Oliver Stone, the moviemaker that everybody but ticket-buyers loves, is in the midst of shooting his latest project, W, the story of President George W. Bush. According to Marcus Baram of ABC News, it’s–and stop me if you’ve heard this before–a “warts and all portrayal” of the man. If Stone is involved, you can be sure it’s mainly warts. His previous presidential bio, Nixon, could have been called White House of Frankenstein, with its scary thunderstorms, spooky shadows, and the titular hero lurching through hallways with a Bible in one hand and a bottle of Scotch in the other. The usually superb Anthony Hopkins played Nixon with a peculiar Irish brogue, adding to the hallucinatory feeling. And there’s plenty of drama in W if this excerpt from Baram’s piece is any indication:
“The trained ape who wrought this hell on us”? Did Rumsfeld–hell, does anybody–speak like this in real life? I have a feeling that W will be as hilariously over-the-top as Stone’s script for the perversely entertaining Scarface, probably the funniest drama since talkies began.
