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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There is nothing secret about it!!!
They have jurisdiction over any money moved within the US.
So if these wise dickey birds want to do business inside this country . . .
And they adore THIS President!
He was a convicted sex offender. I just don't think he's a role model to anyone much less filmmakers. He's a non-entity.
This fact is the clue that this movie may have the slightest bit of intellectual merit.
It may, it may not, but it can't be dismissed out of hand.
"Shot documentary-style" would be more accurate. These filmmakers did another documentary style film in 2003 about "The Day Britain Stopped", set in the near-future of 2005.
And.... Britain didn't stop.
One measure of media anti-Bush sentiment is the absolute aversion to writing or saying the phrase "President Bush." They use "Mr Bush" or "the president, George W Bush" but never that actual title to which GWB is meant to be addressed.
"President Clinton" still is one word, "President Bush" never will be.
This is British. Looks like a lot of people didn't bother to read the article (really big surprise on FR, I know!) :)
Agreed.
They want to kill our president for fighting the Islamofascists. These people are sick, disgusting, and dangerous. The more I think about this, the more ANGRY I become. No one threatens my president and then has the unmitigated GALL to say it is only 'thought provoking'. This is a call to assassinate Bush and I am MAD AS HELL about it!!!
Not in my free country.
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So shouting FIRE in a theatre or these days BOMB on an airplane, is acceptable to you and your version of free speech?
Wonderful and timely verse...perfect for this time and circumstance. Thank you for posting it.
There's still Polanski and Allen.
Oh Canada? Yawn....who cares?
$$$$$$
Our border with Canada is longer than our border with Mexico, and Canada welcomes huge numbers of refugees from Islamic countries, unlike Mexico. We do need to care what Canadians are thinking and doing.
You want to "wait to see" about a "movie" advocating the assassination of a sitting U.S. President? *shaking head*
Still, the fact that men like them and the toon is not denounced by CW and the fact that movies like "Birth"
can come out speaks volumes.
Also, the new Dakota Fanning flick is very troubling.
You know how much that bugs me, maica! I go out of my way to refer to him as PRESIDENT BUSH!
So do I.
BTW, Rush is starting with this item right now.
Highly disturbing ping.
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