Clint Eastwood is making a movie about J. Edgar Hoover.
Why would anyone be interested in seeing a movie about a man who did more than any single other individual to turn this country into a police state? Hoover was a thug whose sole guiding star was his own personal power and his own ego. Hoover had whoever he wanted wiretapped without a court order. Hoover's FBI conducted warrantless "black bag" searches. The FBI acted to deny Americans of their First Amendment rights.
None of the above is my opinion. It is all factual, as found by the an in-depth congressional investigation in the 1970s.
His FBI was an agency that regarded itself as being above the law. To some extent, that attitude remains to this day.
Unless this movie exposes Hoover as the hypocritical fascist that he was, why make it?
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And don't forget dressing drag!
If that's in the movie, I definitely don't want to see it. Things like that cannot be unseen.
I really hope the movie does reveal the sheer arrogant nuttiness of Hoover!
J.Edgar was definitely a Republican.
Stew, Comrade, apparently the book on which this script was based focused upon the sexual relationship between J. Edgar Hoover and his long-time male aide Clyde Tolson, and old-time Feebs are up in arms about Hoover being depicted as a closeted gay who was a fascist SOB just to prove to the world that he wasn't gay. So it may indeed include dressing drag. Though given we're talking about Clint Eastwood here, it won't be the sort of in-your-face that it'd be from a younger director.
Labrys, from what I understand the movie is a bit more... nuanced... than that. Clint Eastwood has gotten more complex in his old age. My feeling is that, given Clint's recent movies, likely you'll be repulsed by the sheer awfulness of J. Edgar, yet end up feeling a bit sorry for the lonely closeted old homo.
OldRetired, Hoover basically had only one politics -- power. He served under Democrats. He served under Republicans. He served under no-one, actually, other than himself, but was quite happy to do black bag jobs on behalf of Presidents, it gave him something to hold over them later. Watergate and the eventual resignation of Richard Nixon happened because Hoover was dying, otherwise the FBI would have wiretapped the Watergate Hotel rather than those losers from CREEP and we would have never learned about it. That's the kind of organization Hoover ran... he didn't care who was in power, he didn't care what political party that person was, he just cared about power and its application. He was a fascist, pure and simple.
- Badtux the Movie Critic Penguin
Well, let's hope he takes the honest approach because whatever he does, it will be popular.
Thanks for the un seeing part Bad Tux.
EWWW.
It was bad enough before that little bit of trivia.
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