I remember the scenes where he's shown on the podium, the spotlights shining in his face, smiling gleefully at the crowd, then the light drops and, within a split second, his face goes deadly serious, almost looking afraid, full of rage, full of insecurity... it's one of the most fascinating screen performances of all time, i'd urge everyone to watch it.
@mrjasonwhite73
6 жыл бұрын
Hopkins was amazing in this film.
@Woozler554
5 жыл бұрын
I agree. You immediately forget that it's Anthony Hopkins, and you think you're watching Richard Nixon.
@SirJamesthePaul
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve softened up to this film and Hopkins’ performance. I used to think he was miscast but I think his casting made sense. Nixon, for all his malice and flaws, was a smart but very insecure man with a lot of hidden depth. Almost a tragic Shakespearean character. Hopkins worked.
@helenmcgirr230
2 жыл бұрын
Great to watch anthony Hopkins,he is so humble and self deprecating and what a fabulous actor.
@beachbum1523
2 жыл бұрын
NO ONE could successfully imitate Richard Nixon. Sir Anthony Hokins excelled at capturing the essence of Richard Nixon.
@VERMISIMILITUDE
4 жыл бұрын
What an incredibly charismatic & intelligent man Anthony Hopkins is. So fascinating to listen to.👌⭐️👍
@danielbrennan8962
4 жыл бұрын
He should have won the Oscar for Nixon.
@Newjourney14
4 жыл бұрын
i think this is what biopics miss these days, they are too focused on making the actor look exactly like and sound exactly alike and do an impersonation of the character, instead of an interpretation of the character. An interpretation is far more powerful than just an impersonation.
@anthonyespinoza4250
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly, cuz an impersonation just shows us what we already know, while an interpretation adds a piece to the vague puzzle of the person portrayed
@kangaroo3708
Жыл бұрын
@@anthonyespinoza4250 That’s what makes Hopkins so great in Nixon He not only imitates but interpretes Nixon
@bonezzone
3 ай бұрын
And because he did it so well I forgot at times he wasn’t Nixon.
@Lord_of_The_World
3 жыл бұрын
One of his finest performances. The supporting cast was amazing; Joan Allen, Paul Sorvino, JT Walsh, Powers Booth
@tomphillips9803
3 жыл бұрын
James Woods? JT Walsh?
@ust7243
5 жыл бұрын
I love his voice
@timcarpenter2441
9 ай бұрын
I can watch this film over and over. Hopkins did a fantastic job. It is a complex film about a complex character. I love how Oliver introduced Nixon/Hopkins: voice first. Then glances, then body language so you are already sold when you get the visage.
@i.marr.6688
2 жыл бұрын
The movie was great and Hopkins who is Welsh nailed the role, he did deserve an Oscar Nomination and win it, Funny that two actors who played Nixon were nominated for the role, Anthony Hopkins and Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon And Paul Sorvino should have won an Oscar for playing Kissinger ,he looked like Kissinger ,spoke like him and was Kissinger in that film.
@bowtieguy377
Жыл бұрын
I loved the film and thought Anthony Hopkins was just terrific as Richard Nixon. I am saying this as someone who admires many things about Richard Nixon, despite his deep character flaws. Sure, some things depicted were a bit fanciful but it is a Hollywood film. What I really liked was that it humanized him to a degree, while still showing the dark side that ruled some of his worst actions. At the same time, those same flaws when controlled, achieved some remarkable moments as President. Everyone's childhood has an impact on their life going forward and Nixon had it quite rough growing up with a lot of struggle sadness and trauma. This film certainly did not offer up excuses but some explanations for why he was the way he was.
@LC-fo4jn
6 жыл бұрын
A truly great film.
@martintaylor5442
7 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for this awesome upload. Oliver Stone's "Nixon" is one of my favourite films of all time....and i can't imagine anyone else playing the role quite the way Hopkins did. A modern day King Lear tragedy. Excellent.
@nixonsinatra
6 жыл бұрын
Martin Taylor I feel like we should know each other. That move, NIXON, has had an incredible impact on my life and also my acting interests (I'm an actor and a theatre teacher). I also love Remains Of The Day.
