lunes, febrero 16, 2009
miércoles, enero 21, 2009
Michael Moore ofrece gratuitamente su última película Slacker Uprising
De peliculas.info:
El polémico documentalista Michael Moore cumple con lo prometido: Slacker Uprising, su último film se encuentra para descargar gratuitamente o ver online.
El polémico documentalista Michael Moore cumple con lo prometido: Slacker Uprising, su último film se encuentra para descargar gratuitamente o ver online.
La estrategia de Moore es irrumpir en la próxima campaña electoral
de EEUU con el estreno online de su ultimo film donde vuelve a criticar
las políticas de George W. Bush. Slacker Uprising (algo
así como “El levantamiento de los vagos”) fue rodada en 2004 durante un
viaje por más de 60 ciudades de los Estados Unidos donde insta a los
jóvenes a votar para cambiar el rumbo del pais.
Personalidades como Eddie Vedder de la banda Pearl Jam, Tom Morello de
Rage Against the Machine, el grupo R.E.M y los actores Roseanne Barr y
Viggo Mortensen se hicieron presentes en los diferentes actos que
realizó Moore en las universidades. En la cuales, según afirma el
realizador, intentó ser prohibido en más de una ocasión.
La descarga se encuentra gratuitamente para los residentes de EEUU y Canadá mientras que el DVD oficial saldrá a la venta el 7 de octubre.
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sábado, octubre 04, 2008
La clave de los videos políticos virales
En este blog ya se dijo desde el principio que no atendería a los vídeos virales que tanto se utilizan en las campañas. El motivo es que son más spots publicitarios que documentales. Pero, esta vez, no me resigno a copiaros el comentario de un blog (epolitics.com) sobre el contenido de esos vídeos:
The New Politics Institute and film producer Julie Bergman Sender have put together a detailed look at the stories behind several successful viral political videos. What do you need to get your labor of love to spread around the world and shake the pillars of power? What’s better, amateur video, social-media style, or a high-end slick professional product? Overall, what works? The conclusion sums it up:
While amateur or user-generated content is a powerful emerging phenomenon, and with time can be designed to feed the needs of campaigns and organizations, the higher-end, often professionally produced viral content still has an important role to play. This high-end content is where the story is designed as part of a complex communications strategy, and the material is planned to be used in various distribution avenues to intentionally reach a wide audience. The use of celebrity talent and a carefully researched approach to branding a campaign does not have to be done instead of a user-generated content campaign. In fact, the best approach would be to combine both of these tools…
In the end, no matter whether you use amateurs or professionals, with a top-down or bottom-up strategy, you must have compelling content that moves people, and gets them to move the message to others. One thing is certain: No matter what the size of the screen, content is still king.
miércoles, julio 23, 2008
El cazador cazado: ruedan una comedia satírica sobre Michael Moore
El director y guionista de comedias David Zucker está rodando "An American Carol", una sátira sobre los intelectuales demócratas, cuyo personaje principal está inspirado en Michael Moore, el realizador de documentales políticos.
Sólo me da tiempo a copiaros la información de Politico:
The comedy director who gave us such immortal movie lines as “Oh stewardess, I speak jive” and “Don’t call me Shirley” is now leveling his sights at documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
David Zucker, the director and writer who helped create “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” franchise has called on Hollywood’s tiny but tightly knit Republican A-list crowd to help him make a broad yet unusually right-leaning political satire titled “An American Carol.”
The low-budget indie co-stars Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer with Oscar-winner Jon Voight, cinema icon Dennis Hopper, model-heiress Paris Hilton and frequent Zucker stooge Leslie Nielsen in minor roles. Release is planned sometime by year’s end; the director suggested Friday, Sept. 12, to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Zucker and his associates have been keeping the film under fairly tight wraps for months. When hyping the usual casting updates to showbiz trades, those associated with the production would only describe the movie as “a spoof of ‘A Christmas Carol’ and contemporary American culture,” avoiding any mention of its political perspective.
