03-04-2010, 01:54 PM
Jack,
Only the unique powers of art to engage intellect and enflame emotion simultaneously can do justice to the larger JFK story -- at least on screen.
How many assassination-related documentaries came and went before Oliver Stone's JFK exploded into public consciousness and resulted in creation of the Act of Congress that spawned the ARRB?
The pseudo-treatment you've offered is the stuff of non-fiction: linear, rushed, and absent the elements and structure of storytelling.
On the other hand, In Love with Night (working title) would be the story of a woman looking back on the events that brought her together with the love of her life, only to have him torn asunder in the maelstrom of violent history. It would reveal that history from the perspective of a strong yet deeply wounded woman devoted to telling the truth about the man who yet means the world to her.
Only the unique powers of art to engage intellect and enflame emotion simultaneously can do justice to the larger JFK story -- at least on screen.
How many assassination-related documentaries came and went before Oliver Stone's JFK exploded into public consciousness and resulted in creation of the Act of Congress that spawned the ARRB?
The pseudo-treatment you've offered is the stuff of non-fiction: linear, rushed, and absent the elements and structure of storytelling.
On the other hand, In Love with Night (working title) would be the story of a woman looking back on the events that brought her together with the love of her life, only to have him torn asunder in the maelstrom of violent history. It would reveal that history from the perspective of a strong yet deeply wounded woman devoted to telling the truth about the man who yet means the world to her.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene