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Old 05.30.2009, 06:42 AM   #61
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here's an exclusive clip from the new feature length
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video...lions-sundance
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Old 01.23.2010, 05:53 AM   #63
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here's an exclusive clip from the new feature length
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video...lions-sundance

hahaha, this looks good, i've been waiting for it for so long now.
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Old 01.23.2010, 01:04 PM   #65
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i really wanna see this new film. will have to wait for a while until its internet ready as i very much doubt it will get over here any time soon.

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Old 02.21.2010, 05:28 AM   #66
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Chris Morris and the Roar of "Four Lions"

By Bilge Ebiri on 02/01/2010



Chris Morris on the set of "Four Lions," Warp Films, 2010

Perhaps one of the most unusual sights of the Sundance Film Festival was seeing British comedy legend Chris Morris walking around and doing Q&As after screenings of his "jihadi comedy" "Four Lions." Infamous in Britain for his shows "The Day Today" (which helped launch the career of Steve Coogan) and "Brass Eye," Morris is generally regarded as something of a recluse, and rarely gives interviews.
Not that he's shy. Dear god, no. To say that Morris's work has flirted with controversy is a bit of an understatement: A "Brass Eye" TV special he once did on the pedophilia scare reportedly broke records for complaints it generated. And back in early 2002, he penned, with fellow Brit satirist and "In the Loop" director Armando Iannucci, "Six Months that Changed a Year," an "absolute atrocity special" satirizing the response to 9/11.
Telling the story of a group of hapless terrorists plotting a coordinated suicide bombing, Morris's feature directorial debut "Four Lions" takes his work in a decidedly new direction. The kind of film that can use someone blowing themselves to bits as a punchline for a gag, "Lions'" tone is darkly ironic rather than confrontational. It's also the product of years of scrupulous research, which resulted in a surprising degree of cooperation from the British Muslim community. During his visit to Sundance, I spoke to Morris about bending genres, preferring Howard Stern to Jon Stewart, and the psyche of suicide bombers.
This film is a very strange hybrid -- it's got a lot of broad comedy, but it's also very serious and tragic in some regards.
I think the appropriate word for it is "tragicomedy." If you just made a film that said, "Guys making these kinds of plots are ridiculous," you'd be lying. After the research I did, which included going to court cases and talking to loads of people, I wanted to convey the point that a terrorist could also be a humorously flawed person. But the companion thought to that is, of course, they're also people, which in itself is subversive to the notion of what a terrorist is. A lot of films I like bend genres as well. "Dr. Strangelove" is really a half hour thriller stretched out to give you enough time to include lots of comic routines. If you look at the film, the seriousness of the mechanics of what's going on -- the assault on the airbase, the detail inside the airplane -- that's definitely transgenre. Those could be outtakes from a serious war film. And I think comedy can be left frivolously flapping about on the high tide end if it doesn't dig in somewhere.
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In some ways, this is a much darker film than "In the Loop," which, despite being about the run-up to a war, makes it quite easy to sit back and watch and enjoy without feeling at all uncomfortable.
I absolutely adore "In the Loop" -- I laughed from beginning to end -- but it's affirmative, basically. It's a universal rallying cry to say, "Fuck politicians!" and "Aren't they a bunch of conniving gits?" It's never going to rip the carpet off from under your feet. There's nothing wrong with that, of course, 'cause I'm fairly intolerant of stuff that calls itself comedy. How rare is it to laugh at all at a film that calls itself a comedy, let alone to laugh all the way through?
Some would say that satire is a dead art nowadays.
There's satire out there. "South Park" is satirical. "Team America" is pretty satirical of genre. But satire in itself, as a raw element, can be pretty dull. "Dr. Strangelove" could be dull without some sparked up performances and its beautiful tone. I actually do think satire can get formulaic: "It's a satire so I don't really have to have any jokes." There's a certain Route 1 satire shape you can fall into, and I'm really concerned about that, actually. It's a formula that is given too much license.
For example, I prefer Howard Stern to Jon Stewart
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Old 02.21.2010, 05:32 AM   #67
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There's something innately, intuitively subversive about his take on things. Really, really funny, without rules. You wouldn't call it satire -- I'd say it's better than satire. And I often think of films as comedies when they're not comedies. "Festen (The Celebration)," I thought, was very funny. It had much more value, because it kicked hard. Whereas something that comes along and says, "Hi, I'm a comedy," like "Tropic Thunder," makes me want to rip up the whole cinema -- just a godawful waste of money and time.
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Old 02.21.2010, 05:41 AM   #68
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Tell me about the ''fatwa-proof research'' that you did for 'Four Lions''.
That's an unfortunate non-quote that's being spread around. It's attributed to my producer, but I'm pretty sure it's a journalistic product. I did do a lot of research. I wanted to make sure the scenarios in the film came from a real place. I met lots of Muslims who had nothing to do with anything radical whatsoever, which gave me a fair sense of how the landscape lay in Britain, and all the differences between the different village communities that ended up in different mill towns. That puts into sharp relief what happens in these tiny radical pockets. Making this film [had] nothing to do with attacking the Koran or casting aspersions about the Prophet or anything like that. 99.99% of the people I met shared those precious things but weren't remotely interested in blowing up anyone.
