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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU JULY 29, 2004 09:02:34 ET XXXXX
KERRY FILM DIRECTOR: THE BULLETS IN THE WATER WERE NOT FROM THE ACTUAL EVENT
The official convention video introducing John Kerry tonight, directed by Steven Spielberg protégé James Moll, incorporates homemade film footage shot by Kerry in Vietnam. "I would have used archival footage," Moll tells the NEW YORK OBSERVER's Joe Hagan, "but it was a pleasant surprise that he had taken his own footage while in Vietnam."
That's why he filmed himself back in the day.
"When Army Green Beret Jim Rassman is talking about how John Kerry saved his life," he said, "I'm using some of that footage. It shows the swift boat and various shots of the swift boat, and some firing like you see in the water. Bullets in the water." Entering controversy, director Moll explains how the bullets in the water were not from the actual event. "It's just illustrative."
Why do you think Kerry hired someone from DreamWorks? "It's the Special Effects, Stupid!"
Moll mixes in the homemade Kerry film with stirring strings and a french horn soundtrack.
A "French Horn" soundtrack, you really can't make this stuff up.

Moll is said to manipulate the speed of some of the film. One moving scene shows Kerry in slow motion, in full gear, walking with his gun through the paddies.
"Dude, where's my boat?"

Posted by: Steve 2004-07-29
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