Last night I watched An Inconvenient Truth. Yeah, I know. I’m a little behind the times. Anyway, there was something that struck me (beyond the whole “the earth is heating up and were all gonna die” thing). Al Gore will forever be linked, not to Bill Clinton, but to George W. Bush. The election of 2000 is the key moment in the political history of Al Gore, and for those of us on the left side of things, he will always be the man who should have been.
But this is what got me about the movie. Here is a film in which 95% of the dialogue is given by one man, and it’s riveting. A man considered dry, dull and boring talks for an hour and a half and it is amazing to watch. I then tried to imagine a movie in which George W. Bush talks for 90 minutes on his passion, whatever that might be. How bad would that movie be?! He couldn’t do it based on his personality alone. George W. Bush loses the charisma battle to Al Gore. Who would have guessed that? Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go recycle something.
Something tells me Bush wishes he would have narrated 300. Say, I’d love to hear your thoughts on that film. A comic book fan studying Islam should definitely review that film….