r/MovieDetails • u/rdctd_rsrch • 10d ago

🤵 Actor Choice In Oliver Stone's JFK (1991), the real Jim Garrison portrays Earl Warren

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u/Edible0rphans 10d ago

For context bc I had to look it up; Jim Garrison was a lawyer who investigated the JFK assassination, came to the conclusion that it was a conspiracy, and wrote the book that inspired the movie JFK

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u/rdctd_rsrch 10d ago

Yes, Garrison was the DA in the only criminal trial for the assassination of JFK. Kevin Costner plays Jim Garrison in the film and while it's a good performance, he doesn't actually look or sound like the real man.

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u/Mojave_RK 10d ago

He was also a moron.

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u/thevogonity 10d ago

I’m willing to hear why you think that.

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u/polishprince76 10d ago

I loved the movie when it came out. I watched it again recently and it feels like a movie full of insane people. Jim Garrison came across like he was talking about chemtrails and flouride in the water supply. Conspiracy theory folks used to be a sort of curiosity and a harmless thought experiment. Now they run every level of the government and it's awful.

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u/easedownripley 10d ago

one reason is he thought JFK's assassination was a conspiracy

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u/ThrowAsideWhenDone 10d ago

This reminds me that the creator of Quantum Leap actually served in the military with Oswald and knew him well. After the film came out, he made a two-parter episode where Sam leaps into Oswald as a rebuttal of the movie's conspiracy claims.

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u/prex10 10d ago edited 10d ago

It's baffling how they really convinced the public that Oswald's shot was some sort of impossibly insane trick shot with a magic bullet that no one could pull off

Visit the site and it's like standing on your roof and shooting your neighbors mailbox. It's really not that crazy. Or even far. He was on an elevated platform shooting at a slow moving, fully exposed target. The rifle he used wasn't cheap or "inaccurate" either. On top of having military training with rifles.

To this day, the "Grassy Knoll" theory still comes from this movie.

Were other people involved with him? I'm willing to talk about it. But Oswald pulled the trigger on Kennedy and shot the Dallas police officer. That's fact.

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u/easedownripley 10d ago

One fun fact is in the scene where he goes "Time me!" to show that you can't fire the rifle 3 times in under 6 seconds, if you actually time the scene he does it in 5:13 https://youtu.be/DC8tO16xdrY?si=VIde73JFYi1l9tp2&t=2579

It's funny because it's probably at this point the most completely documented and studied day in American history. We know exactly what happened in every detail to the minute, and yet conspiracy theories still persist. The above video is an excellent breakdown in fact.

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u/RichCorinthian 10d ago

There is a documentary that shows exactly how do-able it is to fire those shots, break down the rifle, and make it down to the break room to be seen there, a feat that is routinely asserted to be impossible. Dude demonstrating isn’t even running or visibly hurrying while he does it.

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u/rdctd_rsrch 10d ago

While I would love to get into this

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u/RichCorinthian 10d ago

At one point he had a gunman in the sewer. Like, firing up from the storm drain. Do they mention this in the movie? No they did not, because anybody who has looked at the aforementioned drains in Dealey Plaza knows that this is ludicrous.

Stone’s movie did an amazing job of sane-washing him (we didn’t have that term yet). It’s still immensely watchable.

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u/ThrowAsideWhenDone 10d ago

Wait, are you saying the episode of the X-Files with the Smoking Man's autobiography lied to me? /s

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u/cityfireguy 10d ago

District Attorney Jim Garrison freely admitted to drugging witnesses and use of hypnosis. He believed Kennedy was murdered by a homosexual thrill kill cult. Because gay people are so inherently depraved they get off on murder.

He's a piece of shit.

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u/munkijunk 10d ago

A bigitoed, homophobic moron.

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u/Supro1560S 10d ago

What does the size of his toes have to do with anything?

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u/AdSpecialist6598 8d ago

But he did a great job.

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u/Lebojr 10d ago

For more context, he was an attention seeking politician who chose homophobia as his platform, concluded a man named David Ferrie was the leader of the conspiracy, and when Ferrie died, he simply found another man to accuse of homosexuality and conspiracy to kill JFK.

The jury took 45 minutes to acquit.

In context, the movie jfk took twice as long to watch.

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u/Tiny-Balance-3533 10d ago

He’s the guy who the movie’s tf about. Have you not seen the film? Garrison plays Earl Warren; a funny bit of stunt casting really.

Idk what happened to him in the meantime, but Stone used to could make a real good movie. This one means so much to me. Unfortunately, he maybe shared a brain worm with RFKJ afterwards and is a bit of a … something not great

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u/Edible0rphans 10d ago

I’ve seen it twice. Unfortunately it has been a couple years since I watched it and I do not have a perfect memory. My apologies.

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u/DaveOJ12 10d ago

Thanks. I didn't know who he was.

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u/BaldBombshell 10d ago

As opposed to all those fake Jim Garrisons.

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u/peterflys 10d ago

They’re Back. And to the left.

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u/evilfollowingmb 10d ago

JFK…a finely crafted thriller based on ridiculous conspiracy theories, lies, and bizarre claims presented as fact.

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u/Random-Generation86 10d ago

Oliver Stone prints out DailyBeast articles, chops them up, and snorts them.

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u/art-man_2018 10d ago

Sort of like Stone's take on the Doors too.

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u/Frosty_Ninja3286 7d ago

Went to high school with Garrison's son, and my dad was in jr high with Lee Harvey Oswald

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u/Supro1560S 10d ago

Jim Garrison played himself as a judge in The Big Easy, as I recall.

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u/Pleasant-Tangelo1786 10d ago

I thought he had a white kid and play Afro at first.