Word: brits
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They say history repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce. But sometimes it manages both the first time around. Brit Bob Hoskins is a surprisingly apt choice for the Panamanian kleptocrat, whom he plays as a cruel yet pathetic schemer--a lower-class striver who in another life might have become a crooked appliance salesman or sticky-fingered union boss. This playful film teases out the inherent absurdity in the dictator's fall (this was a man besieged by U.S. troops blaring bad pop music to drive him out of his Vatican-embassy refuge) without trivializing his predations...
...patties onto croissants and tried to convince us that they were "French Rondelles?"...Okay, I think Christian Bale is a nice person and all, and I sort of see what Mary Harron was trying to do in casting him as the "psycho" in American Psycho, but why cast a Brit in a role that absolutely must be played by an American? Harron cast Jared Leto ("My So Called Life's" Jordan Catalano) in a lesser role, but he would have been a perfect Patrick Bateman...Denzel Washington doesn't deserve the Oscar for The Hurricane. The part is fabricated...
...novel, Richard is a mirror of his author: a 20-something Brit drifting toward a bright sea with dark eddies. And there was a little rancor when Ewan McGregor, the Scot who'd starred in Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and A Life Less Ordinary for Boyle and Hodge, lost the role of Richard to a $20 million golden boy from Hollywood. But the book and the film, for all their differences, have the same point to make. This is a story about how young people with the best intentions can turn a jungle paradise (like Vietnam) into a nightmare war zone...