{"id":42568,"date":"2019-01-11T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T12:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42568"},"modified":"2019-01-11T07:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T12:02:51","slug":"for-hollywood-vice-remarkably-astute-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42568","title":{"rendered":"For Hollywood, \u2018Vice\u2019 Remarkably Astute about Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Hollywood, \u2018Vice\u2019 Remarkably Astute about Politics<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Adam McKay\u2019s movie may be flawed, but it\u2019s still must-see for his depiction of how Cheney amassed power by exploiting Watergate, an inexperienced president and 9\/11, writes James DiEugenio. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I<\/strong>n 2015, director Adam McKay did something unusual in Hollywood.\u00a0 He made a good film out of a good book.\u00a0 In fact, one could argue that McKay\u2019s movie \u201cThe Big Short\u201d is even better than Michael Lewis\u2019 book.\u00a0 It is funnier, has a faster pace and is much more innovative stylistically.<\/p>\n

McKay has now done something even more unusual for Hollywood.\u00a0 He has made a good film about an unattractive and unlikeable character, former Vice-President Dick Cheney.\u00a0Appropriately, the film is called \u201cVice.\u201d I am going to say some critical things about \u201cVice.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>But let me start by recommending that everyone who reads this website see this film. It\u2019s not often that Hollywood produces a film this honest, ambitious and intelligent about the contemporary American political scene.<\/p>\n

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Vice: Portrait of the abuse of power. (@vicemovie on Twitter)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Early in his life, Cheney flunked out of Yale and was tagged with two DUI\u2019s.\u00a0 His wife Lynne\u2014who later became a prolific author\u2014helped straighten him out \u00a0and put him on a path toward a political career.\u00a0 From that point on, McKay, who also wrote the script, frames Cheney with the following epigraph, which is written across the screen at one point:<\/p>\n

\u201cBeware the quiet man.\u00a0 For while others speak, he watched. And while others act, he plans.\u00a0 And when they finally rest, he strikes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The warning applies to three key sections covered by the film.<\/p>\n

Watergate Power Vacuum<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For Hollywood, \u2018Vice\u2019 Remarkably Astute about Politics Adam McKay\u2019s movie may be flawed, but it\u2019s still must-see for his depiction of how Cheney amassed power by exploiting Watergate, an inexperienced president and 9\/11, writes James DiEugenio. In 2015, director Adam McKay did something unusual in Hollywood.\u00a0 He made a good film out of a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11249,6963,2108,6033,11931,643,827,13929,865],"class_list":["post-42568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-adam-mckay","tag-consortium-news","tag-dick-cheney","tag-hollywood","tag-james-dieugenio","tag-power","tag-united-states","tag-vice","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42569,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42568\/revisions\/42569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}