Power
Year: | 1986 |
Production Co: | Lorimar Productions |
Director: | Sidney Lumet |
Cast: | Richard Gere, Julie Christie, Kate Capshaw, Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, J T Walsh |
I remember Richard Gere as the hero schmoozing his way through a bunch of political campaigns where people will sell their soul for the power his skills can get them, stage managing idiots into marketable brands, his cynicism and skill carrying him.
I remember he has a crisis of conscience when he's met with a real leader who wants to make a real difference for the right reasons, not a lump of media savvy clay for him to mould for the fodder machine. But by all those same accounts there's not really a conclusion or definite arc of any character, and I'd hesitate to agree because I only remember the barest thread of story.