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Death of a President
2006 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Gabriel Range
A fictional investigative documentary looks back on the "assassination" of George W. Bush and attempts to answer the question of who committed the murder. Perhaps less morbid and disturbing to watch now than during Bush's presidency, the film doesn't address Bush's policies at all, instead focusing on the way a nation assigns blame in a time of crisis.
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Death of a President and Vantage Point come to mind. There're many many films that talk about killing the president of the US of A, some using real presidents and in at least one case already mentioned, while that president was in office. You can find it tactless, and I this case painfully unfunny, but that should never stop anyone from doing anything. Specially bit a film. Otherwise there're large swaths of our public libraries that would have to be burned.
If China made such a movie, I would expect the government reaction to be a sternly written statement saying something.
"Death of a President" is movie about solving the assassination of George W. Bush with British production companies, so it's been done. I don't recall going to war over it or anything.
Personally, if I were President and a foreign country made a raunchy comedy about assassinating me, I'd give it a try before condemning it with a low review score.
There was a 2006 British mockumentary, Death of a President, which depicted the death of President George Bush (in a much tamer fashion that the explosions in The Interview). The film was criticized by both Republicans and Democrats. Two U.S. cinema chains refused to screen it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President_(2006_film)#Response
> AFAIK that barrier of good taste has never been crossed by Hollywood before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President_%282006_film%29
I'm sure there are earlier precedents too, but this one comes to mind immediately.
Oh, another one: Team America: World Police... which actually did depict a mission to go kill Kim Jong Il (while he was still ruling North Korea). Though to be fair they didn't actually manage to kill him, since in that movie he turned into a cockroach and fled in a spaceship.