I feel Hopkins approached this role as an acting job, where he was to create a Nixonian character. Audiences seem to expect a Nixon imitator in the part instead. I very much favor a pro like Hopkins over the unfortunate person who just happens to look and/or sound like Richard Nixon. I think most people would agree if they think about it a little more.
+Heliogabby I think he said he approached the role from a Shakespearean angle which Hopkins was a veteran of on the British stage and venues like the Old Vic in London. He saw Nixon as a tragic leader character like King Lear and Richard III.
+Maximuscaligula You're right. And I agree with the general sentiment here that we shouldn't focus on look alikes and impersonators. We need someone with a deeper understanding of the character, like Hopkins. That's how Shakespeare characters are played, because ofcourse we can never know what the characters really look(ed) like.
BBC produced Othello with Hopkins in the lead. Worst portrayal of Othello in film history ; that is without mentioning Hopkins being in full blackface. Not necessarily the Worlds greatest actor....
He was easily one of the most influential presidents in US history-in both the positive and negative. And ultimately he was a victim of his own personality and insecurity.
Yes it is quite strange he ever felt the need to spy on the DNC after they were still in meltdown mode all through his presidency. He could've just left well enough alone and gone out as one of the presidential greats.
Lawyer: Sir, they're preparing four articles of impeachment. Nixon: Yeah, for what? Lawyer: Abuse of power. Nixon: Yeah. Lawyer: Obstruction of justice. Nixon: Yeah, what else. WTF, Isn't that enough? lol
"Hey you know, Fred, they sell tickets-" "It's Ron" "-yeah, they sell tickets to the impeachment like a damned circus" Laughed so hard at that little bit
I don't think Nixon was a villain... did you see this movie? If you read independent historians Nixon achieved 70 percent of his campaign promises... the highest ever. And what was going on at the time of Watergate?
@@chrisgardiner2215No harm to you Nixon was a lunatic. His " mad man theory " was hardly the basis for a functioning foreign policy. He makes Trump look good.😉👌🍀
Not to jinx him,but I’m sure most tributes to Anthony Hopkins will start off with his role in “The Silence of the Lambs”. But I think this film captures Mr. Hopkins as a truly legendary actor and performer.
Last year I saw him play a mentally unstable young man, who had been doing ventriloquism, and completely goes over the edge over the course of the film. He was brilliant in that.
2021 - I don't think there's any need to say anything about Anthony Hopkins' interpretation... Unattainable... But this is one of the scenes that most portray Nixon: now he is alone, he has everyone against, even himself. General Haig and Kissinger will push him out permanently, for the good of the country (or rather, of the System, of the "wild animal"), but Nixon, one of the most unconventional and powerful historical figures of all time, continues to fight. He continues to fight. "A man does not cry, he fights..." (Applause from the congress hall underlines the sentence like no other nuance...) Masterpiece.
@@Capcoor I just think it's a shame that Oliver Stone had to take the story of the one really big *true* conspiracy in history, and muddy it up trying to make himself look less insane about the assassination of JFK.
@@CinemaDemocratica Wdym? Are you saying that watergate was done by the CIA/FBI to take down Nixon? If so, the movie seemed to keep it vague whether or not Nixon actually perpetrated Watergate. At the very least, it’s made clear that his downfall was at least somewhat due to the political establishment wanting to get rid of him.
In Bob Haldeman's book The Ends of Power he said that all those tapes where Nixon mentions the Bay of Pigs thing he is referring to the JFK assassination.......
"The hell he will - then fire him too! Even if you have to go all the way down to the Janitor at the Justice Department, then fire that son of a bitch!" - hahahah.
Imagine how outraged the American people would have been if during his trial, O.J. Simpson had fired Marcia Clark; and yet by Richard Nixon firing Archibald Cox, he did the same thing.
"Now, I have made my mistakes but I've never in all my years of public life profited; I've never profited from public service. I've never obstructed justice; and to I can say from all my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people got to know whether their president's a crook, well I'm not a crook I, have earned everything I've got."
