He looked and sounded real to me and had a lot of scenes? How did they achieve that (in 1997)?
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Digital Technology was at that level. Remember they did the same with Kennedy and Nixon in Forest Gump, also a Zemekis film. For contact, they used portions of speeches that worked with the plot.
shareIt was CGI gimmickry that Zemeckis loved at the time (see Forrest Gump).
However, when viewed now on HD screens, the CGI doesn't look so good anymore. In a couple scenes they didn't do that good a job editing in the Clinton image -- his head seems to be floating strangely above his body.
Also, using Clinton in the movie irretrievably dates it, and also links it subliminally to the sleazeball Clinton administration.
They'd have been better off not doing it,
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For one of the scenes set in the White House briefing room, they use footage of Clinton which was taken outside at a Rose Garden press conference. As Clinton walks to the stage, his figure is lit in normal interior lighting; when he starts to speak, he is in bright sunlight with his hair shining like a halo.
Again it's not something you really noticed in the fuzzy video of the 1990s, but in HD remastering it jumps right out.
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the sleazeball Clinton administration.
Not Barack Obama. While I don't agree with some of his authoritarian regime practices (like having the FBI investigate a guy who puts an anti Muhammad video on youtube), he has run a tight ship. He's a good and moral man, and very intelligent at that. He's intelligent enough not to have a scandal like Clinton and Bush (weapons of mass destruction hoax and Iraq war being fought for no reason).
His downside is he seems to not wear the pants in the household, as frequently happens to men raised by single mothers. But that's hardly sleazy. His other downside is he made the same mistake as Bush getting involved in fights against "terrorists" in the form of ISIS. I do believe Obama is very intelligent, and the most intelligent President we've had since Jimmy Carter, but he made a huge mistake waging an unwinnable war against ISIS. That said, it hardly qualifies as sleazeball. He is the best President we've had since Reagan. Reagan wasn't perfect either (he didn't respond to the Beirut bombing of our soldiers, but in hindsight this was the best course of action, and Obama would have been wise not to respond to the beheadings of Americans who are in a country they didn't belong), but he was slightly better than Obama. (notice I'm neither a Republican or a Democrat, I'm independent, and unbiased because of it).
As for Bill Clinton, the sequences do come off corny as I just watched this movie on Netflix. Maybe because of the HD version (although I don't think Netflix streams in HD). It does date the film, but so do the ancient computers they use, and CRT monitors. I just think it's cheesy how they twisted his speeches around to fit the plot. It worked for back then, but using a professional actor as the President would have helped this film stand the test of time better.
Thanks for the laugh.
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It says somewhere that at least the part where he is commenting on alien life, comes from a real Clinton lecture, for students I think, which had another context but this part fitted by coincidence, and they got permission to use it.