Josh Brolin Talks Playing Bush In ‘W’
I have no idea how this film is going to turn out
I don’t think there is anyone out there that believes Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic W. is all that great of an idea outside of the folks involved with the production. It’s not that it is a bad idea to make the film, it just seems a bit odd to make a film about a sitting President that will actually hit theaters before he hits the unemployment line.
I am not a fan of Bush by any means, but after reading the script the film seems more like a comedy than anything else and when Oliver Stone says his film is not meant to kick a man while he is down, but then also go on to say this is the right time to make the movie and it’s imperative the movie hit theaters before the next presidential election, because its impact would be greatest then, when everybody was obsessing over our next president. This is all according to a new set report from The Los Angeles Times.
The piece also has some of the first quotes from Josh Brolin who plays George W. in the film. “When Oliver asked me, I said, ‘Are you crazy? Why would I want to do this with my little moment in my career?’ ” Brolin said. Apparently after the he read Stanley Weiser’s script and it changed his mind, “It was very different than what I thought it would be, which was a far-left hammering of the president.”
This is where the film is going to run into problems. Bush has made a joke of himself to the point that simply immitating him becomes funny. While Brolin insists “it’s not for me to get the voice down perfectly.” More important, the actor said, was to unearth Bush’s inner voice — “Where is my place in this world? How do I get remembered?”
I see a slim window where this film could actually work, and as interested as I am in seeing it I am afraid it will most likely become quite hated from the right and perhaps ignored as unnecessary by the left.
Brolin was quoted once again saying, “Republicans can look at it and say, ‘This is why I like this guy,’ ” Brolin said. “It’s not a political movie. It’s a biography. People will remember that this guy is human, when we are always [outside of the movie] dehumanizing him, calling him an idiot, a puppet, a failed president. We want to know in the movie: How does a guy grow up and become the person that he did?”
That last quote is a little confusing to me, see if you can sort it out.
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