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Is the script getting positive buzz?
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I'm legitimately confused. Does the film have a comedic edge to it? Cause if it does, I'm interested. Then again, it's Stone, so who the fuck knows. Visually, I can't see Brolin playing Dubya, but I can hear it.
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Is the script getting positive buzz?
The draft evidently paints W basically as a frat boy. No surprise, but not so interesting, either.
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I just think it's great that a "Goonie" is playing W. If you were to tell me that a few years ago, I'd have punched you in dick. But I'll be seeing it.
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How can this be done as a comedy, George is the best comedian working today. No one can top him.
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I really want Bush to be played as totally clueless while this serious war drama is unfolding around him. That would be funny.
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It sounds like that's where there going with it, Mantis, even though that Frontline documentary from a couple of weeks ago showed that that was far from the case. This could be a disaster. I think Ollie is too afraid he'll die (or at least be too old) before he could make this 10 or 15 years down the line, which is when it should be made.
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Maybe if Stone is contrasting some of the real world horrors the Bush administration is responsible for with some sort of jokey Caddyshack style misadventures, this could be some sort of insane piece of genius. I think train wreck is probably more likely, having seen Alexander, but if the man who made JFK and Nixon is still kicking inside there somewhere, this has potential. I think Oliver Stone is pretty much putting all in on this. If it works, he's back in a big way. If it just seems stupid, it will probably end his career.
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This is so going to be this decades Primary Colors.....


...colour me fascinated tho.
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Maybe if Stone is contrasting some of the real world horrors the Bush administration is responsible for with some sort of jokey Caddyshack style misadventures, this could be some sort of insane piece of genius. I think train wreck is probably more likely, having seen Alexander, but if the man who made JFK and Nixon is still kicking inside there somewhere, this has potential. I think Oliver Stone is pretty much putting all in on this. If it works, he's back in a big way. If it just seems stupid, it will probably end his career.
I'm down either way.
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this will be a hit due to intellectuals identifying with it on an ironic and satyric level, and many others simply identifying with DUBYA:Please Don't Let Me Fuck Up Any Worse.
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The people who I knew that were reading it were utterly confused many pages in still trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
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I'm getting the sense that, for this film, Stone is going back to what worked best for him in the past. As in the JFK days-- a hyperactive, distorted view of reality. At least, that's the only way I can justify this film's existence.
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Imagine this done NBK-style.

The mind boggles
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This movie is truly fascinating. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if I read that Stone is going to use an edited version of Orson Welles' voiceover from Tarnsformers: The Movie as the voice of god.
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If the casting and first few pages of the script are any indication, this is going to be a mess.
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...but what a mess...
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Weird choices all around here indeed.
But from what I have gathered so far I thought that this movie would show Bush´s early years, i.e. his drinking time, turning to christ and fucking up a baseball team era. But having Fleischer and Rice in the Script clearly indicates that this goes well into this decade.
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This casting just gets weirder and weirder with every report.
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Unless it's a significant part that would require some actual acting chops, Rob Cordory doesn't sound like that strange a choice, precisely because of his comic persona.
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Artie Lange for Scott McClellan.
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Imagine this done NBK-style.

The mind boggles
I suddenly really, really want the movie to be done in this style.

"That was the worst fuckin' head I've ever had in my life! Next time don't be so fuckin' eager!" - Bill Clinton
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So does that mean if Rodney Dangerfield were still alive, he would've been in this movie?
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Jesus only knows, but I hope he would've been...
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Good point, only one could wonder who he would've played?
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Good point, only one could wonder who he would've played?
Cheney. The "no respect" thing works perfectly in his favor.
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Well played Jake, well played. And get Stephen Colbert to play Tony Snow. Hell have all the press secretaries be played by comedians.
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Thinking of Dangerfield as Cheney in the Oval Office is my laugh of the day.
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I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a British-er or maybe I just have a soft spot for Ollie, but this take strangely appeals. However, it sounds very much like a lot of TV satire of the Bush administration that has appeared over the last seven years writ large and not particularly insightful.

I was just wondering though, if a filmmaker wanted to go for something more credible as source material, have there been many "insider" accounts published of the White House inner circle since 2000? Or regarding W's past? Over here we had the UK ambassador to Washington's book that bloodied a few noses, but not much else.
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Weird choices all around here indeed.
But from what I have gathered so far I thought that this movie would show Bush´s early years, i.e. his drinking time, turning to christ and fucking up a baseball team era. But having Fleischer and Rice in the Script clearly indicates that this goes well into this decade.
There's lotsa of flashbacks, it seems.
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As for Rob Corrdry, his presence is actually the least of the concerns for this thing. John Candy isn't just great in JFK, he's fuckin great.
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