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BY GEORGE DUMONTIER
ANCHOR JIM FLINK
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The latest film -- storming through Iowa -- features Mama Grizzly -- as “The Undefeated.”
The documentary highlights Sarah Palin’s rise to power premiered Tuesday in Pella Iowa.
Conservative filmmaker Stephen Bannon paid one million dollars to make the movie -- hoping to offset what the Palin camps see as -- negative press surrounding former Alaska governor.
“You see her struggles and achievements at every level of life at Wasilla and as governor of Alaska, and then with the Tea Party. So I think it is a very inspirational film.”
The film is meant to inspire.
Critics are unimpressed.
Kyle Smith of the conservative New York Post writes.
“... its tone is an excruciating combination of bombast and whining, it’s so outlandishly partisan that it makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln”
Others criticize Bannon for his unusual imagery - prompting thoughts of propaganda. (MSNBC)
“He used b-roll footage of just strange things. There’s a shot of money actually getting flushed down the toilet to illustrate wasteful government spending. The shot of a zebra being eaten by lions. Several people in the audience laughed.”
Other laugh-worthy segments of the film include clips of comedians and celebrities like David Letterman and Matt Damon offering their own foul-worded criticism of Mama Grizzly. When asked for a response Palin tells The Hollywood Reporter...
"It makes you want to reach out to some of these folks and say, What's your problem?"
Finally - “The Undefeated” is about to get
some competition as British filmmaker Nick Broomfield has announced his own, more critical, Sarah Palin documentary. A clip from the film includes an interview with Legislative Director John Bitney.
“It was frustrating at times to set up a meeting with legislative leadership.”
“And the whole time she would be doing this:”
The so far unnamed film is still far from completion, but “The Undefeated” is set to screen in theatres all across the country on July 15.
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