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ブッシュ大統領の暗殺をフィクション化して描いたイギリス「チャンネル４」テレビ向け映画「Death of President(大統領の死）」が、現在、カナダで開催されている｢トロント国際映画祭」で話題を呼んでいる。
しかし、この映画の監督、Gabriel Range氏とプロデューサー兼Range氏との共同スクリプト・ライターでもあるSimon Finch氏は、何者かによって「殺してやる」との脅迫を受けており、何人かのプライベートのボディーガードが厳重に身辺警備にあたっていることが判明した。
この映画のプレミア・ショーは9月10日に行われたが、観客も持ち物を全部入念にチェックされ、映画上映中も警備員が不振な人物や物を見かけないか、また映画のシーンを隠し撮りされないかどうか、厳重に見回りをしていた。
ブッシュが２発の弾丸によって頭を撃たれるシーンは、コンピューター・グラフィックによって、本物のブッシュの顔写真を俳優の顔にかぶせることによって、リアルに表現している。
この映画については賛否両論の意見が出ているようだ。
Death threats made to Bush assassination film makers
By BAZ BAMIGBOYE in Toronto
Last updated at 20:49pm on 11th September 2006
The British film-makers behind a controversial £2 million Channel 4 movie that shows the fictional assassination of President Bush are being guarded by private security men at the Toronto International Film Festival after threats were made on their lives.
The exact nature and level of threat against Gabriel Range, the director of Death of A President and his producer - writing partner Simon Finch was not being disclosed yesterday but expert security officers were in attendance at the world premiere screening of the film, also known as DOAP, on Sunday night at the Paramount cinema in Toronto.
All ticket holders had their bags searched and security officers stood by the film-makers during the screening, while guards constantly patrolled the aisles for security purposes and to ensure that the film was not illegally copied.
There were mixed views about the impact of the film with much concern expressed about the movie being about the fictional slaying of a real-life sitting president and that computer generated imagery grafted the head of the real George Bush onto that of an actor for the sensational moment when Bush is slain by two bullets from an assassins rifle.
Roger Friedman of America's Fox News.com was outraged and went on Matt Drudge's US network radio programme on Sunday night to denounce the film as sensationalist and irresponsible, a view echoed by some, but not all of those who saw the first screening. 'It's utterly tasteless', Friedman insisted.
He felt it was like putting a target on President Bush's head, a charge denied by director Range.
'There have been plenty of fictional films about assassination and I don't think anyone would get the idea of assassinating Bush from this film', said Range who shot the film on location in Chicago using actors cast in America.
Liza Marshall the Channel 4 commissioning editor who greenlit the film noted that the film set out to examine the effects of the war on terror and how it has affected America.
'Gabriel did a huge amount of research into all aspects of the terror debate and has emerged with a seriously considered film about the state of America', she argued.
Indeed, Death of A President is a sober look at how America's foreign policies have stifled civil liberties and debate about the cause and effects of the war in Iraq and security issues in the US.
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