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How Casting and Cinematography Bias Audiences


In one particularly striking scene, when Garrison is speaking with "Man X," one of Garrison's main sources of information, the Washington Monument looms in the background. Even as the camera changes angles, the Monument remains the focal point of the shots, and Garrison and "Man X" appear to be insignificant in comparison. The ever presence of this representation of the American government gives the audience the eerie sensation that Washington is watching and is ultimately in control. Following this pattern of symbolic usage, Stone .
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             uses the character Jim Garrison to represent a larger ideology and the general feeling of confusion and distrust from the American public toward the United States government. J.F.K. does not 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 and Bob Woodward, two Washington Post investigative reporters", search for the truth behind the infamous break-ins. All the President's Men is a "study in personalities" and "glamorizes the achievements of a few individuals" who are trying to get to the bottom of the conspiracy (Toplin, 180). The film offers a "boldly opinionated picture of an important episode from recent American political history," from the perspective of two young journalists whose "extraordinary revelations identifying the trail of wrong-doings" associated with the Watergate scandal intrigued Robert Redford, the film's producer.


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