Thursday, July 29, 2004
Dan Rather is All Over This
yeah - covering it with MMoore's planetoid assTonight, tonight Won’t be just any night Tonight there will be no morning star.
Oh. sorry. Tonight is the night we *finally* get to meet John Kerry! [Whee whoop whoopthZzzzzz] Before his 55 [fifty-five] minute speech, for which he hasn't rehearsed, the DhimmoCraps will present a video of Kerry's life and accomplishments. Produced by Speeelberg protegee, James Moll, ["Mr. Moll has the distinction of being Mr. Spielberg's in-house documentarian at DreamWorks SKG." whaa? like MMoore?] the tape will show Kerry in the jungles of the '70s decked out in complete combat gear. [an attempt to match the Bush flight suit moment?]The Kerry film is full of warm, golden-hued, Spielbergian images, beginning with the saturated colors of home movies, images of Mr. Kerry as a young, shirtless boy climbing trees and throwing footballs. The teenage years, in black and white stills, are set to "Stand by Me." The goofy era of his rock'n'roll band, ...even has an adolescent version of Jimmy Carter’s "lust in his heart" moment, saying that playing in the Electras was "a great way to meet girls."
Ready the Speeelbergian gag-bags.
Then, the mood changes. There are the home movies from Vietnam, the young soldier (Mr. Kerry's personal footage, shot on Super 8 film), somberly strolling with his rifle. Mr. Moll's eye lingers, with the heavy use of slow motion, through his younger years, hovers on the promise. "That this man was willing to take a bullet," says a former colleague from his war years, "Makes you respect him."
And via Drudge -- another perspective from John E. O'Neill, the man who took over John Kerry's Swift Boat charges:
Unfit for Command "Kerry would revisit ambush locations for reenacting combat scenes where he would portray the hero, catching it all on film. Kerry would take movies of himself walking around in combat gear, sometimes dressed as an infantryman [?!?] walking resolutely through the terrain. He even filmed mock interviews of himself narrating his exploits. A joke circulated among Swiftees was that Kerry left Vietnam early not because he received three Purple Hearts, but because he had recorded enough film of himself to take home for his planned political campaigns."
Is this as embarrassingly pathetic as it seems to me?
“I would have used archival footage,” Moll tells the NEW YORK OBSERVER's Joe Hagan, “but it was a pleasant surprise that he had taken his own footage while in Vietnam.”
[The filim] shows the swift boat and various shots of the swift boat, and some firing like you see in the water. Bullets in the water." "It’s just illustrative," he added, saying the bullets in the water were not from the actual event.
ok -- duh. I guess Kerry wasn't actually *simultaneously* saving a platoon of Green Berets and filming himself. It's -- to coin a phrase-- 'understandable.' Ok, we hear that "Mr. Spielberg, he said, loved the film," so we're clear that it is a superb emotion-jerker. This is the other piece of salesmanship:
With the protest years, the film starts to speed up, and eventually there is less of the warm, time-softened young man. He becomes the less stirring Senator from Massachusetts, but now brighter hues, set against July 4th bunting and the saturated reds of flags.
No wonder Speeelberg is proud.
Mr. Moll said the sweetest aspect of Mr. Kerry's biography lay in his family: Mr. Moll said the birth of his daughters, Alex and Vanessa, elicited warm, stirring responses from Mr. Kerry. "I cried like a baby when they were born, both of them," says Mr. Kerry in the film, sitting in the warm, living room light ... "The other one that really moved me was Teresa," said Mr. Moll. "I loved her." Ms. Heinz Kerry gets Mr. Kerry to laugh with her fizzy, frizzy, Mozambique wackiness.
"fizzy, frizzy, Mozambique wackiness." there's a phrase to remember . . . But missing is any footage of Julia Thorne, the girls' mother. Moll says "she is a private person," but it seems a normal response of someone who called her marriage to Kerry "soul killing." The bits I found most telling
[Moll] said. "...this isn't a piece of journalism." "This isn't a resume, it's a story," [Moll] said
A story. By the protegee of Hollywood's most emotionally manipulative genius, Speelberg. For the purpose of "introducing" Kerry to America.
"It would have been very hard to make him something he wasn't," [Moll] said. "I wouldn't have been capable of doing that."
*cough*bullshit*cough* oh, tell it to Michael Moore... the War Profiteer...
Moll mixes in the homemade Kerry film with stirring strings and a french horn soundtrack.
Naah -- too easy. Well, at least the DhimmoCraps are moving up in the world from the merely adequate MMoore to world class Speelburgian propaganda filims
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