To many of the far-right persuasion,Hollywoodbeing a liberal place means itnecessarilyproduces content to liberalize the masses.
(The author J.G.
Ballardhad no such issues.)
Dennis Quaid as President Ronald Reagan, riding a horse in the biopic ‘Reagan.‘Rob Batzdorff*
The movie condescends to its own faithful as well.
Absent scenes where we learn who they are and why they matter, they are introduced with name captions.
But why should we care if that guy is Caspar Weinberger or the other is William P. Clark?
The filmmakers sure dont; were skimming Wikipedia.
Never before I have a watched the cinematic equivalent of aBen Garrisoncartoon.
Shame they didnt slap Washington, D.C. over the White House.
Questions of craft must have been seen as a mere distraction from the message ofReagan.
(As a related aside, Quaid never quite settles on a pronunciation of Gorbachev.)
We hear Reagan, in his 1983 speech calling the U.S.S.R. an evil empire, quote C.S.
Elsewhere, Reagan solemnly intones, family is important.
GiveReagancredit for this detail, then: The kids disappear by 1969.
Well … why not?
