I was always under the impression that if you are President of the United States, you’re life is up for grabs if someone decides to make a movie about you. That basically comes on the checklist sitting on the Oval Office desk on day one. Item one: lots of media attention, item 2: every action, every thing you do is magnified by ten, and lastly, item 3: Hollywood directors have free will to document your life as they see fit.

Now, that sounds normal to me. But, with one exception: I thought you had to dead before we started rolling out the red carpet for your cinematized debut.

Apparently Bush’s lame duck status is the next best thing to a funeral for Hollywood director Oliver Stone who is known for other works like the biography of another President: JFK, the lavish, Hollywood on steroids version of Alexander the Great staring Collin Farrell. Stone is in the pre-production of his own George Bush movie – W.

Having lived under the Bush Administration for eight solid years – I don’t have the least bit of interest in paying $8.50 for two hours. Granted, the movie may do well out of sheer curiosity. But the chances of this being a landmark in movie making – I imagine the Scary Movie sequels are probably more entertaining.

Many distinguished biographers who have seen a glimpse or two of the movie script have voiced their concerns that the movie is vastly inaccurate to how the White House is actually run under Bush.

But do American audiences really care about the true story of Bush? For many of us, especially living in the more liberal neck of the woods – have sees Bush as a man who started a war that even today garners very little support. Every speech and every decision to invade Afghanistan or Iraq has created the general memory of what George W. Bush’s presidency will be remembered for. For myself, and several other people I know it won’t be Oliver Stone’s portrayal of Bush.

If Stone’s movie is suppose to be a comical roast of Bush and to highlight the shadiness of his actions for the past eight years, there’s really no need – Bush’s words and actions have already saved him a spot in the history books of America’s worst Presidents.
—Eming Piansay