Frost/Nixon Trailer

Here's a trailer for Frost/Nixon. The quality is a bit low but if you want this stuff early you'll have to relax your standards people. You can't have your cake and eat it. (Shouldn't that phrase really read; 'You can't eat your cake and still have it'. Makes more sense, no? Me for President! I'll fix that shit!) We'll hopefully post a better version here soon.

If the trailer is low on quality, the production just screams QUALITY!. As in 'this is a classy, quality production now give us our awards'!!!. It seems like the Americans are jumping on a rather intangible bandwagon. In recent years, British cinema and TV have been making a small and barely noticeable habit of simple dramas based on relatively recent historic events that somehow act as snapshots in time. Their scope is often small but the films take on the lives of people who are still very much in the public eye. The Queen and The Deal are the two most notable examples. Michael Sheen, played the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair in both films. In fact Sheen has made a niche for himself in playing real-life characters. Blair, Kenneth Williams, HG. Wells, Brian Clough in the upcoming The Damned United and now David Frost in Frost/Nixon. The movie tells the story behind a famous interview between David Frost and Richard Nixon. It doesn't sound remotely cinematic and granted, it is based on a play but the trailer makes this feel epic.

We should point out that this aforementioned 'trend' is more than likely lead by one single man. Peter Morgan is the writer of The Queen, The Deal, Frost/Nixon and The Damned United. It seems his success in mining the simple drama of the story behind the news hasn't gone unnoticed and now Ron Howard is jumping on his bandwagon to hitch a ride to the awards podiums. Further evidence that Hollywood in general might be hitching this ride is offered by Oliver Stone's W., which seems like something that could have been written by Morgan. Time will tell if Hollywood can maintain the poise, class, and it-shouldn't-work-but-it-does feeling that the British bring to Morgan's work.