The one movie Bush would not want to see
“Death of a President,” which focusses on a fictionalized assassination of George W. Bush, was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie was received well and the audience applauded at the end and several more times during a question-and-answer session with the filmmakers.
Director Gabriel Range does not believe this movie will encourage anyone to attempt an assasination. He said “I think the film makes it clear it would really be a horrific event. There have been plenty of fictional films about assassinations, so this is not the first in that sense,”. You better be right Gabriel.
“Death of a President” shows a sniper shooting of Bush on Oct. 19, 2007, during a trip to Chicago for a speech. The movie includes interviews with actors playing Secret Service and FBI officials, White House aides, journalists and anti-war activists, along with suspects and their relatives.
Newmarket Films, who also distributed “The Passion of the Christ“, have bought the rights over the U.S distribution for this movie for only $1 million. Guess they couldnt find any other buyers in the states.
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Don’t know about you, but there just seems to be something wrong with the idea of a movie featuring the assassination of a living person. And this is from someone who thinks Bush is an absolute arseclown.
I think it\’s an interesting spin myself. And I have to wonder if it will finally sink in to the man that not everyone is crazy about his ideas of freedom and the methods he\’s willing to take to to achieve it.
I read an article recently that quoted an exmarine saying something that really rang true to me, \”you cannot erraticate terrorism, but you can learn to cope with it\”. He\’s completely right. As soon as you take out one band of merry men with there \’weapons of mass distruction\’, there are 5 more waiting in the wings to take their place.
i am a staunch dem and a bush hater, but i find the idea of this movie absolutely appalling.
I think it will be a great and thought provoking movie. After all, movies are supposed to challenge us. And if someone doesn’t want to be challenged, they shouldn’t see it.
I’m rather tired of seeing the public protest everything controversial that comes out. If we keep up at this pace, we’ll all be watching romantic comedies about white straight people tripping over themselves to find love against whatever mundane odds are written into their storyline.
Ugh. Bravo on brining this up in your blog.