Posted on 01/21/2008 6:17:32 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
Josh Brolin ready for the Oval Office? It’s all in the latest edition of the Access Hollywood Casting Call!
Josh Brolin will play the president in the Oliver Stone-directed film “Bush,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Stone, who also helmed films about John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, is hoping to start production as early as the spring, in order to release the film around the fall presidential election.
Brolin currently stars in the Coen brothers’ critically acclaimed drama “No Country For Old Men.”
The political commentator Ronald Steel identifies this dynamic in JFK:
"Because of the director's ability to cut, splice, fuse, restage, and invent, it is virtually impossible for a viewer of his film to tell if he is seeing a real or a phony event. Stone mixes real black-and-white footage, such as the Zapruder film of Kennedy's murder, with restaged black-and-white episodes that may or may not have happened. The result is a deconstructionist's heaven. Every event becomes a pseudo-event, fictions become fact, imagination becomes reality, and the whole tangible world disappears."
"Stone acknowledges that what he shows as happening need not ever have happened. Asked whether he has a responsibility to historical fact, Stone replied that the questioner was getting "into the area of censorship" and that it is "up to the artist himself to determine his own ethics by his own conscience." In any event, Stone argues that he was creating a myth that "represents the inner spiritual meaning of an event."
Stone's 1995 "Nixon" movie tied Nixon to the death of the man who defeated him for the presidency. Stone showed his protagonist wracked by guilt for having recruited the assassination team that, having failed to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro, later killed JFK for his failure to back the anti-Castro effort with sufficient zeal, but the 200 hours of tapes at the National Archives, transcribed by Watergate scholar Stanley Kutler in his new book, " Abuse of Power", provided new evidence of Stone's inaccuracy. Stone showed Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins, "madly trying to conceal CIA records on the ill-fated 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and related anti-Castro plotting".
The Nixon tapes were said by CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS, CHIEF OF THE EXAMINER'S WASHINGTON BUREAU, to show that the real-life Richard Nixon was obsessed not with hiding the Bay of Pigs file but with getting it declassified and leaked to the press.
Maybe a meteorite will hit this bozo stone-d in the head... he gets run over by a rogue bus... he gets too close to the lions cage... he gets lost in South Central. I can dream!
LLS
Hope he puts his own money in it. It will be a loser.
Oh, this will be fair and unbiased..
Wouldn’t running this film during an election year amount to an illegal political advertisement?
That was my first comment to self!
Isn't that prohibited by McCain-Feingold? Bush may not be a candidate, but the GOP has many of them, and embarrassing them is the whole purpose of Stoner's proposed pile of parrot poop.
Holy $#!t, he looks like Saddam in that pic!
Interesting article..on negative vs deception. I think Obama and Bill Clinton are players on this stage presently.
Is that the Warner Brothers Taz, Tasmanian Devil on his polo shirt?
LOL! I think you're right. And, yes, I think he looks like Hussein in that pic too.
I think McCarthy was right, and I wish he was around today.
Back during the Lewinsky scandal, the California adult film industry had an “oval office” movie set that was in such demand that it was used continuously, 24/7, for over two weeks.
So I guess it could be said that Bill Clinton has already had a movie, or movies, made about his presidency.
Such a legacy.
Josh Brolin - Isn’t Barbara Steisand his step-mother?????
Yes...Josh Brolin is the stepson of Babs. He’s also a crappy actor.
Nowhere is he more impressive than in "No Country," a violent film from a violent book by Cormac McCarthy. In it, he plays Llewelyn Moss, a Texan down on his luck who stumbles onto a drug deal gone bad and walks off with $2.4 million in cash.
Brolin played a character who lived off his dumb luck and used street smarts to survive as long as he did in No Country". Could any actor have played that part just as well? Probably. In a film that was really a success because of Bardem.
Javier "Sugar" Bardem
was the star, as far as I am concerned,
though Tommy Lee Jones was Lead.
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