Teaser Poster for Oliver Stone’s W.
June 5th, 2008 by James Cook | Source: ION Cinema
The first teaser poster for W., Oliver Stone’s upcoming bio-pic on George W. Bush, is now online. It gathers all of the President’s famous quotes, and seems to suggest that Stone is definitely going for a more comedic approach. The film is currently shooting and is scheduled to come out this October.
UPDATE: It looks like the poster is a fake, more on that here.
Man, oh man. I can’t believe we elected this idiot president — and then RE-elected him!
Heaven help us all.
Steve Elliott | Jun 6th, 2008
“We” didn’t elect him, “they” (points to Bible Belt) elected him (twice).
TVSpy | Jun 6th, 2008
The supreme court basically awarded him the election the first time. Popular vote went to Gore. Perhaps we could do some research instead of spewing opinions? lol
joe | Jun 6th, 2008
Making fun of George Bush is extremely old and tacky. Everyone knows he’s an idiot by now,even the ones who voted for him. We’ll soon have a new president, one who will (hopefully) bring back an America that the rest of the world doesn’t hate. Does anyone really want to see a documentary about the fool of a man who brought shame and embarrassment to this nation for 8 years, when we’re so close to getting rid of him for good?
Sarah | Jun 6th, 2008
Hopefully we can get John Sidney McCain in twice too. I need your kids to fight another war so I can get more dividends on my foreign investments and tax breaks that benefit me even though I don’t necessarily need them because I’m already wealthy. Thanks Reagan-onmics!!!
I can’t wait to see the next movie “S”.
Fact Pete | Jun 6th, 2008
@Sarah
Yes, the documentary *is* important.
Humanity learns through its mistakes, as long as those mistakes are remembered.
The last thing you want is your children voting again for a braindead candidate backed up with a team of aggressive and greedy idiots because your children were scared down into submission by media specialized in false news.
Onya | Jun 6th, 2008
Didnt Oliver Stone just make a 9/11 movie? Seems to me like he is such a tool that he will follow popular opinion all the way to the big screen just to make his name bigger. Yes, W. is a horrible person, but give it a rest Mr. Stone…
Matt | Jun 6th, 2008
More attention needs to be given to Dick Cheney, and his fortune in options on Halliburton stock leading into the wars.
More attention needs to be given to the Sibel Edmonds story.
Ruggy | Jun 6th, 2008
I am very tired of people disrespecting the President. Yeah, he’s not great at his job, but he was elected there and as the person who represents us as a country we owe him far more respect than we give him. People in other countries don’t just look at him to see what Americans are like, they look at us too. If we are too childish and disrespectful to at least be polite in our dislike of him that what does that make us look like? We come off as a bunch of childish idiots who can’t show an ounce of respect for a person we presumably elected in their eyes. I don’t really care if you dislike Bush, but please respect the man for his position in this country if anything.
I don’t like a lot of people…Hillary Clinton for instance. I disagree with her on many things, but if I ever met her I would treat her with as much respect as I could muster. As my elder and a leader she deserves that from me and I would be happy to comply. I do not look down upon her for her bad decisions on a personal level; I simply disagree with her policies and ideas. It’s the same for Obama and even McCain. But if any was ever elected (and yes I am aware that Clinton is dropping out) I would respect them just the same because they were elected as our President and even if I severely disliked their ideals and policies I would never speak as badly about them as some do about Bush. I simply have more respect than that.
Emily | Jun 6th, 2008
Ugh, don’t point at me. We didn’t *all* vote for him.
jen in alabama | Jun 6th, 2008
Emily, George Bush owes us, we don’t owe him. Thumbing authority is a great American tradition - where’s your sense of patriotism?
Chris | Jun 6th, 2008
I would rather have a president who has a hard time talking, but stands firm in his beliefs and is willing to act on them to benefit the country, rather than a president who is a great orator promising change, but has yet to tell us what he thinks, or how he plans on bringing about that change.