I was impressed that the film also didn't offer up a list of grievances -- some obligatory, politically correct scene where we see all the horrible things that the West has done in Muslim countries, or something like that.
There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that. I wanted to avoid it for dramatic reasons as well. I didn't want some scene where Omar was confronted with terrible footage from an Afghani school that had been blown up by a drone or something. In a way, that would be too specific. We know that this sort of thing happens, of course. I thought with all the characters you could basically pick up why each of them would be involved with this and to categorize them. The "Black Widows" [Chechen female suicide bombers in Russia] were very different than some lads in Surrey planning to blow up a nightclub, for example. And it's not fair to pretend they're the same.
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Old 02.21.2010, 05:47 AM   #69
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A guy who fought with the Mujahideen against the Russians, who's now 40-something, told me that the only way he could understand someone wanting to blow up a busload of civilians in a country where there was no turf war being fought is that they're living a very abstracted form of existence, which is very modern. They can place themselves somewhere thousands of miles away, and then harden themselves as if they're somewhere they aren't. It's the dream of being a soldier. That romantic notion is very important. But this film is not a guidebook to jihadi motivation. It reflects some of the realities one encounters.
I spoke to a guy who fought with the Taliban against the Northern Alliance -- which is an interesting moral quandary, because the Taliban are obviously "bad" -- but he told me, "When you come across a farm that's been massacred by General Dostum's people, the whole family eviscerated and the grandmother left sobbing in a chair, then you know you're on the right side, because you're against the people who did that." It blows your sense of right and wrong. He left that world long ago, but he talked about that band of brothers feeling, almost like a fratboy with a gun in his hand.
Can you discuss the character of Omar's wife? She seems like the scariest character in the film, in a way. In one scene, she's progressive, fun-loving, etc. and then in another, she's totally behind the idea of her husband blowing himself up and killing tons of people.
The non-comic, factual explanation is that I felt there was a myth about terrorist bombers being medieval-minded, "fundamentalist, primitivist" people. There seems to be a lot of evidence to contradict that, especially in Britain. Some of the ideology behind what has become modern jihadism was socially progressive, certainly in Egypt, for example.
When we see Omar's brother, he's the one who insists that women be in separate rooms -- but he's also the one who's not a terrorist. The character of the wife is deliberately given not much space, but I wanted to show that someone like Omar would need support. There was a video recorded by one of the London bombers back when he thought he was going to Afghanistan, where he was certain to wind up dead, and he'd recorded the video with his nine-month-old daughter in his lap, explaining why he'd gone. He thought he was going to fight the good fight, and wanted to make sure she knew that when she was older and could understand. Obviously, I haven't hung out much with a family that's plotting this kind of thing, but that was an imaginative leap where the wife would be included in the discourse.
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Old 02.21.2010, 05:54 AM   #70
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What was the response of the Muslims you interviewed to the fact that you were making such a film?
Weirdly, the common response was: "Oh great, about time, bring it on." Which I wasn't expecting. I remember when we were making the film, we had to shoot in a halal kebab shop. The owners asked to be there while we were filming, and I told them they could. But we eventually had to remove them from the room, because they were laughing too hard. Muslims in Britain like the idea that a lighter note might be introduced into the discourse. That's not why I made the film, but I was surprised to find that was their general response. Maybe it's cause I was mostly talking to younger people. The older ones might take a more dim view of some of this stuff.
"Four Lions" does not yet have U.S. distribution.
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Old 02.21.2010, 01:09 PM   #71
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from what i have seen its very funny.
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Old 02.21.2010, 10:34 PM   #72
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Old 04.01.2010, 12:57 PM   #73
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Four Lions Trailer
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Old 04.02.2010, 06:04 AM   #74
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Chris Morris interview about his new film Four Lions (Part One)
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Chris Morris interview about his new film Four Lions (Part Two)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uglk...eature=related
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Old 10.10.2011, 12:49 PM   #75
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I keep on seeing Chris Morris going to places, when I'm out on a Friday. His taste in clothes is incredible.
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Old 10.10.2011, 02:18 PM   #76
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does he have a large mark on the side of his face? Or is that just something a bloke in the pub said to me?
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It's HUGE! It also looks like the map of London has been painted on his face. I looked at it and found out where Roehampton is located. Can you believe it?
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Does that mean theres a big estate full of amateur martial artists and drug addicts just below his cheekbone? Or am i just projecting?
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