Little references and influence

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Posted by Bambi B on September 26, 2003 at 17:30:27

In Reply to: Movies with a JFK Assassination connection? posted by edta on September 26, 2003 at 17:04:46:

edta,

It's interesting how often the JFK assasination is referred to in film- probably because it's history is so well known to the American public.

These can even make fun of this pervasiveness:

"Annie Hall": Woody Allen obsesses over the the Warren Comm. report and his wife says, "You're using this to avoid sex with me." Allen" My God, she's right."

"The Salton Sea": the scene in which the meth addicts re-enact the assasination with pidgeons riding in a remote control car was a high point of the movie.

Otherwise, I think that the assasination (as well as Watergate)had an effect on mystery and action movies in that it became much easier to create plausible atmospheres of conspiracy. The conspirators could be government or big business, but the public could better accept "The Parallax View" or "Chain Reaction" partly from the real shock of November 22, 1963.

As well, who knows if some part of the tragedies of the assasinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968 and the attempts on Ford and Reagan may have been influenced by the constant reference to JFK. Life imitating art imitating life in effect.

Cheers,

Bambi B

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Topic - Movies with a JFK Assassination connection? - edta 17:04:46 09/26/03 (13)

Richard Linkleter's Slacker - Dmitry 23:39:51 09/26/03 (1)

What was the connection? nt. - edta 18:09:17 10/03/03 (0)

Rent the movie the Salton Sea w/Val Kilmer......... - Chris Garrett 20:28:53 09/26/03 (1)

D'Onofrio himself is easily worth the price of admission. nt - clarkjohnsen 13:20:26 09/30/03 (0)

Executive Action . . . - albee33 18:00:04 09/26/03 (1)

Seems Burt was into this subject - edta 18:23:49 09/26/03 (0)

Little references and influence - Bambi B 17:30:27 09/26/03 (6)

Manchurian Candidate - edta 18:34:10 09/26/03 (5)

Re: Manchurian Candidate - Bambi B 20:02:08 09/26/03 (3)

A professional hit - edta 13:42:00 09/27/03 (2)

New revelations - edta 19:14:23 09/27/03 (1)

Re: New revelations - Bambi B 08:51:40 09/28/03 (0)

Frankenheimer directed 7 Days in May , sorry. - edta 18:39:10 09/26/03 (0)

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Little references and influence - Bambi B 17:30:27 09/26/03 (6)

Manchurian Candidate - edta 18:34:10 09/26/03 (5)

Re: Manchurian Candidate - Bambi B 20:02:08 09/26/03 (3)

A professional hit - edta 13:42:00 09/27/03 (2)

New revelations - edta 19:14:23 09/27/03 (1)

Re: New revelations - Bambi B 08:51:40 09/28/03 (0)

Frankenheimer directed 7 Days in May , sorry. - edta 18:39:10 09/26/03 (0)

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