MOVIE TRAILER -- OLIVER STONE'S "JFK" (1991)

Added by AFIoscar 10 months ago on 27 February 2009 02:04

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Oliver Stone's "JFK"

Release date December 20, 1991.

Starring

Kevin Costner .... as Jim Garrison
Gary Oldman .... as Lee Harvey Oswald
Tommy Lee Jones .... as Clay Shaw
Joe Pesci .... as David Ferrie
Sissy Spacek .... as Jim Garrison's wife, Liz
John Candy .... as Dean Andrews

In 1991's hit movie, "JFK", the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is explored through the conspiracy-seeking eyes of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) and the film's director, Oliver Stone.

Take note of a funny mistake in this trailer (or it has the appearance of a mistake anyway) when Garrison/Costner is supposedly talking to Jack Martin (played by Jack Lemmon), but via the trailer's editing, Garrison seems to be calling him "David" (which was snipped from a different scene where Garrison was speaking to David Ferrie, played by Joe Pesci).

OSWALD'S SHOOTING PERFORMANCE AND
ANOTHER OLIVER STONE BLUNDER

A very interesting fact was brought out (by total accident) in Oliver Stone's fairy-tale flick "JFK", when the actor playing Lou Ivon (Jay Sanders) is seen attempting to duplicate the timing of Lee Harvey Oswald's shots (erroneously believed, for some reason, by the filmmakers to be shoehorned into 5.6 seconds, when the Warren Commission explicitly stated that the shooting took anywhere from "approximately 4.8 to in excess of 7 seconds" [Warren Report; Page 117]; therefore, as that passage illustrates, the Warren Commission was certainly NOT boxing itself in to just a "5.6-second" shooting timeline as Oliver Stone's movie wants people to believe).

Anyway, Ivon/Sanders dry fires three shots in UNDER SIX SECONDS, utilizing (I can only assume) a bolt-action rifle very similar to that of Oswald's Carcano. Costner/Garrison then looks at his watch and claims that Ivon took "between 6 [and] 7 seconds" to get off those three shots....which is dead-wrong, and anyone can just watch their own DVD player's elapsed-time counter and count the seconds for themselves.

It took Sanders approx. 5.5 seconds to squeeze off those 3 shots in the movie. Sanders fires his first shot at exactly the 11450 point in the film (elapsed running time), with shot #3 occurring prior to the DVD's time counter reaching the 11456 mark.*

* = Based on the "Director's Cut" Two-Disc Special Edition DVD of the film (released in 2001).

In other words, Oliver Stone's movie, apparently without Mr. Stone even realizing what he had placed ON FILM in his own motion picture, PROVES a key lone-assassin-favoring aspect of the JFK murder case (i.e., that Oswald certainly had enough time to fire three shots from a bolt-action rifle in the allotted time per the Zapruder Film). It's hilarious.

If Oliver Stone had been smart, he would have had Sanders struggling like mad with the bolt of the rifle and would have had the actor take 8 or 9 seconds (or maybe even longer) to do the re-creation.

But as it is, Stone has his actor smoothly working that bolt and getting off three shots in almost exactly the same amount of time that most people think (incorrectly, of course) the WC was pigeonholing itself into re. the shooting timeline.

It's really quite interesting, and very funny, considering it's proving exactly the OPPOSITE of what the filmmaker is intending to "prove".

Also -- Sanders was utilizing a weapon that I can only assume Sanders hadn't used much, if at all, prior to the filming of the scene. Although it is possible, of course, that "Take #39" was the one with the 5.5-second shooting re-creation that ended up on screen in the movie -- which, if true, would only tend to indicate that "Practice Makes Perfect" when utilizing a bolt-action carbine for rapid-fire shooting.

Maybe some conspiracy-happy people of the world can start up a new theory -- "Oliver Stone's motion picture has been altered by a band of Government shills in order to show that Oswald's shooting performance could be accomplished in approx. 5.5 seconds!"

The same conspiracists can then add (for good measure) the following addendum -- "The film MUST be faked in some way during that shooting re-creation scene in the Book Depository. Because, why on this Earth would Oliver Stone possibly want to have (ON FILM) proof of something that most conspiracists say is utterly impossible?"

David Von Pein
December 2006

http://google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/9bce073792dae800

RELATED LINKS

MY "JFK" REVIEW
http://amazon.com/gp/review/R1ZW3QU49S1AM1

THE BRAINWASHING OF AMERICA
(A LA OLIVER STONE)
http://google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/22e70f88404a998b

MORE "OLIVER STONE" DISCUSSION
http://google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/0a931249aa0eddff

RELATED MOVIE REVIEW (1973's
"EXECUTIVE ACTION")
http://hometheaterforum.com/htf/showpost.php?p=3263134