History Film / FrostNixon

''Frost/Nixon'' is a 2008 historical drama film [[TheFilmOfThePlay based on]] the play of the same name by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon TV interviews of 1977. The film version was directed by Creator/RonHoward and produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films for Universal Pictures.

The film reunites its original two stars from the West End and Broadway productions of the play: Creator/MichaelSheen, as British television journalist and comedian Creator/DavidFrost, and Creator/FrankLangella, as former United States President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon.

''Frost/Nixon'' is a 2008 historical drama film based on the play of the same name by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon TV interviews of 1977. The film version was directed by Creator/RonHoward and produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films for Universal Pictures.

The film reunites its original two stars from the West End and Broadway productions of the play, Creator/MichaelSheen as British television journalist/comedian Creator/DavidFrost and Creator/FrankLangella as former United States President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon.

''Frost/Nixon'' is a 2008 historical drama film based on the play of the same name by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film version was directed by Creator/RonHoward and produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films for Universal Pictures.

** During the climax of the film, Nixon confesses to taking part of a cover-up and letting down the system and the American people. Nixon openly confessed to nothing during the actual interviews: In fact, during the second one, Nixon outright asked Frost (who was asking Nixon if Nixon felt he had made "mistakes" along the way) if this line of questioning was intended to badger him into saying something incriminating, the full quote being "You're wanting me to say that I participated in an illegal cover-up. No!". In other words, the film is almost exactly opposite of what happened in real life.

''Frost/Nixon'' is a 2008 historical {{drama}} film based on the play of the same name by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film version was directed by Creator/RonHoward and produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films for Universal Pictures.

* NotSoDifferent: The phone call about [[SelfMadeMan self-made men]] struggling against the "snobs".
-->"Well, to hell with ''that''! We're not going to let that happen, either of us. We're going to show those bums, we're going to make 'em choke on our ''continued'' success, our ''continued'' headlines. Our continued awards, and power, and glory! We are gonna '''make those motherfuckers choke'''!

* AnecdotalFallacy: Early in the interview session, Frost attempts to trap Nixon by playing graphic video footage of the aftermath of his controversial decision to start dropping bombs in Cambodia. The idea, no doubt, was to guilt Nixon into feeling regret for what happened afterwards [[note]] [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Regardless of who is politically culpable,]] it is pretty clearly evident by most historians that the destabilized situation in post-bombing Cambodia made it easy for the nightmarish Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot to take power in Cambodia. [[/note]]. However, Nixon somehow manages to wiggle out of this by detailing how a Philadelphia construction worker wished that Nixon had gone into Cambodia sooner because it might have avoided the death of his son. It is a masterclass in obfuscation, and Frost's producers and researchers are flabbergasted with how ''Cambodia'' somehow can be spun in Nixon's favor.
--> '''Nixon:''' Whenever I have had my doubts I remembered the construction worker in Philadelphia because he came up to me and he said 'Sir I got only one criticism of that Cambodia thing; if you'd gone in earlier you might've captured the gun that killed my boy three months ago'. So you're asking me do I regret going into Cambodia?... No, I don't. You know what, I wish I'd gone in sooner. And harder!

''Frost/Nixon'' is a 2008 historical drama film based on the play of the same name by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film version was directed by Creator/RonHoward and produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films for Universal Pictures.

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* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Nixon's drunk phone call.

* HypocriticalHumor: James Reston, Jr., the researcher who despises Nixon, swears he'll never shake hands with him; he does so moments later, stunned by being face-to-face with an ex-President of the United States. Zelnick wastes absolutely no time in reminding him of that: [[SarcasmMode "Oh, that was devastating.]] ''[[SarcasmMode Withering.]]'' [[SarcasmMode I don't think he's ever going to get over that."]] Reston promptly tells him to [[PrecisionFStrike fuck off]].

The film reunites its original two stars from the West End and Broadway productions of the play, Creator/MichaelSheen as British television journalist/comedian David Frost and Creator/FrankLangella as former United States President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon.