Not exactly breaking news, but if there’s any doubt that
George W. Bush is increasingly seen as both an instigator of more worldwide
peril than a quelling force, it should be noted that more and more celebrities
aren’t even bothering to speak in vagaries and deeply coded niceties about political parallels and
allusions in entertainment product.
conspiracy and patriotism gone wrong that feels very contemporary, and strikes
a nerve,” says Shooter
director Antoine Fuqua in the EPK materials for the project. “We may be talking
about a cover-up in a small foreign village that has some small but extractive
wealth,” adds costars Danny Glover. “These people refuse to move, and they’re
dealt with. But it’s a pattern that happens. These things happen all the time
these days.”
In defense of President Bush, I don’t think those statements necessarily have to refer to him or his administration. “Those sorts of things,” as Glover and Fuqua say, have been going on for some time — they’re an interwoven part of the duplicity of America’s freedom agenda: “do as we say, not as we do.”