MOVIE: President Bush assassinated
Peter Dale, head of More4, seems to think his new documentary, Death of a President, will be a hit!
Set around October 2007, President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.
Death of a President, shot in the style of a retrospective documentary, looks at the effect the assassination of Bush has on America in light of its ‘War on Terror’.
The 90 minutes feature explores who could have planned the murder, with a Syrian-born man wrongly put in the frame.
He said: “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.
“It’s a pointed political examination of what the War on Terror did to the American body politic.
“I’m sure that there will be people who will be upset by it but when you watch it you realise what a sophisticated piece of work it is.
“It’s not sensationalist, or simplistic but a very thought-provoking, powerful drama. I hope people will see that the intention behind it is good.”
Sophisticated? Thought provoking? Isn’t this just a ripoff of the way RFK was assassinated?
This is set to open at the Toronto Film Festival in September. Can this movie be played in the states? Will the Secret Service allow it. This is not a pretend president, this is our sitting POTUS. Should it be shown?
August 31, 2006 - 08:14 AM on August 31st, 2006
Something smells realy bad here in california and its called HOLLYWOOD i mean just look at them urging kids to become little eco-terrorists in garbage films like HOOT supporting gun conrol while using guns in their movies i mean hollywood is a bit tlike the old grey mare it just aint what is used to be:mad:
August 31, 2006 - 09:37 AM on August 31st, 2006
Sounds very interesting…
August 31, 2006 - 10:53 AM on August 31st, 2006
That anyone would respond to a film depicting the ficticious assasination of a United States President, current or former, as anything other than irresponsible at best, or criminal at worst, is the “uber” indictment of a sickness within our society.
August 31, 2006 - 11:28 AM on August 31st, 2006
Yes. The Left is so uterly consumed by hate, so transixed by their hatred of George Bush and the Neocons that they have to indulge their fantasy in this film.
Sick, sick, utterly sick…this is what they have sunk to.
August 31, 2006 - 12:13 PM on August 31st, 2006
What interests you about it SF?
August 31, 2006 - 12:33 PM on August 31st, 2006
Why? Like it says, “Death of a President, shot in the style of a retrospective documentary, looks at the effect the assassination of Bush has on America in light of its ‘War on Terror’.”
How does that not seem interesting to you people?
What effect would Bush being killed have on the WOT?
It’s just a movie. Christ.
August 31, 2006 - 12:51 PM on August 31st, 2006
But wasn’t that question answered in another form already? What effect did the death of RFK have on the Civil Rights Movement?
It’s just a movie? You know better than that.:roll:
August 31, 2006 - 01:06 PM on August 31st, 2006
“What effect did the death of RFK have on the Civil Rights Movement?”
That too would make for a good story.
Yes, it’s just a movie…you needn’t make more out of it than what it is. We haven’t even seen it yet, let’s hold our judgement until we have a REAL opinion.
Unless, of course, you’re Robert; who is a critic of movies he’s never seen before.
August 31, 2006 - 01:12 PM on August 31st, 2006
8- the story has been told many times over..’
No it isn’t just a movie SF, we are talking about a movie that shows the assassination of a living/sitting US POTUS. It is not just a movie..
August 31, 2006 - 01:51 PM on August 31st, 2006
“we are talking about a movie that shows the assassination of a living/sitting US POTUS”
So what?
seriously.
August 31, 2006 - 01:55 PM on August 31st, 2006
fiction – noun – An imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation.
August 31, 2006 - 02:16 PM on August 31st, 2006
Let’s use the word incite
verb
To stir to action or feeling: egg on, excite, foment, galvanize, goad, impel, inflame, inspire, instigate, motivate, move, pique, prick, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, set off, spur, stimulate, touch off, trigger, work up. See cause/effect, excite/bore/interest.
So what? How about the fact that we do have laws in place prohibiting the threat of killing the POTUS
August 31, 2006 - 02:40 PM on August 31st, 2006
I think a very interesting movie would be about the demise of the Left as a substantial political force in America, and its effect. Yes we need some for balance, but only enough, say, to act as a cultural vaccine so the infection cannot spread and threaten to destroy America again.
