Blogger burnout and the Dubbya movie
It's not that I'm sick of blogging, but there just isn't much NEW to get excited about in pop culture at the moment. Speaking of blogging burnout, however, I found this great little post on the subject, complete with colour coded advisory system, over at Culture Kills... Wait, I Mean Cutlery.
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One movie I am vaguely intrigued about is Oliver Stone's W., based on the life of George W. Bush. The film is still at the casting stage, but they seem to have rounded up some impressive actors for the main roles:
Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men) as George W Bush.
Elizabeth Banks (Spider-Man trilogy) as Laura Bush
Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream, The Exorcist) as Barbara Bush
James Cromwell (Babe, The Queen) as George Bush Snr.
Frankly it feels odd that a movie is already being made about a president who is still in office, but I suppose this movie could be the American equivalent of England's highly acclaimed "living person" biopic, The Queen.
Plus, by the sound of this article on the project, the film will focus on Dubbya's early years:
Stone told Daily Variety that he planned to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush, focusing on such areas as his relationship with his father, President George H.W. Bush, his wild youth, and his conversion to Christianity.
"It will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors," said Stone.
He said Brolin was better looking than Bush, "but has the same drive and charisma that Americans identify with Bush, who has some of that old-time movie star swagger".
I must say that I kind of lost interest in Stone's work after his terrible, bloated Alexander the Great biopic (starring Colin Farrell), but W. will be the third film from this politically and socially conscious director that centres on a US president - the other 2 were JFK and Nixon.
On first hearing about the W. project my initial thought that was the movie would bulge with material that supports assorted 9/11 and Iraq War conspiracy theories - you know, long meetings between Dubbya and a mix of Texan oil men and Middle Eastern sheiks. However, the more I think about it, I'm expecting W. to be a pretty balanced take on probably the most hated and ridiculed president in American history. After all, Stone's World Trade Centre movie was virtually controversy-free - not the Michael Moore-style expose I was expecting. And after all, Dubbya is just a person after all... a flawed, foolish person a lot of the time but still a person shaped by his personal context.
W. is set for release in 2009.
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One movie I am vaguely intrigued about is Oliver Stone's W., based on the life of George W. Bush. The film is still at the casting stage, but they seem to have rounded up some impressive actors for the main roles:
Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men) as George W Bush.
Elizabeth Banks (Spider-Man trilogy) as Laura Bush
Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream, The Exorcist) as Barbara Bush
James Cromwell (Babe, The Queen) as George Bush Snr.
Frankly it feels odd that a movie is already being made about a president who is still in office, but I suppose this movie could be the American equivalent of England's highly acclaimed "living person" biopic, The Queen.
Plus, by the sound of this article on the project, the film will focus on Dubbya's early years:
Stone told Daily Variety that he planned to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush, focusing on such areas as his relationship with his father, President George H.W. Bush, his wild youth, and his conversion to Christianity.
"It will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors," said Stone.
He said Brolin was better looking than Bush, "but has the same drive and charisma that Americans identify with Bush, who has some of that old-time movie star swagger".
I must say that I kind of lost interest in Stone's work after his terrible, bloated Alexander the Great biopic (starring Colin Farrell), but W. will be the third film from this politically and socially conscious director that centres on a US president - the other 2 were JFK and Nixon.
On first hearing about the W. project my initial thought that was the movie would bulge with material that supports assorted 9/11 and Iraq War conspiracy theories - you know, long meetings between Dubbya and a mix of Texan oil men and Middle Eastern sheiks. However, the more I think about it, I'm expecting W. to be a pretty balanced take on probably the most hated and ridiculed president in American history. After all, Stone's World Trade Centre movie was virtually controversy-free - not the Michael Moore-style expose I was expecting. And after all, Dubbya is just a person after all... a flawed, foolish person a lot of the time but still a person shaped by his personal context.
W. is set for release in 2009.
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