I recognised a few quotes from the film that were from Reagan. He campaigned as a return to traditional values, and against the progressive youth movement. Of course art imitates life in more than one way, and there will be similarities with other elections.
I think he said "Oh, sure, when I was a kid we were all poor too. Why some of us didn't even have our own SOCIAL WORKER." As Jarmon did in this movie.
yea,the similarities are almost scary.Jerry Brown was a young liberal,whose father was governor in the very state this movie is set in-California.
shareno...Jeremy Larner supposedly based his screenplay on the Tunney/George Murphy contest in California
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That figures. Tunney was a real piece of...work.
Been making IMDB board posts since the 90s, yet can't bring up any from before December of 2004.
It has more in common with Tunney-Murphy 1970. I don't see much that it has in common with Brown-Reagan 1966.
Keep in mind, when we talk about Brown in 1966, that's not Jerry Brown. That's Pat Brown -- Jerry Brown's father -- the middle-aged, two-term incumbent governor of California at the time.
I don't see much that Robert Redford's young, liberal Bill McKay has in common with either Ronald Reagan or Pat Brown. Brown wasn't young. Reagan wasn't young or liberal.
Its a "mash up" of many politicians and campaigns, not only in California but in other states where the screenwriter had experience as a speechwriter.
Bill McKay is a guy running for Senate with an ex-Governor father. When The Candidate was made in 1971, Jerry Brown was the California Secretary of State with an ex-Governor father(Pat)...and clear intentions to run for Governor himself. (He did in 1974, and after two terms is now Governor again -- in 2011 -- two decades after his last terms ended.)
Jerry Brown's father, Pat, won two terms as California Governor(beating RICHARD NIXON the second time, in 1962 -- Nixon had lost the Presidential to Kennedy in a close race, and thought the California Governor's race would be "easy" ) but lost Pat Brown his attempt to win a third when Ronald Reagan beat him.
Tunney-Murphy and, I think, other races (like Governor Ronald Reagan versus Democrat Jesse Unruh in 1970) were brought into "The Candidate" for "anecdotes." I think the one at the forest fire where McKay is there and sitting US Senator Crocker Jarmon choppers in and announces aid was based on the Reagan-Unruh race, with Governor Reagan choppering in.
Some of the other anecdotes were drawn from Larner's work for and knowledge of Democratic candidate like Robert Kennedy(McKay is from a "political family"), Eugene McCarthy, and New York Mayor John Lindsay.
Off topic, I really feel your signature, caractacus23. Did they ever explain what happened to the older posts, or make an announcement about purging content? or did it just happen one day? I remember when you could see every post. Now, a lot of change is lost.
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