Posted on 09/01/2006 5:51:53 PM PDT by Paloma_55
A British mock-documentary called Death Of A President , which depicts the imagined assassination of George W. Bush, seems to be this year's lightning rod for political outrage at the Toronto International Film Festival.
TIFF has been down this road before, with the "cat killer" movie Casuistry: The Art Of Killing A Cat and the ostensibly anti-American 9/11 anthology-thinkpiece 11'09''01.
But D.O.A.P. (as it is coyly referred to in festival material) could be more gasoline on the fire of polarized U.S. politics.
'DISGUSTED AT THOUGHT'
The movie is fashioned as a future look back at the repercussions that follow Bush's assassination in October 2007.
Right-wing media in the U.S. discovered the movie and its premise yesterday. The news/gossip weblog The Drudge Report led its home page with the words "SHOCK: PRESIDENT BUSH ASSASSINATED IN NEW MOVIE."
The Drudge site, which linked to an article about the movie in the London Evening Standard, also included a doctored photo from the film of Bush being shot by a sniper in front of a hotel.....
(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...
It reminds me of a movie theme I thought up, but I don't think it would get produced.
Its about a guy who finally loses it and decides to make a difference. So he moves to Hollywood and begins planning ways to kill various media types, using randomized methods so that it is almost impossible to figure out who, where, when and how his next victim will fall.
A major produce dies of food poisoning when the waiter, a recent hire named "Emanuel", slips something into his food.
A loud-mouthed former actor who gets involved in politics dies in a car crash when his brakes fail on a steep windy road.
Of course, such a theme, while it might be interesting and exciting to watch as the police try to catch the bad guy, might not win the approval of Hollywood moguls. I wonder why???
Freedom gives these a-holes enough rope to expose their thoughts and hang themselves. The good old days of economic deprivation are gone, so the left has no place to recruit the masses...they are just more desperate than ever.
Your movie idea actually sounds like that one with Vincent Price. Theatre of Blood, I think it's called.
There is no "Bush Camp". There is only the President of the United States. This is simply an insult to the man, the office and the nation.
Make a movie about Hillary being assassinated.
What would the media reaction be?
This film doesn't deserve an audience larger than the leftist idiots who will go see it.
What has ever been done on our side of the aisle which comes anywhere near the level of disturbing violence that they commie-fascists advocate and glamourize? Even the Clinton Chronicles didn't advocate killing Clinton and that was the most provocative thing ever put out on our side.
I agree and I doubt he is "riled" about it. After all the mud slinging he has taken this will not phase him.
I'm curious as to what the filmmaker believes the aftermath would be.
If he thinks it would be anything other than the galvanization of the population, with the kind of anger and resolve we got right after 9/11, he doesn't understand Americans. At all.
Of course, in this guy's fantasyland, it's probably a *conservative* who shoots the President.:/
Aw, you beat me to it. Great flick.
I like the predictable spin the Sun is essaying here - it "riles the Bush camp" but hey, that's a good thing, right? Hatred has eaten the left alive, and it's reached the brain.
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