POL 128 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sex Scandal, Lowkey, Friendly Fire

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For each movie: list of questions, character analysis. 5 short essay questions (5 marks each: no more than 3-5 sentences per question, cite scenes and dialogue if possible, cite readings when relevant. Synopsis: two weeks before the election, an underage woman claims that the president made sexual advances on her which could hurt his campaign. The us president is accused of a sex scandal with an underage girl while the presidential election is only weeks away: the president needs to come up with something else that will distract from this such as war. Conrad brean, suggests that they need to distract the attention away from the sex scandal by creating a fake war in albania: he needs help from a hollywood producer and director to make the war a reality. To produce the graphic look of a war, brean flies to hollywood to obtain the services of a producer named stanley motss.