Scénario:
Loretta AlperActeurs·trices:
Sean Penn, Christiane Amanpour, George Bush, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Walter Cronkite, Lyndon B. Johnson, Henry Kissinger (plus)Résumés(1)
Narrated by Sean Penn and based on the work of media critic and best-selling author Norman Solomon, who traveled with Penn to Baghdad just before the war to call attention to the dangers of a U.S. invasion, WAR MADE EASY reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose 50 years of government spin and media collusion that has dragged our country into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. With remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, the documentary exposes how presidential administrations of both parties have relied on a combination of deception and media complicity to sell one war after another to the American people.
Giving special attention to parallels between Vietnam and Iraq, WAR MADE EASY sets government spin and media collusion from the present alongside virtually identical patterns from the past, guided by Solomon’s meticulous research and tough-minded analysis. Rare footage of political leaders and journalists from the past includes Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and news correspondents Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer. According to Solomon, whose work has been praised by The Los Angeles Times as brutally persuasive, the positive attention the film has received may indicate a new willingness to counter years of pro-war media spin and government deception. These deep patterns of ongoing perception management must be demystified and decoded if we're going to move beyond the horrors of perpetual war, he said. The way War Made Easy is being embraced could be an important step in that direction.
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Acteurs·trices
Sean Penn
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
The Game (1997)
L'Impasse (1993)
Persepolis (2007)
Christiane Amanpour
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Shock and Awe (2017) - i.a.
Zoolander 2 (2016)
George Bush
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) - i.a.
Snowden (2016) - i.a.
The Special Relationship (2010) (téléfilm) - i.a.
George W. Bush
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Curveball (2020) - i.a.
Die Hard 4 - Retour en enfer (2007) - i.a.
The Big Short : Le casse du siècle (2015) - i.a.
Dick Cheney
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
The Report (2019) - i.a.
The Special Relationship (2010) (téléfilm) - i.a.
Shock and Awe (2017) - i.a.
Bill Clinton
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Contact (1997) - i.a.
Le Cas Richard Jewell (2019) - i.a.
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) - i.a.
Walter Cronkite
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Apollo 13 (1995)
Les Sept de Chicago (2020) - i.a.
Le Majordome (2013) - i.a.
Lyndon B. Johnson
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Forrest Gump (1994)
JFK (1991)
Les Sept de Chicago (2020) - i.a.
Henry Kissinger
Empire allemand
Meilleurs films :
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11'09''01 - September 11 (2002)
First They Killed My Father (2017) - i.a.
Robert McNamara
États-Unis
Richard Nixon
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
American Gangster (2007) - i.a.
Les Doors (1991) - i.a.
Les Hommes du président (1976) - i.a.
Ronald Reagan
États-Unis
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Jim Lehrer (i.a.)
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Meilleurs films :
Zoolander 2 (2016)
Sean Hannity (i.a.)
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Couvre-feu (1998)
Shock and Awe (2017) - i.a.
Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (2012)
Spiro Agnew (i.a.)
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Les Hommes du président (1976) - i.a.
She Hate Me (2004) - i.a.
Shampoo (1975) - i.a.
Colin Powell (i.a.)
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Curveball (2020) - i.a.
Official Secrets (2019) - i.a.
Le Royaume (2007) - i.a.
Paul Wolfowitz (i.a.)
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Shock and Awe (2017) - i.a.
Wolf Blitzer
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Skyfall (2012)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Snowden (2016)
Rush Limbaugh (i.a.)
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