Margaret 'Clover' Russell Alec Baldwin Sam Murach Tammy Blanchard Arch Cummings Robert De Niro Bill Sullivan Keir Dullea Senator John Russell, Sr. Hanna Schiller William Hurt Philip Allen Timothy Hutton Thomas Wilson Mark Ivanir Valentin Mironov 2 Gabriel Macht Richard Hayes Joe Pesci The untold story of the most powerful covert agency in the world. Edit Details Official Sites: English Spanish Russian German Lingala. Edit Did You Know? Goofs Early in , baseball gloves would still be the split finger style with minimal webbing.
The President's asked me to become director and do a complete housecleaning at my discretion. I need someone I can trust.
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After all, we're still brothers. This building doesn't get built without you. You're CIA's heart and soul.
Who knows, you might have a secret about me in that safe of yours. This whole wing will be your part of the world: Take a look around. I've got an oversight Frequently Asked Questions Q: Who was the agent operating the false Mironov for the Soviets? Who had the traitor killed? Why was the German translator killed after sleeping with Matt Damon's character, and who did the killing?
Edward meets with Hayes at the new CIA headquarters still under construction. Edward notes the Biblical inscription on the new marble wall of the CIA lobby: Hayes tells him that Allen is resigning under a cloud of financial improprieties after receiving copies of the Swiss accounts delivered in a chocolate box , and that the President has asked him to be the new Director of the CIA.
The President has directed him to do some "housecleaning" and he tells Edward that he needs someone he can trust, saying, "after all, we're still brothers" and that Edward is the "CIA's heart and soul".
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He then tells Edward he will be the first head of counter-intelligence. Edward is then shown pulling from his home safe the suicide note that his father Thomas had left and in which his father's words, only now read by Edward, reveal that he had betrayed his country. He left loving words for his wife and son, particularly urging the latter to grow up to be a good man, husband and father and to live a life of decency and truth. Realizing he had done none of those things, Edward sadly burns the note. The film ends with Edward leaving his old office and moving to his new wing in the CIA.
De Niro personally produced the film together with James G. Robinson and Jane Rosenthal. Eric Roth , the film's screenwriter, began to work on the project after he abandoned his attempt to bring Norman Mailer 's Harlot's Ghost to the screen. The new administration gave Roth a list of directors to choose from and one of them was Philip Kaufman.
Kaufman felt that Roth's script, whose original structure was linear, should go back and forth in time to "give it a more contemporary feeling". The new studio head had no interest in spy films unless they could get a star like Tom Cruise to appear in the film.
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The project languished until John Frankenheimer signed on to make the film with MGM agreeing to purchase the rights. He wanted Robert De Niro to star, having just worked together on Ronin. The actor said in an interview, "I had always been interested in the Cold War. I was raised in the Cold War. All of the intelligence stuff was interesting to me". Roth would write up De Niro's idea into a screenplay if the actor would direct his existing script. If The Good Shepherd proved to be a commercial success then their follow-up would be De Niro's pitch.
He had a deal with Leonardo DiCaprio , who was interested in playing the film's protagonist Edward Wilson. De Niro approached Matt Damon, who was also doing The Departed but would be done earlier than DiCaprio and De Niro would only have to wait six months to do the film with him. Soderbergh agreed to delay filming and Damon agreed to star as Wilson. De Niro was not interested in making a spy movie with flashy violence and exciting car chases.
So I want to downplay the violence, depict it in a muted way. In those days, it was a gentleman's game". Early on, De Niro said in an interview, "they tried to do what they thought was right. And then, as they went on, they became overconfident and started doing things that are not always in our best interests".
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Damon also spent time with Bearden as well as visiting several of the locations depicted in the film and reading several books on the CIA. As a result, many sets had to be constructed under Oppewall's direction, including a Skull and Bones headquarters and the Berlin set, which was built on the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Since the lead character originally aspired to be a poet, Oppewall incorporated many visual poetic symbols into the film, including a large number of mirrors to represent the duplicity of the CIA, full rigged ships as symbols of the state and eagle symbols, which were used in ironic situations such as suspect interrogations.
Her team tracked down the right set dressings and also found authentic Teletype machines, reel-to-reel tape recorders and radios used in the CIA during that time. The music for the film was by Bruce Fowler and Marcelo Zarvos. They replaced James Horner , who left the project due to creative differences. The film received mixed reviews. Time magazine's Richard Corliss also gave Damon a positive notice in his review: Indeed, so is everyone else in this intricate, understated but ultimately devastating account of how secrets, when they are left to fester, can become an illness, dangerous to those who keep them, more so to nations that base their policies on them".
For this reason alone, The Good Shepherd is must-see viewing". Newsweek magazine's David Ansen wrote, "For the film's mesmerizing first 50 minutes I thought De Niro might pull off the Godfather of spy movies Still, even if the movie's vast reach exceeds its grasp, it's a spellbinding history lesson".
As ever, he looks like he is playing Robin to some imaginary Batman at his side, like Jimmy Stewart and his invisible rabbit. His nasal, unobtrusive voice makes every line sound the same". It was the only American entry in to win a prize at the festival. In May, , the Center for the Study of Intelligence Center for the Study of Intelligence , a history group of the CIA , held a round-table with a number of on-staff historians to discuss the film. The discussion was publicly released as an article; it covered the film's depiction of the OSS and CIA, the accuracy of the film's depiction of both the events and atmosphere of the period, and discussed factual details surrounding the actual persons on whom some of the film's characters were based.
According to the article, the film was meticulous in getting small details especially artifacts correct, but the overall depiction of the atmosphere and motivations of the time was flawed. A film can take a strictly documentary approach.. If that's the standard, then anyone with historical sense is going to dislike the liberties The Good Shepherd takes. If one approaches the film as a work of art, one must still ask if there is truth in the story-telling. Does it convey the sense of the time: I think we all agree that the film fails that test as well.
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It fails because it inserts themes we know from our studies of the period were not there: In reality, the stakes were high during the Cold War; the Soviets were seen to be on the march and very dangerous. It was serious business, and there were many personal costs. And yet, most CIA people were enjoying their work at the same time, as any number of oral history interviews and memoirs will attest.
The same article also describes the depiction of Yale's famous secret society Skull and Bones as being an incubator of the U. Intelligence Community as inaccurate. Galbraith wrote that the Taylor Report on the invasion confirmed the existence of a leak:. One of the great travesties of the Cold War surfaced on April 29, when the Washington Post reported the declassification in full of General Maxwell Taylor 's June, special report on the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Partial versions of this document have been available for decades. But only now did its darkest secret spill. Here is what Taylor reported to Kennedy. The Russians knew the date of the invasion Therefore, Castro also knew. The leak did not come from the invasion force; it had happened before the Cuban exiles were themselves briefed on the date. Kennedy was not informed. Nor, of course, were the exiles. And knowing all this, Dulles ordered the operation forward. One of the panel of CIA historians who discussed the movie in a round table strongly disagreed that the leak was crucial, saying:.
Even if the operation had initially succeeded, the idea that this paramilitary battalion would have melted into the jungles and mountains to spawn a general uprising against Castro is fatuous. CIA's own analysts judged that Castro's popular support was strong and that he controlled the army and the security services. Even if the group had secured the beachhead, its members eventually would have been hunted down. The supposed leak had nothing to do with historical reality. De Niro said he would like to make two sequels to The Good Shepherd , one bringing the action forward from to and the fall of the Berlin Wall , the other following its protagonist, Edward Wilson, up to the present day.
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