Posted on 08/14/2009 4:25:30 AM PDT by SolidWood
LOS ANGELES -- I met filmmakers Amy Rice and Alicia Sams when we all traveled to Africa to cover then-Sen. Barack Obama in August 2006. Rice and Sams were shooting a documentary on a senator who seemed to have a promising future. They started interviewing me and several others about Obama for a movie that none of us at the time knew would end up so soon with scenes of Obama in the Oval Office.
Fast-forward to last Wednesday night, when their HBO documentary on the Obama presidential campaign "By the People, The Election of Barack Obama" was screened for the first time here. The movie, set to air Nov. 3 on HBO, is an important historic document because Rice and Sams had exclusive access to Obama, his family and to top staffers.
Their cameras are there at key backstage moments. (There will be a screening at a Chicago theater at the end of October.)
Not a moment of Africa made it into the film, as the project evolved once Obama decided to run for president. Rice, who lives in New York, and Sams, an Oak Park resident, made their documentary about his White House bid.
The story of nearly two years of the campaign is told mainly through the pictures and voices of Obama and wife Michelle, younger campaign workers and seasoned staffers -- Chicago's David Axelrod, now a senior White House adviser, is a featured player.
We see Obama prepping for a debate and figures now settled in White House jobs in their campaign personas: speechwriter Jon Favreau, assistant press secretary Tommy Vietor, press secretary Robert Gibbs, as well as political hands who jumped from state to state, including Ronnie Cho, now at Homeland Security, and Michael Blake, in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
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Obama GOOD, Hillary BAD, McCain WORSE, Palin DEVIL!
Gotta love the backlash once the disillusioned Americans who cast their vote for Fraudbama are being annoyed with this shameless Goebbelsesque piece of work!
Are there special effects in this movie?
The 3 filmmakers: Edward Norton (huge contributor to all things Democrat. Gave $6900 to Obama), Amy Rice (Dem contributor), and Alicia Sams (John Kerry contributor).
No bias here....
Special Effects?
Yes, enhanced computer graphics are used to make Obama appear less dependent on teleprompters and to make his wife look more attractive.
I cancelled HBO over 21 years ago when they produced their anti gun anti hunting anti trapping cartoon called Seabert.
My kids were kids back then and they did not need the propaganda, it was bad enough that my mom in law gave them Bambi on video tape (whats video tape???)....I sat and watched it with them in order to stop the tape at strategic parts and explain the falacies....also my kids helped me butcher many deer even as little guys, so they turned out to be OK.
My only other dealing with HBO since then was to buy dvds of Deadwood, ‘cause I am a sucker for a western....
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