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- QuizRichard Dreyfuss stated his disappointment with the film in an appearance on The View (1997). He said it was "6/8 of a good film" and called Oliver Stone "a fascist". Stone retorted in an interview that working with Dreyfuss "was the single worst experience I've ever had with an actor in my life."
- BlooperCheney says "Atta met Saddam's intel chief in Czechoslovakia." Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, ten years earlier.
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Gen. Colin Powell: Funny Dick, I remember you once agreeing that going all the way in Baghdad would be a mistake.
Dick Cheney: Well, I think you made a bigger boo-boo Colin. You could have been president.
Gen. Colin Powell: Fuck you.
- Curiosità sui creditiAt the very end of the credits, you see a Christian cross with a period. It morphs into the W-period logo of the movie.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Sunday AM: Episodio #4.9 (2008)
- Colonne sonoreThe Star Spangled Banner
Lyrics by Francis Scott Key and music by John Stafford Smith
Arranged by Francis Scott Key (as Francis Key) and Michael Licari
Provided by APM Music
Recensione in evidenza
Two of my least favorite people in one project! A president with a blunt intellect, but a remarkable ability to project a simple story. And a filmmaker with the same qualities. Each would be relatively harmless as clerks who amuse at lunch breaks, but these are men whose inadequacies break worlds.
It is no wonder that this portrays Bush respectfully. No wonder that it is all about intent: the man is a good, honest, unselfish man whose only weakness was a vision of an unrealistic utopia and the accident of being surrounded by fools and devils. I believe that all of Stone's projects are autobiographical and he impresses on them his own story. Its Woody Allen, except instead of placing himself in the cosmic forces of personal relationships and self, he wanders among what he sees is a cosmos of global conspiracy. That he is able to make a living in Hollywood is, I think, because our notions of noir are close enough to this so that he (and Spike Lee) can bloviate and make a living.
As time goes on, he worries more and more about himself, so he makes his heroes basically good men, lost.
But this time history bucks him. The culpability of this man cannot be explained away by blaming Rove and Cheney. His qualms about torture are known to not have happened. We know that he pushed for policies that will be evaluated in time as war crimes. Now, he may have done that with noble intent, but more ruthless and scheming than this golden Rube we see here.
This is a disaster for history. Because so few Americans read books, instead getting their history from films and blogmobs.
The cinematic values of Stone's prior work are not even visible. The energy of "Platoon," the craft of "JFK" are gone. We have normal TeeVee movie framing here.
I think we should vote Stone out.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
It is no wonder that this portrays Bush respectfully. No wonder that it is all about intent: the man is a good, honest, unselfish man whose only weakness was a vision of an unrealistic utopia and the accident of being surrounded by fools and devils. I believe that all of Stone's projects are autobiographical and he impresses on them his own story. Its Woody Allen, except instead of placing himself in the cosmic forces of personal relationships and self, he wanders among what he sees is a cosmos of global conspiracy. That he is able to make a living in Hollywood is, I think, because our notions of noir are close enough to this so that he (and Spike Lee) can bloviate and make a living.
As time goes on, he worries more and more about himself, so he makes his heroes basically good men, lost.
But this time history bucks him. The culpability of this man cannot be explained away by blaming Rove and Cheney. His qualms about torture are known to not have happened. We know that he pushed for policies that will be evaluated in time as war crimes. Now, he may have done that with noble intent, but more ruthless and scheming than this golden Rube we see here.
This is a disaster for history. Because so few Americans read books, instead getting their history from films and blogmobs.
The cinematic values of Stone's prior work are not even visible. The energy of "Platoon," the craft of "JFK" are gone. We have normal TeeVee movie framing here.
I think we should vote Stone out.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
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- Budget
- 25.100.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 25.534.493 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 10.505.668 USD
- 19 ott 2008
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 29.560.587 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 9 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 2.35 : 1
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