Big fan of Nixon. It's full of incredible performances. My only issue is all the flashbacks. Imo, they were unnecessary and distracted from the focus of Nixon's time in office.
Fire em...Tell Richardson to fire em. Hell he will. Fire em too. If you have to go all way down to the janitor at the Justice Department fire that son of a bitch. LOL!!
I love how Nixon is laughing while trying to sack Cox, he’s starting to crack “If you have to go all the way down to the janitor in the Justice Department, fire that son of a b****!”
I thought this was one of the most brilliant performances, 'ever'. the movie he was overrated in may have been 'silence of the lambs'. i.m.o., his accent sounds distinctly 'american' in 'nixon'. the one great actor who I feel has a hard time with American speech is Russell crowe, e.g. 'a beautiful-mind'. 'course, he's Australian, and not European. maybe it's just naturally harder for him. but it definitely can be a nuisance.
I agree Mr. President. Unlike President Trump you do not worship your own image. You were just massively paranoid and that is because of those damned Kennedy boys sir. I see your stock rising in the coming year's sir. History will recognize you as one of the greatest leader's of all tim.
yes Mr. president. they are all cowards. they have no grasp of history I'd the greatness of the movement but are instead concerned with trivial mattress. what you need now is a bold move, like when you bombed Cambodia against all their advice. fire em all. in fact now go out and insult the famines of the pows. and the veterans especially the disabled ones. yes Mr. president. make America great again.
Richard Nixon firing the man prosecuting him is like O.J. Simpson firing the people prosecuting him. I also thought it hypocritical of Nixon saying he would not comment on a case currently before the courts when he declared Charles Manson guilty when his case was currently before the courts.
bill bixby Trump went bankrupt six times, lost the popular vote, allowed 3,000 americans to die in puerto rico while claiming success and North Korea is still carrying out nuclear tests. Oh, and the dumb bastard can't even pronounce the word "anonymous".
bill bixby Oh, and Trump blew a $1.5 Trillion Dollar hole in the deficit, Illegally bombed Syria, and is succeeding in driving Russia and China into a military alliance. But he graduated from Wharton Business School. Wow! How does graduating from Wharton Business School qualify him to run the United States?
My dad was a staunch Republican and hated this movie. Not sure if it was because it gave a sympathetic portrayal of him or made him look worse than he was
This scenes mangles the timeline a bit: Congress wasn't seriously considering impeachment until long after the Saturday Night Massacre. This is basically a conversation from summer of 1974 moved up about nine months.
Nixon's mother was Irish Quaker. California was full of first generation Scots and Irish when Nixon was growing up, and it was them that any immigrant picked up English from, hence the rhotic /r/ sounds and the short vowels. Hopkin's accent bordering on Irish sometimes? You are definitely onto something there: Did Sir Anthony see something in Nixon that his canny Welsh ears alone could detect?
A senator once tried to impeach me... I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Cianti.
klavss76 I JUST GOT IT
klavss76 😆
Peter Grun it was still funny and a spelling mistake doesn't mean someone is illiterate you arrogant twat!
tried to implumb me then imapple
@Klavss76
Nice!
The fact that they DIDN'T cast a lookalike is what makes this performance so good. No rubber noses and jowls: just a hairstyle and acting.
I feel Hopkins approached this role as an acting job, where he was to create a Nixonian character. Audiences seem to expect a Nixon imitator in the part instead. I very much favor a pro like Hopkins over the unfortunate person who just happens to look and/or sound like Richard Nixon. I think most people would agree if they think about it a little more.
+Heliogabby I think he said he approached the role from a Shakespearean angle which Hopkins was a veteran of on the British stage and venues like the Old Vic in London. He saw Nixon as a tragic leader character like King Lear and Richard III.
+Maximuscaligula You're right. And I agree with the general sentiment here that we shouldn't focus on look alikes and impersonators. We need someone with a deeper understanding of the character, like Hopkins. That's how Shakespeare characters are played, because ofcourse we can never know what the characters really look(ed) like.