August 31, 2006 - 03:17 PM on August 31st, 2006
Yes, I think it would be a fscinating movie, if depicted correctly.
I can see it now- Dick Cheney becomes President and Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry and the rest of the liberal hate mongers would die of heart(less) attacks. Cheney is re-elected in 2008 and thus the Dems become even more obsolete even than ever.
August 31, 2006 - 04:12 PM on August 31st, 2006
#12. Peejz, come on. It’s.just.a.movie. – Not real – No “threat”…
Hold off on judging it UNTIL YOU’VE SEEN IT. I think that makes sense, don’t you?
#13. So why don’t you write a script for it and shoot it with your home video camera in your backyard?
#14. Right on. See everyone, at least Woodshed is keeping an open mind about it. It’s an interesting premise for a story, who can deny that?
And I also wonder how they’ll play the whole VP Cheney angle…
August 31, 2006 - 04:20 PM on August 31st, 2006
“…the demise of the Left as a substantial political force in America, and its effect.”
You’re saying this as the Left is possibly poised to retake the House of Reps from the Republicans?
What planet do you live on?!
August 31, 2006 - 04:23 PM on August 31st, 2006
Hold off on judging it UNTIL YOU’VE SEEN IT. I think that makes sense, don’t you?
No it does not. Not when the producers have sent the stills and press releases around. Not when they scheduled the opening for September 10th. And it may not play here…as I said, the COTUS just might put the kibosh on the movie playing in the states. Stay tuned. When it comes to the POTUS, be that a Democrat or Republican, there are certain things off limits, even if one is joking..such as assassination
August 31, 2006 - 04:24 PM on August 31st, 2006
16- Earth and in the USA where the MSM runs at least 2 stories a day telling the viewers what the outcome of the November election is going to be!
August 31, 2006 - 04:45 PM on August 31st, 2006
“…as I said, the COTUS just might put the kibosh on the movie playing in the states.”
We don’t censor movies outright like that here in America.
And thank god for that.
“C” = Constitution?
August 31, 2006 - 05:27 PM on August 31st, 2006
It isn’t considered consorship SF. You have every right to express yourself as long as it isn’t against the law. There are rules, and rightfully so, with regards to the safety of our POTUS.
Yes, C= constitution.
August 31, 2006 - 06:25 PM on August 31st, 2006
For the Left, K = Konstitution. It’s their version of it. You know, the “old, faded dress that needs to be done away with”. Their Konstitution protects their degeneracy and partial-birth murder.
Amd it has nothing to say about affirmative action and the welfare state.
August 31, 2006 - 07:49 PM on August 31st, 2006
I hate to admit it but on this one I have to agree with San Fran. As far as I’m concerned, it’s an (albeit in very poor taste due to the fact that it’s actually set in the future versus the past) alternative history film. I’m not too concerned about the liberals actually assassinating the President. They’re mostly so antigun that even if they had one, they wouldn’t dedicate the time necessary to actually become a good shot with one. Besides Chicago is one of those liberal havens of urban tranquility where most guns are banned and therefore noone could possibly actually shoot someone there now could they? BTW did everyone hear that the Chicago city council has banned the sale of Pate de Foie Gras within the city limits because to make it they have to cruelly force feed ducks and geese? Of course the fact that the ducks and geese are going to be slaughtered anyway doesn’t mean a thing as long as they aren’t force fed first.
My main problem with it is that I am certain that the film maker will portray that the entire international terrorism issue will be resolved over a couple skim camel milk lattes with extra foam by the Democrats negotiating with Osama Bin Laden and his ilk in a matter of a few minutes after the funeral. Unfortunately, the left totally fails to realize that there is simply no negotiating with radical ideologue criminals. That is especially true when their entire desire is to kill you and if they die in the process, that’s all the better in their eyes.