People say that McCain is going to be Bush’s third term, well Obama is going to be Carter’s second term, and we all know what this country was like under Carter: Lines at the gas pump, highest inflation in our nations history, mortgage rates near 20%, and some of the highest unemployment we have seen since the great depression. Obama isn’t offering anything new, nor is he offering change. He is offering to take us back to the late seventies.
Many people dislike Bush because they have been told to dislike him by the media. Bush has made some mistakes in his presidency, but he has stood by his word on what he promised to do and his tax cuts have helped the economy and the middle class grow.
Ten years from now people will look back at the Bush presidency and it will be considered one of the better presidency this nation has had.
Nick | Jun 6th, 2008
“Ten years from now people will look back at the Bush presidency and it will be considered one of the better presidency this nation has had.”
Don’t be too keen on that idea, bud
http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html
cicero | Jun 6th, 2008
Nick, the media did not tell people to dislike G. Dubs, his own actions did that for him. Simply reporting on what he’s been ‘Decidering’ to do is enough for people to draw their own conclusions. I believe you’re also forgetting that Jimmy Carter was the only US President to actually make a lasting peace between two Middle East nations (Egypt and Israel). I also believe you’re confusing the oil embargo of the EARLY 70’s by OPEC with the fact that gas prices rose from 40 cents a gallon to 60. Not much at all like 40 dollar barrels of oil to 130 dollar barrels? Perhaps you should vary your sources of information from a single news channel to several different kinds of Media.
Mike | Jun 6th, 2008
nick and emily, just what f**king planet are you living on?
Doug | Jun 6th, 2008
@emily - you are an idiot.
Jeff | Jun 6th, 2008
@emily - i am sorry. @nick - holy sh*T - truly you are the idiot. god bless you. you have it all wrong - we don’t dislike mcbush… that’s much too kind. btw - if you think the people HATING mcbush get their news from the main stream media - you are clearly mistaken. what a bunch of BS you posted. prison is the only retirement resort this administration should see. better yet would be for the family’s of the hundreds of thousands of dead innocent civilians of iraq to decide their fate.
Jeff | Jun 6th, 2008
@Sarah and Emily: There is that joke about the guy that built a thousand bridges. Look it up.
W built no bridges at all. What are we to remember him by? By being the president during whose term Batman movies made a comeback?
Only good thing he did was managing NOT to die (Choking on a pretzel? For pluck’s sake…) a horrible burning death by a kitchen utensil and leaving the country in the hands of Dick. No pun intended.
@Nick: What Doug said.
Denzel | Jun 6th, 2008
To be quite frank, this movie is destined to fail both critically and commercially. While left-wing views are the rule of the land in hollywood and the subject of this film is the exact opposite of these ideals, many critics will quite obviously be willing to overlook the obvious flaws that it has in order
Seth | Jun 6th, 2008
@nick WTF are you thinking?
“…Obama is going to be Carter’s second term, and we all know what this country was like under Carter: Lines at the gas pump, highest inflation in our nations history, mortgage rates near 20%, and some of the highest unemployment we have seen since the great depression. Obama isn’t offering anything new, nor is he offering change. He is offering to take us back to the late seventies.”
Explain to me what this administration has done that has been good. Right now we can’t even afford to go to the gas pump. The economy is tanking under massive inflation, food and basic commodities are skyrocketing, mortgage rates are already the worst since the 80’s and our unemployment is also rising, all as a direct result of the economic policies made in the last 8 years under Bush.
Looking at historic trends unemployment actually falls under democratic presidents… that expansion of the federal government and all.
Learn to read a book or something, it might help. Then again, maybe not.
Brandon | Jun 6th, 2008
Talking to a right-wing, dogmatic, holy warrior about the last eight years is like trying to tell a retarded kid that there is no Santa Claus; You know that you will never quite get the truth across to them no matter what you say.
Joey | Jun 6th, 2008
nice brandon, rather than try and have a good and civilized argument, you decide to take the original approach of angry, smug liberal
Seth | Jun 6th, 2008
@Emily
Respect must be EARNED.
stagl | Jun 6th, 2008
@Seth
It’s pretty clear that Brandon used an argument based on fact to rebut the speculative claims of another poster. Where I come from, they call that a good and civilized argument.
