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| Wasilla 4th of July 2009 – Katie Hurley Grand Marshall – image by PA |
More like watching the movie near Hatcher Pass.
Saturday late evening, Judy and I went to a potluck-movie showing of Game Change held by the Mat-Su Democrats. There were enough people to keep two big screens in big rooms full of long-time progressives.
Many attending have known Palin far longer than me. I’ve known her for over 20 years. One of her high school teachers was there. A woman who had taught in the same school as Palin’s dad. And so on.
Katie Hurley, one of the very few players in the formation of the Alaska Constitution still among us, was animated. Hurley was the first highly successful woman in Mat-Su Valley politics. The comprehensive story of her relationship with Palin hasn’t been written yet. Hopefully, it will be.
Katie was LOL about fifteen times in the flick. She caught some of the inner campaign operation jokes in the movie more quickly than any of us, some a third her age.
Overall, the audience thought the movie to be fair. The portrayal of John McCain was thought to be too sympathetic. Harrelson’s portrayal beat Moore’s in a hand count I held in the room I was in. The inaccuracy of the accent was what did Moore in in Wasilla, by people who have had to put up with Palin’s antics and statements for a long, long time.
The movie’s portrayal of the Palins as a family struck me as deft. If the Palins complain about what appears to be an earnest effort to explain them, it won’t surprise me, but they don’t really have a case.
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Thanks for the diary, ET.
We watched the film and I too was impressed with Woody’s performance. Also thought Moore had the accent wrong.
Thanks ET – I was wondering what the reaction was in your parts … much in the film had the feel of reality including the growing horror as McCain’s advisors realize what they have done.
That jumped out at me, too. What was the thinking behind that portrayal, I wonder?
Possibly because they felt at least one of the major characters had to be shown sympatheticly.
Remember that one of the reasons that the musical “Chicago” failed with its initial production ( in the 80′s) was that the critics felt that none of the characters was shown with any positive attributes.
To tell a story there has to be at least one character that people can feel good about.