Jay Roach, the director of mainstream comedies as well as the politically charged Recount and Game Change, insists audiences can sense when a historical film is full of it.
Even left of center sites like Entertainment Weekly and Slant Magazine blew the whistle on Roach’s Recount, a liberal retelling of the Gore vs. Bush election imbroglio.
Anyone with a few fair brain synapses could see Game Change, the fictional attack on Sarah Palin, stands as one of the entertainment media’s most notoriously unfair hit pieces on any political figure.
Yet Roach insists to PBS interview Jeffrey Brown he’s a truth teller, first and foremost.
JEFFREY BROWN: And, Jay Roach, what is your answer to that question about the responsibility that you might feel in how you — how — I guess how close to the reality you get it?
JAY ROACH: Well, it’s different when you are doing something like “Game Change,” when you’re actually trying to make a somewhat historically-based film. It says it is a true story. The audience expects a true story. And I think they can sense when you are faking it.
So, as a storyteller, I feel like I have a responsibility to just sort of deliver on something that is as true as it can possibly be to just get it right.
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