I recently watched this mini series.
Here is a relativly short list of what I found to be amazing about this series:
1. The acting/voice acting
Martin Sheen (JFK), Blair Brown (Jackie), John Shea (Robert F. Kennedy) did an amazing job of capturing their character. Martin Sheen's accent was very well done, and John Shea's acting was fantastic. They both felt like that they were JFK and RFK, at least to me. Blair Brown's accent was not as amazing, but still very well done. She too, really felt like Jackie to me. To be honest i think she was one the best portrayal of Jackie i have ever seen, maybe even better than Natalie Portman in "Jackie" and Katie Holmes in "The Kennedys" The rest of the cast was pretty alright as well.
2. The attention to detail
For example there are scenes where you see things that other movies or series would not focus on. Like the president's back brace, and that he has a secial pillow in his chair, to make it more comfortable. The historical accuracy is pretty high in my opinion, and this comes from a man who is a history fan and has studied the kennedy presidency. The only issue i see is that the tensions between Lyndon B. Johnson (Nesbitt Blaisdell) and RFK are not focused on, although they are touched on for a few brief moments.
3. Interesting scenes
To me there were a lot of interesting scenes, such as when they have shown how RFK was fighting for the rights of african americans. They have also shown what is happening, soo basicly they have shown what happened between the pro segregation people and the african americans. These scenes are quite brutal to be honest. There were a lot of very interesting scenes, but i going to got to the assassination scene. All we can see is the cheering crowd, the waveing presidential cuple and the limo wich they are riding in. The camera focuses on the first lady as she is waveing and looking away from her husband. Then we can hear a gunshot, everything falls silent for a second. Jackie turns around to see her husband leaning forward and raising his hand to his throat. She leans over to him to check what is going on. A few moments later the second shot rings out, we can see the president's blood splashing all over the first lady. In this moment all hell breaks loose, The crowd and The first lady are screaming. Jackie crawls onto the trunk of the limo, then we can see SS agent Clint Hill (Harry Madsen) jumping on the car and pushing the first lady back into the passenger compartment from to trunk. The Limo driver speeds up and the motorcade races towards Parkland Hospital. When they arrive, they first have to take out the seriously injured Governor Connally. (J. R. Dusenberry) Then they want bring the president into the hospital, but Jackie refuses while she sobs. Clint Hill offers to cover the president's head with his jacket, and the first lady finally lets him go.
This is not where the series end, but I won't tell what happenes in the hospital.
What I did not like:
1. The sireis end with some loose ends:
- We do not hear about what happened to MLK (Charles Brown) and to others after they are locked in a church and surrunded be pro segragation people.
-We do not get any information on what happened to J. Edgar Hoover (Vincent Gardenia) after RFK confronted him.
2."Martin Sheen and John Shea does not like like JFK and RFK"
-Well they don't exactly look alike, they acted perfectly in my opinion. I have seen actors who looked much more like the president and his brother, but not acted as great and did not spoke with the proper accent. Martin Sheen and John Shea really did feel like ther characters in this one. I don't think that they don't look alike is a problem, but i thought i should point it out.
3. Unconvincing scenery
-The sceses in wich they were in dallas, were not filmed along the actual motorcade route.
Parkland hospital looked nothing like the real thing.
4. There was no third gunshot.
I hope you found this helpful.
This thing is definitely worth a watch!
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