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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 02:53 PM
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A feature length pro-Kerry documentary to be released in September?
Edited on Wed Jul-14-04 03:12 PM by Lex
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1.3 million dollar budget . . . 90 minute length film by documentary film-maker George Butler, and also Max Cleland is involved?

Snipped from the BBC article, linked below:

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Biography

That, perhaps, is why George Butler and Max Cleland are, like Michael Moore, making a documentary they hope will influence this year's elections.

Cleland is a veteran who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam and spent six years in the US Senate.

Butler is the documentary filmmaker who produced Pumping Iron and made Schwarzenegger a star. He's also a long-time friend of Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry.

The two men are making a biography of Kerry who, in public at least, displays about as much personality as a paper towel and has failed to arouse even voters who dislike Bush.

Butler and Cleland are no doubt hoping that Kerry, who spoke out against the war in Vietnam after fighting in it, will be much more of a tall-striding presence on screen than he is in real life.

Fire and flash

Those who have seen previews say it includes a powerful photograph of Kerry crumpling on the lawn after throwing a Vietnam vet's medals onto the Capitol steps.

This $1.3 million, 90-minute Kerry documentary is supposed to be ready for theatrical release in September. That's assuming the filmmakers can find a bold title and a distributor.

That's also assuming there's a paying audience for a political documentary that's not likely to display much of Fahrenheit 9/11's fire and flash.

Will the Bush team shrug off these cinematic assaults and keep relying on traditional television ads, rallies and barbecues?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/3886591.stm


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TheDonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 03:01 PM
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1. I'd like to see it... very interesting
Could a Kerry movie be big.
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 03:13 PM
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2. Maybe they'll have some excerpts to play at the Dem. Convention.
Max Cleland will be introducing Kerry on the final night.

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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-15-04 12:08 AM
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3. Just bumping before it goes to bye-bye land.
:kick:

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