The Trial of the Chicago 7

I was interested in JG-L character because he is portrayed as someone who is trapped in that situation and who until certain degree is sympathetic to the protagonist's troubles. Well, the guy is actually the only one who is still alive and he already watched the movie. He called it a "fantasy" and it's very critical of the heroes of the movie. He still think they were violent provocateurs that wanted to destabilize the government. He is critical of what happened with Bobby Seale but he thinks it was a stunt and a trap planned by the accused and that the judge was forced to take that decision which made it falsely (according to him) look like a racist. So in real life, he is actually slightly less sympathetic that his character in the film.

I haven't checked it but I don't doubt Tom Hayden read the name of the dead soldiers as he does at the end of the movie but the way it was shot it's very Dead Poet Society! Why not making the scene a little more discreet or credible. The judge gagged one accused and arrested another one but just helpless screamed like a vulnerable old man when Hayden refused to obey him?! Also it's suggested that almost everyone there was on their side. Even the young prosecutor who clearly wasn't! If that feel good make believe scene would had happened, I don't doubt the jury would had been also on their side but they actually weren't. Actually I think it would had been interesting if they had showed how Conservatives looked them and trying to explain why they originally lost the case. IMHO that's why the film is about plain good vs evil. Frank Langella put some humanity to the role and you can feel his doubts and even fear after he does what he did to Seale but I sincerely think that was the actor not the script and much less the director. The prosecutor has humanity but the real guy was much more complex than the young smart guy making his job meanwhile questioning his own side that it's presented in the movie and the rest of the "bad guys" are just cartoons.