Zucker had, however, mentioned the project to a handful of reporters and talk radio hosts, telling one columnist at the Wisconsin State Journal, “It outdoes any movie I have ever done in tasteless, offensive, un-PC humor.” (Spoiler alert: The passages below reveal some plot details, and all of the scenes are subject to change before release.)
As with many of Zucker’s earlier films, his latest japefest is loaded with sight gags and a litany of one-liners, but there are few sacred cows. Along with many Muslim terrorists named Mohammed, even severely handicapped children are subject to the film’s screwball comedy. Jimmy Carter shows up for a brief razzing, but far more relevant Dems, including Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, seem conspicuous in their absence.
Instead, Zucker (with co-writer Myrna Sokoloff) mocks the usual conservative targets: ACLU attorneys, liberal colleges and anti-war protesters. The movie saves its most severe scorn for the main character, a slovenly documentary filmmaker based on Oscar winner Michael Moore. The attack is literally scorched-earth style: In a climactic scene, Moore’s stand-in (here named “Michael Malone”) finds political clarity at the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center while the admonishing ghost of George Washington (played by Voight) hovers nearby.
Anarchist humor and conservative politics make for strange bedfellows. Another “Carol” scene takes place inside a portable toilet stall, where Malone is repeatedly slapped around by real-life Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, accompanied by the spirits of former President John F. Kennedy and World War II icon Gen. George Patton.
Using Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” as a loose framework, Scrooge’s holiday humbuggery is replaced with Malone’s anti-American bias. Not only does the character attempt a boycott of the Fourth of July, but he also lends unwitting aid to jihadists plotting to blow up Madison Square Garden. Through the imagined interventions of Patton, the dead presidents and country singer Trace Adkins, Moore’s surrogate travels through history, eventually coming around to embrace patriotic values.
(End of spoilers.)
David Zucker, the director and writer who helped create “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” franchise has called on Hollywood’s tiny but tightly knit Republican A-list crowd to help him make a broad yet unusually right-leaning political satire titled “An American Carol.”
The low-budget indie co-stars Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer with Oscar-winner Jon Voight, cinema icon Dennis Hopper, model-heiress Paris Hilton and frequent Zucker stooge Leslie Nielsen in minor roles. Release is planned sometime by year’s end; the director suggested Friday, Sept. 12, to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Zucker and his associates have been keeping the film under fairly tight wraps for months. When hyping the usual casting updates to showbiz trades, those associated with the production would only describe the movie as “a spoof of ‘A Christmas Carol’ and contemporary American culture,” avoiding any mention of its political perspective.
Zucker had, however, mentioned the project to a handful of reporters and talk radio hosts, telling one columnist at the Wisconsin State Journal, “It outdoes any movie I have ever done in tasteless, offensive, un-PC humor.” (Spoiler alert: The passages below reveal some plot details, and all of the scenes are subject to change before release.)
As with many of Zucker’s earlier films, his latest japefest is loaded with sight gags and a litany of one-liners, but there are few sacred cows. Along with many Muslim terrorists named Mohammed, even severely handicapped children are subject to the film’s screwball comedy. Jimmy Carter shows up for a brief razzing, but far more relevant Dems, including Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, seem conspicuous in their absence.
Instead, Zucker (with co-writer Myrna Sokoloff) mocks the usual conservative targets: ACLU attorneys, liberal colleges and anti-war protesters. The movie saves its most severe scorn for the main character, a slovenly documentary filmmaker based on Oscar winner Michael Moore. The attack is literally scorched-earth style: In a climactic scene, Moore’s stand-in (here named “Michael Malone”) finds political clarity at the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center while the admonishing ghost of George Washington (played by Voight) hovers nearby.
Anarchist humor and conservative politics make for strange bedfellows. Another “Carol” scene takes place inside a portable toilet stall, where Malone is repeatedly slapped around by real-life Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, accompanied by the spirits of former President John F. Kennedy and World War II icon Gen. George Patton.
