About half way through the Frost/Nixon, Nixon aide Jack Brennan (Kevin Bacon) compares David Frost (Michael Sheen) to a boxer who trained for months to face off against the champion-in this case former President Richard Nixon (Frank Langella)-and found that all that training was for naught, that he was hopelessly outmatched.
History would prove different, but this line of dialogue confirms what structure the film is trying to follow. Based on the historic 1977 set of interviews between the two men, Frost/Nixon is akin to a classic boxing movie. You have two former champions with one last chance at retaining their former glory. And the only way either can succeed is if the other one loses.
January 10th, 2009 at 12:17 am
I’ve yet to see this version, I recently caught one that was the *real* interviews. It didn’t seem like much of a battle. Frost really put Nixon into a submission hold. That said, I found Nixon to be an extremely interesting person… I wish more of our presidents, lawful or not were this interesting.