Other characters in the film were less true-to-life and were made up of composites of more than one person involved in the real-life conspiracy. The inclusion of these composites was one of the factors in the attacks upon Stone by critics who suggested that he was "fictionalizing" the actual events. The character of Willie O'Keefe (Kevin Bacon) is and incarcerated male prostitute who gives Garrison information on the relationship between Shaw and Ferrie. In reality the O'Keefe character did not exist. He was made up by Stone in order to compress many characters into one to simplify an already complicated film.

MacKey-Kallis also points out the use of smoking and cigarettes as a representational element in this film. She says in her JFK analysis: "Numerous characters, for example, smoke throughout the film, 'blowing smoke' and putting up 'smoke screens' to hide behind. The truth, in other words, is not only hidden by blinding glare off glass, but it is often shrouded in a haze of smoke. Even the judge at Clay Shaw's trial smoke heavily throughout the proceedings, leading us to conclude even before the trail begins...that justice will not be served." (Mackey-Kallis, pg. 50, Oliver Stone's America)

Stone recreated a lot of footage that was either lost or didn't exist in the first place. He painstakingly took the time to makeover Dealy Plaza into what it had looked like at the time. He used photographs of the event as reference to place people exactly where they had actually been and make them look exactly as they had. "A four-square block area of downtown Dallas was restored to a 1960's look for an exact re-staging of events occuring on 22 November 1963 at the Texas School Book Depository, Dealy Plaza, and the now-historic "grassy knoll" area. Every known detail of the day and the assassination was authentically recreated, including placing vintage, mud-spattered automobiles in the Dealy Plaza area because it had rained in Texas during the morning of 22 November. Hair styles and clothing (short raincoats, narrow ties) worn by extras precisely matched those of old photographic images in history books" (Beaver, pg. 164 Oliver Stone, Wakeup Cinema) This obsession with detail is also carried out in the film when we are shown the assassination second-by-second, from countless perspectives, over and over again. This attention to the tiniest detail is much like the attention the event recieves by the countless conspiracy thoerists who have written many books on the subject covering all aspects of the event and the conspiracy buffs who read all these books to get every little detail possible.

In conclusion, this film is one that creates a rich tapestry of characters, players, plots, scenarios and events that are real and fictional that surround the event and bring it to perspective in this politically significant epic. Stone creates for the audience a piece of Americana that will interest and enthrall audiences for a long time. This film brought issues to the big screen that were new and fresh and dealt with them in ways that were also new and fresh. Stone's work is often contriversial but always done with quality and integrity.

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