here is teaser about upcoming movie about the McCain-Palin campaign. its conversial because Ed Harris plays McCain and Julienne Moore (Maude Lebowski) plays Palin. they both look very identical to their real life characters. Why a film about them? some conservatives feel its another liberal ass hollywood movie beating up on conservatives, making fun of them, trying to destroy Sarah's campaign. After all, Tom Hanks produced the movie. however, its a great plot: because it has a tragic hero.
why doesnt tom hanks make a movie about Obama, making fun of him? well, because Obama won, and he is not tragic, right? who want to see a movie about a decent guy, with a beautiful intelligent wife and beautiful daughters, who runs an uphill campaign, avoids attempts to destroy him, and emerges a modest and cool leader of the world? we like movies with irony, pathos, tragedy. I mean, is there a happy Shakespeare play? I guess Midsummer Nights whatever....but my point is that the greatest play he wrote was Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
John McCain tragic hero? You bet! here he is, a real kick ass maverick who gets shot down in 'nam, tortured, imprisoned six years (he was punched and knocked down every morning because he refused to bow, count the days, 365 times 6 years, thats a lot of punches) returns home, divorces wife, drinks too much, meets a young rich woman much younger than he is, gets remarried, settles in Arizona, runs to replace Goldwater, Goldwater doesnt like him but McCain emerges as an independent figure in the Senate. He runs against the republican establishment in 2000, but loses primaries after T boone Pickens finances a negative campaign against him in South Carolina, a phoney push poll campaign where telephone "interviewers" identify McCain supporters and then asks them "Would your opinion of McCain change if you knew he was the father of an out of wedlock black child?" ...."if you knew his wife was a convicted drug addict and thief?" Of course, McCain and his wife DO have an out of wedlock black child, they met a baby in Calcutta on one of their travels, and adopted him. and yes, he is black because Indians from calcutta are very dark. and yes, Cindy was convicted of drug theft, she had a prescription for back pain, got hooked, was a nurse, started stealing medication - she confessed cooperated had a plea deal that involved treatment and community service, and now she is well, and is a good person. so he loses to George W. and obviously he would have won a solid victory in 2000 because he would have attracted independent voters and Reagan Democrats, it would not have been a cliffhanger like Bush's election. There would have been no Iraq invasion, Afghanistan
would have been pacified much earlier, thousands of troops would still be alive, Saddam probably would have been overthrown by now (like Mubarek), but instead mcCain had to run again in 2008, saddled with the god awful record he inherited from Bush, and impossible task. He picks Palin against his own better judgement, and she turns out to be a nightmare opportunist. And he loses, big time. and then faces a challenge for re election from the right wing of his own party in Arizona.
Tragic? you bet. Much more interesting than the Obama success story. McCain is one of the best Presidents we never had, like Alexander Hamilton, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Kennedy, so year, tragic story. cant wait to see it, esp Maude Lebowski as sarah Palin!
why doesnt tom hanks make a movie about Obama, making fun of him? well, because Obama won, and he is not tragic, right? who want to see a movie about a decent guy, with a beautiful intelligent wife and beautiful daughters, who runs an uphill campaign, avoids attempts to destroy him, and emerges a modest and cool leader of the world? we like movies with irony, pathos, tragedy. I mean, is there a happy Shakespeare play? I guess Midsummer Nights whatever....but my point is that the greatest play he wrote was Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
John McCain tragic hero? You bet! here he is, a real kick ass maverick who gets shot down in 'nam, tortured, imprisoned six years (he was punched and knocked down every morning because he refused to bow, count the days, 365 times 6 years, thats a lot of punches) returns home, divorces wife, drinks too much, meets a young rich woman much younger than he is, gets remarried, settles in Arizona, runs to replace Goldwater, Goldwater doesnt like him but McCain emerges as an independent figure in the Senate. He runs against the republican establishment in 2000, but loses primaries after T boone Pickens finances a negative campaign against him in South Carolina, a phoney push poll campaign where telephone "interviewers" identify McCain supporters and then asks them "Would your opinion of McCain change if you knew he was the father of an out of wedlock black child?" ...."if you knew his wife was a convicted drug addict and thief?" Of course, McCain and his wife DO have an out of wedlock black child, they met a baby in Calcutta on one of their travels, and adopted him. and yes, he is black because Indians from calcutta are very dark. and yes, Cindy was convicted of drug theft, she had a prescription for back pain, got hooked, was a nurse, started stealing medication - she confessed cooperated had a plea deal that involved treatment and community service, and now she is well, and is a good person. so he loses to George W. and obviously he would have won a solid victory in 2000 because he would have attracted independent voters and Reagan Democrats, it would not have been a cliffhanger like Bush's election. There would have been no Iraq invasion, Afghanistan
would have been pacified much earlier, thousands of troops would still be alive, Saddam probably would have been overthrown by now (like Mubarek), but instead mcCain had to run again in 2008, saddled with the god awful record he inherited from Bush, and impossible task. He picks Palin against his own better judgement, and she turns out to be a nightmare opportunist. And he loses, big time. and then faces a challenge for re election from the right wing of his own party in Arizona.
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McCain is much better than George W. Bush but then again who isn't better than GWB? Well Sarah Palin is but besides her.. Anyways this looks like it will be a good movie. But Im not sure McCain is a victim in so as much as he brought this upon himself. But tragic in the sense of a story, yes.
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