« W »:How far can the human caricature go?
« W »:How far can the human caricature go?
« How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world? »
Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. « W » takes viewers through Bush’s eventful life, his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush’s decision to invade Iraq.
The full-length film multiplies the temporal ellipses to redraw the life and George W. Bush's career, this badly liked Republican president who has to pull his reverence in the term of 2008.
This movie tries to synthesize compassion and criticism, satire and sympathy, and put the flawed man in the context of personal history and global consequence. Stone says the film won't be an anti-Bush polemic, its purpose is to describe the president behind his mask of head of state, his evolution till his twenties until the end of his second mandate.
For the director of « JFK », the financing was very difficult to find because nobody wanted to invest in a project which concern the personnality the most impopular of the United States. So, Oliver Stone had to find investisments in the rest of the world, particularly in Hongkong, Germany, Australia and France. Moreover, in spite of the positives reviews, the famous newspaper, Variety, uttered doubts as for the success of the movie in the USA. Indeed, americans who have just lived eight years of laborious presidenty with Bush, might not be attracted by a film about his life.
In « W », Stone approaches the relationship between father and son. Bush junior always felt inferior by report of his father since he's been president. He's obsessed by the fact he wants to be superior to his father. For Stone, the war in Irak was only a pretext for Bush junior to show his superiority and his power to his father, the Americans who didn't believe in him and the rest of the world.
Oliver Stone show us an unpleasant character, selfish, without culpability but nevertheless charming for a part of the Americans. Stone describes this film as a shakespearean drama which translates the decline of the American power.
Vincent Loyce
Mélody Messaoudi
This sentence translates perfectly the spirit of the Oliver Stone's story. In full period of American election, the director comes back on the private life of the 43rd president of the United States, Georges W. Bush.