1. How Casting and Cinematography Bias Audiences
... focus on President John F. Kennedy, but on "Jim Garrison, the heroic, embattled, incorruptible investigator who wishes to make sense of J.F.K.'s assassination and its apparent cover-up" (Rosenstone, 124). Stone's interpretation of Garrison symbolically embodies all of the American public's speculations of what events actually occurred on the day of Kennedy's assassination. (Brener) Similarly to J.F.K., instead of focusing upon the President, All the President's Men takes an alternative perspective on the Watergate scandal. The film recounts the story of Carl Bernstein ... bugged potenti...
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