With"Borat"
and "Brüno"hebroughtcontroversy,and it looksas thoughSachaBaronCohenin
hisnewfilm 'TheDictator'goes
one stepfurther.ThefirstDictator
official trailer havealready proved provocative.
The film,basedonSaddamHussein's"Zabibahand
TheKing'tells
thestory ofadictatorwho puts his liveat
staketo preventhis country
to become ademocracy(
sounds familar ?)
As hetravelsto
the U.S.fora meeting oftheUnitedNations,in hiscountry,he
isreplaced by hislookalike,ashepherd.
There isalsoaromantic plot:Sacha
Baron Cohenlands inbed withMeganFox.When hewants tocompensateherfor services renderedwitha
watch andajewel,
she feelsinsulted."Who doyou think Iam,aKardashian?"Shesniffs."No,you're much lesshairy,"Cohenreplicates.
"The Dictator"is
expected to launch
in May 2012
.(lb)
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his
life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly
oppressed.
Zabiba
and the King Saddam Hussein, .. Saddam Hussein's romantic fable
'Zabiba and the King' is a fascinating and moving work which provides a unique
insight into the psyche of the former Iraqi dictator. (Two of Saddam's former
interpreters have confirmed that.. read
Alison's review of Zabiba at Amazon..
I rented Bruno from NetFlix with mixed feelings. I had seen
Cohen's other works, including Borat and the Ali G Show, both of which I found
deceptively intelligent and political. His ability to make his characters'
stupidity an incisive mirror which he holds up to society is mind-boggling. With
Borat, I thought this form of comedy had reached it's highest point. I was
wrong. Bruno goes further. Some are offended by the gratuitous male nudity. Deal
with it. If looking at penises makes you deeply uncomfortable, you probably have
issues that run deeper than Bruno. It's true that a lot of the content of the
movie revolves around Cohen using his flamboyantly gay character Bruno to make
conservative anti-gay types uncomfortable. This can be uncomfortable for the
viewer as well, but with the ultimate pay-off of revealing...
Big ups for Sacha Baron Cohen's overwhelming success. Unfortunately, it bookends
his brilliant series Da Ali G Show on HBO.
The show is fantastic, and having Da Compleet Seereez in one set is phenomenal,
and addictive.
Buy this. Watch it one thousand times, then track down the original English
series on vhs.
Regardless of your politics or point of view, you'll find something redeeming
and ...
MovieShame.
There have always been lots of movies that show or exploit sex, but far fewer
that try to explore it seriously, as a rich, meaningful subject, whether
psychological or social...
A Christmas Carol Seymour Hicks plays
the title role of Scrooge in the first
sound version of the Dickens classic about ..
Borat
Bruno
Da
Ali G Show - Da Compleet Seereez
