{"id":763,"date":"2008-01-23T03:10:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T11:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=763"},"modified":"2008-01-25T18:27:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T02:27:59","slug":"oliver-stone-channels-frank-capra-for-bush-pic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Stone Channels Frank Capra For Bush Pic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver Stone, the director of JFK and Nixon, is setting his sights on another president. He has begun work on a film chronicling the life and times of George W. Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Variety reports<\/a> that Stone is “not looking to make an anti-Bush polemic.”<\/em> Too bad. Although any attempt to portray Bush honestly will look like a smackdown anyway. Stone is quoted in the article as saying…<\/p>\n

“I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great […] I want a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world? It’s like Frank Capra territory on one hand, but I’ll also cover the demons in his private life […] It includes his belief that God personally chose him to be president”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s certainly an intriguing story: An alcoholic bum is chosen by God to lead a nation into war, financial ruin and international ill repute. It has Capra written all over it. In fact if you look at Capra’s body of work you can almost find the Bush story already therein:<\/p>\n\n\n
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Oliver Stone, the director of JFK and Nixon, is setting his sights on another president. He has begun work on a film chronicling the life and times of George W. Bush. Variety reports that Stone is “not looking to make an anti-Bush polemic.” Too bad. 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