During today's lesson my group and I developed our idea of having our thriller on the assassination of Barack Obama and so researched various historical factors, anti-obama sites etc.
We couldn't decide on a name and so translated ASSASSINATION into Latin and it came out as:
caedem
This was a good name, but didn't really hold a lot of meaning so we began researching more into the historical factors and those who would be likely of assassination of Obama and found an entire website called:
http://www.americansagainstobama.com/ and holds members who are racists and do not agree with having a coloured president. as well as those who believe that he shouldn't run America because they think he is lying about being a proper American and actually a Muslim. Additionally, there have been many
racist attacks on Obama and one comment that I thought was the
most offensive and discriminative was by a blogger and posted:
"The KKK or someone WILL assassinate Obama! If we get a NIGGER President all you NIGGER’s [sic] will think you’ve won and that the WHITE people will have to bow to you" I felt hurt when I read that and so believe that it has a huge impact on our thriller for the future. Moreover, we also studied previous assassinations and there are many links between each one, a significant one being that they all got shot in the head and so we will have Glen (playing Obama) get shot in the head. Additionally, each presidents have a code name that their body guards use to talk of them:
Barack Obama: Renegade
George Bush: Tumbler
Bill Clinton: Eagle
George Bush: Timberwolf
Jimmy Carter: Deacon
Ronald Reagon: Rawhide
Gerald Ford: Passkey
Richard Nixon: Searchlight
Lyndon Johnson
John F. Kennedy: Lancer
Each one was used to command their attention quickly without causing a huge fuss. Obama's name is
Renegade which we thought was strange as by definition renegade means:
noun
1. a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
2. an apostate from a religious faith.
–adjective
3. of or like a renegade; traitorous.
and holds synonyms of traitor, deserter, betrayer and dissenter. SO WHY CHOOSE THAT AS A NICKNAME? It could be because he is the first black president and therefore is going to run the country his way but it gave us a name that we could develop into a thriller. Additionally, the name also relates to the threats and haters of Barack Obama and their feelings, which we feel needs to be included within the opening sequence.
