Oliver Stone made this uncharacteristically stupid film "JFK" glorifying the titled psychopath and other nutcases (e.g. Jim Garrison) - I suspect that most of the fame that the psychotic, drug-addicted maniac who almost destroyed the planet during the Cuban Missile Crisis gathers is due to Stone. But Stone can redeem himself if he makes a film about "JFK" that's based on
this here video
(footage of JFK in an intimate moment). They should make a film based on this and have it free on Youtube, bringing in the fact that JFK actually heightened the American involvement in Vietnam, and freely used drugs when in a position of power. He wasn't a cartoon villain, just a real villain with real positive characteristics, which is much more dangerous.
Look at the Youtube comments for that video - the sheer amount of hero-worship for JFK is incredible. (They might as well have said that the CIA was the one who identified the nukes, and Khrushchev was the one who defused the situation by backing down.) One of the many glorious bits of JFK's legacy is: the imposition of this idiotic "Camelot" media-induced frenzy while busy spreading STDs in the "circles of powah". The worst thing about this is that "Camelot" is now used as a term of derision - thanks to JFK, the claim that any given person in power
isn't
promiscuous will be likely met with the plausible objection that it isn't "Camelot", as JFK's actual marital life definitely wasn't (but as the image projected by his frantic media campaign to decieve the public - was).
One of the (invalid) objections against biopics is that they don't capture the particular "personality" of someone (their peculiar style). This is only relevant for those people whose entire personal
and
public influence were based on the "style" of how they "speak", and I imagine Ruskin or Samuel Johnson (literary people in general) would be of that sort. But who makes a film about literary people? For men of action, public figures, etc. biopics draw attention to aspects of their conduct, which is something more important than qualities of "personality". As the great wit Gore Vidal said, "[w]ho cares what they were like as people? That's just show business."