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HBO’s “Game Change,” airing this Saturday, is not actually an adaption of the book “Game Change,” by Mark Halperin and
John Heilemann. It is “Sarah Palin Goes Rogue,” the movie, with a
couple of anecdotes borrowed from the notoriously gossipy account of the
2008 election as a whole. (Or, arguably,it’s an adaptation of Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe’s “Sarah From Alaska.”)
That
is sort of a shame. The Palin thing is the most heavily over-covered
story line of the entire 2008 campaign, so focusing on it might be
totally logical from a marketing perspective, but it’s unfortunate from
an artistic one. The film re-creates various moments of YouTube campaign
ephemera very well — remember when that old white lady called Obama an
Arab and McCain looked uncomfortable? When it takes us behind closed
doors, it’s to witness scenes any moderately close observer of the
election and its aftermath could’ve dreamed up him- or herself. It might
have been fun to see a TV movie about the Democratic primary fight; the
personality clashes of the disastrous Clinton campaign would have made
for entertaining television, and Mark Penn is surely a creature crying
out for a grotesque Emmy-winning portrayal by, say, Paul Giamatti. READ MORE
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