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Tidal Wave of Films with Liberal Political Messages Has Conservatives Giving Thumbs Down
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Politics/liberal_movies_040617-1.htmlJune 17, 1004 — Filmmaker John Sayles was so angry at the Bush Administration, he didn't write a letter to his congressman — he wrote a movie.
The resulting film,
Silver City, to be released on September 17, stars Chris Cooper. Cooper, who most recently won an Academy Award for his performance in Adaptation, performs a new sort of adaptation in the Sayles project, acting out Sayles' take on George W. Bush in his gubernatorial years.
Accompanying the famous tidal wave from the trailer of
The Day After Tomorrow — a disaster flick about global warming endorsed by former Vice President Al Gore — comes a tidal wave of films with liberal political messages hitting muliplexes near you.
The Hunting of the President, a documentary on the Clinton impeachment based on the book by left-leaning journalists Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, was directed and co-written by Clinton friend Harry Thomason.
A documentary formerly titled
Tour of Duty provides a laudatory look at the Vietnam service of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, filmed by former campaign aide George Butler, perhaps best known for his myth-making documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger: Pumping Iron.
An updated remake of
The Manchurian Candidate features Denzel Washington decrying a sinister plan to stage a political coup, saying, "this is rich people funding bad science to put a sleeper in the White House."
Spike Lee's new "joynt,"
She Hate Me, deals with a corrupt Enron-like company and features an image of President Bush on a three-dollar bill; Bush's Brain, a documentary about Bush adviser Karl Rove, is based on the not-flatteringly biography of the same name.
Propaganda or entertainment — and certainly this vast slough of films contains some of both — this phenomenon will live or die the box office, which may make it difficult for free-market conservatives to criticize.