The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Depictions in Film.5/7In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen,
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Depictions in Film.5/7In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen, 1993).This is an interesting re-imagining of the Kennedy assassination in that it is not suggesting a conspiracy but taking one thread from that event, and spinning it off into a fictional story.Clint Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a Secret Service agent who failed to protect President Kennedy during the assassination. This lead to both life long guilt and a degree of shame as he is referred to as the only secret service agent to ever lose a President.Cut to modern day where Horrigan is still on duty, protecting the current President. Horrigan gets pulled into ‘game’ by a former CIA agent reveals his plot to assassinate the President.There is also a John Malkovich and a plastic gun.TumblrChannelTwitter -- source link
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