@martintaylor5442
6 жыл бұрын
nixonsinatra I'm not alone in thinking this...thankyou so much for your reply.
@martintaylor5442
6 жыл бұрын
Only when you've been in the deepest valley...can you ever know...how magnificent it is...to be on the highest mountain
@Carl-ue4vw
6 жыл бұрын
I love Anthony Hopkins
@ashleyworden1887
5 жыл бұрын
Me too. But I prefer Richard NIxon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💝
@dowdallerno1
6 жыл бұрын
Hopkins best role. Stone is a visionary.
@Tony-outdoors
Ай бұрын
Hopkins is among the greats of film and his performance as nixon will go down as one of the greats
@FiveSigma72
5 жыл бұрын
Barry nailed it saying it was an interpretation rather than an impersonation. Hopkins is so compelling when he has good material (notwithstanding some of the awful historical liberties the film takes in the name of dramatic license) that 5 minutes in you stop thinking about how little he physically resembles the real thing.
@initialreactions411
3 жыл бұрын
maybe the childhood cutbacks were a bit whatever, but the Dick Helms scene more than makes up for any pomp w the single shot of surrealism. Massively underrated movie.
@cjcar63
3 жыл бұрын
An enigmatic actor playing an enigma. Perfection!
@saabguy303
5 жыл бұрын
Hopkins Was “Scary” Brilliant In This Movie!I Was So Fixated On His Betrayal Of Nixon,That It Took Me A While To Realize That He Wasn’t Nixon!
@blk2wite
5 жыл бұрын
He deserved the Oscar for this performance.
@aaronbourke7621
3 жыл бұрын
Love interviews like this where they talk about the movie.. Cheers for the upload
@chrismcevoy2503
5 жыл бұрын
Anthony Hopkins was wonderful as Richard Nixon l
@user-jl1mf8mx9y
11 ай бұрын
Wonderful Anthony you looked great so healthy
@mookie2637
6 жыл бұрын
I've never been a fan of Stone's movies, but Nixon is the exception. And it's not just the directing or Hopkins' undoubted and sweaty brilliance - it's the full power of the supporting cast. Especially James Woods, J T Walsh, Larry Hagman (as a kind of JR avant la lettre) and (slightly surprisingly) Powers Boothe, of all people.
@movienerd202
5 жыл бұрын
"They look at you and they see what they want to be. They look at me and they see what they are."
@valterek3315
4 жыл бұрын
Hopkins and Burton are the greatest of all actors!
@terencehennegan1439
2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating man, brilliant actor.
@Perrosiutico
2 жыл бұрын
Lane Smith was one of the best Nixons on film (The Final Days), aided by a remarkable physical resemblance. Whatever he may have lacked in physically looking like Nixon, Anthony Hopkins makes up by sheer acting "chops."
@borregalesandres
4 жыл бұрын
What a gentleman he is.
@ppuh6tfrz646
4 жыл бұрын
I never really liked Barry Norman but I thought he conducted this interview very well and it's fascinating from start to finish.
@ATOK_
3 жыл бұрын
Tony is such a great actor
@Landmark2Security
4 жыл бұрын
no one has played him better! he made me feel sorry for the man!
@smaaj0007
5 жыл бұрын
Watching this interview was a revelation. If there are anymore interviews by Barry Norman please do upload. Thank you!
@notreyf
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this, cracking interview.
@roylittler7666
7 жыл бұрын
great interview
@timothychamberlin6985
5 жыл бұрын
Love you Anthony.....
@garryharriman7349
Жыл бұрын
Anthony Hopkins' portrayl of Nixon is the most mexmorizing performance I have ever seen. This film can be watched repaetedly and you can be blown away by it and find sonething new on each occasion. Nixon is probably Stone's finest works. The story of Richard Nixon, his personal and professional life and all of his increíble complexities as a human being is utterly spell binding. Further, as for his downfall and what occured during Wategate, is left, in my view, almost open for the viewer to decide. Personally, Nixon was brought down by a multifaceted coup.
@AlexDeLarge77
3 жыл бұрын
I love the way he said dead easy parts. Yeah, for the average Joe.