Yep just plain old school great acting. Not silly makeup or bullcrap CGI.
This is pure crap, an englishman playing an american president.
Tony looks nothing like Nixon - but he captures Nixon's mannerisms in perfection - Tony is the world's greatest actor.
He absolutely is.
Yep
He's British
BBC produced Othello with Hopkins in the lead. Worst portrayal of Othello in film history ; that is without mentioning Hopkins being in full blackface. Not necessarily the Worlds greatest actor....
@@robtru84 Welsh first, British second.
one of the most underrated performances of all time by Anthony Hopkins, nobody ever talks about this masterpiece of a movie
Really, Nixon didn't have an English accent. The movie, Final Days is much better.
"I will never resign this office. Where the fuck am I?"
Anthony Hopkins gave one of his finest performances in this film.
idk doesnt seem very good to me actually...
Too much of the Brit accent comes out
He seems miscast to me actually
By acting British?
@@ronniejdio9411 no he just doesn't look like nixon to me. Id have to see the movie.
Nixon also had a weird nose.
"When people look at you, they see the person they want to be. When they look at me, they see the person they are." Words to live by.
WarriorDragon567 yes!
WarriorDragon567 Lincoln used the military...yea we could call in the NG. Omg could you imagine
how... who are you supposed to be in this analogy
He was easily one of the most influential presidents in US history-in both the positive and negative. And ultimately he was a victim of his own personality and insecurity.
He was always worried about the enemies on the outside all the while his biggest enemy was inside himself.
And the cia..
Yes it is quite strange he ever felt the need to spy on the DNC after they were still in meltdown mode all through his presidency. He could've just left well enough alone and gone out as one of the presidential greats.
The janitor at the Justice Department disliked this video...
+Brandon Daniels lol hahahaaa
+Brandon Daniels And Al fired his ass too.
Cos he got his ass fired
He asked for it ...
🤣🤣
"Hey ya know Fred they sell tickets!"
"It's Ron."
***** I know. I love it. He probably was like that too.
I must have seen this movie 20 times and never noticed that until now.
Kitty McRatSlayer OMG! I’ve watched this film several several times and I never noticed that. Classic! 😆😆
Kitty McRatSlayer He was directing his comment at Fred Buzhardt..... played by George Plimpton
Was he the White House counsel who replaces John Dean?
"What I know about this country I could rip it apart... where the fuck am I." So much truth here.
CenyddRos bay of pigs.. The JFK assassination ect ect
@Jesus is Muslim The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, said, at the Wedding Feast of Cana, "Do whatever he tells you".
When I’ve had depression spirals so I really feel Nixon here 😂
Hopkins deserved Best Actor Oscar for this performance.
A great cast. Nixon was a brilliant man and diplomat but his insecurities were his undoing. Oliver Stone did a marvelous job with this movie.
I agree, it's my favorite of Stone's movies.
@@Heliogabby Same. 🇦🇺👍
Lawyer: Sir, they're preparing four articles of impeachment.
Nixon: Yeah, for what?
Lawyer: Abuse of power.
Nixon: Yeah.
Lawyer: Obstruction of justice.
Nixon: Yeah, what else.
WTF, Isn't that enough? lol
Kindergarten stuff for Nixon :)
@@edvingrabar5229 Exactly! He wasn't Tricky Dick for nothing!
Good man!
"Hey you know, Fred, they sell tickets-"
"It's Ron"
"-yeah, they sell tickets to the impeachment like a damned circus"
Laughed so hard at that little bit
Nixon is such a Shakespearen villian. Hopkins is class.
I don't think Nixon was a villain... did you see this movie?
If you read independent historians Nixon achieved 70 percent of his campaign promises... the highest ever.
And what was going on at the time of Watergate?
@@chrisgardiner2215No harm to you Nixon was a lunatic. His " mad man theory " was hardly the basis for a functioning foreign policy. He makes Trump look good.😉👌🍀
@@dowdallerno1 where did you get your information from?
