Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

You can watch the whole movie Parkland with ads on Youtube. I wanted to see if they attempted to renact the Zapruder film, but they did not. In fact, for the entire assassination, they actually kept the camera on Zapruder. He's filming and you hear three shots. The camera stays on him. It doesn't return to the Z-film until the limo is speeding under the underpass.

What a stupid way to make a movie about the JFK assassination: to keep the camera on Zapruder for the whole thing. Why did they do it that way?

So, Hanks paid Bugliosi millions for the rights to his book. The book is mainly about the assassination: what happened when JFK got shot; how it went down. But, in the end, they decided not to depict any of it. Why?

I know why. It's because it's impossible to duplicate the Zapruder film. If anyone tried to, they could never do it. Even though the freeway sign isn't there any more. it would be simple enough to install a proxy for it. But if you did, and you did it accurately, and then you shot from Zapruder's pedestal, you'd see that your sign looks nothing like the one in the Z-film. You'd be scratching your head and wondering, "How the hell did he do that?"

So, they decided not to show the meat of the Zapruder film and not to reproduce it. This was a movie about the JFK assassination that didn't cover it at all. They did not show it to you.

Since the JFK assassination wasn't depicted in the movie, what did they need Bugliosi's book for? The movie was supposed to "debunk the debunkers." But, how could it possibly do that if they avoided showing the event? You literally see nothing.

As a filmmaker, I have to wonder how they could make a film about the JFK assassination without showing it.

Now I know why they called it Parkland because it is not a movie about the JFK assassination; it's about the aftermath of the JFK assassination. But, it was chicken shit way to do it; a cowardly way to do it. If Hanks really thought that Bugliosi had a lock on the truth, he should have depicted his rendering of it. But, he skirted it completely. Instead, he showed all these characters coping with the aftermath and showing a lot of valor and fortitude. It's just a puff piece. It didn't get into the ring with the debunkers. This movie said "No mas" from the beginning.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTN947b3H8