Matt Damon has signalled that his starring role in the new biopic about assassinated US President John F Kennedy, based on the controversial new book Dallas: Alternative Histories, may surprise audiences by departing from the popular accounts of his life. Rather than the typical image of Kennedy as a charismatic womanizer, the new story will concentrate on the impact of little-known details of Kennedy's World War 2 military service.
In particular, a key episode will be included where Kennedy underwent a program of behaviour modification to prepare him for a crucial mission, in his role as a PT Boat commander. Damon was reluctant to reveal too much, but did confirm that this episode will be linked to the fateful day in November 1963. At this point, the story will diverge from established fact and present a number of alternative scenarios on what might have occurred, at least one of which ends with Kennedy strangling Lee Harvey Oswald with a necktie.
Paul Greengrass is slated to direct.
Is Ernest Borgnine still tipped to play Skipper?Hope they get Tina Louise too.
ReplyDeleteI think Oswald should attack JFK by crashing though a glass window, before being himself killed with a biro.
ReplyDeleteThen JFK and Jackie Kennedy should try to escape down a Paris stairway in an open Lincoln Continental.
Then JFK could be shot at as he drives by in his girlfriend's Mini by a one legged man on crutches.
ReplyDeleteThe assassin misses, and hits a pumpkin instead.
You forgot to say that the one legged man shoots at JFK using one of his crutches.
ReplyDeleteYou've neglected the sordid episode where the Kennedy brothers meet up with Teddy at a bar in Paris, pick up three men at a sauna, then drown them all by driving them off a bridge.
ReplyDeleteSordid it is, but it didn't stop you revelling in it.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you weren't aware the Kennedy Bros then used the identities of the dead men to create false passports for themselves, so they could pose as defectors to gain entry into the Soviet Union in the late fifties, marry Russian women, denounce the United States as imperialist, then apply for re-entry to the States in the early sixties. There was some evidence that one of them purchased a mail-order rifle that cleverly doubled as curtain-rods, and they all started working part-time at the Texas SBD.
Meanwhile in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev secretly undergoes gender reassignment and is redeployed at a radio factory in Minsk as 'Marina.'
ReplyDeleteIt is love at first sight with the young American 'curtain rod salesman.'
A waxen effigy stands in for Khrushchev at the Kremlin for months before being noticed.
Eventually, the waxen effigy is ousted as leader for being too 'progressive' on policy, and 'soft' on the Americans, and replaced with a wooden effigy named Leonid.
ReplyDelete'Marina' encourages her new husband to return to the US to try to make a living by pursuing his lifelong passion for placing boxes of textbooks in high stacks in front of windows.