How long before jaguar is on here to defend this?
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{LOL} apparently 11 hrs.
I can't defend it just yet since I haven't seen the film, ...although I sure as heck am looking forward to it.
This is gonna be a hard screening to get into, it's a real HOT must-see doc this year, and there are only 3 screenings. I might have to call in a few markers just to get into a screening.
I heard about this about a week ago......man, the left are really screwed up when they come up with crap like this............
http://torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2006/09/01/1792237-sun.html
As usual IntenseOne runs off the deep end and assumes it's a movie from the left. My understanding is it's non-partisan. Infact, it's a British film. you're such a twit.
They say it isn't an attack on Bush. Than what the heck is it? Its nuts.
Chris,
From personal knowledge and experience, I doubt the selection committees for the Toronto International Film Festival have the balls and ovaries to select a film that expresses the desire to assassinate a head-of-state, ...especially not a sitting head-of-state. I just can't see it. Especially with the current sentiment surrounding Bush, I just can't see it happening. The festival is also screening another film this year that shows the assassination of Robert Kennedy, directed by Emilio Estevez, yet no one is screaming about that one. Americans have been marketing a video game that's been on the market for years that involves the assassination of the Canadian Prime Minister, yet no one is making a fuss about that one.
I would urge people to first reserve our judgement until we have at least viewed the film, before we allow both our minds & emotions to be manipulated by those with an agenda.
D.O.A.P (Death of a President) was chosen to screen as a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Festival's Visions programme. Visions spotlights films which challenge our notions of mainstream cinema and explore new cinematic territory. D.O.A.P by Gabriel Range is fictional drama told in the style of a documentary. Range, in concert with some of the finest special effects professionals, mixes archival footage with narrative elements to construct a highly original film; a falsified history on what would be a tragic event. D.O.A.P addresses a wide array of contemporary issues including the loss of civil liberties, the ramifications of war, and ultimately critiques the overwhelming influence and manipulation of mass media.
The Toronto International Film Festival is committed to the free expression of ideas and to engaging audiences in thoughtful discussion about issues of the day. D.O.A.P contributes meaningfully to the public discourse surrounding current social issues, demonstrates highly original storytelling techniques and utilizes innovative digital effects. The film is not exploitative in any way and treats what would certainly be a great tragedy respectfully and un-cynically. In the tradition of great cautionary tales, a terrible and horrifying event unveils certain aspects of society's current fears and future trends.
Information about this film: (from the festival programme guide)
Film Title: D.O.A.P.
Programme: VISIONS
Director: Gabriel Range
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2006
Language: English, Arabic
Time: 93 minutes
Film Types: Colour/HDCAM
SCREENING TIMES: Sunday, September 10 8:30 PM
Tuesday, September 12 4:15 PM
Friday, September 15 7:45 PM
Production Company : Borough Films
Executive Producer: Robin Gutch
Producer: Gabriel Range, Simon Finch, Ed Guiney
Screenplay: Gabriel Range, Simon Finch
Cinematographer: Graham Smith
Editor: Brand Thumim
Production Designer: Gary Baugh
Sound: Alex Riordan
Music: Richard Harvey
Principal Cast: Hend Ayoub, Brian Boland, Becky-Ann Baker, Michael Riley-Burke, M. Neko Parham
An unknown gunman assassinates George W. Bush. A couple of years later, an investigative documentary is made. It features all the people involved that fateful day: the protestors outside a Chicago hotel; the suspects in the shooting and their families; the Secret Service men who failed to protect their charge; the press; and an array of experts, desperately seeking meaning in this horrible act of violence. We learn, agonizingly, what happened to America… after the death of a president.
This is easily the most dangerous and breathtakingly original film I have encountered this year. Director Gabriel Range’s 2003 project The Day Britain Stopped – which asked what might happen if Britain’s transportation grid was suddenly halted – was his first experiment with this style. He assembles a vast array of media, manipulating and subtly altering it to act as a continuous background illustration of falsified history – and then employs the conventional, after-the-fact style of History Television and its ilk as narration.
But it’s a long leap from Britain’s trains to a gunned-down Commander-in-Chief. Range is up to the task: collaborating with some of the finest special effects wizards in the world, he inserts his characters seamlessly into existing footage. His narrative is also airtight. Cautionary tales are too often flights of fancy; as they push the envelope of credibility, the lessons gleaned from dark speculation become somehow tarnished. Not here. Every moment is completely believable, every comment is somehow appropriate – to the point of chilling, horrifying certainty.
As one might expect, Range is ultimately interested in addressing today’s political issues through the lens of the future. Xenophobia, the hidden costs of war and the nature of civil liberties in a hyper-media age all come under the microscope.
The film is never a personal attack on Bush; Range simply seeks to explore the potential consequences that might follow from the President’s policies and actions.
It is the very technique of D.O.A.P., finally, that poses the most haunting questions of all. Not only do we feel the authenticity of mass media imagery slipping away, but Range suggests that his manipulation is merely a more radical example of what we encounter every day.- Noah Cowan
