'J.Edgar' Centers on Controversial FBI Director
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Academy award-winning filmmaker Clint Eastwood has teamed up with actor Leonardo DiCaprio on J. Edgar, a biopic of the former FBI head, J.Edgar Hoover, who died in 1972. The film focuses on J.Edgar's controversial personality. It follows him as he made the Federal Bureau of Investigations2 into one of the country's most powerful agencies and became one of the most powerful political figures of his time.
The plot spans more than 50 years, eight
presidencies3 and three wars. It
portrays4 Hoover as a Macchiavelian figure who believes that the end
justifies5 the means.
He
systematically6 collects information on U.S. citizens and politicians. No one is above suspicion.
J.Edgar: "Do you remember that file we created on his wife?"
Helen Gandy: "Mrs. Roosevelt?"
J.Edgar: "You make a copy for me please?"
Tolson, J.Egar's no.2: "Is that legal?"
J.Edgar: "Sometimes you need to bend the rules a little in order to keep your country safe."
"He was a very important figure, the top federal cop, and he probably was the most powerful guy in the country," Eastwood says.
The film
alleges10 Hoover collected information on political figures like President John F. Kennedy, with wire taps.
It shows him using the
transcripts11 as political
leverage12. Motivated by his fear of communism, Hoover tries to convince Attorney General Robert Kennedy to step up political surveillance of Americans.
Bullying13 aside, the film portrays Hoover as a public relations expert who
mingled14 in Hollywood and exaggerated his achievements.
But Eastwood also shows him as a visionary, whose forensics led to the arrest of the likes of John Dillinger, a notorious
gangster15 of the 1930s.
And the film digs into Hoover's emotional make up. We see young J. Edgar idolizing his mother who fuels his ambitions.
Hoover's deputy, Clyde Tolson, is shown with the FBI head to the end.
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, that after he wrote the screenplay for Milk, about gay
activist18 Harvey Milk, he became
intrigued19 with Hoover.
"I had just done the whole story how coming out of the closet and embracing your nature can give great hope, and I wondered what's the other side of that," Black explains. "And I felt we potentially could benefit from learning and creating this cautionary tale about a man who denied love."
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