Oliver Stone is working on a new feature film called “W” about President Bush. He is planning to start filming this month and hopes to release the film before the November election. The Hollywood Reporter describes how Bush is described in the film.
President George W. Bush is a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with his dad.
Is this portrayal accurate? The Hollywood Reporter gave the script to several Bush biographers, several of which are no fans of Bush. The resulting story is
“Bush biographers mixed on script for Oliver Stone's 'W'”Reactions to the script from the biographers were mixed. They said specific scenes are largely based in fact but noted that the screenplay contains inaccurate and over-the-top caricatures of Bush and his inner circle.
"It leaves you with the impression that the White House is run as a fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself or for the implications of policy," said Robert Draper, author of "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush." "Everybody calling everybody else nicknames and chatting about whether to go to war as if they were chatting about how to bet on a football game really misses the mark of how many White Houses, including this one, are run."
Jacob Weisberg ("The Bush Tragedy") was skeptical about Stone's claim that he wants to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush. "His saying he is going to be fair to Bush is like Donald Trump saying he is going to be modest," Weisberg quipped.
I really don’t see Stone being fair to Bush either.
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