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Home Front: Politix
More on "Saving Kerry's Privates"
2004-07-29
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU JULY 29, 2004 09:02:34 ET XXXXX
KERRY FILM DIRECTOR: THE BULLETS IN THE WATER WERE NOT FROM THE ACTUAL EVENT
The official convention video introducing John Kerry tonight, directed by Steven Spielberg protégé James Moll, incorporates homemade film footage shot by Kerry in Vietnam. "I would have used archival footage," Moll tells the NEW YORK OBSERVER's Joe Hagan, "but it was a pleasant surprise that he had taken his own footage while in Vietnam."
That's why he filmed himself back in the day.
"When Army Green Beret Jim Rassman is talking about how John Kerry saved his life," he said, "I'm using some of that footage. It shows the swift boat and various shots of the swift boat, and some firing like you see in the water. Bullets in the water." Entering controversy, director Moll explains how the bullets in the water were not from the actual event. "It's just illustrative."
Why do you think Kerry hired someone from DreamWorks? "It's the Special Effects, Stupid!"
Moll mixes in the homemade Kerry film with stirring strings and a french horn soundtrack.
A "French Horn" soundtrack, you really can't make this stuff up.

Moll is said to manipulate the speed of some of the film. One moving scene shows Kerry in slow motion, in full gear, walking with his gun through the paddies.
"Dude, where's my boat?"
Posted by:Steve

#10  SH…excellent point!!
Posted by: B   2004-07-30 12:26:54 AM  

#9  SH - very good point...
Posted by: Bulldog   2004-07-29 6:59:34 PM  

#8  Somewhere I saw some of these clips, mebbe after a beer or three. Anyway, the brave Lt was charging right-to-left about 20 feet away. As I recall, he was NOT wearing a flight jacket. I guess we will see tonight!
Posted by: Brett_the_Quarkian   2004-07-29 5:30:59 PM  

#7  I am curious as to how a dude that traveled through the Nam with an M-16 in one hand and a Super 8 in the other failed to capture a single war crime on film. The crimes were happening every day and dramatically affected him emotionally. Why, instead, did he waste all his film on his narcissistic fantasies of heroism? It's as if his swift boat crew were passing the time in an incredibly involved roll-playing game where Kerry called JFK.
If the crimes were so horrific that he had to betray all his fellow soldiers, why not collect some evidence?
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-07-29 5:19:36 PM  

#6  How about Richard "Jaws" Kiel as John Kerry?
Posted by: eLarson   2004-07-29 3:49:38 PM  

#5  Will we see the action scenes where he earns his three purple hearts (the hangnail, the blister, and the paper cut injuries). I heard he got a bunion, too, but he was out of theater then unfortunately.
Posted by: Dar   2004-07-29 2:39:27 PM  

#4  Will he be the one striding through the jungle, t-shirt torn and tattered from his battles (showing his broad, muscular, bare chest for all the ladies), a machine gun in each hand blasting away and yelling like a Dean-ster?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-07-29 2:02:34 PM  

#3  I hope there's a scene in it where he screams, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" in slow motion while shit blows up behind him.

He has to jump off a little trampoline first, though, for the FULL effect.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-07-29 1:53:15 PM  

#2  Herman Munster, natch...
Posted by: Raj   2004-07-29 1:10:51 PM  

#1  I hope there's a scene in it where he screams, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" in slow motion while shit blows up behind him. That'd be original.
BTW, who's going to play him in it?
Posted by: tu3031   2004-07-29 12:08:57 PM  

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