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thistlechaserRemember how, back in high school or junior high, you sometimes got to see a movie in class? It was always "educational" (pronounced in a groan), but sometimes it was interesting as well? That's what Primary Colors was like.
Primary Colors came out in 1998, so it's not surprising if you don't recall it. IMDB.com called it a comedy/drama, and one reviewer called it a satire, but neither really fit it. The movie felt more like a documentary about how Clinton beat George Bush (senior) back in 1992.
Being the "Rah! Rah! Let's vote Clinton in for four more years if we could!" person that I am, I especially appreciated seeing this. It put my feet back on the ground and reminded me that (no matter how bad the current Bush is) Clinton wasn't perfect himself. It was also an interesting view into how magnetic/charismatic people can control and affect others without even really trying.
John Travolta was utterly amazing asClinton Stanton. The voice was exactly right, and he looked like Clinton's twin. Kathy Bates (who I love dearly) played an idealistic spin-doctor type, who also happened to be gay (boy, did the girl-girl kiss surprise me!). Billy Bob Thornton was actually sort of loveable, in an "OH MY GOD! You're a redneck perv!" kind of way. The whole cast did a really great job.
Before Primary Colors, I really never felt overly bad for Hillary, but even though I didn't learn anything new about Clinton's cheating, I feel differently now. I guess *seeing* ("seeing"?) the cheating first-hand makes a difference. Hillary put up with a lot of crap and stuck by him -- if she hadn't, if she walked out because he was sleeping around, it would have likely been the end of Clinton's political career. I wonder if she stayed because she still loved him? Or because there was something (power?) in it for her if she stayed? Just how early on was she planning on launching her own political career?
I'd really like to read the book of the same name. I've been googling and looking for information on this time of our history, but it's surprisingly hard to track information down. (Though Clinton's win feels like it happened only a year or so ago, I guess 1992 was really 12 years back. Heh.)
And on this post's subject line: Yes, I know red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet aren't all primary colors, but other than that the joke fit! Heh.
Primary Colors came out in 1998, so it's not surprising if you don't recall it. IMDB.com called it a comedy/drama, and one reviewer called it a satire, but neither really fit it. The movie felt more like a documentary about how Clinton beat George Bush (senior) back in 1992.
Being the "Rah! Rah! Let's vote Clinton in for four more years if we could!" person that I am, I especially appreciated seeing this. It put my feet back on the ground and reminded me that (no matter how bad the current Bush is) Clinton wasn't perfect himself. It was also an interesting view into how magnetic/charismatic people can control and affect others without even really trying.
John Travolta was utterly amazing as
Before Primary Colors, I really never felt overly bad for Hillary, but even though I didn't learn anything new about Clinton's cheating, I feel differently now. I guess *seeing* ("seeing"?) the cheating first-hand makes a difference. Hillary put up with a lot of crap and stuck by him -- if she hadn't, if she walked out because he was sleeping around, it would have likely been the end of Clinton's political career. I wonder if she stayed because she still loved him? Or because there was something (power?) in it for her if she stayed? Just how early on was she planning on launching her own political career?
I'd really like to read the book of the same name. I've been googling and looking for information on this time of our history, but it's surprisingly hard to track information down. (Though Clinton's win feels like it happened only a year or so ago, I guess 1992 was really 12 years back. Heh.)
And on this post's subject line: Yes, I know red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet aren't all primary colors, but other than that the joke fit! Heh.
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Date: 2004-01-31 11:05 pm (UTC)I have almost no evidence for this, it's pretty much a hunch based on all the interviews I've read/seen of Hilary and things that she's written about her self, but...I've always gotten the impression that they didn't have a "traditional" marriage to begin with. They were/are both very ambitious, goal-oriented people, and they were both very aware of one another's faults. I got the impression that for Hilary, Bill's biggest transgression was being caught publicly, and not necessarily that he cheated per se. Again, this is just my impression. In the various interviews of her afterwards, she certainly seemed hurt about it, but there was some subtexty thing going on that suggested to me that it wasn't specifically the cheating part that she was most pissed/humilated about. Dunno. YMMV.
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Date: 2004-02-01 08:27 am (UTC)