Reagan Page #2

Synopsis: Ronald Reagan as a man, as compared to his legacy, is rich territory for exploration, and a line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is just one of the many things that springs to mind after viewing filmmaker Eugene Jarecki's latest opus, Reagan (Jarecki's Why We Fight won the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize: Documentary). Speaking at his funeral, Mark Antony said of Caesar, "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." With a firm grasp of Reagan's story, Jarecki avoids the predictable and takes the long view on Reagan's life and influence, while staying centered on him as a man of deep contradiction; an American whose patriotism paradoxically led him to impeachable acts, a liberal Democrat who came to define the modern conservative movement.
Director(s): Eugene Jarecki
  4 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Year:
2011
105 min
514 Views


DAN RATHER (CONT’D)

And it’s looking like a landslide.

A venerable sea of red...

Karl locks eyes with a celebrating Frank, who mouths the word

‘Red!’ to his adversary. Karl responds with a finger.

INT. CAPITOL HILL OFFICE - WAITING ROOM - DECEMBER 1, 1984

A stark waiting room, egg-white other than the dark wood

chairs and massive American flag. Frank sits nervously,

wiping his hands on the pants of his rarely-worn suit. He

pulls evidence of the last time he donned it from his inner

pocket:
a PROGRAM from his brother’s wedding in October ‘82.

INT. CAPITOL HILL OFFICE - PAYNE’S OFFICE - MINUTES LATER

Frank sits across from KEN PAYNE (50s, a doughy frog-man),

Coms Director for the Capitol Hill Internship Program.

PAYNE:

Excellent numbers, Mr. Corden.

FRANK:

Thank you sir. They’re actually

even better, I had a few deleted.

We don’t have to go into it.

PAYNE:

Frank-- May I call you Frank?

(before he can answer)

I’m going to. Frank, politics is a

noble profession.

FRANK:

The best.

PAYNE:

With your resume, you can do just

about anything. Why you picking us?

FRANK:

The whole ‘By the People’ thing.

It’s what makes our country

different. When someone votes for

you, you’re making them a promise. I

want to help keep it.

PAYNE:

Ah. One of those!

6.

Frank can’t tell if that’s a good thing.

FRANK:

Yup. Definitely.

PAYNE:

I’ve got an old friend over in the

Treasury. We go way back. At Yale,

we double-teamed this Chinese

prostitute. Two for one deal, if

you know what I mean!

He laughs as only old white dudes can. Frank tries to match

his ‘Hahs!’ and ‘Ho ho whoas!”

PAYNE (CONT’D)

Yessir! Married that woman. Gave me

three wonderful kids.

FRANK:

Oh, well that’s...that’s beautiful.

PAYNE:

I’ll make a call. I’m sure we can

get something for a Princeton Man.

FRANK:

I really appreciate it, Mr. Payne. I

spent so long knocking on doors and

getting people coffee, I started to

think that’s all I could do!

PAYNE:

Haha! Good!

INT. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY - THE NEXT WEEK

Frank carefully writes names on COFFEE CUPS with a sharpie.

Exactly mirroring the campaign office, Frank walks through

the hallways of the Treasury, handing out coffees to the busy

workers. He doesn’t do as much smiling this time.

INT. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY - DON’S OFFICE

Frank sets a cup on the desk of DON REGAN, Secretary of the

Treasury (57, long-faced, fatherly) who chats on the phone.

DON:

It’s the hand we’re dealt, Caspar,

we gotta power through.

(MORE)

7.

DON (CONT'D)

(to Frank)

Sugar?

FRANK:

In there. I just wanted to say, Mr.

Regan, it’s a real honor-

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Mike Rosolio

Mike Rosolio is a writer and actor, known for Reagan, American Vandal (2017) and Sean Saves the World (2013). more…

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