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Bobby sheds light on other side of American society
While Robert Kennedy may have been stopped in his tracks, the resilience of the American public to oppose "violence and darkness" is still alive and strong, according to the cast members of Bobby speaking at a press conference in Dubai.
- By I-Cheng Chan, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:35 May 3, 2009
- Image Credit: Rangarajan/Gulf News
- From left: Jackson, Fishburne, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Gary Michael Walters, Executive Producer, and David Lancaster, Co-Producer of the film, Bobby, at the press conference in Madinat Jumeirah yesterday. Bobby opened the film festival yesterday.
Dubai: While Robert Kennedy may have been stopped in his tracks, the resilience of the American public to oppose "violence and darkness" is still alive and strong, according to the cast members of Bobby speaking at a press conference in Dubai.
High-profile actors from the Emilio Estevez-film came out to support the movie that officially opened the third Dubai International Film Festival last night.
The star-studded Bobby follows the lives of 22 characters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 4, 1968, in the hours before Robert Kennedy was assassinated during his election campaign.
Speaking before a packed room of media at the Madinat Jumeirah, actor Laurence Fishburne, 45, said one of the unfortunate traits of the American personality was that it had a very military side. The other side is about free thinking.
"Our hope and our intention in terms of making this film is to remind people of the other side of ourselves. The elections that happened last month are a reflection of that, the desire to have better quality of leadership a leadership that is not just responsible to us but to our position in the world."
Joshua Jackson who plays an aide to the election campaign in the 112-minute film, said the message of the movie was not the message of the present American administration. The film features a raft of A-list actors, including Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Demi Moore and Elijah Wood.
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