编者按:这部讲述布什总统遭暗杀的虚构纪录片,正在美国成为争论焦点。
电影标语:Do not rush to judge.
单词释义: 总统, 董事长, 总裁, 大統領, 会長, 議長, 長官, 総裁, 社長, 学長
The leading figure in a small group of men of whom — and of whom only — it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
If that’s an honor surely ’tis a greater
To have been a simple and undamned spectator.
Behold in me a man of mark and note
Whom no elector e’er denied a vote! –
An undiscredited, unhooted gent
Who might, for all we know, be President
By acclimation. Cheer, ye varlets, cheer –
I’m passing with a wide and open ear!
Jonathan Fomry
其它中文片名:刺杀总统/ 刺杀布什 /布什之死
其它外文片名:D.O.A.P. (Canada: English title) (festival title)
电影剧情:兰杰在芝加哥拍摄了《总统之死》,演员全部起用美国人。影片用纪录片的形式展开,虚构了采访前美国联邦调查局有关人士以 及布什被杀后采访英国政府人士的情节,是一次对美国外交政策如何限制民权、伊拉克战争的后果以及美国安全保障系统的清醒观察。导演在布什到达芝加哥的真实 影像资料基础上,加上演员对布什不同侧面的诠释,虚构了布什2007年到芝加哥演讲的画面。影片用电脑技术将布什的头“嫁接”到演员身上,演出了布什被两 颗子弹射中脑袋的一幕。对于这一英国电影人惯用的“伪纪录片”模式,4频道的一个发言人坚持,如果电影人选择表现一个完全虚构的总统,就不会达到电影如今 具有的这种震撼人心的效果。
经典名言:You don’t need to know who’s playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles. - James Baker
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. - Walter Bagehot
Power is poison. It’s effect on Presidents had always been tragic. - Henry Brooks Adams
If presidents don’t do it to their wives, they do it to the country. - Mel Brooks
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. - David Broder