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Warren Beatty: John Reed
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In “The Rising”, Warren Beatty talks about how he got the movie greenlighted at Paramount. In “Comrades”, Beatty talks about assembling casts and directing other actors. In “Testimonials”, Beatty talks about shooting interviews with people who knew John Reed and Louise Bryant; this featurette includes interview footage that does not appear in the movie. In “The March”, “Revolution - Part 1”, and “Revolution - Part 2”, various people talk about their work experience making the movie. In “Propaganda”, Beatty talks about how impossible it would be to make a movie like Reds in 2006, not necessarily because Communism “lost” but because the movie’s subject matter is not inherently “commercial” (though to be honest, by foregrounding Reed and Bryant’s love story, Beatty made the movie much more commercial than he probably thinks).
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Reds is the brilliant biopic of journalist/radical John Reed that Warren Beatty directed in 1981. This was a labour of love for Beatty, who had built up power in Hollywood to make this suitably epic film on such films as Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait.
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Beatty makes Reed seem like the sort of man people cling to for inspiration, and as he seduces Bryant, an Oregon wife of a dentist who runs off with Reed, the audience falls for him as well. They go to New York's Greenwich Village, which comes alive as a realm of sweeping ideas channeled into enthusiastic action. Impossibly bright people bounce ideas off one another.
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John F. Kennedy wanted Beatty to play him in PT 109 (1963), after learning that director Elia Kazan had said that if anybody were to play JFK, it should be Beatty since they had so much in common. As Kazan stated, "Warren had everything Jack had. Looks, intelligence, cunning and a commanding eye with the girls. Warren ... suffered from lower back trouble". Kennedy himself suggested Beatty to Warner Bros to play him. Jack L. Warner asked Beatty to fly over to Washington to meet JFK and talk about the movie with him, but Beatty did not want to make the trip, nor play the part. Beatty found the script too weak, that there was a surprising lack of action.
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Reds is a 1981 film starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. It centers on the life of John Reed, the Communist, journalist, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days that Shook the World.
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