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Title: Thirteen Days
Classification: PG 13
Cast: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Bill Smitrovich, Frank Wood, Ed Lauter, Kevin Conway, and Michael Fairman
Director: Roger Donaldson
Writer: David Self
Producers: Armyan Bernstein, Peter Almond, and Kevin Costner
Country of Origin: United States
Genre: Historical, Drama, Thriller
My assessment of this film would be that the acting was amazing but with the special effects it would get confusing at times. The acting was amazing by all the main actors especially Bruce Greenwood and Kevin Costner. For example while watching the movie I actually felt the tension that was going on during some of the scenes in the film involving Bruce Greenwood and Kevin …show more content…
Thirteen Days focuses on the American government for most of the film and not on the actual crisis. For example most of the film was the American government trying to figure out how they can stop Soviet Union from bringing more missiles in Cuba and also how to get Soviet Union to take them out without starting World War 3. Thirteen Days is not historically accurate. For example Kenneth O’Donnell who is shown as the main character for the whole film didn’t in actuality have a lot to do with the Cuban Missile Crisis. The film showed the military leaders to be more of a villain than Soviet Union leader Nikata Khrushchev and how they are against John F. Kennedy’s decision to not go to war and invade Cuba. The military leaders are insistent that United States go to war in Cuba and that this the only way something could be achieved. I don’t feel that this film should be used by high school history departments to educate students about key elements of the cold war as it focuses on how United States dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis and the tension that went on through the White House and United States during that time, not much about the crisis and it is not historically accurate with some of the points that were made in the
Title: Thirteen Days
Classification: PG 13
Cast: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Bill Smitrovich, Frank Wood, Ed Lauter, Kevin Conway, and Michael Fairman
Director: Roger Donaldson
Writer: David Self
Producers: Armyan Bernstein, Peter Almond, and Kevin Costner
Country of Origin: United States
Genre: Historical, Drama, Thriller
My assessment of this film would be that the acting was amazing but with the special effects it would get confusing at times. The acting was amazing by all the main actors especially Bruce Greenwood and Kevin Costner. For example while watching the movie I actually felt the tension that was going on during some of the scenes in the film involving Bruce Greenwood and Kevin …show more content…
Thirteen Days focuses on the American government for most of the film and not on the actual crisis. For example most of the film was the American government trying to figure out how they can stop Soviet Union from bringing more missiles in Cuba and also how to get Soviet Union to take them out without starting World War 3. Thirteen Days is not historically accurate. For example Kenneth O’Donnell who is shown as the main character for the whole film didn’t in actuality have a lot to do with the Cuban Missile Crisis. The film showed the military leaders to be more of a villain than Soviet Union leader Nikata Khrushchev and how they are against John F. Kennedy’s decision to not go to war and invade Cuba. The military leaders are insistent that United States go to war in Cuba and that this the only way something could be achieved. I don’t feel that this film should be used by high school history departments to educate students about key elements of the cold war as it focuses on how United States dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis and the tension that went on through the White House and United States during that time, not much about the crisis and it is not historically accurate with some of the points that were made in the