@123brownjames
3 жыл бұрын
Great interview
@jansapp
2 жыл бұрын
I think Hopkins is great in Nixon but unfortunately I also think Stone likely hired him less for the reasons stated here by Hopkins and more likely because Hopkins was red hot coming off of Silence of the Lambs. Stone's strategy was similar in JFK when he knew he had a difficult, demanding film on his hands and so needed a highly credible but also highly in-demand actor (in the case of JFK, Kevin Costner coming fresh from Dances With Wolves).
@hyllaf
3 жыл бұрын
mr. norman loved anthony it's clear to see
@mookie2637
6 жыл бұрын
It's also worth saying that people like Hopkins had real respect for Barry Norman. Not easy to imagine such a forthcoming interview with anyone who succeeded him.
@FiveSigma72
5 жыл бұрын
Oh come on now, Claudia Winkleman surely had more gravitas as a film critic?
@thomassimmons1950
3 ай бұрын
I thought it was brilliant, Shakespearean in its tragic characterization. I went in one way and came out another on the question of the man. It was one of Hopkins genius roles.
@mercster
6 жыл бұрын
Great.
@opinionday0079
5 жыл бұрын
the video quality is excellent considering this is from 1996
@fisterklister
6 жыл бұрын
In hindsight no one could have done the role as well as Tony
@jimmy2k4o
4 жыл бұрын
Frank langella?
@spiderprint
6 жыл бұрын
Barry Norman sounds a lot like Anthony Burgess.
@jarikasari8694
2 жыл бұрын
I still wonder how he managed to be so great.
@Robert25938
6 жыл бұрын
Very good interview though don't know why Norman backs off from calling 'Nixon' a "great" film.
@judyhopps9380
3 жыл бұрын
the most straightforward, albeit crude answer I can give is it's very much up its own arse. By that I mean the whole flower motif meeting the cia director for example. The film has no subtlety, and bombards you with Oliver Stone's heavy approach and weighty script. The performances are amazing though
@roc7880
4 жыл бұрын
I think that was the best Nixon I ever saw. non judgmental and complex devious mean smart and pathetic. a real human being
@Sophie_kent
4 жыл бұрын
Hopkin’s analysis of Oliver Stone is interesting.
@MichaelLu8
5 жыл бұрын
Stephen Covey with a British accent.
@dilatedbeholder3865
3 жыл бұрын
Never really understood Barry Norman as a film critic. The guy always reminded me of the old fellow in the armchair who would keep flicking the TV channel because everything was a load of cobblers. I mean could you imagine this guy being at front of the line to watch the Avengers movie??
@hyllaf
3 жыл бұрын
What's to understand? he was old skool, hard but fair, v . intelligent and never made interviews about himself unlike j. ross
@dilatedbeholder3865
3 жыл бұрын
@@hyllaf I agree, he was a very intelligent guy, just always seemed strange to me that somebody like that applied their smarts to....being a film critic. He just never looked like he was enjoying himself or his job.
@hyllaf
3 жыл бұрын
@@dilatedbeholder3865 think his whole family were film buffs, e. G. His mum tore into brave heart inaccuricies
@johnnotrealname8168
Жыл бұрын
Having watched so much of the film, I just cannot keep it straight with his real accent. I can even detect some Welsh.
@michaelbledstein7515
3 жыл бұрын
Anthony Hopkins did a good job, but he was a little heavy physically. The real Nixon was husky, Hopkins looks bulky. He got the voice and facial expressions down well except the nose. I think Walter Matthau, William Shatner, Mel Gibson or Marlon Brando would have been a perfect Nixon for the movie. Hopkins was still good and so is the movie.
@idklol4197
2 жыл бұрын
nah i cant think anyone else could do as good a job as anthony did
@gozorak
2 жыл бұрын
It was an inspired choice that came up aces. How about this...the film "Chaplin" from the mid 80's cast Iron Man Robert Downey in the title role. I think Prince would have been perfect for that role...think about it
@RobertJBarnes
6 жыл бұрын
"But the masses did like him, right?" -- "No" They are both wrong. He had the biggest landslide re-election ever at that time. Overall, it was the second biggest. Only Reagan's 49 state stomping of Mondale was bigger. People don't realize that if it wasn't for Watergate, Nixon may have been the most productive president ever. And a lot of his policies look like they would have come from the left side of the political aisle.
