'Parkland' shines new light on Kennedy assassination
Jul 29, 2013 14:23:42 GMT -5
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'Parkland' shines new light on Kennedy assassination
Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY 7:52 p.m. EDT July 28, 2013
The movie, out Sept. 20, explores characters around John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Billy Bob Thornton stars as Secret Service Agent Forrest Sorrels in 'Parkland,' written and directed by Peter Landesman. The look at the Kennedy assassination is due out Sept. 20, near the 50-year anniversary of the fateful day -- Nov. 22, 1963 -- when President Kennedy was killed in Dallas. The film looks at the vital, smaller characters swept up in the terrible drama, including Sorrels, a true professional. "He was all business," says Thornton. "And that's the way I played him." Claire Folger, Exclusive Media Entertainment
Peter Landesman had an ambitious task with his film Parkland -- finding a fresh look at the thoroughly examined assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The screenwriter and first-time director focused on the smaller players with vital but overlooked roles in the chaotic drama which played out on Nov. 22, 1963.
"This is a movie about the ground truth from the ground level," Landesman says about the film due out Sept. 20. "What surprised me was the power and poignancy of those who survived that day and the three that followed -- the heroism, the instincts and the pathos of those swept up in this tsunami. This is an event that happened to individuals."
After the motorcade shooting in Dallas' Dealey Plaza, Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead despite desperate attempts to save his life. His assailant, Lee Harvey Oswald, died in the same hospital two days later after being shot in the stomach.
The unraveling and intertwining narrative stays away from prominent characters such as the Kennedys and instead explores the besieged hospital staff -- with Zac Efron playing the rookie doctor on duty and Marcia Gay Harden as the head nurse in the trauma room. The staff was told only that the president was on the way to the hospital, not of the terrible events which had transpired.
"No one was prepared for what was coming. They thought the president had the flu," says Landesman.
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Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY 7:52 p.m. EDT July 28, 2013
The movie, out Sept. 20, explores characters around John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Billy Bob Thornton stars as Secret Service Agent Forrest Sorrels in 'Parkland,' written and directed by Peter Landesman. The look at the Kennedy assassination is due out Sept. 20, near the 50-year anniversary of the fateful day -- Nov. 22, 1963 -- when President Kennedy was killed in Dallas. The film looks at the vital, smaller characters swept up in the terrible drama, including Sorrels, a true professional. "He was all business," says Thornton. "And that's the way I played him." Claire Folger, Exclusive Media Entertainment
Peter Landesman had an ambitious task with his film Parkland -- finding a fresh look at the thoroughly examined assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The screenwriter and first-time director focused on the smaller players with vital but overlooked roles in the chaotic drama which played out on Nov. 22, 1963.
"This is a movie about the ground truth from the ground level," Landesman says about the film due out Sept. 20. "What surprised me was the power and poignancy of those who survived that day and the three that followed -- the heroism, the instincts and the pathos of those swept up in this tsunami. This is an event that happened to individuals."
After the motorcade shooting in Dallas' Dealey Plaza, Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead despite desperate attempts to save his life. His assailant, Lee Harvey Oswald, died in the same hospital two days later after being shot in the stomach.
The unraveling and intertwining narrative stays away from prominent characters such as the Kennedys and instead explores the besieged hospital staff -- with Zac Efron playing the rookie doctor on duty and Marcia Gay Harden as the head nurse in the trauma room. The staff was told only that the president was on the way to the hospital, not of the terrible events which had transpired.
"No one was prepared for what was coming. They thought the president had the flu," says Landesman.
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