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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4635514, member: 833"] [B]Richard Jewell (2019-Hulu) [/B]- Clint Eastwood made this movie as an anti-media and anti-FBI homage about the events of the Centennial Park bombing in 1996. The real-life Richard Jewell was kind of a hapless cop-wannabe that discovered a suspicious package at a concert at the Olympics, and saved dozens or possibly hundreds of lives in moving people away from it minutes before it exploded. Within days, several rogue FBI agents tried to railroad Jewell into responsibility for the Centennial Park bombing. The movie accurately portrays a lot of abominable behavior by the FBI agents on the case, and Jon Hamm is the perfect actor to play the role that was an amalgamation of several real-life agents. The movie sticks to the facts with the FBI agents, and they still come out looking really awful. Something does not quite hold together about their motivations though. The movie was already getting legal heat as it was about to be released, so maybe Eastwood didn't want to venture down that road, but it feels like the movie wanted to say more about why the FBI agents tried to destroy Richard Jewell, but it didn't make it into the final version. I don't think Eastwood handled the Atlanta Journal's reporter's motivations well at all. The real life reporter was named Kathy Scruggs, and she is played by Olivia Wilde, who is OK in the role. Early in the movie, there is an implication that she traded s e x for information, which was just a stupid thing for Eastwood to do as a Director given that they can not prove the real Scruggs ever did that and it became a focus in a lot of the movie publicity at the time it was released. On the other hand, an exploration of what a mess the real Scruggs was, including many volatile and sketchy boyfriends, and what appears to have been a drug addiction given she died from an overdose in 2001, would have been much more interesting. She had a reputation for pushing boundaries in personal and professional life, and made a lot of mistakes. How did the Atlanta Journal editor ever go along on such an explosive story on the Centennial Park bombing, that ultimately wrecked Jewell's life, when the reporter was such a mess? None of that is covered in the movie, but it seems like such an interesting story. [/QUOTE]

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