Posted on 08/31/2006 5:47:02 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
More4 risks US ire with Bush assassination film
Jason Deans, broadcast editor Thursday August 31, 2006 MediaGuardian.co.uk
Digital channel More4 will court controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George Bush.
Death of a President seems certain to cause a furore on the other side of the Atlantic when it is premiered at the Toronto film festival next month.
In the UK the 90-minute film will be broadcast first on Channel 4's digital service in October.
The drama takes the form of a fictional documentary looking back at the assassination of Mr Bush in October 2007, after he has delivered a speech to business leaders in Chicago.
When Mr Bush arrives in the city he is confronted by a massive demonstration against the Iraq war and is gunned down by a sniper as he leaves the venue. The hunt for Mr Bush's killer focuses on a Syrian-born man, Jamal Abu Zikri.
Death of a President will use a combination of archive footage, CGI special effects and scripted scenes.
Actors play the fictional secret service agents and other aides who are with Mr Bush when he is shot and recall the incident in interviews recorded for the retrospective documentary.
Death of a President also looks at the differing viewpoints of the pro- and anti-Iraq war lobbies and the impact of Mr Bush's war on terror on the US.
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So... you do know the filmmakers are British?
Yes, thats right. My tongue slipped.
Of course not, but from the article the movie treats the assassination as an historical event and then talks about the politics surrounding it. Doesn't sound much like an assassin recruitment film to me, and anything less is (and should be) absolutely off limits as freedom of speech.
In real life, I think Cheney would go ape sh!t on the Syrians and their financiers, Iran. Meanwhile, Soros would praise them as the saviors of civilization.
And that is meaningful because??
Have you seen it?
Because you seem to be talking about "liberals", as in the liberal/conservative American labels.
Is there a difference between British liberals and Americans liberals? I didn't know.
There is a difference. The Brits drink tea and produce the likes of Elton John, Boy George and Freddy Mercury.
LOL. Works for me.
This isn't artistic freedom.
This is celluloid assault upon the entire United States by imprinting in people's minds the possibility of killing the current head of state.
Movies are more powerful than people imagine. We like to think art mimics politics. In reality, art has always been set up to manipulate and direct our lives, especially politics.
That's why filmed propaganda like this is so lethal.
This is obviously impossible. Guns are illegal in Chicago...
In Britain it's more of a party designation, and it is not used that way here. The Liberals (now Liberal Democrats) once claimed Winston Churchill as a member. :)
If you ask me, life is impossible in Chicago.
Daley announced yesterday he is going to run for another term for Dictator of Chicago.
>>Any movie about the Bent One would probably co-star Traci Lords and Ron Jeremy, and garner an XXX rating.
If Gennifer Flowers is to be believed about Clinton's "build", Ron Jeremy would be extremely over-qualified to play billy jeff.
The Man Who Broke Britain : Al Qaeda terrorist plot ruins the British financial market, causing a Western financial crisis. Let's see, Muslims do bad things (a no-no in movies lately), and the basic economic sabotage plot has been done before by Tom Clancy.
The Day Britain Stopped : Another fake documentary of what happened when Britain's already stressed transportation system broke under the strain of train engineer strikes, poor air traffic control, etc. Not exactly whacko-leftist since they extoll the virtues of public transportation.
And he did a couple based on true stories of the Menendez brothers and an attempted diamond heist (where the police were watching them since they started the plot).
He doesn't exactly look like a Michael Moore.
Aw, you're no fun at all. You're injecting real information into a perfectly good rant thread. :)
I am using liberal, or Liberal, the way it is used here in the USA. :^)
Of course, who could forget the huge laughs we all had when Craig Kilborn at CBS shared this bit of late night fun.
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