Earl Warren, Kevin Costner, President John, Soviet Union, Bay of Pigs, David Ferrie, Lee Oswald, South Vietnam, National Archives, George Lardner New!
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Credits run in counterpoint through a 7 to 10 minutes sequence of documentary images setting the tone of John F. Kennedy's Presidency and the atmosphere of those tense times, 1960 through 1963. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
assassination material, fence shooter, getaway pilot, fatal head shot, second floor lunchroom, pristine bullet, neuromuscular reaction, contest against the externally directed, backyard photos, assassination buffs, acoustical evidence, book depository, triple underpass, rifle tests, assassinations committee, single bullet theory, propaganda assets, originating body, former executive assistant, acoustics evidence, trade mart, autopsy photographs, depository building, magic bullet theory, lone nut Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, Oliver Stone, President Kennedy, Clay Shaw, New York, Lee Harvey Oswald, Dealey Plaza, Jack Ruby, Lyndon Johnson, Trail of the Assassins, The Washington Post, White House, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Clay Bertrand, Earl Warren, Kevin Costner, President John, Soviet Union, Bay of Pigs, David Ferrie, Lee Oswald, South Vietnam, National Archives, George Lardner New!
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- On the Trail of the Assassins: One Man's Quest to Solve the Murder That Shocked the World by Jim Garrison on 23 pages
- On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy by Jim Garrison on 23 pages
- R.F.K.: Collected Speeches by Robert F. Kennedy on 8 pages
- Warren Commission Report by Warren Commission on 8 pages
- A Heritage of Stone by Jim, Garrison on 5 pages
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