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🗓️ 3 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In Barry Levinson and David Mamet's WAG THE DOG (1997), a political spin-doctor teams with a movie producer to fake a war and save an incumbent president. You've heard of manufacturing consent, but to what extent can Hollywood and Washington manufacture reality? We're joined by Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison of the American Prestige podcast to discuss.
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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0:00.0 | Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. |
0:04.0 | Don't stop. |
0:06.0 | It was a real. |
0:08.0 | We can take a minute or two to get into character. |
0:11.0 | I always find that transition is... I was born into character. I always find that transition is... |
0:13.4 | I was born in character. |
0:15.4 | I take it the two of you have met my co-host will. He seemed to be here |
0:21.2 | before I got here so you guys have gotten acquainted as of 30 |
0:24.8 | seconds ago yeah we're all like longtime friends now it's right you can hear that |
0:29.8 | that decades going back decades, report, |
0:33.2 | starting right here. |
0:34.8 | I'm going to say this off the top |
0:36.1 | because I don't know if this fits in anywhere. |
0:38.0 | But I mean, we all, I think, just watched Wegg The dog. |
0:40.9 | And it put me in mind to check the list of movies that Bill Clinton watched in the White House, which is easily, you know, I always I look at that list maybe every two or three months. |
0:49.4 | Every every president has one and they're actually pretty interesting. |
0:52.8 | Like, yeah, Reagan's is by far the best because, like, he was just a film guy. |
0:56.2 | So he's just watching Reds, like he's having a good time, |
0:59.0 | whereas Bill Clinton every single one feels calculated. |
1:01.8 | Reagan watched every Woody Allen movie as it came out, which you would not think, but I think he just liked |
1:07.7 | you know upper middle brow kind of movies. |
1:10.3 | That's so funny. |
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