Fri 3 Oct 2008
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
Obama is safe, says Oliver Stone :
“In those days, with Kennedy, you could kill somebody and that was more palatable because we’d done that abroad with many people: it was in vogue, it was part of the James Bond thing. Now you don’t need to kill – the media can kill for you.“And I don’t think Obama could [frighten] the Pentagon in the same way. Kennedy was shaking things up: with Cuba he was ready to sign a deal, with Vietnam he was pulling out, with Khrushchev he was signing a deal.”
It’s interesting Stone mentions The Pentagon. He was asked in the late 1990s, by the UK’s Neon Magazine if there was a subject he would never make a movie about. He cited the War Industry, and said he knew better than to ever fuck with them.
Fascinating it will be to see how Stone deals with the issue of President George W. Bush’s ramping up of defence budgets to Cold War spending levels in his new Bush biopic, W.
Perhaps Stone doesn’t fear the War Industry as much as he once did.
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