Sesso & potere

Titolo originale: Wag the Dog
Regia: Barry Levinson |
Anno: 1997
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Dramma
Tag: gulf war | central intelligence agency (cia) | rape | usa president | washington dc, usa | government | war veteran | election campaign | presidential election | staging | politics | movie business | albania | sex scandal | senator | media adviser | manipulation of the media | conspiracy | soldier | extramarital affair |
Cast: Dustin Hoffman | Robert De Niro | Anne Heche | Woody Harrelson | Denis Leary | Willie Nelson | Andrea Martin | Kirsten Dunst | William H. Macy | David Koechner | Michael Belson | Suzanne Cryer | John Michael Higgins | Suzie Plakson | Jason Cottle | Harland Williams | Sean Masterson | Bernard Hocke | Jenna Byrne | Maurice Woods | Roebuck 'Pops' Staples | Phil Morris | Chris Ellis | Ed Morgan | J. Patrick McCormack | Jennifer Manley | Edrie Warner | Richard Lawson | Drena De Niro | Alberto Vazquez | Stephanie Kemp | Jack Esformes | John Cho | Michael Reid Davis | Brant Cotton | Kenneth Kern | Michelle Levinson | Ron McCoy | Derek Morgan | Garry R. Roleder | Merle Haggard | Jim Belushi | George Gaynes | Rick Scarry | Cliff B. Howard | Furley Lumpkin | Sean Fenton | Nikki Crawford | John Franklin | Kevin Furlong | Lu Elrod | Michael Villani | Shirley Prestia | Warren Wilson | Terry Anzur | Melissa Gardner | Giselle Fernández | Christine Devine | Richard Saxton | Geoffrey Blake | Jerry Levine | Jack Shearer | Emmett Miller | Bill Handel | Anais Afshan | Hope Garber | Gina Menza | Maggie Mellin | Tom Murray | Ralph Tabakin | Marguerite Moreau | Jay Leno | Nicole Avant | Wendy Lou Halvorsen | Tom Bähler | Anthony Holiday | Allen Carter | Brad Kalas | Carmen Carter | Billy Trudel | Lance Eaton | Mark Vieha | Karen Geraghty | Julia Waters | James Gilstrap | Oren Waters | Jennifer Gross | Maxine Waters Willard | Craig T. Nelson | Barry Levinson | Robert Richardson | Laura Bennecke | Greg Bronson | Phillip V. Caruso | Sean Ireland | Glendon Rich | Guy Richardson | Robert Sedona | Randy Springer | Chelsea Talbott | Paul Webster |

Per distogliere l'attenzione dei media e dell'opinione pubblica americana da uno scandalo sessuale che vede coinvolto il presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America, i suoi addetti alle pubbliche relazioni – con l'aiuto del produttore Stanley Motss – organizzano la messa in scena di una finta guerra contro l'Albania per favorirne la riconferma alla Casa Bianca. A undici giorni dalle elezioni, infatti, il consenso attorno al presidente rischia di precipitare a causa di una giovane ragazza scout che lo accusa di aver abusato di lei durante una gita alla Casa Bianca. Il piano per distogliere l'attenzione dell'opinione pubblica dallo scandalo sessuale consta di due fasi principali: durante la prima viene simulata un conflitto contro il piccolo stato balcanico, accusato di dare ospitalità ad alcune pericolose cellule terroristiche che minacciano la sicurezza degli Stati Uniti.

Frasi

[Repeated line] Stanley Motss: This is NOTHING. D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Stanley, don't do this. You [...] D
Stanley Motss: When it's cooking, it's cooking. D
Stanley Motss: Oh, it's better than lovely. This g [...] D
Stanley Motss: [looking at a television where Sena [...] D
CIA Agent Mr. Young: There are two things I know t [...] D
Stanley Motss: I bet you're great at chess. Conra [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: A good plan today is better [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: We're not gonna have a war, [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: You can't tell anyone about [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: You watched the Gulf War, w [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: What difference does it mak [...] D
Johnny Dean: [after being asked to write an entire [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Now folks, folks, this is a [...] D
Stanley Motss: Haven't had this much fun since liv [...] D
Winifred Ames: Why Albania? Conrad 'Connie' Brean [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Well, if Kissinger can win [...] D
Stanley Motss: No no no no no, fuck freedom. D
Winifred Ames: [as their "war hero", William Schum [...] D
[repeated line] Conrad 'Connie' Brean: I'm workin [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: I'm doing my job too and le [...] D
[Commissioned to write a propaganda song about war [...] D
[gunshot] Stanley Motss: [referring to Schumann] [...] D
Fad King: We're locked into Albania - Why? Johnny [...] D
Stanley Motss: Look at that! That is a complete fu [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Who killed Kennedy? I read [...] D
Stanley Motss: You take the fruit of forty years - [...] D
Stanley Motss: You know, you can't save the world. [...] D
Stanley Motss: I'm in show business, yes? Why come [...] D
[discovering that their "hero" is actually a convi [...] D
Stanley Motss: The war isn't over 'til I say it's [...] D
[repeated line] TV Commercial: Why change horses [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: You're goddamn right, then [...] D
Tracy Lime: What would they do to me if I did tell [...] D
Winifred Ames: How are we going to explain that wh [...] D
CIA Agent Mr. Young: When the fit hits the shan so [...] D
Winifred Ames: So when we touch down tomorrow, Big [...] D
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Would you go to war to do t [...] D
[the plane has crashed, leaving Winifred, Stanley, [...] D
Stanley Motss: It's all, you know, thinking ahead [...] D
[being introduced to a disheveled-looking Sgt. Sch [...] D
Stanley Motss: This is politics at its finest. D
[Stanley, sitting in the Oval Office, has just red [...] D