Wag The Dog Appreciation

DrJoel

Just saw it again for the first time in a long long while yesterday. There is a lot of really great stuff in there. Mamet's touch is priceless, as usual (for me anyway). I think the difference between Wag The Dog and what it would be if it came out now is that you're not completely beat over the head with the point. Deniro's stance on what they're doing is always so simple:"The war is over, he just ended it."'It's not over...'"Yes it is, I just saw it on TV."When they used that first American pride song as the music before you saw them in the studio....