Posted on 08/31/2006 9:05:37 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The Toronto International Film Festival released new details today regarding a film in their line-up. Previously referred to as D.O.A.P., the film's actual title is DEATH OF A PRESIDENT. This fictional drama, which mixes archival footage with narrative elements, focuses on the assassination of President George W. Bush in the style of a retrospective documentary. DEATH OF A PRESIDENT makes its world premiere in the festival's Visions section on September 10th at 8:30 p.m. at the Paramount 3 Theatre in Toronto.about this film... I wonder if it can even be played legally in the United States while George is in office. Sure, it's obvious parody - but I wonder if they'd get the joke... or take it that way here. No matter, I can't wait to hear if there's any merit to the project from you guys going to Toronto. It could be fun.
"We’re thrilled to be screening the film at Toronto," said writer/director Gabriel Range. “It’s a striking premise which may be seen as highly controversial. But it’s a serious film which I hope will open up the debate on where current US foreign and domestic policies are taking us.”
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT is a thought-provoking critique of the contemporary American political landscape. In the film, President Bush is confronted by a massive anti-war demonstration as he arrives in Chicago to make a speech for business leaders. Unperturbed, Bush goes ahead with the visit but as he leaves the venue, he is gunned down by a sniper. While the nation mourns, the hunt for his killer swings into action and the state apparatus tries to make sense of this horrific attack on the administration. The investigation soon focuses on a Syrian-born suspect.
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT is co-written and directed by Gabriel Range ("The Day Britain Stopped"), and is produced by Borough Films' Range, Simon Finch and Ed Guiney. The executive producer is Robin Gutch. U.S. rights are represented by William Morris Independent, with distribution already secured in the UK by Film Four/Channel 4.
It's that part about a "massive anti-war demonstration" strains my credulity.
If anybody with any sort of republican ties had ever done such a thing (made such a film) when Slickkk was president, there wouldn't even have been a key to throw away, they'd have welded the bars shut.
"We’re thrilled to be screening the film at Toronto," said writer/director Gabriel Range. “It’s a striking premise which may be seen as highly controversial. But it’s a serious film which I hope will open up the debate on where current US foreign and domestic policies are taking us.”
What does policy have to do with this? This is an outrage.
AICN used to be an enjoyable website long ago, but has since deteriorated into the "movie-version" of MoveOn.org.
I wonder if this bozo would be willing to make a controversial film about Mohammed or current day Muslim leaders. Especially one that dared to show for example,the president of Iran being offed or the Koran being used to balance wobbly coffee table legs.
Guess not. I suppose the name Theodore Van Gogh still rings a bell.
Which is the bigger enemy? IslamiNazism or Leftism?
Just today, I heard a report of a National Guardsmen in uniform up in the Northwest getting beat up by some anti-war protesters.
Ummm, am I missing something here? Violent anti-war/peace activists? Oh wait...these are liberals and other social detritus: their hypocrisy either escapes them or they pretzel-logic-justify it somehow...
I'm waiting for all the Canadians to show up and say "Hey, don"t blame us!"
how about $500 for this idiots head?
SARCASM
And their answer to that question is to murder George W. Bush?
Why would we focus on a Syrian born suspect, unless this accessory before the fact, Canadian film mogule wannabe is the Syrian born suspect?
We don't take a film instigating the assination of our duly elected President as a joke. We have lost too many Presidents that way to laugh off this shit headed fool's encouragement of assault upon our President.
As awful as their public dream sounds, it is not nearly as audacious as what they dream in private...
Which is to murder every single American who voted for him.
(steely)
Hope they enjoy the lengthy visit with the M.I.B. that is coming.
I'll bet Gabriel Range would be THRILLED if someone made a documentary of someone hitting him on the head repeatedly with a sledgehammer.
Good question.
The cause of fanaticism and why it's dangerous.The fanatic has an elitist view of himself. He holds a firm belief that he is in some way special and has something that others, not like him, do not. Because of this basic self-view any disagreement with the elitist or any resistance to their actions causes anger. This "supreme" view of himself is an excuse for justifying his anger and thus justifying any act from deception to murder against those who disagree with or refuse to comply with him. He is comfortable with hatred, revenge, lying or any gross deception in defense of his special "superior" position acted out against those (the "others") who do resist him or refuse to validate his view(s).
