Millhouse: A White Comedy was another compilation film from Emile de Antonio. It was more of a documentary comedy though. In this documentary, de Antonio clearly gives his views on President Nixon. This was also produced before the Watergate Scandal. The film opens with many teenagers singing songs about how good of a man Nixon was; I found this a bit ridiculous that these teenagers were willingly doing this. I think it also set a bit of a creepy tone for the film. The music was not calming. The music in the beginning could even be categorized as a mocking tone, which started the film off with opinions known. This was clearly a subjective film. Also, voice of God narration was used, and also went along with the images on the screen. In some clips though, the experts were their own narration.
One scene that was very memorable, and a point where de Antonio made his opinion very clear was when a wax dummy of Nixon was being lowered into the crowd. I think that this very clearly exemplified de Antonio's feelings on Nixon and his presidency. He made it clear that Nixon cared very much about his image. I think that de Antonio also achieved his goal of showing how creepy Nixon was, even though we only saw a few clips from this documentary.
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