Wag The Dog
The movie starts with the President hit with the claim he had sexual relations with a firefly girl during a tour of the white house, and all this happens two weeks before the election. I'm not sure if this movie was actually based upon the Lewinsky scandal that our current president is facing, but it seems this movie came at the right time. The story is similar, as far as the sex charges, and a war to cover it up. Clinton did declare attacks on Iraq, which was after this movie was released. I'm not saying that the movie gave Clinton the idea of attacking Iraq or if it was actually needed. This movie made me think allot, about how things really work in the government. The whole movie is how they are trying to take the publics mind off the sex charges to keep the president the favorite for the upcoming election. The main characters were Conrad Bream, who's main objective was to "Change the story", it was his idea to fake a war with Albania. They kept asking "Why Albania?", Conrad's reply was "No one in the USA knows about Albania". Conrad along with Winifred, a presidents advisor, decide to use a famous Hollywood producer to help create the illusion of war, so he asks Stanley Motss. Stanley is sketchy about i
The next part shows a headline about Stanley's death from a heart attack and a huge funeral was arranged. They ended up using a convict and when they were flying him back for a news conference the plane went down in a field. Things happened and the convict was shot by a farmer, for messing with his daughter. He calls in a few people to help him. I can't remember their names in the movie, but he used Dennis Leary, and Willie Nelson throughout the film. Leary played an advisor of sorts to Stanley and Nelson was used to help make a "theme" for the war. Basically, this movie made me think allot cause it could all be real, and could be happening right now. We will never know because the government wouldn't want us to. It shows how much power people have and what can be done with it. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the Iraq bombings were slightly prompted by the Lewinsky charges. Clinton has taken allot of heat in the past year or so, and I'm sure there is allot of things he would do just to get rid of this for a while. One thing I noticed that was neat is that you never saw the president's face in the movie, leaving it open to your imagination. I fell asleep watching this movie on the plane ride to Seattle and I don't remember any of it, but I'm glad I ended up seeing it e
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