Frost/Nixon (2008)

Kevin Bacon: Jack Brennan

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• Richard Nixon : [Watching Frost head for his car]  You mean to say he just paid me two hundred grand for a visit?

  Jack Brennan : Yeah.

  Richard Nixon : Huh. If I'd known that I would invited him for tea.

• Bob Zelnick : [Zelnick and Reston are preparing to meet Nixon]  Gonna shake his hand?

  James Reston, Jr. : Am I gonna shake - are you kidding me? After everything that prick's done to this country? I'm not gonna shake his hand!

  David Frost : Ah, gentlemen! May I present Bob Zelnick, my executive editor.

  Richard Nixon : How d'you do?

  Bob Zelnick : Pleasure, Mr. President.

  David Frost : And Jim Reston, one of my researchers.

  Richard Nixon : Ah. Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Reston.

  [Offers Reston his hand] 

  James Reston, Jr. : [after a pause, he shakily extends his own hand]  Mr. President...

  Jack Brennan : Excuse me, sir, got a room for you right here.

  Bob Zelnick : [after Nixon leaves]  Wow. That was devastating. Withering. I mean, I don't think he's ever going to get over that.

  James Reston, Jr. : Fuck off.

• Jack Brennan : Well, in boxing, you know, there's always that first moment, and you see it in the challenger's face. It's that moment that he feels the impact from the champ's first jab. It's kind of a sickening moment, when he realizes that all those months of pep talks and the hype, the psyching yourself up, had been delusional all along. You could see it in Frost's face. If he didn't know the caliber of the man that he was up against before the interview started, he certainly knew it halfway through the President's first answer.

• Jack Brennan : [watching the interview]  This is beautiful.