Word: murrowã
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...than just tell the story of the television journalists who brought down Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy in the 1950s. Clooney wanted “to make a film as a journalist would make a film,” star David Strathairn—who plays the protagonist Edward R. Murrow??tells a roundtable of reporters in Boston last month. “Everything in the movie was double-sourced...
...could just as well be talking about the emotional palette that he uses to bring CBS News broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to life on screen. Strathairn’s performance never strays outside of the solemn professionalism of Murrow??s broadcasts, whether or not the film’s television cameras are running...
...couldn’t indulge in what he was like at home,” Strathairn explains. He doesn’t even get to play against a human foil—McCarthy, Murrow??s main antagonist, appears only in archival footage of his clownishly fascistic Congressional hearings...
...message of Clooney’s excellent script is in fact anything but gentle: journalists have a responsibility to stand up against governmental abuses, even if that seems to compromise their objectivity. But Strathairn deserves credit for saving the film from tendentiousness, delivering Murrow??s tirades with a calm, persuasive authority that’s unvaried but never wooden...
...person, Strathairn has plenty to say about the cable-based infotainment circus that has succeeded Murrow??s straight-forward, hard-hitting network news broadcasts. “If Murrow was this crystal ball, you just dropped it and it’s shattered,” he says. “There are pieces of it everywhere, but they pick up a different light…The press has just been spun and pressed and squeezed and embedded...