Word: strathairn
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...it’s also often as dry as a folded sheet of newsprint. Even Clooney’s visuals are rigorously period-accurate. “It had to be in black and white, because no one really ever saw them in color,” Strathairn says...
...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...
Surprisingly, Strathairn says today’s ideological rifts were far from Clooney’s mind while the film was shot. “George didn’t want to make a political movie,” Strathairn maintains. “He doesn’t want to proselytize…His intention was not to polarize...
...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...
Disappointingly, director George Clooney's movie about Murrow is, at best, unimposing. Focusing on Murrow's conflict with Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose campaign against an alleged domestic communist conspiracy redefined (at least until recently) political cynicism in the U.S., Murrow (well enough played by David Strathairn) becomes in the film a chain smoker in a suit, making pretty, unexceptionable speeches in support of the First Amendment. They are unshadowed by doubt or fear or, indeed, any sense of what made Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly (whom Clooney plays), such virtuously embattled figures. The movie's appeal...