Posted on 03/09/2012 12:37:38 PM PST by Zhang Fei
(Snip) Any film that portrays the events of months or years is going to truncate events, leave things out, and make other changes to fit the running time and pacing of a movie. But where the filmmakers really let their disdain for everyone involved in the McCain campaign seep through is in the scenes they added.
For example, one foreign-policy adviser shows Palin a map and declares, “This is Germany. They were the primary antagonists during World War I and World War II. They allied with Japan to form what became known as the Axis Powers.” A fascinated Palin dutifully writes it down. The scene does not appear in the Heilemann and Halperin book. This scene was the opening anecdote of the glowing review by Bloomberg. Foreign-policy analyst Randy Scheunemann, Palin’s primary adviser on these issues during the campaign, calls the scene “absolutely untrue.”
Told that none of the potential running mates his team has been discussing will help his trailing campaign, Ed Harris’s McCain responds, rather dismissively, “Okay, so find me a woman.” Those words never appear in the book, and Steve Schmidt has stated McCain never said that. (It’s a small point, but the usually solid actor Harris occasionally portrays McCain raising his arms over his head at campaign rallies, something that his war injuries make impossible for McCain to do.)
Harrelson’s Steve Schmidt watches Palin’s answers to Katie Couric’s questions and gasps, “Oh my God! What have we done?” That scene and those words do not appear in Heilemann and Halperin’s book, either.
You can’t invent scenes and quotes and then insist the film is “completely accurate and truthful.”(Snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
The creators of Game Change would probably insist that their work be interpreted as a work of entertainment, not journalism. But each change from the book (presuming, of course, Heilemann and Halperin’s reporting is accurate) moves the story in a particular direction. Palin becomes dumber. McCain becomes more craven, cynical, and desperate to win. McCain’s campaign aides are sloppier, more panicky, a mess. What director Roach and screenwriter Strong are portraying is recent history as they wish it had been.
As usual, liberals throw in some whoppers about conservatives and call the depiction true. It is probably "true" in the sense of being their true view of what conservatives are actually like - given that some liberals don't believe the truth has anything to do with the facts.
Well, how would you like it if everything you believed with every fiber of your being was shown to be undeniably, categorically, completely wrong?
Maybe you'd live in a fantasy world then... or come around to see that you were wrong. But if you feel rather than think, I'm guessing the former.
Sorry. I subscribe to HBO but nonetheless I’m going to skip this celluloid POS and instead watch the 2011 prequel to “The Thing.”
Sounds like a movie made for slobbering liberal scatter brains to drool over. It doesn’t have to be true, to be true for them. Lies are true and truth is lies.
Is there a rational person on this planet who expected it to be a true honest portrayal of events?
Naturally, the anti-Palin, pro-Romney, Michael Medved is pushing the film.
it must have been 20 years ago when HBO ran ‘Seabert’ an anti huning anti gun cartoon geared to kids....
I cancelled it then and see no reason to reinstall it any time soon...
RE: written by John Heilemann of New York magazine and Mark Halperin of Time.
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The two names above and the publications they write for are ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW about the “even handedness” and “accuracy” ( Note the quotes ) of the film.
yup. bird cage liner.
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