You actually did with your post what you wrongfully criticized Brandon for doing. That’s irony and you are a hypocrite.
Fred Garvin | Jun 6th, 2008
Not fully sure what the big deal is. America’s in trouble plain and simple. America was in trouble long before ‘W’ and it will be long after.
The president is elected, and after that its really in the politicians’ hands on what really happens. Everyone lies, so all these promises made during election are simply goals to help get said politician into the white house. NO ONE is morally high enough that they will look after the country before their own personal goals (all the time).. which is wrong. But if you are elected by the people.. then its to be expected that you serve for the people. Such examples are hard to find. Granted I’m not saying it hasnt happened before..but even less in the more modern days than before. (and mind you this is my opinion so slam me if you want but bear in mind its only my thoughts on the matter) The questions is really… what is Obama/McCain lying about… and how will they change once they get in power..only time will tell. So I refuse to say that it will be any better under the next president, just….different.
disillusioned | Jun 6th, 2008
Two words: Ron Paul.
Lynn | Jun 6th, 2008
@Emily, True, he’s the President, but really, I don’t like the U.S. and it’s foreign policy right now (I’m Canadian), but I respect the people and the fact that they often clearly show how they do disagree with their fool of a leader.
I’d have a lot less respect for the U.S. and much more fear for the world if the citizens of the U.S. were ALL respectful and somewhat supportive of the president, because that means if the next president starts more wars etc, the American people would NOT protest and just go with the flow as the majority have for the past 8 years. Actually, I guess that this past year most people openly admitted that they thought he was an idiot, but there’s still the Bible belt, and military-types who believe 100% in their country’s policies simply because they don’t know any better, or they do, but don’t want to imagine that their buddies are dying for the lies of the government, and wealthy people who wouldn’t dream of letting THEIR son get sent to Iraq.
I mean, if any one of us (except perhaps the kind of people that protest Bush openly, and believe the WTC were destroyed by the government, and in the NWO etc.) met Bush in real life, I’m sure we would all be fairly respectful, as that’s how we were brought up.
It does however, to take real guts to do something so openly criticizing of the President, to his face, as what Stephen Colbert did at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner however many years ago that was. If more people were openly protesting and, I don’t know, just taking action, hopefully the world wouldn’t be in the state it’s in.
But then again, I’m Canadian, and while our countries are VERY similar, they’re not 100% identical (96%, maybe) and I’m sure there’s a very good reason why despite the presidents approval rating not being very high for pretty much forever, he got re-elected and I just hope nothing happens to cause martial law or something. But of course, if the U.S. went under martial law before Bush left office, I’d definitely think something was up and there may be something to one of these conspiracy theories.
Just my (rambling) two bits
William | Jun 6th, 2008
@emily: How many people that now say, “support him because he’s the only president we’ve got” we screaming for Clinton’s impeachment? Presidents should earn their support. Otherwise, we start talking about blind devotion, and we all know where that leads.
Nick | Jun 6th, 2008
What always amazes me is the deep-seated hatreds you Americans have for each other. You honestly believe there’s a significant difference between Republicans and Democrats and once you’ve chosen sides you’ll fight to the death in defence of it. Everybody on the other side are criminals and/or morons. There’s no middle ground and the other side’s perspective has no merits whatsoever. You hold elections and primaries in which the contests are pretty much 50-50 affairs, but if your side loses you rant and rail about how unfair the vote was, behaving as if it was really a 80-20 contest in your favour and the other side somehow stole the vote. In the mean time the elected politicians from both parties work together to walk your country straight down the road to totalitarianism. Look, your politicians are your constructions… all of you together. They are universally horrible (yes, both sides) because you chose them that way. There is nothing wrong with your political leadership that isn’t wrong with Americans collectively. They reflect you as a people… all of you… both sides. If you want better politicians, you’re going to have to climb out of your trenches, shake hands, forget about the colour of your jersey, and dump the hatred and vitriol that’s poisoning your country. Seriously folks, it’s time for the US to move on from adolescence to adulthood. From out here on the sidelines the spectacle has gone from hilarious to painful. Seriously.