@@dowdallerno1 are you a citizen of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
@@chrisgardiner2215 no man, but my people built your country, so wind your neck in kid.😉☘️👍🍀
This was Oliver Stone's best film. Keeps getting better and better with age. The subject, the acting, theme, cinematography.
The man never drank a Duff in his life!
I'd also like to express my fondness for...that particular beer.
"I can't go to jail Monty, they'll eat me alive!"
Didn't he write an article for Redbook?
"That man never drank a duff in his life" - Homer
Powers Boothe. RIP
One of the greatest actors ever
Great actor. Real presence.
He also appeared as Curly “Bill” Brocius in Tombstone (1993).
"First abuse of power"
Nixon: "yeah"
That sudden smile at the end. Yike
I distinctly remember the firing of Archibald Cox. That action sealed Nixon's fate. It marked the beginning of the end game for Nixon.
Powers Boothe's reaction (as Alexander Haig) to Nixon's command to fire them is one of my favorite moments in the entire movie.
Alexander Haig is suspect.
Powers Boothe was great in this film.
@@TrequartistaFM Same for Tombstone (1993).
Sir Anthony Hopkins deserved the oscar by an actor in a leading role, instead of the winner that year, Nicholas Cage. Just my opinion.
Wow. Just wow... Criminally underrated movie and performance by Hopkins.
'There's more... There's more than just me.' - what a beautiful script
A man doesn't cry, I don't cry, you don't cry, you fight!
Nixon Wept later in the movie.
patr70 That’s true
The smile at 3:05 is just too good
"The president can bomb anybody he likes!
yup..just ask W and obama.
and Trump
not Carter
michael andrews and now Trump.
waveali “That’s true!”
Hopkins performance as Nixon was amazing!
Not to jinx him,but I’m sure most tributes to Anthony Hopkins will start off with his role in “The Silence of the Lambs”. But I think this film captures Mr. Hopkins as a truly legendary actor and performer.
Last year I saw him play a mentally unstable young man, who had been doing ventriloquism, and completely goes over the edge over the course of the film. He was brilliant in that.
@@steveleeart”Magic”. I haven’t seen that in a while. It’s excellent and one of his early roles.
Absolutely underrated performance by Hopkins.
2021 - I don't think there's any need to say anything about Anthony Hopkins' interpretation... Unattainable...
But this is one of the scenes that most portray Nixon: now he is alone, he has everyone against, even himself. General Haig and Kissinger will push him out permanently, for the good of the country (or rather, of the System, of the "wild animal"), but Nixon, one of the most unconventional and powerful historical figures of all time, continues to fight. He continues to fight.
"A man does not cry, he fights..."
(Applause from the congress hall underlines the sentence like no other nuance...)
Masterpiece.
Hopkins - just an amazing actor.
Nixons counter threat. "What i know about country i could rip it apart"
This scene is amazing. Fire that sob!!! This movie has about 3 scenes that are among my favourite scenes ever.
As a huge Watergate buff I was disappointed by this movie but I've got no complaints about Hopkins' performance. Magnificent.
With what did you have an issue?
@@Capcoor I just think it's a shame that Oliver Stone had to take the story of the one really big *true* conspiracy in history, and muddy it up trying to make himself look less insane about the assassination of JFK.
@@CinemaDemocratica
Wdym? Are you saying that watergate was done by the CIA/FBI to take down Nixon? If so, the movie seemed to keep it vague whether or not Nixon actually perpetrated Watergate. At the very least, it’s made clear that his downfall was at least somewhat due to the political establishment wanting to get rid of him.
In Bob Haldeman's book The Ends of Power he said that all those tapes where Nixon mentions the Bay of Pigs thing he is referring to the JFK assassination.......
There’s even a line in the movie to the affect. It’s a scene between Erlichman and Halderman.
Such a great performance... Can’t believe hi didn’t win the Oscar
"The hell he will - then fire him too! Even if you have to go all the way down to the Janitor at the Justice Department, then fire that son of a bitch!" - hahahah.
