Men of influence

Of the men of influence ( Wag the Dog ) is a American film of 1997 carried out by Barry Levinson, putting in the high-speed motorboat Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Anne Heche. The film is based on the novel American Hero of the American author Larry Beinhart.

Synopsis

The film tells the efforts of an adviser in political communication (De Niro) which urges a Hollywood producer (Hoffman) to set up a fictitious war with an aim of distracting the electorate during a presidential sexual scandal. The distribution includes/understands also Denis Leary, Kirsten Dunst, Woody Harrelson (interpreting a lieutenant " Schumann" inspired of the Lieutenant Kije) and William H. Macy. The musical celebrity Willie Nelson holds to with it also a role, her character creating an anthem in favor of the " guerre".

Data sheet

Of the men of influence was produced and carried out by Barry Levinson, famous for televised series Homicide and OZ. David Mamet has Co-writing the Scénario. The film is based on the book, American Hero (English original title) of Larry Beinhart. In the book, the president is George Herbert Walker Bush.

The music is of Mark Knopfler.

Distribution

Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Anne Heche.

Context

Wag the Dog is appeared with the the United States less than one month before the beginning of the sexual scandal implying President Bill Clinton and a trainee of the White House, Monica Lewinsky.

Whereas the President was in the middle of this scandal which dominated the American political scene in 1998 and 1999, the United States engaged in three military operations: the Operation Fox of the desert (: three days of bombardments on the Iraq while at the same time the Chambre of the Representatives discussed the possibility of undertaking procedures to relieve Bill Clinton), the Operation " range infinie" (: two missiles launched on terrorist targets with the Sudan and in Afghanistan, only three days after a televised advertisement in which the President admitted to have had a " relation inappropriée" with Lewinski) and the intervention of NATO in ex- Yugoslavia occurred a few weeks after Clinton avoided the dismissal. Several critics asserted that the purpose of these operations were to divert the attention of the public and the media of the scandal in the White House.

These circumstances contributed to give to film an additional media attention. Serb national television even presented Wag the Dog in full heart of strike NATO, in 1999.

See too

Canadian Bacon: a film reporting a fictitious invasion of the Canada by the United States.

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