{"id":537,"date":"2008-06-05T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=537"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:52:45","slug":"teaser-poster-for-stones-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/05\/teaser-poster-for-stones-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaser Poster For Stone&#8217;s W"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Oliver Stone stated that his bio-pic <strong>W<\/strong>, starring Josh Brolin George W. Bush, was going to be a fair portrayal of the President&#8217;s life, did anyone really believe him?<\/p>\n<p>Lord knows, I wanted to. Although I&#8217;m no fan of what Bush has done while in office, I hoped that perhaps Stone could do something similar to what he did with <strong>Nixon<\/strong>, another right wing politico with whom Stone strenuously disagrees philosophically.<\/p>\n<p>However, this teaser poster (courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120717035412\/http:\/\/www.ioncinema.com\/news\/id\/3037\">IOnCinema<\/a>) implies that the film will be more of a broadside slam of Bush. If that&#8217;s the path Stone wants to take, fine. However, just loading the poster up with the more famous examples of the President&#8217;s less than eloquent power to turn a phrase strikes me as a bit of lazy marketing. How about a poster that riffs the ones done for <strong>The Forty Year Old Virgin<\/strong>, with Brolin-as-Bush looking out with that hopeful, yet clueless gaze that Steve Correll had?<\/p>\n<p>Click on the poster for a bigger version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">When Oliver Stone stated that his bio-pic W, starring Josh Brolin George W. Bush, was going to be a fair portrayal of the President&#8217;s life, did anyone really believe him? Lord knows, I wanted to. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/05\/teaser-poster-for-stones-w\/\" title=\"Teaser Poster For Stone&#8217;s W\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[58,3,25],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-bio-pic","8":"tag-coming-soon","9":"tag-poster"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}