Oliver Stone’s Making Another Movie or Something
Yeah, that’s right; the guy who brought you such crapstravaganzas as Alexander, World Trade Center, and Any Given Sunday has returned to make a biopic about the life and times of George W. Bush, simply entitled “W”. Sounds interesting enough. You’ve got the story of a man born into a political dynasty who just wants to have fun and live like a normal booze-swilling, coke snorting teenager/young adult/grown man. We’ve seen this before in film; Bush’s story is a startling analogy to the life of one Princess Jasmine, of Aladdin fame. Their lives are near perfect parallels, except that Bush replaced the flying carpet, pet monkey and beggar boyfriend with speedballs and Southern Comfort.
Luckily for all of us, Slate managed to snag a copy of Stone’s tentative screenplay and has excerpted some of the best bits of dialog from it. As far as I can tell, this thing reads a lot like another one of Stone’s works. Not Nixon. Not JFK. It sounds a whole lot like Scarface, which Stone wrote the screenplay for. Case in point, page 25 from the screenplay has W exclaiming: “Did you tell her I don’t like motherfuckers who gas their own people?! Did you tell her I don’t like assholes who try to kill my father?! […] Did you tell her I’m going to kick his [Saddam Hussein's] SORRY MOTHERFUCKING ASS ALL OVER THE MIDEAST?!“
This movie’s gonna be awesome; I just hope W is played by Al Pacino or Samuel L. Jackson.
Public Domain Photograph Courtesy of the United States Department of Defense
Hysterical – I love the “Axis of the unbearably odious”. It does make me sad that anyone would waste money making any kind of movie about him though.
jlelliott
April 9, 2008 at 5:24 am
sounds like it has potential, only problem is that is will end up being a movies that is only relevant in its own time with very little lasting value to it (like Fahrenheit 9/11 or even World Trade Center). if it had more time to let history bring out some solid truths (positive or negative) it could be better and maybe last a long time. it feels like its being made because W is so unpopular right now.
digitalartvark
April 10, 2008 at 11:02 am
O.M.G.
Are you sure it’s Oliver Stone and not Matt Stone & his cohort Trey Parker doing this?
mercurial scribe
April 10, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Wall Street and Platoon are still relevant. W. may or may not be twenty years from now.
kip
April 18, 2008 at 6:41 pm