The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Depictions in Film1/7In this multi-part series, we will be goi
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Depictions in Film1/7In this multi-part series, we will be going into a little dive into some of the film depictions of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.The reason for focusing on this topic is I initially felt that the assassination comes up A LOT in films. It was such a traumatic shared experience it just seems like something that would be depicted more. Truth is, there are only a bunch of films that feature it in some way, and here I will only be looking at 8 films and television shows that have broached the topic.The point I will be focusing on is that the further we have gotten away from the crime, with fewer people around who were directly influenced by the event, more and more liberties have been taken with its depiction.This is due largely to the surrounding suspicion that there was a conspiracy, that the story we have been told of a single assassin, three shots, no accomplices: is false. This gives filmmakers an out, a legitimised reason to mess around with what happened. This digression aside, this brings us to the films above.Parkland (Peter Landesman, 2013), and Jackie (Pablo Larrain, 2016).These two films are more or less depicting the assassination as is. Parkland looks at everyone there that day, and specifically the medical staff at Parkland Hospital who received the President, but also Abraham Zapruder who shot the infamous film of the shooting, and the secret service.Jackie, obviously, focuses on Jackie Kennedy and her interview with a journalist from Life magazine who penned the famous Camelot story. The assassination is told in flashback, with a smattering of images here and there and the direct aftermath.These are fly-on-the-wall depictions and avoids any of the conspiracy tom foolery we will see in other films.TumblrChannelTwitter -- source link
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