Another Canadian | Jun 7th, 2008
@ Jeff: No offense taken. I state my opinion and you state yours, I rarely take these things personally.
@ Nick: On the subject of Bill Clinton, I find it very interesting that most of the extreme joke making started with him. All that stuff with Monica happend, and the next day Jay Leno was joking about it. Then everyone was. I think respect for the ideal of a President dropped a little then. And I dont blame Clinton, after all people make personal mistakes like that all the time, even Presidents. But something changed with us. Some commend it, and some, like me find it a little disturbing. It rings of rude children to me at times. I do not see it as blind devotion, as I will not support Bush or any President in whatever he or she does. I am in full support of public and private disagreement. I simply have an issue with using things like speech problems as means to call someone stupid. It has nothing to do with policy at that point, it is simply a cheap shot.
Emily | Jun 7th, 2008
@Fred Garvin: Whats your rate hot stuff?
(Saw the name, just could not resist)
Emily | Jun 7th, 2008
I can’t wait to watch this film
Bush Sucks | Jun 7th, 2008
Stone is one of our greatest film makers.
Expect to see “Natural Born Killers Goes to Washington”: a devastating satire, with the gravitas of the kind of deep biographical portrait that Stone brought to bear in his moving, lucid treatment of “Nixon”.
This is NOT a documentary.
This is a FILM starring Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men) in the title role.
rastamanjesus | Jun 7th, 2008
I worry that I might be dumb. When I’m talking with a group of people I sometimes stop when I see some knowing glance shared between two listeners. Could this mean these people think I’m a idiot? My entire life I’ve spent thinking about the worlds problems and gradually over the years I’ve accumulated my secret store of solutions, my entire collected wisdom – it’s all here, struggling to break free. And so, in a spare moment I will write a comment on a webpage. Then the deluge begins. ‘You’re an asshole’, ‘what about the Iraqi children’, ‘have you been there’. The Internet offers these tantalising peeks at the truth that real life never does. In the real world it’s just too impolite to accuse anyone of being an imbecile to his or her face. So you go blindly through life never quite knowing if you are as smart as you think you are. How would you know any otherwise? I figure life would be a whole lot simpler for a lot of people if they were finally told the truth about how much of a moron they actually are. To stop pretending you’re management material or those valiant yet ultimately futile attempts to multitask in a complex administrative capacity, and be sent to mend buckets, drive a tractor, fish, yes it would be harsh at first but then the doubting about your own acumen is finally over and you can enjoy life with whatever limited set of cognitive abilities you can truthfully claim to possess.
And so it must begin here; this movement that will make the world a better place. For us all to know our safe limits. Reach out to someone now, arrange to meet face to face, get it off your chest this thing that’s been dogging your relationship for quite some time.
“George you’re a moron, but I still love you. Get some sleep and things will seem a lot clearer in the morning.”
gerryC | Jun 7th, 2008
Just think, if we didn’t have eight years of that moron, we couldn’t have this movie!
Yakir | Jun 7th, 2008
@Emily and basically the American Public. We must remember that these government officials are elected by US the people. Americans have been backwards in this theory and seemed to have been brainwashed in thinking that WE the people work for them and forget that THEY (elected officials) work for US. They should respect us, but yet we treat them like royalty.
There was an interesting story about how there was a conference with Tony Blair and George Bush. Reporters were waiting for the two to come out and make their speeches. Blair came out first and none of the British Reporters or American were standing up as he came into the room. Bush came out and as soon as he did the American reporters were standing on their feet until he reached the podium raised his hand and they sat down. The Brits were wondering what the hell was going on because Bush is an elected official yet judging by what they saw he was treated as an Emporer. This is what the founding fathers were afraid would happen if America didn’t follow the consitution
WE control this country in theory but it seems americans have lost hope and leave it to elected officials to fix things, but if they don’t we bitch and moan about them. WE have the power to ‘relieve’ them of their duties if they are slacking off so instead of bitching we should take action. Next time you see any elected official (congressman, senator or even the president) make sure THEY thank you for putting them in that position and giving them a job and not the other way around.
just my 2 cents
DavidR | Jun 7th, 2008
Laugh all you want. History will prove that George Bush was a good president who kept us safe during a difficult time after 9/11. Yes, he had his flaws, but he sticks to his principles and convictions and doesn’t give a damn about polls or pundits.
