The Good Shepherd
Edward Wilson believed in America, and he would sacrifice everything he loved to protect it.
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Timing:
2:47 (167 min)
6.349/10
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6.175/10
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6.7/10
112000
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Country
Genre
Drama, Thriller, History
Budget
$85 000 000
Revenue
$100 266 865
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, James G. Robinson, Lorena Reyes, Francis Ford Coppola, Chris Brigham, Guy McElwaine, David Robinson, Howard Kaplan
Operator
Composer
Marcelo Zarvos
Artist
Audition
Amanda Mackey, Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, Sig De Miguel
Editing
Short description
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
What's left behind the scenes
- Leonardo DiCaprio was initially chosen for the role of young Edward Wilson, but he later declined to participate in the project.
- The character of Matt Damon, Edward Wilson, is partially based on the biography of James Jesus Angleton, the founder of the CIA's counterintelligence.
- Robert De Niro worked on his 'favorite project' for 10 years.
- Robert De Niro's character, General Bill Sullivan, is partly based on the life of General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Donovan headed the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA) during World War II.
- Philip Allen, the character played by William Hurt, is somewhat based on the life of Allen Dulles, who joined the Office of Strategic Services and headed its intelligence center in Bern during World War II. He later became the Director of Central Intelligence. The CIA had fewer successes in the field of covert operations, and successes alternated with failures. In 1961, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Dulles was forced to resign.
- The solo, which was included in the soundtrack and plays towards the end of the film, was performed by violinist Lindsey Deutsch from Los Angeles.
- Filming of the picture began in August 2005 and wrapped up in January 2006 in New York.
- Eric Roth’s screenplay was long considered one of the best in Hollywood that hadn’t been filmed.
- Most of the filming took place in the Dominican Republic.
- A director’s cut of the film exists, with a running time of 167 minutes.
- Archie Cummings, Bill Crudup's character, is partially based on the real life of British traitor Kim Philby, who studied at Cambridge University and was later revealed by British intelligence to be a Soviet spy. He later flew to Moscow, where he lived out the rest of his life. The film reflects this by showing a phone conversation between Wilson and Cummings, who is in the Soviet Union.
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