JFK was certainly compelling, but I would argue that is only because he is
inserting a fantasy into a historical event in a clever enough way to sell the
audience that the fantasy actually happened. I loose repect for him because he
does not appear to care who he hurts in the process of advancing his career. I
was working at the NY State Senate at the time 4th of July was released, and
the portrayal of the Syracuse police mercilessly beating war protesters (this
never happened) tarnished their reputations and caused enought grief among them
that a large group came to the legislature to meet with their representative
and ask what could be done to set the record straight. Unfortunatley all we
could do was pass a resolution and get a small amount of press attention on the
subject. The damage had already been done.
> Subject: Re: Midkemia on tv
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:40:20 -0700
> To: [email protected]
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> On Apr 18, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Nick Andrews wrote:
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> > Just like Michael Moore trying to make a documentary? Or Oliver
> > Stone? Except Oliver Stone has made a few good movies.
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> Moore's films are only documentaries in one sense, he's documenting stuff he
> wants to show the audience. He's an advocacy film maker, an unapologetic
> one, and often people mistake "documentary" for "objective." They usually
> aren't. If someone does a documentary on starvation in Africa, it's hardly
> "objective," but that doesn't make it a bad documentary. What Moore does
> that pisses people off so much is show things in a very nasty light for some
> people and gloss over things about other people that should be noted. With
> Moore and some other documentary film makers like Spike Lee for example, the
> slant is so obvious some people call their films "docu-ganda" or
> "shockumentary" or "exploitation documentary." The only real question is
> simply "did they do a good job presenting their point of view?" More's hit
> and miss.
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> Anyway, Oliver Stone has always had a political point-of-view. Even if JFK
> has almost zero basis historically, it's still a pretty compelling movie.
> Wall Street, Platoon, Salvador, and Born on the Forth of July were compelling
> film making. Alexander was flawed but interesting, as was Money Never Sleeps
> and Any Given Sunday.
>
> Best, R.E.F.
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