Posted on 06/05/2011 9:25:30 PM PDT by RonDog
Matt Latimer, Salon.com: 6 things to know about "The Undefeated"
...And the biggest, take away:The Palin saga makes women weep."The Undefeated" was tested before focus groups of liberals who, according to the filmmaker, almost uniformly came away with a greater appreciation of Palin.This was especially true of women.
Two different people told me that a liberal producer at a major television network (it was not Fox News) left the movie in tears after "realizing" how badly Palin had been treated by the media.Like all cold-hearted men, I confess that I was not in tears. But it is clear from the outset that I am not the film’s target audience.The movie really is geared to women...
That is impressive. Run Sarah!
"I saw the documentary for the first time yesterday. I will have more to say later, but it was a superb exposition of Palin's life and career. And yes, I am in the film. "
Here's more about the "PDS" opening, from Jim Geraghty at www.nationalreview.com:You got THAT right!"I believe you have to grab the audience in the beginning," Bannon says.Perhaps he’s understated his grab...
Also from Matt Latimer [SPOILER ALERT!] at www.salon.com:
...I am just getting comfortable in my chair when the screen suddenly fills with a montage of attacks on the former governor by Mr. Damon and about a dozen other celebrities(John Cleese calls her "a nice-looking parrot," David Letterman says she dresses like a "slutty flight attendant," I forgot what Rosie O’Donnell said, but whatever it was, she didn’t look good saying it.)Then things take a truly vicious turn...-- snip --...As the movie goes on, the attacks on Palin seamlessly segue into lions stalking and feasting on a defenseless zebra; an arrow protruding from the neck of a slain medieval archer; the most horrific car crash I’ve ever seen on film; a bridge (to nowhere?) collapsing; a man literally choking someone to death; a nuclear explosion; a volcano eruption; and, yes, sand being thrown onto the face of a nearly buried corpse...
Dreading doing my review of @PalinUndefeated - I'm a tough guy ... I cried. #ThereISaidIt!
Good catch Ron,
A minor point. The hot link didn’t work for me on my Blackberry. www.salon.com worked okay.
Your excerpt is the only significant segment in an otherwise sneering hit piece by the former self described Bush who sought out Salon to peddle his wares. Mr. Toughie calls it a chick movie.
Aside from your pull quote, the Salon article should be read to expose the venom of the GOP old guard. They remain as a fifth column element aligned with the DP against the best interests of our citizenry.
That’s my take on it, unless it was a not so clever satire of Salon readers.
I was reading a sour post the other day regarding Sarah Palin's resigning from the Alaskan Governorship (yes, we have folks among freeperdom who want desperately to destroy the image of Sarah Palin, for whatever bias they hold). This will of course be probably the only seemingly legitimate negative toward Sarah. I thought about what she did and why, then it hit me that she did what real, honest people do when confronted with an openly rigged situation.
Imagine for a moment that Sarah is a Ladies basketball team, and when the game starts the referee calls appear somewhat biased, but the game is allowed to proceed. Then, as the score begins to mount higher for Sarah's team, the entire referee team and the officials table take an activist role in making imaginery faul calls, obvious incorrect calls on ball lost out of bounds plays, etc.
I would bet dollars to donuts that the average honest American would agree that the Sarah team shuld stop playing the game under such circumstances and leave the court until an honest officiating can be established. Now, we're not talking about one or two bad calls, we're talkin' the entire officiating circumstance!
IIRC, there was a situation in the news just a few years ago where a coach pulled his team from the game when the calls became obviously biased. Replay film proved the coach was correct in his assessment. So, I ask myself, given the unconscienable biased attack campaign that was negating the governor's ability to do the job for Alaska, what honest American would not agree that stepping out of the rigged game was the best course of action, especially given the way Alaskan governance has been unshackled/unassaulted since the object of the biased hate has left the game?
Of course there will be a few who will screetch that she quit, that you can't win if you quit. But I would remind obeservers of such accusations that allowing the screetchers to erase the truth of the hatred eliminating a fair competition is to at once give the hatred legitimacy. Piss on them. Let them screetch. Perhaps their tiny heads will explode when honest Americans elect Sarah Palin to be the Chief Executive for the faultering Republic. The servants of lies will have plenty of time to prattle on with their empty accusations once Sarah is sworn in. The sales of Tums and other antacids will skyrocket among the 'lieberal lieberati'.
God forgive me, but it will be fun to watch their lie driven self-absorption consuming them daily, as their rotten hearts ooze out for all the world to witness. When America ceases to appreciate genuine goodness, we are a lost people. Sarah is genuinely good.
Ping for what will be an ongoing thread with reviews and commentary about the Sarah Palin film, “The Undefeated”.
Thanks, RonDog, for a much needed and appreciated thread!
What an indictment of the mainstream media that in order to present to the public the missing pieces of a major political figure’s governing record, an independent filmmaker has to drop a cool million of his own dollars. While our corrupt journalist-class is (at this very moment) out trashing Governor Palin’s children, blaming her for their own acts of public urination and proving they know nothing about Paul Revere (or Google), writer/director Steve Bannon is putting the final touches on “The Undefeated” (this is a review of a rough cut), a feature-length documentary that does the MSM’s job for them — tells the intentionally ignored and buried stories of Sarah Palin’s two decades as an unconventional but very effective public official. Unless you’ve read the Governor’s autobiography “Going Rogue,” anyone with an ounce of intellectual honesty will find it impossible to sit through this film and not ask themselves, “Why haven’t I been told this?”More at the link above.
Ping to this ongoing catalog of reviews of the documentary.
Or Tom Petty singing “I Won’t Back Down”
Cindie
I’m waiting for the DVD! :)
I don’t know that that analogy would work for me. Sports teams don’t quit. We teach that to children as early as t-ball and kick-n-chase soccer. It’s an important lesson. I think what happened to her would be akin to a whistle blower (I’m not talking sensational here) harassed unmercifully because she did what she knew was right. I don’t know maybe that one isn’t perfect either. I completely understand what she did and agree with it. But the sports team analogy makes me think of someone who is a poor sport and doesn’t understand holding your head up and fighting on. That’s not Sara at all. JMO
Cindie
Surely we never expected anything coming out of Salon to be nice.
Related: Indie Sarah Palin flick could alter the 2012 political landscape
I had to get a new pair of glasses this week. There is another thing that Sarah Palin changed and the people at Eyemasters all seem to understand what that is. She totally changed the look of eyewear. At least 90% of the glasses sold today are styled after the glasses she has been wearing for several years. Just an interesting thing to note......
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