"Dick" and "Nixon"

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This paper compares these two movies which offer very different views on President Nixon's rule during the Watergate Scandal. The writer explains that the most notable difference in the movies is their format. "Dick" is a political satire, where as "Nixon" is a dramatic recount of factual events flavored with Oliver Stone's insights. The ideology behind both films is drastically diverse.

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"Dick is a hilarious film about Richard Milhous Nixon's reign as president during the Watergate scandal. The film attempts to satirically retell the events of 1972-1974. The political satire offers a very interesting suggest as to what really happened while Nixon was in office.
The film starts out with two extremely naive 15-year-old girls, Betsy (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene (Michele Williams) who innocently stumble upon G. Gordon Liddy's "plumbers squad" while they are breaking in at Watergate's Democratic National Headquarters. The following day, Liddy (Harry Shearer) sees the girls on a school field trip to the White House. Again, with excellent timing, they arrive during one of Nixon's paper-shredding projects. After Liddy pulls the girls to the side, Nixon (Dan Hedaya) arrives on the scene and is so impressed by the two that he appoints them as Secret Youth Advisors and the White House's Official Dog Walkers. "

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