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carldiesturmer
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Posted: Tue 2006-09-12 15:24
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| The Assassination of George W Bush |
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/making-a-killing-out-of-bush/2006/09/12/1157826927352.html
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September 12, 2006 - 3:27PM
After you kill off President George W Bush in a fictional film, what do you do? How about make a deal.
Gabriel Range, the British director of Death of a President, the fictional documentary that became one of the most talked-about movies of the Toronto Film Festival, has sold US distribution rights to Newmarket Films, which handled Mel Gibson's equally provocative movie The Passion of the Christ.
Newmarket, which reportedly paid $1.3 million for the film, is expected to give President a wide release within the next few months. It will air on Britain's Channel 4 next month.
Range's film opened on Sunday night to a sell-out festival crowd, which sat respectfully through it and applauded briefly at the end.
Those who remained after the screening peppered the filmmaker with questions on how he achieved his special effects.
The film is shot as if it were a conventional television documentary, even though the events are fictional.
Range, who also co-wrote and produced the film, uses footage taken of Bush during three visits to Chicago to create the scenes that lead up top the president being shot.
He also uses special digital effects to superimpose the head of the president on that of an actor pretending to be shot, and he creates a flowery eulogy delivered by President Dick Cheney at the funeral of his predecessor.
The movie opens with demonstrations against Bush as he visits Chicago in 2007. As he leaves a hotel after delivering a speech, he is shot by a sniper in a nearby building.
A police hunt leads to the arrest of a Palestinian man on flimsy evidence. Later the man is convicted of the assassination and kept in prison even as evidence points to another person as having committed the crime.
"The reaction of the general public was very good," Range said in an interview about the opening night response.
"People didn't know what to expect. Our film has a very striking premise but it is not sensational or gratuitous. I hope people will see it as a balanced film and compelling drama. It is an oblique look at the ways the United States has changed since 9/11. We use the lens of the future to explain the past."
The 93-minute film's subject matter has led to protests in the United States, especially from conservatives. Range said he has received five or six death threats.
But he said that was because there was a rush to judgment about his film, without people knowing what was in it.
"We portrayed the horror of assassination. ... I don't think anyone would get the idea of assassinating Bush from this film."
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Posted: Sun 2006-09-24 20:39
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I definitely intend to watch it once it becomes available for piracy on the nets, but I harbor some doubts about the dialogue and screen content deviating very far from impressions made by the plot. After reading a synopsis of this movie, I can at least say that the film is made by Bushhaters for Bushhaters. In essence, if your world view is such that Dick Cheney is Darth Vader and George Bush is the emperor (or vice-versa), the plot itself unfolds in a manner that does not challenge your sensibilities. Both the suspect and the perpetrator of the assassination had a just cause, and the Administration reacts to the loss of its head with suitably evil deeds and rhetoric.
I watch a lot of controversial liberal movies. They invariably reveal more scandal about the filmmaker himself and the nature of his ideology, than they do about his subject. This British filmmaker Gabriel Range? I don't care about his stance on the War on Terror or whatever, I don't care about what he thinks of my country's President, and I'm confident that he does not simultaneously know what Bush and Cheney are like in real life and subscribe to the Star Wars version of their personalities. But I'm very interested in finding out what kind of people fantasize about the death of a real, sitting President of the US. Not a fake one, contrived for the story, nor one that is already long-dead and being revisited, but one that is alive right now with a wife and twin daughters. A human being. Then again, maybe Bush is not a human being to Gabriel Range; perhaps he's more machine now than man, twisted and evil. I guess I'll have to watch to find the answers. |
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Posted: Sun 2006-09-24 21:20
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| "We portrayed the horror of assassination. ... I don't think anyone would get the idea of assassinating Bush from this film." |
I'm not so sure about that...
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Posted: Sun 2006-09-24 21:48
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| Extreme Zionists and George W Bush |
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| Tristan wrote: |
I definitely intend to watch it once it becomes available for piracy on the nets, but I harbor some doubts about the dialogue and screen content deviating very far from impressions made by the plot. After reading a synopsis of this movie, I can at least say that the film is made by Bushhaters for Bushhaters. In essence, if your world view is such that Dick Cheney is Darth Vader and George Bush is the emperor (or vice-versa), the plot itself unfolds in a manner that does not challenge your sensibilities. Both the suspect and the perpetrator of the assassination had a just cause, and the Administration reacts to the loss of its head with suitably evil deeds and rhetoric.
