Oliver Stone Votes for ‘Bush’ Project

By MICHAEL FLEMING, Variety 
Posted: Sun., Jan. 20, 2008, 3:57pm PT

One need only Google the words “Stone” and “Bush” to find plenty of the director’s critical comments about the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq. Despite that, the director said he’s not looking to make an anti-Bush polemic.

His goal is to use seminal events in Bush’s life to explain how he came to power, using a structure comparable to “The Queen.”

“It’s a behind-the-scenes approach, similar to ‘Nixon,’ to give a sense of what it’s like to be in his skin,” Stone told Daily Variety. “But if ‘Nixon’ was a symphony, this is more like a chamber piece, and not as dark in tone. People have turned my political ideas into a cliche, but that is superficial. I’m a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great.”

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written by RHIFF