``JFK'' orchestrated bashing, Oliver Stone's challenge to Kennedy assassination Part 1

The reason why the assassination scene was perfectly recreated

Oliver Stone, who won the Best Director award at the 62nd Academy Awards for `` Born on the 4th of July '', was photographed holding an Oscar statue on the podium at the awards ceremony and saying, ``Dallas, Texas, the warm people of the Philippines.'' He thanked the regions for their cooperation. At this time, there were some arrogant voices who said that the reason he had dared to mention Dallas was because he had anticipated that ``JFK'' would be filmed in Dallas. If it were a highly calculating stone, it would be possible to do something like that.

Dallas has often been set in Stone's films. " Talk Radio " (1988), "Born on the Fourth of July" and "JFK". When this is pointed out to Stone, he responds like Kazuki Enari, saying, ``Even if you say that, it can't be helped because the incident happened in Dallas!'' However, in ``JFK,'' the assassination scene is the basis of the entire movie. Given his role, a location in Dallas was essential.

Another major reason for recreating the assassination scene was that there was no professional footage of the moment of the shooting. This is because there was no television coverage, and the media with movie cameras were at the end of the line of cars behind the presidential car.

Let's follow the movements of the media at that moment. As the gunfire continued and chaos began, a UPI reporter in the last car grabbed the radio and reported the situation. In response, ABC Radio reported the first report at 12:36 p.m. as follows:

"Three shots were fired today at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas."

This was 6 minutes after the incident occurred. From there, other stations followed, with the first TV coverage at 12:40. However, at that time, it took time to turn on the television cameras that had been turned off, so only the word Bulletin was displayed on the television screen, and a voice overlay was used to convey the situation. This breaking news is reenacted in the movie ``JFK.''

The moment of Kennedy's assassination is captured in the Zapruder film (the only film created by Dallas clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapruder that completely records the 30-second period before and after the assassination), which clearly captures the scene before and after the shooting in color. Until then, most of the footage had been taken by people watching the parade.

There is a black-and-white video taken by the media in a hurry from a car behind the scene, but the camera only shakes sharply in response to the gunshots, so it has little value beyond documentation.

The Zapruder film itself was published as a black-and-white, stop-motion photograph in Life a week after the incident, and was later used as evidence in the investigation by the Warren Commission, which investigated the incident. However, the Clay Shaw trial by Jim Garrison was the first to be seen by the public as an original color video. Therefore, in ``JFK'', the Zapruder film makes its full appearance at the climax. For these reasons, the moment of the assassination shown at the beginning of the movie was not enough to be captured on library film alone, and had to be recreated in full scale.

Fortunately, no major changes occurred at the assassination scene in Dallas. The surrounding area, including the textbook warehouse building where the sniper took place, remains as it was back in the day. In other words, with a little tweaking, it was easy to go back to November 22, 1963.

However, this project ran into more difficulties than expected. Thanks in part to the power of Stone's thick pipes in Dallas, permission was obtained to close Dealey Plaza for three weeks for filming, but there were many mixed reactions locally. For people in Dallas who had tried to forget their negative image, the large-scale location meant that they were inevitably brought back to that moment.

Obtaining filming permission was extremely difficult