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Thirteen Days is a American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. It dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of , seen from the.
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- About this show
- Thirteen days in May.
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- Book Review: »Thirteen Days«
Thirteen Days has no scenes in Havana or Moscow. It makes no attempt to suggest why Khrushchev decided to sneak the missiles into Cuba or, in the end, to pull them out. Aside from a young woman with frightened eyes whom O'Donnell sees at the Soviet embassy when he's acting as Robert Kennedy's driver, the only Russians who make appearances are diplomats or KGB officers who interact with Americans. For that matter, the only ordinary Americans in the movie are O'Donnell's wife and children. Their anxiety has to stand for the population's as a whole.
My own conclusion is that these were not necessarily bad choices: Scenes in the Kremlin would have been distracting and would have raised questions the movie could not answer. But others may well say such omissions make the movie less true. For me, the movie's less-than-perfect historical faithfulness is more than offset by its presentation of three essential truths about the missile crisis.
The first such truth is that it was a real crisis in the medical sense of involving life or death. The film manages to convey, better than any documentary or previous dramatization, the mounting risk of global catastrophe. It accurately reproduces some of the restrained but anguished debate from the secret tapes, and it intersperses extraordinarily realistic footage of Soviet missile sites being hurriedly readied in jungle clearings, of American U-2s swooping over them, and of bombers, carrier aircraft, and U.
Viewers who know this movie is about a real event will leave the theater shivering with the understanding of what the Cold War could have brought. Second, Thirteen Days makes comprehensible--better than most written histories of the crisis, despite all the additional documentation and detail they've provided--the awful predicament that President Kennedy faced.
Americans tend to write history solipsistically, as if all things good and evil are made in the U. Thus, a lot of academic histories and even memoir reconstructions of the crisis have supposed that it arose out of U. Thirteen Days captures the reality that is so clear in the tape transcripts: The crisis for Kennedy had very little to do with Cuba and much to do with the commitment he had inherited to protect two-and-a-half million West Berliners. Kennedy had no reason to suppose that the erection of the Berlin Wall in had diminished the desperate eagerness of the East German Communist regime to add these West Berliners to its imprisoned population.
Quite the contrary: The Wall was one piece of evidence among many that the East Germans and their Soviet patrons were running out of patience.
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Khrushchev had warned Kennedy that he intended definitively to solve the Berlin problem later in The one and only safeguard for West Berliners was the U. Anything that weakened the credibility of this threat could have forced the U.
That was why Kennedy felt he could not let Khrushchev get away with what he had done in Cuba. The movie gets this right where so many histories have not. We don't think it's worth dying beautifully. On the other side, you had some ideological and political zealots who were essentially beyond deterrence in that case. Let me ask Peter Almond this: As you can tell, this has spawned, this film has spawned all kinds of discussion about the nuclear threat today, in light of this crisis. My question is this: Is it your sense, from the reaction from the film, that there exists a generation today that has concluded that the nuclear threat has gone away?
It's apparent that, with the end of the Cold War, the public, and young people in particular, don't have a sense of the immediacy, of the danger, of the risks of accident or of real mischief or of the serious terrorist involvement of nuclear materials.
It's gratifying that young people seem to respond to the film, to the large issues of the kind of political judgment that is required, whether it's and President Kennedy or some present-day circumstance that could potentially face a leader, whether it's here in Washington or elsewhere around the world. And I think that makes it a kind of compelling story for just an account of what these men faced in and what leadership today contends with.
I don't think they understand that today, we, the US, have 7, strategic nuclear warheads. The Russians have 6, About a third of ours are on minute alert, and they have a destructive power equal to 50, Hiroshima bombs. One Hiroshima bomb killed , people. And those are still on nuclear alert.
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And I think the Cuban Missile Crisis, "Thirteen Days," was the best managed foreign policy crisis of the last 50 years. But I want to tell you, we lucked out. At the end, events were slipping out of control on both sides. Both sides misjudged. We didn't know the warheads were there.
