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Skriven 2006-09-08 21:47:00 av Robert E Starr JR (8335.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Is it just me ...
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"Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message 
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>>> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 21:26:11 -0400, Carl wrote
> (in article <WZmdnTZvXrwpW53YnZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d@comcast.com>):
>
>>
>> "Bill" <beastmachinery@msn.com> wrote in message
>> news:1157663790.545785.140210@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>>> or is this shades of ISN?
>>>
>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14718803/?GT1=8506
>>>
>>> Clinton officials protest ABC's 9/11 miniseries
>>> ABC stands by 'dramatization,' despite demands not to air it
>>>
>>> Bill
>>
>>
>> I remember the outrage from the right over the biased movie on Reagan
>> starring James Broland. A lot of people claimed censorship at attempts to
>> stop it from being broadcast.  I also remember how many people defended
>> Oliver Stone after his reported highly fictionalized account of Nixon. I
>> thought that "Reagan" should have been shown on CBS at the time, so I 
>> think
>> this should be too. <<
>
> Putting aside the question of "biased" as to whether the content of either 
> of
> those films was factually accurate or not, the difference is, this is a
> highly volatile subject about an event that caused the immediate death of
> thousands of people, and the subsequent death of many more thousands.

> Did any factual inaccuracies in either of those films purport under the 
> guise of
> fictional drama that real, living people who still work in public service 
> in
> this country caused the death of thousands of people and horrific 
> suffering?

Your objections are (not to minimize them) judgments of whether it's in good 
taste.
Of course it's not in good taste.  Neither were the others, and neither will 
the ones that will be made in the future.

It's also not in good taste to make a movie where GWB is killed by 
terrorists.  It smacks of wishful thinking on the part of some.

Good taste has seldom ever been a consideration of either Hollywood or TV.

You're upset by the treatment of a president that you liked. Fair enough. 
So were many people that liked Reagan. Fair enough.  Ultimately it's one of 
those cases where you dislike someone else's right to free speech.


I won't watch this one. I didn't watch the others and I won't watch the next 
ones.
It's just one of those "Hold your nose" and keep walking kind of things.

> (And it's "Brolin," incidentally.)

Correction noted and appreciated.

>
>>> I also think that the inevitable biased fiction from Hollywood about 
>>> Bush
>> and Cheney in a few years that someone will make to retaliate should be
>> shown. <<
>
> I'll have to disagree.  I think people should get the truth about them.

The problem is that the "Truth" has been spun by both sides so often that if 
whatever really happened was accurately portrayed, both sides would consider 
it a hack job.  You would probably never accept that Bush isn't as evil as 
you think he is and the other side would never believe that he IS that bad. 
There are too many things that can be interpretated, misinterpretated, 
attributed as causal (or not), etc. that seem perfectly obvious as "truth" 
to one side and completly counter-intuitive and "spin" if you assume a 
different intent or political posture from the beginning.   People here 
don't even accept a common definition of whether Bush "lied."

The best thing would probably be to make sure that no movie about a 
President is ever made until 10 years after his/her death.  Never happen 
though.

Anyone that looks to a made for TV drama for truth gets what they deserve.

Carl

I'd like to see someone write a movie about FDR that told of all the crap he 
pulled, how he lied to the American public repeatedly, betrayed Russian 
POWs, and how he stole his first election.  That won't ever happen either.
                                                                               
                
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