@Newjourney14
6 жыл бұрын
its know that Nixon was planning to role back his "progressive" policies by the end of his second term
@jmitterii2
5 жыл бұрын
Democrats controlled both house and senate. Presidency can only do what the legislation wants.
@roc7880
4 жыл бұрын
true. his fault for watergate
@hanysioufi145
2 ай бұрын
Both Nixon & Hopkins are Capricorn ♑️
@tonywalton1052
6 жыл бұрын
ACTING!
@NoName-zm1ks
Жыл бұрын
Nah, you gotta put aside your fanaticism, if what you’re watching doesn’t convince you you are watching the real thing, it’s a tough sell, no matter how subjectively great the acting. Hopkins thought he deserved an Oscar, he shoulda done more than just doing his hair, er, hair piece.
@thomaslowe4774
3 жыл бұрын
DC hated Nixon because he went to Stanford.
@dwissba68
2 жыл бұрын
I thought Nixon attended Whittier
@thomaslowe4774
2 жыл бұрын
@@dwissba68 Law school
@dwissba68
2 жыл бұрын
@@thomaslowe4774 he never attended Stanford. After Whittier he went to duke
@RWSCOTT
6 жыл бұрын
on the film's lack of audience engagement: "men don't want to be Nixon and women don't want to go to bed with him" ... that's a pretty misogynist comment, that that's all women want from a film.
@TheDylandProductions
3 жыл бұрын
Not really. Fantasy and escapism are two of the biggest reasons people watch movies. That stereotype "who men want to be, and women want to sleep with" is actually pretty accurate to describe a lot of franchise longevities! Besides, he's not saying that's the ONLY thing male and female audiences seek out in a picture. Just implying it's a main driving factor for engagement. Which isn't really a stretch since films like Twilight and 50 Shades made so much... and dime store romance paperbacks STILL fill shelves.
@RWSCOTT
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheDylandProductions of course you're right. people are drawn to pleasing aesthetics, in human form or otherwise, I thought Hopkins take sounded more like something Richard Harris would say... I think the real reason Nixon's not interesting to audiences is because he was seen as an embarassment for so long it became second nature to pretend he didn't exist, rather than confront the fantastic mess of contradictions that he embodied.
@DrJones20
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheDylandProductions Superficial bitches
@MozTS
2 жыл бұрын
Its a british english critic, dude was probably fucking 12 year olds with jimmy saville on the weekends, not really a feminist time
@sonyabladesbooty3890
2 жыл бұрын
Why Antony Hoskins bald?
@reptongeek
2 жыл бұрын
He was in Surviving Picasso at the time. He was bald for the part
@Psmith-ek5hq
7 ай бұрын
You weren't paying attention to the video, certainly not early on. And the same with your spelling.
@tycobb2580
4 жыл бұрын
Oliver Stone makes conspiratorial nutjob movies
@TheDylandProductions
3 жыл бұрын
@Bruce S 100% agreed Bruce. Fun films. I like speculative historical *groans* fiction if you must call it that. What if films. Character studies. Movies. I swear, it's like some people wouldn't be happy with anything short of 2 hours of boring live footage. Now presenting the Buddy Holly story: 2 hours of him and the boys sitting in a cafe talking before the fateful flight. Just long pauses of awkward silence and some small talk. Then bang - end credits. Who wants to see that? You gotta make a film entertaining. I'm perfectly fine with adhering to theories and conspiracies for the sake of making entertainment. If you want stoic realism, read a biography or history book. Oliver Stone makes FILMS.
@hubbell627
4 жыл бұрын
In one of the cases of telling the Prince he has no clothes, "Nixon" was a terrible movie. It was a caricature of Nixon. And Stone just makes hit up.
@billyshorr8681
3 жыл бұрын
Absolute wrong casting! I lived through the Nixon years Hopkins who normally is a decent Actor was totally %100 unconvincing and not believable as Nixon!
@jimlaguardia8185
4 жыл бұрын
Huge mistake by Stone casting Hopkins as Nixon. Did not work.
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