Prompter Bob | Jun 7th, 2008
DavidR… you make a good point, but Emily is still right. We probably do treat “some” of our elected officials with a bit too much of a “royalty” flair… that probably has more to do with our general mode of “making celebrities” and treating them different. Anyway, Emily is still correct, we let this negativism go way too far with people like Pres Bush and it reflects on all of us.
Truth is, the American people and all of our elected officials together, collectively create a “view” of what others think of us.
Congress as a whole… has a lower opinion rating than the Pres. I think they are the bigger problem… and evidentally so does the American public.
As for the poster and the silly quotes… truth is if someone captured all of what all of us say day in and day out; they would likely find plenty of examples of insane sounding fodder from all of us.
Time to grow up people… life and our security is more complex and more dangerous than most of us have a clue about. Mr Bush is doing the best he can… and so will whoever takes his place. We better hope both he and they do well and support them the best we can
MarkW | Jun 7th, 2008
Indeed, you shouldn’t make fun of a person with dyslexia, even if he is incompetent.
David | Jun 7th, 2008
I voted for George Bush, not once but twice. I firmly believe I made a mistake. Though funny, the quotes at the top of the page mean little to me. I don’t believe they are by any means a measure of his intelligence. He is propably a fairly intelligent person, but I do feel that he purposely mislead the American public.
MikeB | Jun 7th, 2008
Speaking as a non-American continent inhabitant, who has no vested interest or strong belief in anything political or otherwise originating from the United States, my opinion from the outside is that Americans as a people seem largely media-controlled.
Whether part of the masses who tune in avidly or vapidly to suck at the glass teat, part of those who keep a cynical eye on the media, sure of their understanding of the attempted manipulation, or part of those that wilfully turn away from popular media in disgust - ultimately all their actions or non-actions are reactive in nature.
Americans appear to have lost the ability to take action, to be aggressive and proactive in their outlook. Sure, in business they are ruthless in their understanding of power and manipulation, but in politics? The indirect democracy in place at a national level in the US means the citizens have grown content to be given but a few choices on the road to the presidency. Ultimately whichever candidate is elected, those backing them financially will be the biggest winners. American politics has become a high stakes game between large corporations, with the winners getting things done their way for a term of office.
Why does it matter who is “in power” in the White House, when in the end they are only puppets? Sure, George W. Bush has been seen as a clown, a buffoon, a war-mongering idiot by the global community for far longer than by the American one. But at the end of the day, he’s nothing but a puppet. Historically politicians were always good orators, in order to convince the people - the biggest threat was always the politician with great charm and charisma. Who knew if he could actually make the “right” decisions once in the Oval Office? Now it no longer matters. You have a president who can barely string together a coherent sentence, even when reading from a prepared document. He plays golf while people are dying, and doesn’t seem to care what his constituents think. And HE GETS RE-ELECTED!
Perhaps America should start looking at the fundamental principles of their system of government, instead of playing into the hands of those who are manipulating it by kowtowing to the media through subscribing to the endless name-calling, finger-pointing and grandstanding. You are being distracted from the truth, America!
Zayne S Halsall | Jun 8th, 2008
Nick and Mark W. what have y’all been smoking??!!! I had to put up with bush as governor before he was “appointed” by the not so supreme court. He could not be re-elected if he wasn’t elected to begin with (what state will the republicans cheat in this time?). He screwed Texas just like he is screwing the United States. He doesn’t give a damn about freedom; it’s all about oil (Iran is now only taking Euros for it’s oil and that is why he is going to attack them). I cannot wait to see this movie. Any one, in my opinion, who voted for dubya is just plain stupid (including my oldest brother). It has just amazed me how the religous right has been fooled by this man (and Faux news). Thank God January 20 is just 6 months away!! I will take the day off and party like hell!
