Posted on 05/24/2004 9:34:41 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment
It really doesn't matter. If the movie does well at the box office, it will be "proof" that BUSH MUST GO, and if the movie flops, it will be "proof" that the political message was so scathing, so close to the truth, that a shadowy conspiracy of neoconservative operatives made sure that it would be stopped.
You know- the same thing that happened to Welcome To Mooseport.
BTW, Bowling For Columbine's total box office gross for its entire run was less than Passion Of The Christ made on opening day.
From the press it received you'd think Bowling For Columbine was the most significant cinematic achievement of all time, but that doesn't necessary translate into Boffo Box Office.
Someone pop me about forty thousand dollars and we'll find out.
My next project's working title: Michael and Me (...or, "How Restraining Orders are Just Another Way of Saying 'I Love You'")
Does anyone know what the competition was? Was there any? Was it a bunch of Eurotrash, or worse, French movies about unshaven lesbians?
Being the best turd in a pile of turds is not something to crow about.
"Welcome To Mooseport" is a controversial, hard-hitting political thriller that exposes the corruption that permeates the very fabric of our society.
At least, in the same sense that Fahrenheit 9/11 is a "documentary".
Yeah, sure. Kind of like how Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize.
The one that gave Fahrenheit 9/11 a run for its money is a German film called "The Edukators", about a group of people who break into rich people's homes and leave notes behind like "you have too much money", hoping to cause them to rethink their life.
According to Tarantino, there were only 2 films that did not cause people to think about their "message" days after viewing them. He didn't say which two films. I assume he wasn't talking about Kill Bill Volume 1 and Kill Bill Volume 2.
Yes, I'm joking. Welcome To Mooseport stars Gene Hackman as an ex-president who moves back to his hometown and Ray Romano as a plumber who thinks Gene Hackman is trying to steal his girlfriend. So Hackman and Romano run against each other for mayor.
But I'm not kidding that Fahrenheit 911 is set up as a "heads I win / tails you lose" movie. If it does well, it will be championed by the media as a deathblow for Bush, and if it does poorly, Michael Moore's supporters will say it was squelched by the "Chill Wind" of the Great Neo-Con Conspiracy.
A friend of mine who reviews movies on the Internet had a good observation on Tarantino's quote. He said Tarantino is too intelligent to seriously think politics had nothing to do with it, so he believes Tarantino is just trying to defend the integrity of the "jury" he was stuck with. But he said anyone who thinks politics had nothing to do with it should ask himself, "Would a film that was equally well-made in every respect except it was pro-Bush win the top award at Cannes?" No way.
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