Using Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” as a loose framework, Scrooge’s holiday humbuggery is replaced with Malone’s anti-American bias. Not only does the character attempt a boycott of the Fourth of July, but he also lends unwitting aid to jihadists plotting to blow up Madison Square Garden. Through the imagined interventions of Patton, the dead presidents and country singer Trace Adkins, Moore’s surrogate travels through history, eventually coming around to embrace patriotic values.
(End of spoilers.)
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Malone is played by Kevin Farley, the younger brother of late “Saturday Night Live” cast member Chris Farley. Critics will surely debate the film’s humor and its politics, but one fact is indisputable: Farley is a devastating doppelganger for Michael Moore. As with Michael Chiklis playing John Belushi in the film version of “Wired,” however, it’s a performance that walks a Flying Wallenda-esque tightrope, balancing between uncanny impersonation and possible career suicide. Maybe Moore himself will see the movie and feel for Farley. In the past, the filmmaker has mostly ignored his many detractors — though he’s said to have been particularly hurt by a previous film suggesting that he sympathized with terrorists. An assistant to Moore said he was not available to comment. Zucker, who comes from a family of JFK Democrats, calls himself a “Sept. 11 Republican” who left his former party over national security issues. Since his own political turnaround, he has directed two enormously successful “Scary Movie” sequels and an Ashton Kutcher romantic comedy flop, in addition to a batch of unaired Republican National Committee ads and viral videos skewering Sen. John F. Kerry, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Iraq Study Group. The videos appeared on YouTube.com and conservative blogs. But Zucker has been mulling a big-screen mauling of Moore for years. He alluded obliquely to his movie project in a 2006 interview with conservative radio host Michael Medved and told the Los Angeles Jewish Journal around the same time, “You have people like Michael Moore going into foreign countries saying Americans are the stupidest people in the world. I want to tell the real America story, that America is a force for good.” “An American Carol” is being distributed by Mpower Pictures, a company co-founded by former Mel Gibson protégé Stephen McEveety, who produced “The Passion of the Christ” and “Braveheart,” among other films. The indie firm recently hired conservative public relations firm Creative Response Concepts to help spread word to friendly outlets, as CRC did earlier with Oliver Stone’s “World Trade Center” and Walden Media’s “Chronicles of Narnia.” Perhaps best known for handling the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign during the 2004 presidential race, CRC’s other clients have included the Republican National Committee, the Christian Coalition and “intelligent design” hub the Discovery Institute. Will “An American Carol” succeed where others have failed at the box office? It’s possible the film might reach a generally underserved audience, especially if pumped up by Fox, talk radio and other media. But it also faces at least a couple of hotly anticipated August comedies, “Pineapple Express” and “Tropic Thunder,” which will set the ha-ha bar higher for any future competitors. Or will it simply get lumped in with the other half-dozen or so anti-Moore flicks: “Manufacturing Dissent,” “Michael Moore Hates America,” “Fahrenhype 9/11,” “Celsius 41:11,” “Me & Michael” and “Michael & Me”? “An American Carol” will join a short list of right-tilting Hollywood creations, including John Milius’ “Red Dawn” and the marionette epic “Team America: World Police” from “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Remember, Moore had a big role in that comedy, too — his puppet figure was a suicide bomber who infiltrated the titular Team’s top-secret command post inside of Mount Rushmore and then destroyed the place by detonating his dynamite belt. Laughing yet?
miércoles, junio 18, 2008
Oliver Stone entra en la campaña USA
Según la web de Politico, el director de cine Oliver Stone vuelve a rodar una película sobre el inquilino de la Casa Blanca. No es unanovedad, después de haber dirigido "JFK" y "Nixon". La noticia es que, esta vez, prepara una película sobre el actual presidente George W. Bush.