james | Jun 8th, 2008
@james: You are the quintessential American. Bush was not elected in some 80-20 race wherein Republicans somehow cheated to make their 20% into a win. You’re being ridiculous. Approximately half the country voted for Bush based on your election rules. You can whine about and perhaps even prove that a very small percentage of votes were incorrectly manipulated to convert a very small win by one candidate into a very small win by the other, but you miss the point - it was for all intents and purposes a 50-50 race in which half your fellow citizens voted for Bush, as is their right. You seriously believe that one half of all Americans are “just plain stupid” because they disagree with you? There’s no possibility of differing political views in your narrow little world? Those with different religious beliefs than yours are easily fooled but you aren’t? Anything you disagree with is either stupidity or an evil conspiracy? james, there are reasons why paranoia and hatefulness is seen by the rest of the world as a hallmark of the typical American and you’re one of them.
Another Canadian | Jun 8th, 2008
Hey, a poster for a movie!
Dave | Jun 9th, 2008
9/11 Of course there was a conspiracy! The moment something momentus like this happens the entire US government mechanism defaults immediately to ‘deny everything’ mode. The US government previously worked with the mujahedeen against the Russians and so were inadvertantly involved in all subsequent ‘al Qaida’ actions and obviously didn’t want this to come out from the start.
This is not really surprising when you think about it, the US gov in cahoots with someone against the Russians in the 80’s, big deal. That doesn’t put GWB on the end of a remote controlled drone airplane against his own country 20 years later. Politics makes strange bedfellows and bin Laden senior is up to his arse in world government building projects, he’s a builder of mega-projects!
So bin Laden’s got connections to US government, big wowzers, who hasn’t? Typically the conspiracy theorists jump all over this to add weight to their own-brand simple-world utopian political anti-beliefs and the simple-minded follow them happily. It’s no biggy, they only play in the periphery of world government anyway, marginalised by their attraction to being whacky as a form of protest against the ‘ordinary’..which is their true driver..ie for their parents (and by proxy, the entire world) to notice them and give in to them when they throw a tantrum.
OBL in the meantime has realised a dream that probably most of us have, if we were honest..to be a world-wide supervillain and hold the men on Cloudbase 9 to ransom with our secret city-destroying super weapon (which turns out to be just a couple of men with a sneaky plan). Support then rolls in from disaffected pakistani teens around the world. He’s the anti-hero for the western-raised immigrant teen youth, the rebel with a cause whose politics and grim future vision are overlooked in favour of his stylish wardrobe, scratch-video screen presence and David-vs-Goliath attitude.
George Bush, the grey-suited, god-fearing draught-dodging Daddy’s boy fits perfectly into the role of western empire-building/hereditary ruler/illuminati parent-figure and the rest is history..in as much as no-one knows the one true story because there are a million different perspectives and most of them are true.
Yeah the truth is fractal. The closer you look at any small part of it, it gets more complicated. Well what do you expect from a fractal world?
Papa Demos | Jun 9th, 2008
Making fun of George Bush is extremely old and tacky. Everyone knows he’s an idiot by now,even the ones who voted for him. We’ll soon have a new president, one who will (hopefully) bring back an America that the rest of the world doesn’t hate. Does anyone really want to see a documentary about the fool of a man who brought shame and embarrassment to this nation for 8 years, when we’re so close to getting rid of him for good?
Sarah | Jun 6th, 2008
Yes.
darrell V | Jun 9th, 2008
This poster is a sort of teaser teaser poster, quick made for Cannes Film Market during the Festival. It appeared on a double page in a (Variety ?) special edition only published in Cannes.
So, it isn’t a fake !
ixios | Jun 10th, 2008
You dumb ass democrats, we won then and were gonna when in November. I will take back this comment if one person can tell me what a community organizer is, AND what obama has every specifically done, any major decision he has ever made beside parted ways with all his extreme American-Hating friends (for now). Everyone screams CHANGE but what has he changed but his mind?
Jarrod | Sep 9th, 2008