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Oliver Stone Calls 'W.' Shakespearean
Filed under: Comedy », Drama », Independent », Lionsgate Films », Michael Moore »
If you read any part of that draft of W., Oliver Stone's Bush biopic, which hit the net a few months back, you might think it ludicrous for the film to be likened to Shakespeare. But Stone himself has done so, as part of an L.A. Times set visit interview. Lumped in with a quote in which Stone also contrasts the project to the work of Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning director's statement is in response to the film's level of seriousness: "W. isn't an overly serious movie, but it is a serious subject. It's a Shakespearean story. . . . I see it as the strange unfolding of American democracy as I have lived it."The Times piece, which reports from Shreveport, Louisiana, where Independence Bowl stadium fills in for the Texas Rangers' Arlington Stadium, is very filling for anyone with an appetite for more W. updates. Included are a description of and dialogue from a scene between George W. Bush (Josh Brolin) and George H.W. Bush (James Cromwell), details on a "baseball-oriented fantasy" sequence, Brolin stating that he's not out to do a SNL-style caricature and admitting his initial hesitance to take on the role, a general overview of the project's coming together, and, best of all, a picture (seen, cropped, above) of Brolin as the future Commander in Chief looking like he's just had the crap beaten out of him. Also a fact I'd somehow never known prior to reading the article: Stone was "briefly a Yale classmate of Bush."
Tribeca Review: 'The War Tapes'
Filed under: Documentary », Independent », Tribeca », Politics », Cinematical Indie »
The current Iraq War is possibly the most misreported American military engagement in history. Embed reporters are heavily censored, each network has its own spin, and it's simply not in our government's interest to disseminate details on what's really going on. The driving concept behind The War Tapes is so simple, it's amazing no one's tried it up to this point: attack the media problem head-on by giving soldiers small, consumer quality camcorders and, communicating with them nightly from the US via the internet, allow them to tell their own stories from the center of the conflict. Director Deborah Scranton has managed something that I haven't seen in documentary film or television in a long time. Under her shaping, the selected soldiers aren't particularly brilliant, nor especially brave; they sometimes talk themselves into corners, and sometimes, know exactly what to say; they're sometimes intensely unlikeable, and sometimes, incredibly sympathetic. In other words, the director has managed to shape real people's lives into a drama, without imposing ideological filters, and without sacrificing what makes them real.
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