You can negotiate with people who actually fear losing their lives. Fear of loss is the single greatest contributing factor in encouraging someone to compromise. When the other person fails to have any fear of loss, the negotiations have little or no effect because they have no reason to agree to anything or to actually keep any agreement they may make. It must be realized by the left that the Islamofascists have no compelling reason to actually abide by their agreements. Throughout history, the one way to insure that an Islamic ruler kept his word was to also keep custody of a couple of his sons. Seeing as the western countries are not willing to resort to this tried and proven method of compelling Islamic Radicals to keep their word, the Islamofascists not only believe us to be weak, they know they have nothing to lose by not abiding by their agreements. When Islamic radicals took US diplomats hostage in Iraq, Jimmy Carter twiddled his thumbs for months and they remained captives for over a year. When they took Soviet diplomats hostage, Soviet intelligence found out who the kidnappers were, Soviet Spetsnaz (special forces) troops snatched their families and sent the kidnappers photos and fingertips. Within 2 weeks the Soviet hostages were returned physically unharmed and with the militants’ sincerest apologies. If you want to win a war against terrorists with no fear of death, you simply find out what their fear is and use it against them. If they won’t negotiate to save their own skin, make them negotiate to save their family’s. Hell, even one of the 9/11 highjackers sent his family back to his home country a week prior to the attack because he feared for their safety.
September 1, 2006 - 09:39 AM on September 1st, 2006
“…the Chicago city council has banned the sale of Pate de Foie Gras within the city limits because to make it they have to cruelly force feed ducks and geese?”
GOOD. What a disgusting and cruel thing to do to those poor animals. I’m no vegatarian, but come on…that’s f*cking mean.
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Regarding Mockumentaries and issues of reality, last night I watched C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America.
“Plot Outline: Through the eyes of a british “documentary”, this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.”
Taking place in the modern-day, there are mock-TV commercials in it for slaves, etc…
Very interesting film…funny in parts. Produced by Spike Lee…
September 1, 2006 - 07:54 PM on September 1st, 2006
Why would a fictional assassin use a rifle when it would be so much easier to mail a bag of pretzels to the white house?
September 1, 2006 - 09:03 PM on September 1st, 2006
How’s Val and I gonna sue him now?
THIS IS KARL ROVE”S DOING!!!!!
September 1, 2006 - 09:26 PM on September 1st, 2006
September 1, 2006 - 09:33 PM on September 1st, 2006
Okay- no more Joe Wilson.
September 1, 2006 - 09:44 PM on September 1st, 2006
I wasn’t going to tell! I thought it was hilarious! Especially the sending Joe to Iran btw! Nice!
September 1, 2006 - 09:54 PM on September 1st, 2006
29.
Thanks.
If you can laugh at stupid people with stupid politically driven agendas, then who can you laugh at?
September 2, 2006 - 12:25 AM on September 2nd, 2006
When foie gras is outlawed, only outlaws will have fioe gras.
September 2, 2006 - 08:55 AM on September 2nd, 2006
what is the problem with this movie?if any, i don’t see it.so what if it is about a sitting president.he is not an elected president [in my eyes, and many others]he and his right wing family and the c.i.a.[daddy ran it for years, and could get whatever he wanted done, done]so,if an idiot [and murderer,thousands dead from his lies]can steal an election, and fool the masses with his so-called war on terror, then i say it’s open season on such an UNamerican.i don’t mean it should happen.no one deserves to be murdered.i’m just saying “it’s just a movie!”besides, would the christian right scream so loudly if the movie were about the assination of hillery [or] bill clinton? doubtfully!!this is my opinion, and look foreward to seeing the movie.again, notice i said “MOVIE!
September 2, 2006 - 09:33 AM on September 2nd, 2006
Dear Larry-
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I will say that I would be just as outraged if this had portrayed Bill Clinton being assassinated. (Hillary is not a sitting nor past president)
Whether you consider him to be elected or not is irrelevent to anything.
This is a movie that digitally imposes GWB’s head on an actor. This is not just a movie. A ‘just a movie’ would be a scenario in which the viewer may guess that the character is so and so..but that is not the case here!
