|
Forums21
Topics43,337
Posts1,085,994
Members10,381
| |
Most Online1,245
25 minutes ago
|
|
|
British film depicts Bush assassination
#164482
09/01/06 03:37 PM
09/01/06 03:37 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 5,455
California
XDCX
OP
|
OP
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 5,455
California
|
From MSNBC.com LONDON - A British television network plans to broadcast a dramatic, documentary-style film about a fictional assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush, the network’s head said Thursday.
The program uses actors and digital manipulation of real footage to show a fictional account of Bush being gunned down after delivering a speech in Chicago, Peter Dale, the head of More4, told a news conference.
“Death of a President,” also scheduled to be shown at the Toronto Film Festival in September, focuses on all those linked to the pretend crime — including nearby anti-war protesters, suspects, Secret Service guards and investigators, Dale said.
More4, which is the digital offshoot of Britain’s Channel 4 network, plans to show the program on Oct. 9.
The White House declined to comment on the network’s announcement, saying it would not dignify the program with a response.
“It’s an extraordinarily gripping and powerful piece of work, a drama constructed like a documentary that looks back at the assassination of George Bush as the starting point for a very gripping detective story,” Dale told reporters.
“It’s a pointed political examination of what the war on terror did to the American body politic,” he said.
Dale said he expected the film would upset some, but defended it as a sophisticated piece of work.
“It’s not sensationalist, or simplistic but a very thought-provoking, powerful drama,” he said. “I hope people will see that the intention behind it is good.”
“Death of a President” is directed by Gabriel Range, whose 2003 TV movie “The Day Britain Stopped” showed what might happen if the country’s transportation network ground to a halt. This is sure to cause a lot of controversy.
"Growing up my dad was like 'You have a great last name, Galifianakis. Galifianakis...begins with a gal...and ends with a kiss...' I'm like that's great dad, can we get it changed to 'Galifianafuck' please?" -- Zach Galifianakis
|
|
|
Re: British film depicts Bush assassination
#164484
09/02/06 02:10 PM
09/02/06 02:10 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 120
england
anthony lee
Made Member
|
Made Member
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 120
england
|
this doesnt shock me , channel 4 are very laidback and have caused alot of controversy in the last few years , I think that this may just be telling Bush what hes risking with the wars
IN MY HOME!IN MY BEDROOM WHERE MY WIFE SLEEPS!where my children come to play with their toys...
|
|
|
Re: British film depicts Bush assassination
#164485
09/02/06 03:25 PM
09/02/06 03:25 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 13,145
East Tennessee
ronnierocketAGO
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 13,145
East Tennessee
|
I've read indepth about this "documentary", DJ, and besides the cheap shock effect of using a living and still-in-office President of the United States to get plenty of free publicity within global media.........I think its basically just a program, albeit made with European sensibilities of these times, that tried to answer this...
"What if President Bush was indeed killed by a Syrian-nationalist right now? What would the world situation be as a result?"
One conclusion I do agree with in this program is how that aside from "official" governmental apologies and letters of sadness from European governments, the populace in those nations either wouldn't care, or feel happy or "vindicated" in that regard.
Of course, the producers of this documentary base that idea from this thinking that Bush's supposed assasination would be conducted as Bush getting a taste of his own medicine, or whatever elitist snobbish Eurotrash mentality.
Me? I think the populace of those countries wouldn't feel sorry, nor care at all, if Bush was killed. Why? Because they many truely feel that its the American's fault for this, that, blah blah blah. Besides, they hate him. I mean, I would actually dance in happiness if Castro fell down the stairs and broke his neck.
Aside from my problems with the documentary's apparent base matrix of logic and rationality, overall I don't have a problem with the doc's existence itself.
However DJ, I'm sure you agree with me in how some of the European political computations on Bush and America...is simply snobbery from fellow Western imperialists that simply aren't running the show anymore. I'm sure France and Britain would be doing the same things as the United States is now, if they were still imperial powers.
Right?
|
|
|
Re: British film depicts Bush assassination
#164486
09/02/06 06:11 PM
09/02/06 06:11 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 2,854
Milky Way
Enzo Scifo
Underboss
|
Underboss
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 2,854
Milky Way
|
Originally posted by ronnierocketAGO:
Me? I think the populace of those countries wouldn't feel sorry, nor care at all, if Bush was killed. Why? Because they many truely feel that its the American's fault for this, that, blah blah blah. Besides, they hate him. I mean, I would actually dance in happiness if Castro fell down the stairs and broke his neck. As one of the ones you mention ("the populace of those countries") I can say I don't hate Bush. Sorry. I don't want him killed either (what a surprise :rolleyes:  ) nor do I want to see Castro fall on his face.
See, we can act as smart as we want, but at the end of the day, we still follow a guy who fucks himself with kebab skewers.
|
|
|
Re: British film depicts Bush assassination
#164487
09/02/06 06:17 PM
09/02/06 06:17 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 12,724
Double-J
|
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 12,724
|
Originally posted by ronnierocketAGO:
However DJ, I'm sure you agree with me in how some of the European political computations on Bush and America...is simply snobbery from fellow Western imperialists that simply aren't running the show anymore. I'm sure France and Britain would be doing the same things as the United States is now, if they were still imperial powers.
Concurrence. BTW - care to sip champagne with me on the day of Fidel's visit to the big collective in the sky? 
|
|
|
|
