12th October, 2008
Controversy: "W." movie features President Bush in grassy knoll scene
Oliver Stone's film portrait of President George W. Bush is stirring up a major controversy as it features a scene with President Bush with actor Josh Brolin in the title role riding in a limousine in Dallas near the famous grassy knoll. The movie is part drama, part satire, yet the director of "JFK" and "Nixon" argues it is not a hatchet job on Bush.
But "W." also features a scene where Brolin's character orders the burglary and bugging of the Democratic Party's headquarters. Even stranger is the middle part of the film where Bush leaves the U.S. and becomes the King of Macedonia and leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire.
Stone says audiences will not find the partisan portrait his critics might expect from the director of Vietnam war film "Platoon" and Cuban documentary "Looking for Fidel." "It was not our intention to bring malice or judgment on George W. Bush and his administration."
Although Stone refused to talk about the dream sequence where Bush and First Lady Laura travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks.
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