There has been a lot of politics in the news. In a few months we will have the caucuses. The commercials have already started and the candidates are all over the news. It is insane.
I saw “Ides Of March” a couple of weeks ago. It was a pretty good.
George Clooney is a governor running for president. He is neck and neck with another candidate and needs to take Ohio in order to get the candidacy. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is his campaign manager and Ryan Gosling is his second in command.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman is great as the campaign manager.
I won’t tell too much because this movie is still in theaters.
But one thing happens in this movie that totally took me out of the movie.
While on the campaign, one of the interns dies under mysterious circumstances. Because of certain connections, a press conference is held to address it.
Mike Morris gets up and makes an appropriate statement. When he is asked a question that he can’t answer he steps aside so that his campaign manager can fill in the details.
It is appropriate. Then it happens. We hear his cell phone vibrating in his jacket.
And he pulls it out and looks at it.
There is no way that would happen. In a room full of press? If the press saw a candidate for president pull his cell phone out during any kind of press conference, they would have the picture all over the internet in minutes. But at a press conference where a presidential candidate has just offered condolences on the death of someone on their staff? That would be the end of that candidate. That cell phone could burst into flames in his jacket and no serious candidate would pull his cell phone out of his pocket. I don’t think most of them would even be carrying a cell phone.
It is a good movie and I know the cell phone incident was meant to create some tension for Morris, but it could have been done other ways. There are great performances and a good story.
Just don’t screw up the basics.
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