Se titula simplemente "W" y está intepretada por Josh Brolin como George W. Bush, Elizabeth Banks como Laura Bush, y Richard Dreyfuss como Dick Cheney. Se sabe poco todavía de la película, pero es seguro que sustituirá el enfoque conspiratorio de "JFK", por un tono de comedia. La distribuye Lionsgate, la misma compañía que se encargó de la película de Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11.
Su estreno está previsto el 17 de octubre, unas pocas semanas antes de las elecciones presidenciales americanas.
La influencia del cine en las campañas electorales es una cuestión compleja, de la que hablé el pasado mes de septiembre en el Curso de Verano "Ficción y Política", invitado por la Universidad de Navarra.
Sólo un apunte: según un estudio del Political Communication Center del Department of Communication, de la Universidad de Oklahoma, la película Fahrenheit 9/11 supuso un arma de doble filo, desde el punto de vista de la campaña electoral. Mientras que reafirmaba el voto de los que ya estaban en contra de Bush, el radicalismo de Moore predispuso a los moderados a favor de Bush. ¿Qué efecto tendrá esta "W"?
jueves, mayo 15, 2008
Michael Moore ataca de nuevo
Sólo me da tiempo a copiaros de El País de ayer, para leerlo mientras se escucha el temazo de Prince "Chelsea Rodgers", de su Planet Earth (si el ritmo os deja): "El director de cine estadounidense Michale Moore, galardonado con un oscar en 2003 por el documental Bowling for Columbine, prepara un nuevo proyecto cinematográfico, cuyo lanzamiento está previsto para el próximo año, según han anunciado los productores de la cinta. El nuevo trabajo de Moore se perfila como una provocativa y mordaz continuación de la línea crítica iniciada con el documental político Fahrenheit 9/11. Poco más se ha desvelado acerca del proyecto. Sin embargo, pese al habitual secretismo previo a los proyectos de Moore, sí se ha dado a conocer que el director está centrando su nueva película en una perspectiva general del poder mundial y la posición de Estados Unidos como nación industrializada tras los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001.
Moore "intenta analizar cómo ha cambiado el papel de Estados Unidos en el mundo en los últimos ocho años", ha anunciado uno de los miembros del equipo de producción, quien ha añadido que la intención del director de Fahrenheit 9/11 no es la de crear una película con intenciones políticas.
El lanzamiento del nuevo documental, aún sin título, está previsto para la primavera de 2009. Esta fecha ha sido elegida, según un portavoz de los estudios encargados del proyecto, de forma deliberada para que el estreno no se produzca antes de las elecciones presidenciales en Estados Unidos.
Esta postura de Michael Moore contrasta con la que adoptó con la cinta Fahrenheit 9/11, que fue presentada meses antes de las elecciones presidenciales de 2004 para que las duras críticas a George W. Bush favoreciesen al candidato demócrata, John Kerry
miércoles, mayo 14, 2008
Más sobre el programa nazi AKTION T4
La Aktion T4 fue el programa nazi de eutanasia para eliminar o esterilizar a las personas afectadas de enfermedades genéticas, incurables o aquejadas de malformaciones físicas. Se estima que la Aktion 4 llevó a la muerte a de entre 60. 000 y 10.0000 personas. Sólo en la tercera fase del programa se tiene certeza de que los médicos responsables del programa decidieron la muerte del 20% de los 70.000 casos de ese tipo internados en los hospitales y sanatorios. Ante las críticas de varios obispos católicos a quienes habían llegado los rumores de la existencia de Aktion T4, y el creciente malestar de la población por la campaña de Rusia, Hitler decidió suprimir el programa Aktion T4. Esto no frenó la eutanasia de este tipo de enfermos, alcanzando la cifra de 200.000 muertos.
T4 es la abreviatura de "Tiergartenstrasse 4", la dirección del distrito de Berlin donde estaba situado el Cuartel General de la Gemeinnützige Stiftung für Heil und Anstaltspflege, el Ente Público para la Salud y la Asistencia Social
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