HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: This debut by Austrian film scholar, historian, curator Alexander Horwath – the former Director of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum – Henry Fonda for President represents, as its title suggests, a filmic portrait of the actor Henry Fonda, but it is anything but a conventional Hollywood portrait. While it is structured chronologically according to the progression of Fonda’s life and career, the film transcends individual portraiture by using Fonda as a prism through to explore and meditate upon the changing (and intimately intertwined) politics, society, and culture of the United States in Fonda’s time. Extending the tradition of seminal reflections on America by commentators from abroad, Henry Fonda for President achieves the near-impossible, articulating a genuinely new and profoundly insightful take on 1900s-80s American culture, and on the legacy of this era both on the wider world and on the present day. Henry Fonda for President is directed by Austrian cinema lover / filmmaker Alexander Horwath.
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00:00Now, I wrote down to something he said of you.
00:05My impressions of Hank are of a man reaching but unreachable, gentle but capable of a sudden
00:11wild and dangerous violence, sharply critical of others but equally self-critical, caged
00:19and fighting the bars but timid of the light, viciously opposed to external restraint, imposing
00:26an iron slavery on himself.
00:28His face is a picture of opposites in conflict.
00:33Was he accurate?
00:36Those are Styzak's words.
00:38I would never think them lame when I read those stories.
00:43I've been solicited by many friends to become a candidate for politics or short and sweet
00:49like the old woman's dance.
00:54I ain't communist but I'm called a radical and a rebel most of the time politically.
00:59Reagan upsets me so that it's hard to talk about.
01:04I think we're headed for disaster.
01:09You have no sense of responsibility toward anybody or anything and that is a tragedy
01:15in a man and it is a disaster in a president.
01:20Mr. Fonda, I proudly present you with your next career.
01:24President of the United States.
01:31You are crazy, are you?
01:33Any man who wants to be president is crazy.