Monday, September 30, 2013

CNN's Hillary Clinton biopic is a no go.

It was the film that caused the Right Wing to rip their hair out in frustration, and the RNC chairman to state that there would not be a presidential debate on CNN if they went ahead with their plans to make it.

However as it turns out THAT was not enough to kill the movie. No that was achieved by Hillary Clinton herself.

This from the filmmaker himself courtesy of HuffPo:

I would have loved to explore all this. But when I approached people for interviews, I discovered that nobody, and I mean nobody, was interested in helping me make this film. Not Democrats, not Republicans -- and certainly nobody who works with the Clintons, wants access to the Clintons, or dreams of a position in a Hillary Clinton administration. Not even journalists who want access, which can easily be taken away. I even sensed potential difficulty in licensing archival footage from CBN (Pat Robertson) and from Fox. After approaching well over a hundred people, only two persons who had ever dealt with Mrs. Clinton would agree to an on-camera interview, and I suspected that even they would back out. 

This, of course, was the real consequence, and probably the real intent, of the announcements by the RNC, Philippe Reines, and David Brock. Neither political party wanted the film made. After painful reflection, I decided that I couldn't make a film of which I would be proud. And so I'm cancelling. (Not because of any pressure from CNN -- quite the contrary.) It's a victory for the Clintons, and for the money machines that both political parties have now become. But I don't think that it's a victory for the media, or for the American people. 

 I disagree that having this biopic made would constitute any "victory for the American people." As I have written before I really don't think that any movie about Hillary will sway voters one way or the other, but  I can certainly understand why the Clinton camp does not want all of those old stories dredged up right now, and why the RNC fears how THEY will be portrayed in any non-biased documentary.

To be honest I probably would not have watched in anyhow, nor will I watch the one made by NBC, assuming of course that they will have any more luck than CNN.

By the way, for the slow learners among us, it is very unlikely the Clinton's would have worked this had to kill this thing if Hillary was NOT running in 2016. I'm just saying.

12 comments:

  1. angela10:41 AM

    The messed up part is that the baggers were having a fit because they thought the film would throw roses at Hill.
    They never thought it might be rather critical of her. Win,
    win.

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    1. Olivia11:02 AM

      Yep and now we can expect Sarah Palin to start whining and shrieking about first amendment rights being stifled or some other drivel because it isn't being made.

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    2. Anonymous11:23 AM

      Hill's crew prob knew if was going to be a "hit piece" b/c CNN is fox news lite!

      Good I don't blame them. Let them make a film after she is elected :)

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  2. So the GOP noise machine unwittingly did Hillary's bidding. All Hillary had to do was to let the idiots do the talking like she knew they would.

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  3. Anonymous11:00 AM

    No human would be happy having an outside group making a movie about their life. Think about that. Think about YOUR life. Does ANYone in the world know what your thought process was at any one point in time?

    Absurd.

    I feel for celebs who have unauthorized biopics and bios made/written about them. Wasn't it Whoopi who spoke of hiw hard it was for her to even think about suing? How pointless it is in the long run?

    people are truly sad. The only person who can give an accurate portrayal of his or her life is that person who lived it.

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    1. Well, you had a great big bowl of stupid this morning, didn't you? That is one of the most moronic comments I have seen in a long time.

      "The only person who can give an accurate portrayal of his or her life is that person who lived it."

      How utterly, incredibly, jaw-droppingly, stupid. Because they would tell the absolute truth about themselves?

      It is amazing that you have figured out how to work the little clicky-letter things on your to type things on the computer.

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  4. Anonymous11:02 AM

    Btw, I just did some playing around with twitter audit. Pretty much every twitter account has fake followers, and famous people have shitloads.

    To twitter, does it tell you something that it's easy to create fake followers to even follow random people? I have 400 something folllowers. 35 are fake.

    Obama's fake ones equal his real ones, then there are undecided.

    Now, I dont know how accurate the audit is. Just interesting how even people like me have fake ones.

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  5. Anonymous11:04 AM

    btw Gryphen, 114 of your twitter followers are fake according to the audit thing.

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  6. Anonymous11:27 AM

    If Hillary does run, I cannot imagine what a horrid campaign she is going to experience. The Republicans have no one w/her experience to put up against her and know it. They'll be on the 'destroy' mode as they've been w/President Obama since he was elected the first time.

    They are friggin' assholes and need to be voted out of Congress incoming elections as well as on the state and local levels.

    They obstruct, spread lies, and spend huge amounts of money in doing so. They could care less about the American people!

    Teabaggers assuredly need to go!!!!

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  7. Anita Winecooler12:33 PM

    After reading Ferguson's rant on the link, I could tell he thought he could schmooze Hillary into believing his movie would be factual, favorable and unbiased. He has his undies in a knot because of one conversation he had with her husband, which kind of blows the "I couldn't get anyone to talk to me" boat out of the water.

    Just because he didn't like the answer, the conversation was off the record, it had to do with Bill Clinton NOT his wife, and he's whining that HILLARY sunk his battleship?

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  8. Anonymous3:31 PM

    I think Hillary Clinton made the absolute best decision about this. Remember a fairly recent television depiction of 9/11 that blamed the whole thing on Bill Clinton. It was pure conservative fakery. Disney studios was involved and the school distribution was courtesy of Highlights (remember the elementary school magazine parents and grandparents used to invest in).

    One of my pet peeves about current television political dramas is that the guilty party is always the Democratic Party. In both "Homeland" where the evil vice president who was more Dick Cheney than any other person on the planet and "House of Cards" where the weasel-ly politicos come straight out of today's GOP crop, complete with Southern accents, the Democrats are made to be the fall guys. Very annoying. A lot of Hollywood money, at the studio level, is very conservative.
    Beaglemom

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  9. Anonymous6:10 AM

    hillary''the hilerias woman'' clinton=cranchy woman.

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