Hopkins is phenomenal.
A brilliant performance by Anthony Hopkins.
Imagine how outraged the American people would have been if during his trial, O.J. Simpson had fired Marcia Clark; and yet by Richard Nixon firing Archibald Cox, he did the same thing.
2:00 "He's asked for it" is a perfectly delivered aside.
My mother said "Ron Ziegler was an asshole". I guess she was right upon hearing him saying the janitor at the Justice Department deserved to be fired.
See you later, Powers Boothe. :-( Until that blessed day, I'll miss you (& your wonderful, schmexy voice) to pieces... *(gives his spirit a big hug)*
Anthony Hopkins looks nothing like Nixon, but he does the best job of portraying him.
Did you know Nixon? ( I don't mean that sarcastically)
Great acting by Hopkins
"Now, I have made my mistakes but I've never in all my years of public life profited; I've never profited from public service. I've never obstructed justice; and to I can say from all my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people got to know whether their president's a crook, well I'm not a crook I, have earned everything I've got."
Yeah right!
Big fan of Nixon. It's full of incredible performances. My only issue is all the flashbacks. Imo, they were unnecessary and distracted from the focus of Nixon's time in office.
a lot of it was cheap pathos. it went way back into his younger years and didn't focus on Nixon the man becoming Nixon the politician.
I loved the flashbacks. Reminds you that he was once a young boy trying to please his mother.
Hopkins, brilliant acting loved this movie
Back when impeachment meant something and wasn't just a campaign tool abused by both parties.
Fire em...Tell Richardson to fire em. Hell he will. Fire em too. If you have to go all way down to the janitor at the Justice Department fire that son of a bitch. LOL!!
Great renditions of Haig and Kissinger too
Hopkins goes a bit into an almost Irish accent especially @2:25 “Ya can’t break my boy!”.
I love how Nixon is laughing while trying to sack Cox, he’s starting to crack
“If you have to go all the way down to the janitor in the Justice Department, fire that son of a b****!”
Nixon was quite inspirational there. Like it or not, he was the elected president, so he had the duty to fight back against his partisan enemies.
Back in the day when you had some faith in government and held those accountable unlike today.
Hopkins should of won the Oscar for this, never mind The Silence Of The Lambs.
I love this i can definitely imagine this being Nixon his mannerisms are perfect
To be fair, this is the way I'd be acting if I were ever to be President. I'd be demanding everyone be fired that I didn't like as well.
1:51 I like how he kind of scoffs/chuckles lol Nixon had problems but he was brilliant.
I thought this was one of the most brilliant performances, 'ever'. the movie he was overrated in may have been 'silence of the lambs'. i.m.o., his accent sounds distinctly 'american' in 'nixon'. the one great actor who I feel has a hard time with American speech is Russell crowe, e.g. 'a beautiful-mind'. 'course, he's Australian, and not European. maybe it's just naturally harder for him. but it definitely can be a nuisance.
brian filley Hannibal lecter is American tho so he wasn't tryin for an American accent in silence of the lambs
Hannibal's Lithuanian, actually.
He was an odd choice.
"So they impeach me -- well fuck 'em!" --- Hmm, in the case of Bill Clinton, it was just the other way around. :)
1:11 "Plenty of people did their best writing in prison; Ghandi, Lenin....Hitler."
Just kidding ;).
I was thinking the same thing hahaha
Trump " hold my beer"
"Manolo! Mrs. Nixon is finished!"
They should've done more with the character of the janitor.
Bullshit.
I agree Mr. President. Unlike President Trump you do not worship your own image. You were just massively paranoid and that is because of those damned Kennedy boys sir. I see your stock rising in the coming year's sir. History will recognize you as one of the greatest leader's of all tim.
yes Mr. president.
they are all cowards.
they have no grasp of history I'd the greatness of the movement but are instead concerned with trivial mattress.
what you need now is a bold move, like when you bombed Cambodia against all their advice.
fire em all.
in fact now go out and insult the famines of the pows.
and the veterans especially the disabled ones.
yes Mr. president.
make America great again.
