Reply #83: Bush assassination film defended [View All]

[IndianaGreen]

I will point out to Hillary that in the film Black Sunday there is an American President (a Jimmy Carter look-alike) in the Super Bowl stadium when it is the target of terrorists aboard the Goodyear blimp.

Bush assassination film defended

The director of a movie portraying the fictional assassination of US President George Bush has defended his film after critics called it "irresponsible".

Gabriel Range said people had rushed to judge the film as it received its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

"It is using the lens of the future to look at the present," Range said. "It is about issues that have affected us all in the last five years."

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The ensuing investigation focuses on a Syrian-born man and recalls the controversy over President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, as debate rages over whether the sniper was a lone gunman or part of a bigger conspiracy.

"It is a film about America today," Range told the audience after the premiere.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5333220.stm