Devoir d'anglais: parler d'un film (document en anglais)

English homework: Talking about a movie.

“The dictator”

About the movie

American comedy film

Directed by:

Larry Charles

Produced by:

Sacha Baron Cohen

Alec Berg

Jeff Schaffer

Production Company:

Four by two films

Distributes by:

Paramount pictures

Release dates:

May 2012

Running time:

83 min

Budget:

65 million $

Box office:

179 379 533 $

Original title:

The dictator

We are going to talk about “The dictator”: an American comedy film directed by Larry Charles and produced by Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer. Released on May 2012 this movie lasts 83 minutes and cost 65 million dollar.

Paramount pictures declared that it’s inspired by the novel Zabiba and King of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein but The New York Times revealed later that it’s a hoax.

Summary

The main character is called Aladeen, the eccentric and oppressive Wadiya’s Republic leader. Aladeen is summoned to New York to a UN assembly to address concerns about his country's nuclear weapons program. But the trip goes awry.

In fact, someone grabs him and shaves off his beard and was about to kill him when he escapes.

Trying to go to the UN, Aladeen is kept out because people don’t recognize him. Moreover a double takes his place and speaks to the UN announcing he plans to turn Wadiya into a Democracy.

Believing that he is a refugee from Wadiya a woman called Zoey gives him a job. Meanwhile Aladeen tries to find a means to break in the hotel with his comrade Nadal.

But at the end the man who risked all his life to prevent the democracy from entering in his country resigns because of LOVE <3 (He falls in love with Zoey)

Feelings?

We particularly love this movie because it reveals dictatorship’s aspects mainly through the dictator’s point of view in a funny way. For example when the dictator asks for the executing anyone who disagrees with him by using his signature "head chop" signal.

Always about the mix up of the fiction and reality, we can see on a hand there are some invented places like Wadiya, The Lancaster Hotel which is in reality The Roosevelt Hotel in New York…

But also:

- The Apple shop where works Nadal is the Apple store Upper West Side

- The stage(stadium) where Aladeen takes away(gains) its numerous medals of athletics is

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