Well, before he’s packed up, and left a mess of the country he’s got a movie out on him. We get to follow Bush Jr.'s rise to power(spoiler–he becomes the POTUS ) but no fall. Wonder what redeeming qualities we’ll see in this character and conspiracies Stone tries “to spin as” he did in JFK.
There was this story about Ollie in the paper this morning. The movie opens next weekend in the States. I hope it makes it to Taiwan. I don’t like Stone’s movies that much but this one has piqued my curiosity.
Yet another curve ball is coming into play for the 2008 presidential election.
Oliver Stone’s “W” premiered last night in New York, and it’s a surprisingly levelheaded conjuring of the life and times of George W. Bush.
It’s no coincidence that Lions Gate is releasing it now, with just three weeks left before the election. As Barack Obama has tried to tie John McCain to Bush, “W” positions the president in a mostly negative light.
But the real success of “W” is that our current president comes off as sympathetic more often than not. Stone and his screenwriter, Stanley Weiser, do much to portray him as tortured son with a domineering father, a gullible lightweight who becomes almost a pawn in the hands of more demonic players.[/quote]