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Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 1:03AM Movie Trailer - Ron Howard's 'Frost/Nixon'
Peter Morgan's screenplay for
The Queen is unquestionably good. That it
shared a calendar with Morgan's adaptation of
The Last King of Scotland just proves how good
a writer he is and how well, in particular, he writes about power and the people
who wield it.
In 1974, the most powerful person in the world was
Richard Nixon, though his grip on that power was definitely slipping; by August
of that year, Nixon resigned the presidency. Some three years later, Nixon
appeared in a landmark television interview series with British host David
Frost. Morgan's stageplay of those interviews and the events leading up to them
have been turned into
Frost/Nixon, a new film directed by
Ron Howard, with
Frank Langella starring as Nixon and
Michael Sheen, brilliant in The Queen as Tony
Blair, as Frost.
We've got a new trailer, in English with German
subtitles, that shows a tremendous amount of promise.
Reader Comments (6)
I'm pretty damn sure that's Danish subtitles. I guess it could be Norwegian, as a Swede I have troubles seeing the distinction.
I dunno. I was told German and didn't really pay attention to them as they rolled along.
Yeah, no biggie I guess, it's not German however (I studied it for a couple of years... German, not the trailer :).
Seems like quite the movie though, and probably one of this year's big Oscar contenders.
The subtitles are Danish.
But the film looks rubbish. Frank Langella looks like he's sat on a bottle and the "ooo ... will he or won't he do it?" is just cheap dramatisation.
You'd think so, Lengthy, but I've read the play (several times) and it's very, very good. I'm still iffy on Langella, but he's better than Anthony Hopkins was in that role.
Anthony Hopkins was just being Anthony Hopkins as usual but Langella looks like he's taking the mickey.