Oliver Stone To Make Film About President He Does Like
Posted by Dirty Harry on Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Stone’s kind of leaders…
What attracts the Hollywood elite to tin pot, Leftist dictators is beyond me, I mean other than the fact that they themselves would love to be tin pot, Leftist dictators:
Oliver Stone is following up his George W. Bush biopic W. with a documentary about Venezuela’s controversial President Hugo Chavez, says Variety.
Stone has been working on the untitled film for six months and is hoping to have it ready for next year.
“It’s about Chavez and the South American revolution,” Stone told the trade in a reference to the wave of leftist politicians elected to office in Latin America in recent years.
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gmkon 11 Dec 2008 at 11:36 am 1Could we please start assassinating communist leaders again? It’s so obviously serves the greater good. Every commie you kill saves, what, ten lives? A hundred? A thousand?
Johnny Ed's Babyon 11 Dec 2008 at 11:53 am 2South American countries slowly started to come out of their economic dumps back in the 80’s when they started turning to free market leaders, some of who were trained in US colleges.
But with countries like Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela going back to socialism along with the Sandinistas people like Stone and Ted Turner can continue to blame the USA when those economies stay in the tank. Sort of like Deepak Chopra blaming us because those middle class students flew planes into the World Trade Center as a protest against their non-existent poverty.
Why do any of the hard work when the good ol’ USA is there to blame.
Do people like Stone really think life is better under Chavez or Castro? Do they really think everything is the fault of our policies? It scares me to think someone could be so willfully stupid.
G-MANon 11 Dec 2008 at 12:03 pm 3Is Stone stoned?
I guess one good flop deserves another. Dude is going to lose his financial backing. One can only hope.
aaaaaaaaon 11 Dec 2008 at 12:46 pm 4Can you explain how Chavez is a dictator? Because he was democratically elected and everything.
Dirty Harryon 11 Dec 2008 at 12:57 pm 5aaaaaa: Yeah, they voted in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, as well. They vote in Iran.
Bush cheated but Hugo was elected. Good grief.
whiskeyon 11 Dec 2008 at 1:41 pm 6Swedish style corporatist-socialist-fascism can work. But only with a monoculture, overwhelmingly homogeneous society.
Because benefits and state spending for benefits and total control of the economy in one form or another only works where corruption is minimal, everyone has high moral standards and social conformity pressures (bribes unthinkable because what would your friends say?) and everyone who has money spent on them looks like you and might well be an extended, distant relative.
Places like Latin America, with huge racial, linguistic, caste, social, and other divides can never be more than tinpot dictators. Lee Kwan Yew turned Singapore into a corporatist, semi-socialist/fascist state that “works” because Singaporeans were basically all highly educated Diaspora Chinese. Not a free or enlightened society but it “worked” to provide security and a high standard of living in a region not known for either.
What is needed for Latin America is not another strongmen but cultural revolution — a good dose of traditional American culture and values, including anti-corruption, morality, nationalism/patriotism, and so on is the only fix.
Sean Penn is part of the problem. Reflexively hugging thugs instead of working the culture to change attitudes.
Thomas Talionison 11 Dec 2008 at 2:14 pm 7Chavez was NEVER elected. He came to power in a coup, fought off a coup then stole an election.
Don’t get it twisted. But I’m sure Ollie will have us believe otherwise.
Johnny Ed's Babyon 11 Dec 2008 at 2:21 pm 8Can you explain how Chavez is a dictator? Because he was democratically elected and everything.
I remember reading about elections in the Soviet Union too. Funny how the results were printed the day before the elections were held.
Chavez is jealous that the people of Chicago get to vote even after they die.
kishkeon 11 Dec 2008 at 2:23 pm 9Great photo. Eeuwww.
