Learning on ScreenGood 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
- Duration
- 90 mins
Credits
- Director
- George Clooney
- Producer
- Grant Heslov
- Cinematographer
- Robert Elswit
- Screenplay
- George Clooney; Grant Heslov
- Production Design
- James D. Bissell
- Art Direction
- Christa Munro
- Cast
David Strathairn Edward R. Murrow George Clooney Fred Friendly
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Julius Caesar
- Keywords
- politics; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Reviews
- Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006 (p. 186, entry 782).
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