September 2, 2006 - 02:59 PM on September 2nd, 2006
What would they have done if someone made a movie about the asasination of BILL CLINTON or AL GORE?:eek:
September 4, 2006 - 07:32 AM on September 4th, 2006
He should be shot for all the death he has caused and thoughtlessly provoked. If he were a man of any intelligence ( my 6 year old daughter has a more profound vocabulary than does he ) he would have utilized it in a way more promising than taking on the role of a spoiled little child that has to go blow up people and their world, a world in which has had conflict within their walls for hundreds of years, a world in which we have no business at all. We should in fact be spending America’s ” hard earned money ” ( something he and all of his followers know nothing about because they never had to work to make even one dollar, the lazy class of people living off of Mom and Dad ) on developing a strength amongst our people and our country which would have made far more sense than any of this war rubbish which I learned very well as a child ( as my Parents were educators and made sure I grew up as such ) fighting has NEVER solved one problem, it only aggravates the situation and creates hate just like a infectious disease and it will continue to spread, as the little children watch their families die because of this war they will find within themselves a reserve of hate that will boil for years and years until once again we will be in the same place as we are now, with the same problem but on a larger scale because the most dangerous person in the world is one that has nothing to loose and that would make us the latter.
September 4, 2006 - 08:19 AM on September 4th, 2006
34- as my Parents were educators and made sure I grew up as such You are definitely someone only your parents can love. Didn’t they teach you how to structure sentences so that they made sense? They obviosly never stressed that you pick up a history book or a newspaper:roll:
September 4, 2006 - 08:26 AM on September 4th, 2006
SFL…. 2.Sounds very interesting:
You should be dragged into the street and beaten like a well used pinata.
September 7, 2006 - 03:40 PM on September 7th, 2006
At a minimum level, the movie should be banned and confiscated before its release date by the FBI or CIA. Such movies should not exist during “high tense moments” when we know the people of the U.S. and the president’s life is great danger from threats varying from North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, and especially the biggest enemy “IRAN”. (And no, this is not to say every Korean, Cuban, Venezuelan, Syrian, or Persian is evil) – but the leaders that are in charge of these countries right now (2006) are probably the biggest and most serious of threats to U.S. survival!
No matter which president, what political party, or whether you agree with the president or not, DOES NOT PERMIT AN EXCUSE to make movies like these. Can you imagine if a movie during World War II talked of the assassination of FDR or Harry Truman? Not to say they were perfect in every way either, but the worse thing to do during a war is tear your own nation down!
If it were me in office, HECK, I would make sure to arrest those directly involved (including the producers, directors, actors, actresses, cameramen, special effects people; obviously a person wouldn’t arrest catoring crews, make up artists, etc. who have nothing to do with the movie directly. It is only right since if there are “Quislings” in this world, they ought to be treated as such. The media can criticize, cry, call me Hitler or Stalin all they want (even though I don’t share their values)
but that would be my right to protect my life. Also, I don’t know why Chris Wallace should be walking free after his interview with the president of Iran – Bush should have had the FBI or CIA right at the airport waiting for him or at minimum a warrant for his arrest (60 seconds or no 60 seconds, I don’t care). 
Some make think this extreme, but it is not. It is the right to protect your life. I am right when I say this. Why am I right? Because in just about every country out there, consequences would be far worse (varying from torture to execution). I would not even close to those horrid ways, but an arrest for the next five to ten years (at least until four years after a president has left office) would be just!
It is the right of a president to protect his nation and save his life from “assassination threats”. Unfortunately, the United States is one of the few countries that is STUPID enough to protect people like these in the name of a right dubbed “FREEDOM OF SPEECH”.
I AM pro-”First Amendment”, but as soon as a person starts using this right to threaten me or my family’s life, it ENDS THERE…period!
IF ANYONE DOESN’T LIKE IT…move to a fascist or communist country and leave “us freedom-lovers” alone in peace!
September 7, 2006 - 03:56 PM on September 7th, 2006
#37, yeah, you’re a real “freedom lover” alright.
September 7, 2006 - 07:09 PM on September 7th, 2006
The only Honorable reason to go to prison would be to assinate such an assinine fool so we can finally have our dignity back. Just shoot the bastard.