More on the Dubya movie...
The movie, which starts filming this month with "No Country for Old Men" actor Josh Brolin playing Bush, paints a humanistic portrait of the president along with plenty of embarrassing anecdotes from his life story, judging by a copy of an early screenplay obtained by ABCNEWS.com.
The film's script captures purported notorious moments in Bush's life:
Rumors that his father pulled strings to get him into Harvard Business School.
His arrest during college for tearing down the goalposts at a football game.
Almost getting into a fistfight with his father when he comes home drunk one night in the 1970s.
His vow to quit drinking when he wakes up with a wicked hangover soon after his 40th birthday.
It also covers plenty of his administration's lowlights -- from Bush's reported obsession with invading Iraq, which Stone will portray as a desire to avenge Saddam Hussein's assassination attempt on Bush's father and his frustration with the failed search for WMDs to his penchant for malapropisms and cheery optimism about the chances for civil war in Iraq.
Hard Drinking, Family Feud
The first scene, in which Bush and his advisers brainstorm different terms to describe their global enemies, from "Axis of Hatred" to "Axis of Unbearably Odious," is followed by an early glimpse of the hard-drinking young man when he was a college student at Yale.
Drinking vodka mixed with orange juice out of a trash can at the DKE frat house, Bush impresses the fraternity leader with his ability to memorize the names of his fellow pledges.
Asked whether he'll follow in the steps of his politician father and grandfather, Dubya quips, "Hell no, that's the last thing in the world I'd want to do."
After his born-again experience, Bush says that he doesn't ask his dad for advice because "there's a higher Father I appeal to."
When his father cries after losing to Bill Clinton in 1992, Bush sticks it to his dad by telling him that he would have won if he'd ousted Saddam at the end of the first Gulf War.
When Bush's parents tell him to hold off running for governor of Texas until after younger brother Jeb Bush has a chance to wins Florida's top spot, Barbara tells him that he can't win because "you're loud and you have a short fuse."
Stone also portrays the president as stubborn and aggressive when it came to prosecuting the war in Iraq.
Before the invasion, he tells a shocked British Prime Minister Tony Blair about alternative plans such as baiting Saddam by painting a U.S. spy plane in U.N. colors and assassinating the Iraqi leader.
When he hears about French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac's desire to give weapons inspectors 30 more days to work in Iraq, Bush explodes: "Thirty days! I'd like to stuff a plate of freedom fries down that slick piece of s--'s throat!"
The Lighter Side of Bush
Stone includes many lighter moments, such as Bush's fondness for nicknames and teasing, like calling Colin Powell "Balloon Foot" and telling Paul Wolfowitz to trim his ear hairs.
In one scene, Bush practices his parachute landing in the White House pool but forgets to properly release the harness and sinks to the bottom. In another scene, Rumsfeld doodles a drawing of Condoleeza Rice standing on a piano with a globe spinning on her finger.
During the planning of the war, Bush and his top advisers are shown locking the war-wary Powell out of a room, erupting into laughter when they finally let him in.
Other times, Bush's light touch seems blithely out of touch with reality. While he munches on bologna and cheese sandwiches on white bread, he brags to Cheney about how his running time has improved since the Afghanistan invasion.
And he compares the troops' ordeal in the deserts of Iraq to his ability to run in 100-degree heat. At one point, Bush describes giving up sweets as "my personal sacrifice to show support for our troops."
He interrupts a meeting with Prince Bandar, in which he informs the Saudi ambassador about plans to invade Iraq, so that he can catch the rest of the 2002 Miami Dolphins-Baltimore Ravens playoff game. Bush is later shown choking on a pretzel and passing out during the second quarter.
But the film also strives to paint a humanistic portrait of the commander in chief, with Bush once telling the Rev. Billy Graham that "there's this darkness that follows me."
"People say I was born with a silver spoon, but they don't know the burden that carries."
Soon after a disastrous news conference in April 2004, Bush retreats to the White House den to watch a Texas Rangers game in the final scene of the script.
Popping open a nonalcoholic beer, he lapses into his favorite dream: playing center field for the Rangers. Hearing the crack of the bat, he looks up for the ball but he can't find it in the sky. More on the story.
3 comments:
Not a good idea, people hate him for what they know he's done. Wait until they for the first time figure out WHY he's such an idiot-and idiot who doesn't give a damn if it isn't happening in front of his face.
Don't look for the Military Families who have lost their kids or those who have soldiers with injuries to feel sorry for the Gerbil. Why should the American people care about Bush's drinking, drugging and personal problems. He took the country to the worse it's been in the history. We are about to go into a depression and more then 4000 soldiers died ( some killed by fellow soldiers, contractors ) and the total corruption of the Justice Department and the Supreme Court.
Rumors that daddy Bush pulled strings.............pa leeze, that imbecile son of his is not capable of getting into Chicago City Colleges without help from someone.
What a drunken fool picture........and he looks so happy there.....looks like a common every day occurance in the college days.
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