It seems appropriate to follow yesterday’s footage of Oliver Stone’s W. with the international trailer for Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. Both films are about leading candidates for worst U.S. President of all time (well, after we discount Harding, Buchanan, Jackson, Pierce and a number of others). And each has a subject that apparently inspired the year’s biggest blockbuster, The Dark Knight.
Weeks ago, in an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal, mystery author Andrew Klavan basically stated that Batman is George W. Bush in the comic book adaptation. Today, Gabe at Videogum jokingly wrote, “just from watching this trailer, I learned that Richard Nixon was the inspiration for Batman’s voice in the Dark Knight.” Now, the question is, will either of these comparisons help their respective films ride the success of TDK? Oh, and how does Entertainment Weekly’s caricature of McCain as Batman figure in?
Well, there isn’t much worry about a box office battle between Bush and Nixon. W. arrives in theaters two months before Frost/Nixon. And the latter will likely be the only of the two to receive Oscar recognition — Frank Langella may be getting tossed around on the internet today for not looking or sounding enough like Nixon, but he has already won a Tony for his portrayal and he could at least get a Academy Award nomination. At the very least, Peter Morgan will be nominated for his adaptation of his play. Meanwhile, Stone’s biopic will probably be ignored even more than his own quadruple-nominated movie about Nixon.
So, which one of the two presidential movies are you more looking forward to?
[via Vulture]
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