"W." Premieres: Stars Talk Bush, McCain And Sarah Palin's Intelligence

Oliver Stone's much-awaited "W." premiered in New York at the Ziegfeld Tuesday night. Joining Stone on the red carpet were the film's stars, including W. himself Josh Brolin. Here is some of what they told reporters on the red carpet about the current administration, John McCain and Sarah Palin:

In the NYDN:

"I don't think Sarah would understand the picture," Stone said on the red carpet outside the famed W. 54th St. theater.

"It has a lot of complicated dialogue," he zinged.

"George Bush is an intellectual compared to her."

Stone insists "W." is not an attack on the commander in chief.

"It's very fair. It's based on a lot of research. It was not done with malice," Stone said.

Some of the flick's stars actually think that Stone, who also directed "JFK" and "Nixon," wasn't hard enough on Bush.

"It isn't Bush bashing, but it should be," said Richard Dreyfuss, who portrays Vice President Cheney. "He will have a long and healthy life and hopefully spend most of it in depositions. Hopefully, history will be unforgiving."

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In the DC Examiner:

"I would not appreciate and not welcome" McCain to this premiere, said Richard Dreyfuss, who plays Dick Cheney in the film. Perhaps playing a vice president gave Dreyfuss a unique perspective on McCain's veep pick, Sarah Palin. "She's not prepared," he told Yeas & Nays. "God help us if they get elected."

James Cromwell, who played George Bush Sr., thinks Bush 43 ran the country like "imperial Rome" and said that all he needs after being president "is a good lawyer."..

Elizabeth Banks, who played Laura Bush, watched countless interviews of the first lady "when [Bush] finally let her guard down." She said she learned that Laura Bush was really "the ying to Bush's yang."

"The movie is more about the relationship between Laura and George," Banks said, "which both Josh Brolin and I believe was very supportive." (Brolin played the 43rd president in the flick.)

Brolin actually went as far as to say that "yes, Bush is smart" but thought that January should definitely be the last time we really hear from Bush.

When asked what Bush should do when his term ends, Brolin said: "Go hang out at the ranch!"

Oliver Stone with Elizabeth Banks and Thandie Newton (Laura and Condi)

Comments

[carpetbeetle]

More from the comedian in chief. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dii3mzMQ3SQ

[honestpolitician]

"George Bush is an intellectual compared to her(Sarah Palin)" - LOL!!

Gotta see this movie Friday!

http://politicaladattacks.blogspot.com/

[robotfog]

I still think that Matthew McConaughey should have played bush. He wouldn't even have had to act.

[MsYellowDog]

How could he, he doesn't know how to act.I'm sure Josh Brolin is superb.

[kmich718]

Oscar talk... for sure!

[flifishun]

You're right. Same face, same voice, same What-me-wo­rry-not-so­-smart look in the eyes.

[jobecky20]

Is anyone worried that this new movie will further incite the Red Meatheads of the Republican Party and just encourage them to come out from under their rocks even more on election day? But I suppose, it could move some others toward Obama, too.

[Warmglobe]

Most intelligent people don't need movies to help them decide anything. Only those who support Michael Moore and Oliver Stone seem to.

[Aimleft]

Now, Warmglobe......

WHERE on here is ANYONE saying that this - or any - movie is helping them to decide anything. Typical Republican BS - y'all folks just don't ever have an intelligent thing to say, do you?

[hollybork]

That is a point, jobecky20.

However, with only 8 percent of the adult voting public saying (in a survey yesterday) that the country is on the right track, we can now at least pin down how many possible village idiots there are out there. Let's see: 200 million adults times .08 = 16 million. YIKES> you are RIGHT!

[Bocababs]

Cannot wait to see this movie.

[DoctorDonut]

Go Oliver GO!

http://www.theweeklydonut.com/index.php/2008/10/14/if-only-it-were-an-oliver-stone-film/

[SHOPARAZZI]

i hope this movie is as funny as bush himself is. he laughs at his own jokes - and they are quite funny. he is, afterall, the comedian in chief. see for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjOcze2bEKk

[Grannysue]

What W and his bunch have done to our country is nothing short of criminal. Real people are losing their homes, real people are being killed in IRAQ, and AFGHANISTAN, real people were being tortured by our Government, real people suffer while the fat cats live in luxury, smoke their stoggies, drink their wines and laugh at the people so damaged by their greed, power and lust for control.
Real people drowned in Katrina, real people go without healthcare, real people lose their jobs, real people commit suicide because they cannot take care of their families! REAL PEOPLE need to stand up and say ENOUGH! Not actors, good for them they show the stories that we all live, however come NOV. 4th, REAL PEOPLE will take our country back and tell the so called Religious, Right Wing wackos that we've had it. Before it's too late.

[goddess1871]

God, I can't WAIT for this film to come to my fair town!!!

[MsYellowDog]

I doubt whether this movie will be "permitted" in my part of East Texas. What do you think?

[gretchenart]

I wish he had done a movie about McCain instead.

[DebofMD]

Love it. Stone and Dreyfuss know what they're talking about.

[Bitsko]

Richard Dreyfuss: "[Cheney] will have a long and healthy life and hopefully spend most of it in depositions." Nice cut, Richard!

[marymansour]

Oliver Stone was on the Rachel Maddow show last night. He reported that GWB is not a complicated man at all. He went to to say that Bush is extremely narrow minded and incurious.

Just a word to voters: Let's not make that mistake again, please (although I voted for Gore and Kerry). See what happens when you elect a guy who is not in the least curious about the rest of the world? And if you get pistol packin' mama in there, you've got serious stupid. .

[protagonia]

Sarah Palin is for the stunningly stupid people in this troubled land.

They are a cancer to ours, and our children's future.

[topkatnc]

I can't wait to see it!!!

[krocklin]

Dreyfus and Cromwell are saying it like it is.
Bush, Cheney and the rest of the Cabal will never get even the respect and relative tolerance that Nixon got because Nixon prolonged dispicable policies primarily initiated by others.
The Cabal CREATED the destruction of Iraq, World Peace and the economy of this country, crimes that go much further than Nixon's.
Hence The World Court and hopefully the much harsher judgement of future generations will always be hanging over the heads of the entire Neo-con Cabal.