Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The War Room

Have you ever watched the movie "The War Room" by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus?  The movie goes through the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton after the alleged Jennifer Flowers scandal.  When  focusing on the wizardry of James Carville and George Stephanopoulos you may look at these men as cocky, arrogant, jacka**es but when thinking about it you must see that this is what is needed to help make a great campaign.  Bill Clinton is shown as a cocky campaign runner who ends up winning and ducks under this issue of having sexual relations with Jennifer Flowers who came out saying that she was Mr. Clinton's lover for around 12 years.  The movie is very interesting especially with James Carville who is a genius in campaign running and was the mastermind behind the whole campaign in Clinton Gore's 92 campaign.  The way they discuss what can be said and what cannot be said in Clinton's speeches and they go through the way they the commercials and posters all go to create a campaign friendly run to help them out with the voters 

1 comment:

  1. Nice endorsement of the documentary, but this is not exactly a visual analysis of the film.

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