Millhouse

Millhouse was all about president Nixon, and his presidency. This was shot pre-watergate, and ultimately influenced future campaigns. In the beginning of the film it starts slightly creepy, with a dummy of Nixon. It immediately gives the impression that de Antonio clearly did not like Nixon, and thought he was not intelligent. Throughout the film we saw clips of Nixon, and many of the things he said and did that were not the brightest. It gave an automatic negative image of Nixon, and made him out to be a bad man. This impacted future campaigns because the manipulation of film is what made him look so bad. De Antonio chose clips that portrayed Nixon in a negative light to get his point across. Today this can be seen among many campaigns, there are often slander campaigns against the persons opponent. There are commercials showing everything one person is doing wrong within their campaign. A lot of damage can be done to a persons reputation if there is enough manipulation of the film.

De Antonio does a good job of using the right clips to get his point across. He makes Nixon look like a fool through his entire documentary. Since this was pre-watergate, many people at the time were in favor of Nixon. After watergate this film was most likely looked at in a different light, for people were very anti-Nixon after watergate.