Now Playing: Movie Themes – Solo Piano – 2005

Copy that and put it into Google and it will give you a link to Amazon.com where you can listen to samples and you can see if thats what you are looking for.

Although Dave was the composer for Recount, I can see nowhere where there is a listing of songs you can get or play, but he may have included this piano solo in the movie so try that. Good luck…

Thanks,
Steve

Danny Strong, a first-time screenwriter, apparently felt the story of what actually happened in 2000 was not sufficiently compelling to attract Hollywood interest, so he conjured up a story line that had greater dramatic potential: George Bush won the 2000 recount battle because the Democrats–principally Warren Christopher and Bill Daley–were too weak, too genteel, to withstand the Jim Baker-led steamroller. Not even the heroic, efforts of Ron Klain, the only Democratic operative in Florida with the fortitude, foresight and foreskin to take on Big Jim could save the ship.

But Strong had a problem–how to establish the ineffectuality of the Democratic side of the fight. He decided to it by creating a scene or two in which Warren Christopher would utter words of compromise, naivete and illogic. In just a few screen minutes, Strong could establish a major, overarching theme of the film and, if he were lucky, could manage it without ever talking to Christopher.

When push came to shove, Strong realized that he had to cover himself and make contact with Christopher. He’s admitted (see NYT story by Ed Wyatt) that he waited to do so until the day the scenes involving the Christopher character were shot. He also admits that he refused Christopher’s request to review a copy of the script, even though he accorded that courtesy and beyond to Jim Baker, Ron Klain and others depicted in the film. (Baker and Klain were even given the opportunity to veto a scene that Strong says he made up.)

Christopher learned that the film was in production when his tailor told him he’d been retained to produce a suit for the actor who was to play him. In other words,Strong felt it was important to get the wardrobe right for the Christopher character, but didn’t regard the facts as rising to the same level of importance.

What Strong did not want Christopher to know was that the script contained scenes in which his character declares that the recount dispute can be compromised and that no lawsuits will be filed on behalf of Gore. Strong knew that once Christopher read or was told of such scenes, the jig would be up–that he’d have to confront the fact that he was about to distort beyond recognition the character of a man universally regarded as a quintessential litigator. A scrupulously ethical lawyer? Yes. Weak-kneed? Never.

The truly weak-kneed are those who blithely chalk off to “dramatic license” the gross distortions of the sort Strong has embraced, while simultaneously proclaiming reverence for the faithful preservation of history. Like it or not, today’s viewing public increasingly treats as fact what is fed to them as “docu-drama,” unaware that in most cases they are consuming an ounce of “docuâ€? to every gallon of “drama.â€? And like it or not, what they treat as fact becomes fact for others in this generation and those following. HBO knows what it’s doing when it promotes the film as “the story of the 2000 presidential election.â€? It’s encouraging its audience to swallow as absolute truth everything it’s chosen to put on the screen.

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And even now, Hillary just wont quit, and continues to spend money.