The movie "Assassination" is a British film that depicts President Bush, being shot in October of ... 2007 in Chicago. It's made like a documentary, as if it actually happened and the fall out and after math of the President being shot.
It's premiering at the Toronto Film Festival this year. But, do you think this is right? Yes there are many people in The United States, Canada and UK that do not like President Bush, but watching a movie of him being shot and killed ... is that pushing it? I’m sure some Anti American extremists may like it, but would people here in North America or Europe actually want to watch this movie, and follow the plot pretending the President is dead?
He is a living human being who has a huge role, but he also has a wife and children ... imagine how must it feel for them to know a movie has been made of there own father being assassinated.
What do you think? A movie worth watching, or a movie that shouldn't have even been considered to be made?
2006-09-01 07:37:38 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Canada ➔ Toronto
Article: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23365246-details/President+Bush+assassinated+in+new+TV+docudrama/article.do
2006-09-01 07:38:08 · update #1
not that it seriously matters, but tell us were your from and what the majority opinon is in your local area on the movie (if any).
2006-09-01 07:45:07 · update #2
US liberals have nothing to do with the production of this movie, it's entirely British, made-for-TV. It has nothing to do with Hollywood. I agree shouldn't have been made; the 1960's through the 1980's saw the effects of planting ideas such as this in sick minds.
This TV movie is likely to be seen by few in the US. Here is an informative article about it.
British TV Movie Imagines Assassination of Bush
2006-09-01 11:53:08 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well, I'm from Canada and although I'm not thrilled about some of the things Bush has done, I wouldn't waste my time going to see a movie like this. However, I generally don't watch the action movies either so just on an interest level, this movie doesn't fit into the types of movies I watch generally. Given that, I'm sure that if my cousins heard about this movie, they might even be outside the screening with protest signs.
2006-09-03 09:23:55 · answer #2 · answered by patgd25 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a movie!!!!! I also understand that the movie is about the effect of the assassination, not the actual fact. Simply because the subject is alive and the victim of his own choices, people focus on the event that is the premise of the movie. If you don't like the idea, stay away from the theatre. Vote its success with your pocket book, not your tirades.
2006-09-03 16:02:07 · answer #3 · answered by St N 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm an American and personally, I neither like President Bush nor agree with a majority of his policies. But a movie that shows his assassination??? Come on, this isn't funny. I don't think even Saturday Night Live could pull off this kind of a thing. When someone is alive, you just don't put out a piece of "art" depicting his or her death. I don't care who that person is. It is, in my opinion, a tasteless form of expression.
2006-09-01 07:41:58 · answer #4 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Too bad it's fiction (at least until the CIA or NSA decide it's time for a change), the world you be a much better and safer place without George Warlord Bush and his whole administration, Hilary Clinton for president!!!
I don't care what anyone thinks about this answer, the people that don't like it come from a country where the song 'Puff the Magic Dragon' was banned, a country where if the mailman is having a bad day...he just pulls out his automatic rifle and shoots everybody in sight, a country where brothers kill brothers (talking `bout the Civil War here), a country where they have to have metal detectors in schools to prevent students from shooting other students, a country where the government calls out the National Guard to kill students at a peace rally and then ban the song that was written about it...man I could go on for days about your safe country.
2006-09-01 11:49:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 4⤋
Did you know that every US President elected in a year that ended in "00" either died in office or was assassinated? I think the only reason Bush has not been assassinated is because Cheney waits in the wings ... Who's the lesser of two evils? We don't know.
2006-09-01 07:42:39 · answer #6 · answered by pickle head 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I can't judge the movie on artistic or storyline merits because I have not seen it.
I do not have an issue with the concept and I would like to see it. The minute we start deciding what others can produce or view in an artistic sense, we have lost our freedom, humanity and will.
I live here - outside of Detroit. What this man has done to the country and my area is an abomination. Period.
2006-09-01 15:16:54 · answer #7 · answered by tk30606 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I don't care if you love him or you hate him...it's wrong to make a film (art or otherwise) depicting a living government official being assassinated. It's crude & sick. I would have just as much of a problem with it if it were someone other than President Bush. That's just awful. What have people come to saying that they wish someone were killed? I mean, really? It's uncivilized. (And please don't anyone give me any crap about the war being uncivilized...I didn't go there, so please don't anyone else go there. If everyone followed the old adage "an eye for an eye" everyone would be blind)
2006-09-01 07:49:10 · answer #8 · answered by Amy L 2 · 5⤊ 4⤋
im american, i do not like bush but this is ridiculous. He is still alive and there are people that like him and he is our president. I think this is very wrong and someone should speak up.
2006-09-04 09:18:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is over the line. Phony documentaries are becoming a staple of the left. The have an audiences undivided attention for 2 hours so they can smear or indirectly threaten the president. They are so on dangerous ground and the don't even know it.
2006-09-01 07:45:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