Blog 6 - A More Perfect Union

I found the film A More Perfect Union to be very interesting but I also thought it was a pretty cheesy movie. The information was useful but many of the other aspects of it I found typical to a BYU produced movie. Probably the most interesting information I saw was the portrayal of the founding fathers. All of the founding fathers acted differently then I thought they would. However, I do not personally know the founding fathers so I cant really judge this. How the founding fathers were portrayed in the John Adams film also surprised me, however, both of the reasons I was surprised are completely different. In John Adams all of the founding fathers were kind of rough around the edges. They weren’t always polite and always spoke their mind. In this film I felt they were all overly polite. James Madison always was very polite to everyone and never got in any arguments or seemed very frustrated. One reason I think that I was surprised is the skill level of acting in each of these productions. Paul Giamatti is a very gifted and talented actor while I have no idea who played James Madison. The actor who played James Madison did not show much facial expression to my memory. He was rather plain and did not show much emotion. In contrast in John Adams all of the actors showed a great deal of emotion as they represented there colonies / states. The actor in it who showed the most emotion in A More Perfect Union was Alexander Hamilton. The portrayal of Alexander Hamilton was to me one of the most intriguing parts of the movie. I do not know too much about Alexander Hamilton besides the fact that he set up the treasury and was shot by Aaron Burr. Seeing him try to fight to help the Virginia Plan out and how frustrated he was with the other delegates from New York was quite interesting. Constantly, I see his face on the ten-dollar bill and am excited to learn more about him in this class. Overall, I felt that the movie was quite interesting. I definitely liked the John Adams film better but I was glad to watch this one.