Richard Nixon firing the man prosecuting him is like O.J. Simpson firing the people prosecuting him. I also thought it hypocritical of Nixon saying he would not comment on a case currently before the courts when he declared Charles Manson guilty when his case was currently before the courts.
The music for this movie is fantastic.
This is my third favorite film, after The Godfather Trilogy and A Man for All Season.
Best actor ever..
They sell tickets to a impeachment like a goddamn circus
"what I know about this country can rip it apart"
Boy that's relevant lol
..LOL. and at the end of that the Press secretary replies, "he deserves it" !! meaning the janitor.
Powers Boothe playing Alexander Haig was pretty befitting for him.
Why?
@@rmorton8281 WHY NOT??
This is like a Trump meeting with his staff only Nixon was MORE LIKABLE.
lordmjh Except Trump hasn’t been charged with anything though. And he’s much more likable than Nixon.
earlybirdgaming 12 Trump is an idiot. Nixon was actually kind of intelligent.
bill bixby Trump went bankrupt six times, lost the popular vote, allowed 3,000 americans to die in puerto rico while claiming success and North Korea is still carrying out nuclear tests. Oh, and the dumb bastard can't even pronounce the word "anonymous".
bill bixby Oh, and Trump blew a $1.5 Trillion Dollar hole in the deficit, Illegally bombed Syria, and is succeeding in driving Russia and China into a military alliance. But he graduated from Wharton Business School. Wow! How does graduating from Wharton Business School qualify him to run the United States?
bill bixby Seriously? Wharton fucking Business School? Who gives a shit?
I'm sure Nixon didn't mean for any bad things to happen during his presidency, most people when they are born, are fresh pure souls.
Powers Boothe: "Well...bye"
Hopkins plays Hopkins.
Nixon was a fall down mess by this point. His own chief of staff knew the end was nigh closer than he thought.
just like how Trump fired Comey
And look at how that turned out for you.
No worries, Trump has one chance to win.
@@Airland_combat Get the evidence
Fire em. Fire everybody!!! 🤣🤣🤣
"It's Ron, sir"
My dad was a staunch Republican and hated this movie. Not sure if it was because it gave a sympathetic portrayal of him or made him look worse than he was
Probably because nixon was a bad man and republicans hate truth.
Damn Powers Booth is too likable to portray Alexander Haig. Rip Cy Tolliver!
This scenes mangles the timeline a bit: Congress wasn't seriously considering impeachment until long after the Saturday Night Massacre. This is basically a conversation from summer of 1974 moved up about nine months.
Just hire Elvis, he'll kung fu his way through all this mess.
His accent bordered on Irish a few times.
Nixon's mother was Irish Quaker. California was full of first generation Scots and Irish when Nixon was growing up, and it was them that any immigrant picked up English from, hence the rhotic /r/ sounds and the short vowels. Hopkin's accent bordering on Irish sometimes? You are definitely onto something there: Did Sir Anthony see something in Nixon that his canny Welsh ears alone could detect?
When did they make this Trump documentary?
olivier stones doesnt have the stones for that especially trump alive, let alone during his 1st therm dumbass!
this is from 1995
Dumb fucker! 🖕😠
I never knew a Welshman was a POTUS!
plenty of people do their best writing in prison
big weird smile at the end.
Nixon had a strange smile.
great, great scene, great performance by mr hopkins, but nixon never sounded that scottish (i think)
President NIxon and Vice President Noah Daniels in the same room!
24.
Gotta love good old Nixon, he understood the enemy
How's it feel knowing you Trumpflakes are the 38% minority? Enjoy the election!
Nixon was a full drunk by this time
@mariatechnosux I'm happy you're happy! Glad you like it.
He speaks like Al Pacino here..
It's all in the technique.. And well noted! 🍷
hey, it's Cy Tolliver!