Thirteen days in May.
Castro was recommending they be used. And whether Khrushchev wanted them used or not, if we had attacked, we had , troops in southeastern ports ready to attack. And the majority of Kennedy's advisers were recommending it. Let me ask you both, what… Or all of you: What then, do we conclude?
What should we do now? What two or three things would you do now, as a result of the history of this incident, this crisis? Well, I think… One of the key points that comes through just in the dramatic record of the crisis and the real historical record, and Senator Edward Kennedy made this point after looking at "Thirteen Days" with President Bush the other day, he said that "Thirteen Days" demonstrates the balance a leader has to bring between the military and diplomatic political options. And what you see in "Thirteen Days" and in the Cuban Missile Crisis, is the continual insistence on this kind of coercive diplomacy balance that brought us through the crisis, where President Kennedy seemed at each turn to be looking for a way to step back from the brink of total war and to give the other side the opportunity to reflect on the options and join with the United States in finding a way out.
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And I think that lesson is number one for leaders today, for young people who might see the film as a kind of cautionary tale about what it takes to lead in the kind of ultimate crisis situation. The basic lesson is the indefinite combination of human fallibility is demonstrated in that film and nuclear weapons will lead to destruction of nations. And therefore, as first steps today, we should do what President Bush has proposed, unilateral reductions from the 7, that I mentioned to something on the order of maybe 1, and de-alerting the remaining force, to reduce the risk of accident or inadvertent launch.
Oh, yeah. Let me add two points that that: One is that we need to understand that foreign leaders may think very differently than we do. We cannot assume that they are going to be reasonable, rational, as those qualities are defined in Washington. We have to understand that they may think very much out of the box, and we need to prepare for that. And I think part of preparing for that is to make sure that we can deter an opponent as best we're able. We need to understand them and their thought processes, as well as we possibly can, and then we have to understand that deterrence, no matter how far you think you… how well you've done on it, you have to be ready for its fragility and the fact that deterrents may fail.
So I would add onto what Secretary McNamara said, that we need to move toward defensive capabilities. And I'm convinced that the Cuban Missile Crisis, as it's portrayed, is one of the strongest arguments to move forward with some sort of defensive capability for the United States, particularly ballistic missile defense. Well, I'm not going to disagree until I know what… I'll call the architecture, the specifications of the ballistic missile defense that President Bush is thinking of is. At that point, I hope you'll invite us back.
I would say that we've just come back from showing "Thirteen Days" at Berlin at the film festival in advance of its European opening, and already, with the new administration's comments on the missile defense, there is a kind of unease being expressed in the… certainly in the media in Europe and among people on encounters, that they feel a kind of potential destabilizing. And I would say they aren't… it's based in lack of information, and if I would say there's one piece that is crucial, as we move towards a missile shield debate, it is simply that of information and communication of what that new step signifies in world affairs.
Book Review: »Thirteen Days«
But that can be done. And I think the Russians are ready for it. And I am delighted the president is talking about it. I can only suggest what President Bush said as candidate Bush and subsequently, that the United States, if following a study of the requirements, nuclear requirements and defense requirements, it looks like there are grounds for reductions, the United States will be quite willing to go ahead with reductions unilaterally, if necessary.
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World Jan Health Jan For all the gnashing divisiveness that has dominated the presidential election crisis, one opinion about it appears to be relatively universal: The ugly briar patch of claims, counterclaims, and arcane court strategies will produce a winner far more than it will a leader. The public hunger for it is as palpable as it is impotent, and that yearning lends an unexpected frisson of zeitgeist excitement to Thirteen Days , a big, square, rousing political-thriller docudrama that traces the seismic backroom maneuvers of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Directed by Roger Donaldson No Way Out , from a script by David Self, the film lays out, with a vast and engrossing urgency and detail, that perilous moment in October when the United States and the Soviet Union dared to look each other in the nuclear eye, engaging in the ultimate game of Cold War chicken.
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