Death of a President?
So I'm curious, what do our blog readers actually think about this movie? The award-winning movie is coming out of the Toronto film festival, but one of the largest movie conglomorates in the country will not be playing it on their screens. Their comment to the press:
But the country's largest theater chain, Regal Entertainment Group, has passed on playing the film, citing the subject matter as the primary reason. "We would not be inclined to program this film," Regal Entertainment Group CEO Mike Campbell said. "We feel it is inappropriate to portray the future assassination of a sitting president, regardless of political affiliation."
This type of comment is enough for the typical media frenzy we're used to, especially in light of the fact that this is election season. But I wanted both sides of the story, so I looked up the synopsis given for the film festival. You can read it here.
I don't know. The synopsis makes it out to be a moving film that will have you crying and questioning the meaning of life. Everyone is entitled to their own artistic expression, but I do find it particularly crass that someone would make a film about killing a specific person while they are still alive, nevermind that he's the sitting president. I guess that's what really bothers me. For years we have been watching movies featuring a "president" character that criticizes and mirrors the current sitting president. But this just seems to be taking it one step too far for me, and I don't like the artistic expression that it's encouraging. Even the 90's classic films, Hot Shots, the Saddam Hussein character was never actually killed if I remember correctly?
I'm gonna be an important person one day as I'm kind of a big deal and people know me. I don't know that I want to live in a country where people think it's ok for someone who doesn't like me to make a movie in which I die when I'm still living and walking on this Earth.
Read the article concerning the movie theater ban here.
But the country's largest theater chain, Regal Entertainment Group, has passed on playing the film, citing the subject matter as the primary reason. "We would not be inclined to program this film," Regal Entertainment Group CEO Mike Campbell said. "We feel it is inappropriate to portray the future assassination of a sitting president, regardless of political affiliation."
This type of comment is enough for the typical media frenzy we're used to, especially in light of the fact that this is election season. But I wanted both sides of the story, so I looked up the synopsis given for the film festival. You can read it here.
I don't know. The synopsis makes it out to be a moving film that will have you crying and questioning the meaning of life. Everyone is entitled to their own artistic expression, but I do find it particularly crass that someone would make a film about killing a specific person while they are still alive, nevermind that he's the sitting president. I guess that's what really bothers me. For years we have been watching movies featuring a "president" character that criticizes and mirrors the current sitting president. But this just seems to be taking it one step too far for me, and I don't like the artistic expression that it's encouraging. Even the 90's classic films, Hot Shots, the Saddam Hussein character was never actually killed if I remember correctly?
I'm gonna be an important person one day as I'm kind of a big deal and people know me. I don't know that I want to live in a country where people think it's ok for someone who doesn't like me to make a movie in which I die when I'm still living and walking on this Earth.
Read the article concerning the movie theater ban here.
posted by Sheara at
7:47 AM
1 Comments:
Ahh Sudha, "award-winning" was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek. Cold Mountain... need I say more? :-D All I remember from that movie was JT going to the bathroom like a million times and Sam reading the paper...
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Sheara, at October 07, 2006 1:33 PM
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