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war have taken potshots at the U.S. which Michael Douglas as President “They caught you being a human
president, a plot device used rou- Andrew Shepherd spouts his defense being — that’s all,” the president tells
tinely during the George W. Bush of every liberal tenet, such as global his VP pick.
presidency but conspicuously absent warming, the ACLU, and gun con- Just to drive home the point that
when Clinton was in offi ce. Take trol, while meeting with a White Democrats are good and Republicans
2008’s Get Smart, for example, in House press corps enthralled that a are bad, the bit about the college sex
which James Caan as the president president -— fi nally -— has enough orgy is untrue and the Republican
is an uncouth dunce who can’t even courage to speak the “truth.” knows it, and the movie strongly
stay awake at a classical concert that The most obvious example of fi lm- suggests that, when the future VP
is pivotal to the movie’s plot. making bias might be The Contender. was sleeping with her best friend’s
A more severe example is American Made at the tail end of
Dreamz, from 2006, in which fi c- the Clinton administra-
tional President Joseph Stanton, tion, the movie amounts
“
The adult drama has gone
played by Dennis Quaid, is stunned to little more than a
completely to hell because
to learn of the sorry state the world is defense of Clinton’s
fi lmmakers have had ‘Bush
in after he reads a newspaper for the sexual dalliances, and
fi rst time in years. it was so obviously par-
derangement syndrome’ so badly
And in 2004’s The Day After tisan even its star and
they couldn’t focus on their craft.
Tomorrow, the president is an idiot executive producer, Gary
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who can’t make a major decision Oldman, trashed the fi lm. husband, she was a Republican!
without the permission of his vice The movie features a gregarious So, will Hollywood similarly circle
president, who happens to be a President Jackson Evans, played by the wagons for Obama?
denier of global warming even as it Jeff Bridges, who must select a new “Of course they will,” says novel-
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obviously — and quite rapidly — is vice president after the incumbent ist and screenwriter Andrew Klavan.
destroying the planet. dies. His choice, a female senator, is “During the Clinton years, they rein-
Contrast those examples of mov- attacked by a powerful and, naturally, vented the president to be the guy
ies made during George W. Bush’s hypocritical, Republican for taking they wanted instead of the man he
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presidency to the way fi ctional presi- part in a sex orgy in college and sleep- was. With Obama, they’ll rewrite
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dents were portrayed during the ing with a married man when she reality again to fi t the liberal script.”
Clinton years. was older. Even movies about the war on
In the 1996 fi lm Independence The movie makes the case that terror — if there are any — will
Day, President Thomas Whitmore, sexual behavior is irrelevant, and that be noticeably different. “Obama’s
played by Bill Pullman, heroically ral- it’s OK to obstruct the truth, as when war won’t be scurrilous, unpatriotic
lies his constituents to defend Earth the VP nominee denies committing and treasonous,” says Klavan, whose
from space aliens. adultery because she was unmarried most recent novel is Empire of Lies.
Or how about The while having an affair with Nolte adds, “When a Democrat is
REEL/© 2008 JUPITERIMAGES CORP. / TIT American President, in a married man. in offi ce, the president is the victim
of conspiracy. When a Republican
is in offi ce, the government is rotten
are not divided equally, so the Outsiders vs. Insiders:
rich are less deserving of Most right-leaning
from the head down.”
respect than are the poor. fi lmmakers make military
The change won’t take place imme-
When it comes to this commanders, cops, diately, says Steve Finefrock, found-
category, the biggest fi lm of entrepreneurs, and father
er of the Hollywood Conservative
all time, Titanic, is fi gures the heroes, while
Forum, because there might be a
quintessentially left. leftists make their
protagonists the working
few residual Bush-bashing fi lms in
Relative vs. Absolute: A
NO RESPECT Titanic
class, the disenfranchised,
the pipeline.
rightist fi lm suggests we
is the best example and the rebellious, such as in After that, though, expect Obama
ought to be absolute in
judgment while a leftist fi lm
of a left-leaning fi lm. Bonnie and Clyde.
to “be christened the new pope of
prefers fl exibility. In the Future vs. Past: Leftists
politics,” Finefrock predicts.
Depression–era boxing drama Cinderella portray the past as being dominated by When should Obama constituents
Man, the lead character refuses to let his ignorance and exploitation, while
expect an onslaught of pro-American
son steal food for the starving family. rightists venerate the past because of its
movies? The experts say around 2010,
That’s clearly a rightist message from traditions, values, and adherence to
otherwise liberal fi lmmaker Ron Howard. moral standards. — P.B.
of course — just in time for mid-
term elections.
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