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Anyone seen Death of a President OR Running with Scissors?
« on: October 15, 2006, 12:33:47 pm »
Just wondered if anyone has seen this - I watched it on British cable channel More4 (one of channel 4's cable chanels) last night -  Channel4 helped fund it.

Basically the premise of the story is that President Bush is assassinated in 2008. and its the story of how they try to find out who did it or how they try to find out who they want to believe who did it. Preexisting footage of the President and CGI effects help to create the scenes of his assassination.

I understand that in the US noone is willing to distribute it?? and that a lot of american's are up in arms about it.

Personally, I thought this was a very interesting and no doubt very true to life mockumentary - if you can manage to watch this - I'm sure many of you would very much like it.

here's its IMDB page

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/
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Re: Anyone seen Death of a President?
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2006, 12:37:18 pm »
I have heard of it....I am not real entusiastic about the murder (even play like) of a living person. I don't like Bush at all...think he is a puppet and a bully. but he is a person. I think it crosses the line.

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Re: Anyone seen Death of a President?
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2006, 01:22:20 pm »
I also dislike Bush very much, but I think it is in poor taste to make such a movie about any sitting president or any living being.  I would feel somewhat differently if the character in the film was "similar to" Bush, but to actually use his face and state that it is him, is just cruel and uncalled for.

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Re: Anyone seen Death of a President?
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2006, 02:20:53 pm »
I missed the actual 'death' as I was out of the room - sods law - so can't comment on  how the death scene played out.

EDIT: I caught the bits I missed tonight (19/10) as it was shown on terristorial TV. Interesting that the film also talked about North Korea given what has happened since it was first premiered.

as for the death scene - there really wasn't one - just a crowd scene and then the a couple of bangs and then screaming crowds. you see a car door open and slam shut v quickly and the presdential car speed off.. with the president meant to be inside going to hospital. All over in the blink of an eye.


I can see what you're saying - and there seems to be a lot of debate over the morality of this on the IMDB boards. But I just found it an interesting take on whats happening in the world just now and I think that would have been lost if it was a fictional president. It's very cleverly - and I'd say pretty respectively given the subject matter - done.

IMO worth a look.
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Re: Anyone seen Death of a President?
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2006, 04:25:41 am »
For anyone in the UK who has missed it on More4 it's on at 10pm on Channel 4 on Thursday.

also has anyone seen Running with Scissors yet?

I noticed in IMDB fromnt page its now out in the US. I didn't know they were doing a film on this and I read the book just this September as a holiday/ sitting by the pool book. Very interesting - you wouldn't believe it was a true story!

But I hear that the movie has changed the book quite signifcantly? and that the gay and lesbian sex scenes so graphic in the novel have been cut out?
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Re: Anyone seen Death of a President?
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2006, 12:22:09 pm »
as for the death scene - there really wasn't one - just a crowd scene and then the a couple of bangs and then screaming crowds. you see a car door open and slam shut v quickly and the presdential car speed off.. with the president meant to be inside going to hospital. All over in the blink of an eye. [/b][/i]

I can see what you're saying - and there seems to be a lot of debate over the morality of this on the IMDB boards. But I just found it an interesting take on whats happening in the world just now and I think that would have been lost if it was a fictional president. It's very cleverly - and I'd say pretty respectively given the subject matter - done.

You know, one of the things that promoters of this piece are being very, very careful not to mention are the sly nudge-and-wink references to JFK's assassination. But they are very clearly present, and quite deliberate:

1) A scene of a door slamming and speeding off, with a President inside who will be either DOA at the hospital or very shortly afterward;

2) The staging of a scene that anyone familiar with the Kennedy assassination will immediately recognize as an imitation of Jack Ruby's assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald; and

3) The very title "Death of a President."  In the mid-1960s, this was a title of a bestselling book that was considered the definitive account at the time, though it is probably not now.

I can imagine the offended shrieks echoing from London to Istanbul if some American venue had aired this kind of treatment of a very non-fictional tragedy in Europe; but Americans are somehow expected to applaud the cleverness when it's reversed. Despite the very high level of my detest for the current White House Occupant, I find the double standard involved absolutely nauseating, however "clever" and "interesting" it can be argued to be.