I wrote then of the historic cinematic killing of President Obama in 20th Century Fox's "Kingsman: The Secret Service," the first film to depict the then-POTUS's death onscreen. "The White House and Obama-ish president — there's no other symbol about a global power than the White House," director Matthew Vaughn said of the depiction months before its release. Later he backpedaled, insisting that the onscreen president bearing an unmistakably eerie resemblance to Barack Obama was not officially supposed to be Obama. "First of all, it’s not Obama," he told Entertainment Weekly of the Obama doppelganger in "Kingsman." This is an attack on all politicians, but the easiest way to making the point where people knew that Valentine was in power was to have the White House.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 12, 2017 23:26 UTC