Good Night, And Good Luck

Alternative title: Good Night & Good Luck
Synopsis: Feature film about the reporter Ed Murrow and his determination to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy, the man behind the communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Edward R. Murrow (Stratham) tells Fred Friendly (Clooney) that Murrow’s closing on his show attacking McCarthy ‘is Shakespeare’. On the show, Murrow cites McCarthy’s own citation of Cassius’ line from Julius Caesar "Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed/That he is grown so great?" And then he recontextualises the line, saying that McCarthy should have read a few lines back in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar to Cassius’ line "The fault dear Brutus lies not in the stars, but in ourselves". Murrow repeats the line at the end of the broadcast’ [Richard Burt, op cit].
Language: English
Country: France; Great Britain; Japan; United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release: 2005
Keywords: politics; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)