I watch a lot of controversial liberal movies. They invariably reveal more scandal about the filmmaker himself and the nature of his ideology, than they do about his subject. This British filmmaker Gabriel Range? I don't care about his stance on the War on Terror or whatever, I don't care about what he thinks of my country's President, and I'm confident that he does not simultaneously know what Bush and Cheney are like in real life and subscribe to the Star Wars version of their personalities. But I'm very interested in finding out what kind of people fantasize about the death of a real, sitting President of the US. Not a fake one, contrived for the story, nor one that is already long-dead and being revisited, but one that is alive right now with a wife and twin daughters. A human being. Then again, maybe Bush is not a human being to Gabriel Range; perhaps he's more machine now than man, twisted and evil. I guess I'll have to watch to find the answers. |
I think if Bush was to withdraw his support from Extreme Zionism, I should rephrase that Neo-Conservativism to withdraw its support from Extreme Zionism, well then how long would Bush last?
After all, is it just coincidence that the bellicose Project for the New American Century and especially its original drafter were and are committed Militaristic imperialist and Zionists at the same time (Wolfowitz) and these characters happen to form part of the current Bush Cabinet. H
I think the appearance of imperialism and militaristic ideology is simply are a "cover story " for extreme zionist agenda.
Please refer to the Project for the New American Century, I don't think we should blame Bush for his advisors and more intelligent ideologues and secretaries in the cabinet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNAC
http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
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Posted: Mon 2006-09-25 02:04
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| Re: Extreme Zionists and George W Bush |
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I think if Bush was to withdraw his support from Extreme Zionism, I should rephrase that Neo-Conservativism to withdraw its support from Extreme Zionism, well then how long would Bush last?
After all, is it just coincidence that the bellicose Project for the New American Century and especially its original drafter were and are committed Militaristic imperialist and Zionists at the same time (Wolfowitz) and these characters happen to form part of the current Bush Cabinet. H
I think the appearance of imperialism and militaristic ideology is simply are a "cover story " for extreme zionist agenda.
Please refer to the Project for the New American Century, I don't think we should blame Bush for his advisors and more intelligent ideologues and secretaries in the cabinet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNAC
http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf |
This ideological diatribe has no bearing on my comments; nor does it relate to a movie that fantasizes upon Bush's assassination. |
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carldiesturmer
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Posted: Mon 2006-09-25 16:24
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| Re: Extreme Zionists and George W Bush |
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| Tristan wrote: |
| carldiesturmer wrote: |
I think if Bush was to withdraw his support from Extreme Zionism, I should rephrase that Neo-Conservativism to withdraw its support from Extreme Zionism, well then how long would Bush last?
After all, is it just coincidence that the bellicose Project for the New American Century and especially its original drafter were and are committed Militaristic imperialist and Zionists at the same time (Wolfowitz) and these characters happen to form part of the current Bush Cabinet. H
I think the appearance of imperialism and militaristic ideology is simply are a "cover story " for extreme zionist agenda.
Please refer to the Project for the New American Century, I don't think we should blame Bush for his advisors and more intelligent ideologues and secretaries in the cabinet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNAC
http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf |
This ideological diatribe has no bearing on my comments; nor does it relate to a movie that fantasizes upon Bush's assassination. |
the movie concept is hilarious, The Left is hilarious by focusing on the public face of the Neo-Conservative Establishment, after all Bush did not write the "Bush Doctrine".....  ....that was Wol......
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Posted: Wed 2006-09-27 16:14
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| Tristan wrote: |
| A human being. Then again, maybe Bush is not a human being to Gabriel Range; perhaps he's more machine now than man, twisted and evil. I guess I'll have to watch to find the answers. |
I don't view Bush as intentionally evil, I simply don't think he's the brightest guy out there, nor the best suited to be president of the US.
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