I had thought that before The Interview there might never have been a movie about the assassination of a sitting head of state anywhere. But of course I was wrong! There was a 2006 Brit film, Death of a President, about the assassination of George W. Bush and heres what Wikipedia says about its reception here, without evidently any complaints whatsoever about abridgements of freedom of speech. Tom Newmarket paid one million dollars for the U.S. distribution rights. The total production budget for the film is estimated to have been two million dollars. Two of the largest U.S. cinema chains, Regal Entertainment Group and Cinemark, refused to screen the film; a Cinemark spokesman told UK newspaper The Guardian: The assassination of a sitting president is problematic subject matter.[7] In addition, major U.S. broadcasters CNN and National Public Radio refused to broadcast advertisements for the film. The film was screened in the U.S. for 14 days, showing at 143 theatres at its widest release... The central conceit of Death of a President was much criticised by those who believed it exploited the subject of presidential assassination, and that by doing so, was in bad taste. Gretchen Esell of the Texas Republican Party described the subject matter saying, I find this shocking, I find it disturbing. I dont know if there are many people in America who would want to watch something like that. Hillary Clinton, then junior United States Senator from New York, told The Journal News of Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam counties at the annual New Castle Community Day in Chappaqua that, I think its despicable. I think its absolutely outrageous. That anyone would even attempt to profit on such a horrible scenario makes me sick. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President_%282006_film%29
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 17:00:00 +0000
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