Comments on: W. Was A Brolin Stone (Production) https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/11/w-was-a-brolin-stone-production Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:18:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/11/w-was-a-brolin-stone-production/comment-page-1#comment-548352 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:18:07 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12942#comment-548352 I think Nixon informs W a lot, in as much as Stone is trying to avoid making certain mistakes he felt he made in Nixon. In as much as Tony Hopkins isn’t in W he has successfully lept the biggest hurdle.

Nixon wanted to be an important film and was thus weighed down by its attempts at importance. W is trying to be anything but important and therefore oddly seems to gain something. It is more akin to a rock biopic, than a political one (indeed has the same flashback type structure of Ray or Walk The Line (and thus Walk Hard)).

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/11/w-was-a-brolin-stone-production/comment-page-1#comment-548326 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:52:20 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12942#comment-548326 it is surprisingly unlike nixon

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By: DV https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/11/w-was-a-brolin-stone-production/comment-page-1#comment-547989 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:56:51 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12942#comment-547989 Is it in any sense like “Nixon”? I liked that. What you say about W sounds a bit similar – having an actor who is not really impersonating the character as such, and portraying a highly maligned figure somewhat sympathetically.

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