W: A MOVIE ABOUT GEORGE BUSH

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: George Bush is a funny guy.

I am so glad Oliver Stone has made a movie about him.

It is now fairly clear that the US economy has been run irreparably into the ground and the whole Iraq thing was a red herring, but I’m thinking that some things may come out of this movie that people need to think about.

Who is the real enemy? George Bush?

Do people really believe that “W” is the evil mastermind who came up with all this stuff himself?

I guess maybe I have read too many Shakespeare plays (it was mandatory; I quite frankly loathe the historical plays but I read a bunch of them in my youth), but I see George Bush as a character in a Shakespeare play.

Dreary Shakespeare histories such as Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VIII, Richard II, Richard III are not, in my opinion, fascinating reading material, but it wouldn’t hurt anyone to pick up a Cole’s Notes or even read one or two of them if you can get through the language barrier (the English was a bit different then). MacBeth and Hamlet are a bit more entertaining and are in the same vein.

In Shakespeare’s day (this is for the benefit of those who have no familiarity or memory of Shakespeare plays), the audience could only get inside the head of one of these guys (these machiavellian English/Scottish/Danish kings) via the soliloquy, a monologue spoken by the actor to the audience alone.

Nowadays, dramatists would rather jump off a cliff than use this primitive method for the character to disclose his/her true thoughts to the audience…. To be honest, though, I would love to see a scene with Bush doing a soliloquy! Can you imagine?! A George Bush Soliloquy!

I’m just so curious to see how Stone has constructed this film!

Here’s a trailer:

Here’s another:

Here is the scene where he met Laura:

This is some discussion about Bush and the movie in the clip below – well worth watching for the kooky clips like George Bush arm-in-arm kind of slow dancing with an Arab guy with swords in their hands: