Wag the dog
Wag the dogWag The Dog
The movie starts with the President hit with the claim he had sexual relations with a firefly girl during a tour of the white house, and all this happens two weeks before the election. I’m not sure if this movie was actually based upon the Lewinsky scandal that our current president is facing, but it seems this movie came at the right time. The story is similar, as far as the sex charges, and a war to cover it up. Clinton did declare attacks on Iraq, which was after this movie was released. I’m not saying that the movie gave Clinton the idea of attacking Iraq or if it was actually needed.
This movie made me think allot, about how things really work in the government. The whole movie is how they are trying to take the publics mind off the sex charges to keep the president the favorite for the upcoming election. The main characters were Conrad Bream, who’s main objective was to “Change the story”, it was his idea to fake a war with Albania. They kept asking “Why Albania?”, Conrad’s reply was “No one in the USA knows about Albania”.
Conrad along with Winifred, a presidents advisor, decide to use a famous Hollywood producer to help create the illusion of war, so he asks Stanley Motss. Stanley is sketchy about it at first or seems to be at least. He mentions that he has never received an Academy Award but he has produced it. Conrad offers him as many awards as he wants to help him. Stanley agrees and begins planning the war, step, by step.
He calls in a few people to help him. I can’t remember their names in the movie, but he used Dennis Leary, and Willie Nelson throughout the film. Leary played an advisor of sorts to Stanley and Nelson was used to help make a “theme” for the war.
They plan things out and have many people help along the way. The first thing they did was film a fake scene of a girl fleeing for her life in Albania. It was then released to the media and filled the news. From there on out they planned and plotted every move to help keep the public worried about the “war” and not the sex charges.
Near the end of the movie the CIA intercepts what is going on and takes Conrad and Winifred into custody and begin asking questions. The CIA tells them that they have been tracking what is going on in Albania and nothing at all is going on there. Conrad...
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