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Originally Posted by ironpony
But why make a movie with all these nonsensical plots thrown into the plot? Why didn't Stone just make a movie, about Garrison trying to indict and expose Clay Shaw only, and just have it be about that? Wouldn't that serve as powerful historical drama, rather throwing all these nonsensical plots in?
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Why make a banana split with three flavors of ice cream, three sauces and six different toppings?
If Stone had simply said he wanted to make a complicated, entertaining movie, it would need no explanation. That he apparently believed/believes one or more of the component theories only confuses the issue.
I suggest that he had the budget and the audience to do exactly this movie, so that in the wildly unlikely case some element was eventually proven to be true, he could smugly say, "See, I told you so."
As it is, we're still debating the movie and the level of nonsense it brought to the discussion almost thirty years later... so Billy wins, I'd say.
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