First of all, audiences NOW may not be confused about KANE, but I'm not sure that was true at the time. Hearst was pretty damn confused, that's for sure, and I would've thought that the well-documented attempts to suppress it, and the subsequent treatment of Welles would bear that out...
JFK is a tremendous technical achievement. The writers and editors out there will know just how difficult it is to structure that density of information into a compelling narrative. This film (and SALVADOR, imo) is incontrovertible proof that Oliver Stone is one of the great film-makers, and it...