It is impossible to reason or negotiate with someone who believes that they are morally and/or ethically superior to everyone else. Anything and everything you do to accommodate their "concerns" (demands), short of complete capitulation, will be discounted due to your "obvious" inherent inferiority. Any resistance to this, anything other than complete submission, actually becomes self-evident proof of their superiority and your inferiority. The elitist's mindset presupposes the rationale of rightness and righteousness as inherent only to themselves by virtue only of this self-superior self-image and not at all as a measure of the quality of their actions or their resulting consequences.
That mindset becomes the entire basis of their world-view. They may rest it on an ideology or philosophy that they choose to use as support or camoflage for it but the doctrine itself may or may not, loosely or strictly, support their view. It doesn't really need to as that is of secondary or even tertiary importance. The doctrine has relevance only as a tool. An indoctrinated fanatic may be completely unaware of this yet still be very skilled in its method. "I'm right you're wrong and this is where it says so" goes his thinking. The founders and leaders of fanatic movements know full well that the doctrine is nothing but a smokescreen. They're still right and you're still wrong but it "says so" in their minds only. When it gets down to brass tacks they "don't need no steenking doctrine" to support or hide their superior self-view.
Of course the opposite is true for the non-elites in the fanatic's mindset. You can never be right if you're not one of the "righteous." That is why a fanatic is so dangerous. Any and all evil acts can be justified on the basis of any disassociation whatsoever with the personal views and goals of the fanatic. With his identity. The intent and motivations of an outsider are irrelevant no matter how positive they are. Even the results of an outsider's actions are irrelevant no matter how accommodating or constructive or beneficial they are to the fanatic elitist. The outsider is always wrong because he won't submit to the fanatic's view.
The world is full of fanatics of many varieties and they can base their superior self-view on any pretext that works for them. Some belong to large groups of like-minded fanatics, some belong to a group that is not in itself fanatical but lends itself to the their needs and some are individuals under the delusion that they alone are special.
In today's world the United States in particular and western civilization in general are under a concerted assault from two separate groups of fanatic elitists. Fundamentalist Muslims and leftists. The Islamo-nazis and the Marxists. Both leftists and Islamo-fascists hold a firm belief that they are special and have something that "rednecks" and "infidels" don't have. For the leftists it is supposedly "superior intellect" and "social sophistication" that they possess and for the Islamo-nazis it's a "call from Allah," a "holy annointing."
Both groups are manifestations of a mass psychological disorder of fanatic elitism. Both are extremely unstable and are neither founded upon nor affected by sound logic or reason. Convinced of their own inherent superiority both groups will press their respective agendas as far as they can without regard for the consequences to themselves or to others. As with any fanatic the blame for all of their actions will logically fall on the shoulders of the "others," the outsiders. Negative consequences of their actions simply become another tool for self-vindication in the form of propaganda turned back on the outsider as "proof" of his inferiority.
The mindset of the fanatic elitist is the same as that of a rabid dog. The mindset of "us-and-them" on an inviolable scale. Nothing else has a valid existence for them if it doesn't submit completely to their view. Anyone and anything that doesn't submit is "total enemy." The outlook of neither the rabid dog nor the fanatic elitist can be affected by outside influence. The dog's mind is controlled by the fevered ravages of a virus; the fanatic's mind is controlled by a self-chosen paradigm that holds anything contrary to its own superiority in all matters as automatically self-negated and both the dog and the fanatic view anything that is other as a threat that must be destroyed.
For the fanatic elitist change can only occur from within and that means a change in their most basic self-view, the view that they are special and unique in a superior and dominating way. A view that all reasonable people must either fully reject or completely submit to. Those are the only choices the fanatic leaves to the others.
I predict a backlash. Except among the whacked-out loser lefties, the assassination of a sitting president isn't a joke or a parody here in the US.
This film does demonstrate to the unwashed moderates just how depraved and vile the left has become. The Unholy Alliance continues to sink deeper and deeper into the abyss.
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