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关于历史电影，我无法抗拒……尤其是在我时代之前的现代历史。关于我一直听说过的事件的电影，但并不了解很多。我发现这类电影引人入胜，原因不同，但政治上的电影使我最有兴趣。因此，知道我一直期待看到Frost/Nixon非常。

我一直知道理查德•尼克松(Richard Nixon)唯一的公关esident in the history of the United States to resign the presidency. I’ve always known it was about Watergate. But really, my knowledge stopped there. To see a movie actually made about the time after his resignation, especially surrounding the events of the Frost interviews was something I’ve really been looking forward to. This film, like many other released this time of year, has a lot of Oscar buzz around it. Deserved? Yup.

一般的想法

The synopsis for Frost/Nixon reads something like this: “For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost’s team harbored doubts about their boss’s ability to hold his own. But as cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted. Would Nixon evade questions of his role in one of the nation’s greatest disgraces? Or would Frost confound critics and bravely demand accountability from the man who’d built a career out of stonewalling? Over the course of their encounter, each man would reveal his own insecurities, ego and reserves of dignity–ultimately setting aside posturing in a stunning display of unvarnished truth.”

THE GOOD

神圣的胡扯……我一直都知道弗兰克·兰格拉（Frank Langella）是一位好演员（他是骨骼的bit子！），但是每当我看到演员试图刻画理查德·尼克松（Richard Nixon）时，他们通常会看起来有些愚蠢。尼克松并不是一个容易玩的人。但是我的下巴在地板上，看着兰格拉扮演尼克松。他很完美。他不仅是完美的，而且还带出了男人的天才。男人的力量。男人的狡猾。男人的喜爱。男人的背叛。男人的好一面和男人的坏面。 He was a compelling and powerful CHARACTER as opposed to the CHARACITURE that many other performers end up making him look like. Nixon, the man, was a formidable and imposing person. Intimidating, not because of his power, but because of his incredible intelligence and quick thinking… usually undone by his temper and his reactive nature. Damn I loved every second Langella was on screen playing this man. I have no doubt in my mind he’ll be up for an Oscar for his performance.

有时，像Frost/Nixon这样的电影都会完全专注于主要角色，而忘记在任何现实生活中，总会有关键人物从聚光灯中脱颖而出并以不可估量的方式塑造它。这部电影非常出色地向弗罗斯特和尼克松周围的人们展示了他们如何对历史和更著名的事件的个人影响。我通常发现他们的故事比主要角色的故事更有趣。

除了两个男人彼此舒适的椅子外，没有其他“动作”的电影，他们能够建立的紧张局势令人印象深刻。The way these two spared, playing verbal chess was actually exciting to watch as Frost tried as hard as possible to back Nixon into a corner to publicly convict him of charges he would never face in court, while Nixon used his intellectual judo to use Frost’s own questions against him as he tried to use the interview to rebuild his public image. Great stuff.

坏

我将在这里成为少数派……但是，迈克尔·希恩（Michael Sheen）作为弗罗斯特（Frost）的表现并不留下深刻的印象。This was really disappointing to me because I count myself as a Michael Sheen fan and usually love his work (he is amazing as the leader of the Lycans, Lucian, in Underworld and I can’t wait to see him in Underworld 3), but he never sold me on Frost at all. While Langella gave us insight and depth to Nixon, Sheen felt like he was always just giving us the surface of Frost, and when the script called for his to give us something a little deeper, he just couldn’t seem to take us there. Whatever… I’m still a fan.

For the uninitiated (including myself), even though the movie isn’t about Watergate, the fact of the matter is that the events of the movie are a result of Watergate, and I think the movie should have dedicated maybe 5 minutes here or there to really lay out for the audience (many of whom weren’t even born where those events happened) what Watergate was and exactly what went down. Without that context, I think the sheer magnitude of the events will be lost on some people.

全面的

弗罗斯特/尼克松是一部引人入胜且引人入胜的政治戏剧，这是弗兰克·兰格拉（Frank Langella）今年最佳表现之一的头条新闻。这部电影显示出比许多其他从同一布上剪裁的电影更深的角色演员表，从来没有觉得它被拖了。是的，Sheen并不像Frost那样出色，更多的历史背景会增加……但其中两个都不是交易的人。Overall I give Frost/Nixon an 8.5 out of 10