Wag the Dog Movie

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Wag the Dog The movie Wag the Dog was produced in 1997 and is about how politic influences the media and so influences people. The slogan of the movie “Wag the Dog” is a pan, as normally the dog, which is the bigger and smarter part wags the dog. Said the other way around it is the small and unimportant part which is normally leaded by the media, now waging the big part the mass without that one realizing it. In the movie a Hollywood film producer is hired to build up a fake war in Albania to distract from a sex scandal of the recent president, who once again plans to candidate, in elections time. The idea behind is to tell that some albanian terrorists tried to smuggle an atomic bomb into the United States, through the Canadian border and as nobody really knows what is going on in a small country somewhere in-between Europe and Asia, which such a rich war history, people start to believe what they see. Through many stage managed stories the spin doctors in the movie manage to make the population believe the war and to create a huge wave of patriotism. In order to that everybody now stands behind the president, even though his relation ship to an underaged girl. Even when the CIA discovers the plan and “ends” the war through the opposite party, the spin doctors invent a hero which was left behind and is now to be saved. The whole country again believes it. After the CIA discovers that the war was staged and ended it, the spin doctors invent a war-veteran, which’s nickname is “good old shoe”, who was left behind in Albania. This is told in the news again, to make the population believe that. To enforce the american citizens’ patriotism the presidents’ employees drive around at night and throw shoes, as the veteran’s symbol according to his name, over trees and traffic lights. A whole movement starts, where people throw shoes themselves, march on the street and

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