Thirteen Days

Basic Information 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…

‘Thirteen Days’ is an American historical drama-thriller film. This film is directed by Roger Donaldson. The actors of this film are Kevin Costner, who featured as President John F. Kennedy, Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Dylan Baker as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The main character in this movie is President John F. Kennedy. This movie shows what action does the President John F. Kennedy takes from preventing the nuclear warfare happen. The plot for…

“Thirteen Days” is a movie portraying the story of President Kennedy’s (and everyone who works for and with him) struggle, of the long, agonizing 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. Overall, I thought it was a really good movie. It showed the struggle and all of the worries that everyone had to overcome during this chaotic time. The main issue of this movie was that the Soviet Union had missiles down in Cuba and the United States was worried they could attack. The movie…

We can see this throughout Thirteen Days. In the meeting room, the president and other representatives were looking at what was going on at sea. At first, the people at sea were going to fire the five Soviet ships that looked like they were going to attack them. However, President Kennedy demanded them to cease their fire and wait until they shoot at them. This decision would lead to these five ships turning around and going nowhere near Cuba. Also, in the movie we see President Kennedy’s…

I will like to explain what lesson that I learn from the movie ‘Thirteen Days’. It’s the story of the 1963 Cuban Missile Crisis based on the book by May and Zelikow titled The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. "Thirteen Days" shows President Kennedy's wise leadership in meeting this challenge as he resisted the demands for air strikes and for invasion. If he had not, we would all be living in a post-nuclear war world, except there would be hundreds of…

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis As the title states, the book is a memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis through the lense of the White House. In span of 13 days, the world faced one of the most critical event in history. The stakes were nuclear war, which could have obliterated much of the life on earth from nuclear fallout. In a nutshell, after World War II, the two superpowers in the world were, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Without…

One believer that Thirteen Days is a historical document was reviewer Ronald Steel. In his review Steel not only goes over what was going on within the book, but he gives literary commentary about Kennedy’s writing. This commentary was simply that Kennedy’s ability to bring all the elements of a thriller. Now a thriller comprises of multiple components, such as: a heroic yet ordinary protagonist, an interesting setting, multiple view points and suspense around every corner. Just by considering…

Missile Crisis, are brilliantly dramatized by the gripping docudrama Thirteen Days. The movie tells the tale solely from the point of view of the White House; the Soviet side of the story is completely omitted. But what I like best about the film is the way it shows how a group of highly intelligent men grapple with a complex and the monumentally important problem. Within the first few minutes of the movie, we are introduced to Kenny O'Donnell (Kevin Costner), loving husband and father of five…

The individual level of analysis focuses on the personality, perceptions, and actions of individual participants in the political system (Mingst & Arreguin-Toft, 74). While the individual level is seen with varying degrees of importance by political scientists (183), there are times when an individual may have greater influence on the outcomes of events particularly in times of crisis or when dealing with ambiguous situations (185). The film Thirteen Days offers an excellent view into the…

The film Thirteen Days is an American historical drama-thriller film that recounts the decision making of President Kennedy and his ExComm during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. On October 14, 1962 a United States U-2 plane discovered nuclear missile sites under construction on Cuba by the Soviets. President John F. Kennedy gathered together a group of government officials (known as ExComm) to debate the crisis. Photos revealed the existence of long range missiles capable of…