JohnJon 11 Dec 2008 at 3:53 pm 10Reason Magazine has a great video of Hollywood’s obsession with Che: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQcUkd1w_TY
eeyoreon 11 Dec 2008 at 5:04 pm 11Stone has more freedom in Venezuela to make a film than Venezuelian filmmakers. Chavez has closed any media that goes against him, print, television, radio and film. Let’s tell the world why he is so great and Bush is so evil.
G-MANon 11 Dec 2008 at 5:39 pm 12After some thought, I wonder how much Chavez is paying Stone?
Jack, maybe you could get rich…….. Just do subtitles in a language Chavez doesn’t know.
jimboon 11 Dec 2008 at 7:12 pm 13Chavez was actually elected fairly in this first campaign. However since then he has held his power through cheeting and outright thugish behavior. He frequently imported immigrants only if they agreed to vote for him. This is one of many ways he manapulated his relection over and over again.
JohnJon 11 Dec 2008 at 8:45 pm 14Hey, jimbo, that sounds a lot like what Americans can expect from now on.
Jack Marinoon 11 Dec 2008 at 11:28 pm 15Hitler was elected too and all these leftist dictators are always elected in some bastardized version of free elections. Kind of like Chicago politics, and the liberals have the nerve to call South Vietnam, South Korea, half of latin America and Iraq corrupt with Chicago, Louisiana, New York, Washington isn’t corrupt? Anytime you have liberalism, leftist radicalism, to out and out pure commie rule it is all evil and corrupt.
It is our own fault, WE THE PEOPLE don’t hold these incompetents like Obama and the Chicago machine’s feet to the fire. Until the shit hits the fan in the next four years nothing will change. He isn’t even sworn in yet and this thing could blow up into a Watergate of dirty Chicago and Cook County politics trying to invade Washington.
Stone will never run out of money because it all comes from the Studios who are connected to multi-nationals that need tax write offs for the billions and billions they spend. Besides, Hollywood is about selling the leftist, anti God, pro gay, anti christian, anti-God agenda. They are not into profit, this is why they can make bomb after bomb after bomb. They will have those exceptions that break box office records, but how many of those do we have compare to the great films with political messages get out there and make the kind of money the PASSION did?
Liberals are notorious of selling product that no one wants to buy. This is why the newspapers are closing down, this is why they want to nationalize our cars, banking, health and anything they can get their greedy hands on. They are going to run this country into the ground fast or we will be attack because this guy Obama can’t make a stand.
It is all a joke, what we have to do is not patronize anything they touch.
Joaoon 12 Dec 2008 at 2:50 am 16Johny Ed’s baby,
Don’t lump in Brazil with Venezuela, or Bolivia. While the current government is leftist, it is part of the responsible left (Along with Chile and Uruguay). It was actually a close-run thing. Lula ran as a hard leftist his first three times and lost. In 2002 he turned moderate, but it was unknown whether he would govern as one. After taking office, he essentially followed the orthodox economic path laid out by his predecessor, the centrist Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Budget surplusses, low inflation, moderate (but necessary, in my opinion) welfare spending, and a marked lacked of populism and demagogery, all resulting in years of economic growth and democractic and social stability. When Lula finishes his term in 2010, that will have meant 16 straight years of uninterrupted democractically-elected governments (8 years of FHC and 8 years of Lula).
Joaoon 12 Dec 2008 at 2:54 am 17Let me add one thing, one of Bush’s unheralded accomplishments is his recognition of all I laid out above and his subsequent embrace of Lula and Brazil as an example for Latin America. He has made it a priority to improve and expand the relationship. When people claim that Bush is an ideologue, tell them about his excellent relationship with a government full of former commies. When they tell you that he damaged our alliances and image around the world, tell them that our relaltionships with Japan, India and Brazil have never been better than they are right now.
Haumeaon 12 Dec 2008 at 3:11 am 18Excellent timing, Mr. Stone.
As oil prices plummet and Chavez curtails his regional ambitions and possibly is even forced to cut domestic spending a story with a hubristic rise-and-fall arc could be quite compelling.