On July 15th, a movie debuts that may change how the race for the Republican presidential nomination is decided. It's called "The Undefeated" and the trailer for it can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHY5sZ7mqzw . The premiere is a limited release on only ten screens, but if the response is as expected, it could reach 1000 screens soon.
After the 2010 elections, Sarahpac's Rebecca Mansour asked conservative film maker, Stephen Bannon, if he could produce some videos for them. He declined but said that he would be interested in making a feature film about Gov. Palin's career in Alaska. His company would finance and own the film and all he would need from Sarah Palin was access to some of her staff in Alaska. Palin was not interviewed for the film but her voice, licensed from the HarperCollins audiobook of Going Rogue was used as narration.
Rather than review a film that I haven't seen, perhaps an overview of some of the reviews by people that have seen it is in order. "Epic saga", "a modern Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", " a game changer", " a liberal news director left the theatre in tears" , " I guess I didn't know the real Sarah Palin.", "I thought I knew Sarah Palin but I didn't really", "Shocking", "An eye-opener" "You must go see this film", are some of the quotes from people leaving the previews.
The film is from a conservative perspective and granted you can select bits and pieces to benefit your subject, much as Katie Couric did to demean her, but Mr. Bannon had the great fortune that the State of Alaska released 24,000 pages of Palin's emails just after the film started previews. The emails gave no support to the media narrative on Palin, but instead supported Bannon's Palin narrative right down the line.
The question now is how to overcome three years of media smears using this film. Assuming it reaches 500 or 1000 screens, it would also be a good assumption that most people willing to pay $8 or $10 to see the film will be Republicans already inclined to vote for her. Pay per view rights will be announced soon and a DVD will follow the theatrical release. If Gov. Palin is to be the Republican nominee and go on to defeat President Obama in the general election, this film needs to be seen by millions of voters. It establishes Sarah Palin as a serious person, an excellent governor, a real leader, a courageous corruption fighter, and destined to be our President. "The Undefeated" lends itself to movie parties to show the DVD, and hopefully a "527" will come along and put it on network TV.
Above and beyond all other questions, this film resolves the big question many voters have, "Is Gov. Palin qualified to be President?" The answer is, of course, "Yes!"
