Four Lions

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[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZVfyQyu9RY]

New feature film "Four Lions" debut from Brass Eye's Chris Morris, premieres at the Sundance film festival on Saturday.

In this exclusive clip, we see how not to buy a dozen bottles of bomb-making bleach.

(Read about @ The Register)

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Hajjar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 - 22:54

shes got a beard looool. his accents were pretty good.

You — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 - 23:01

I couldn't tell the difference between the different voices.

Hajjar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 - 23:18

erm..i couldn't either i was being sarcastic lol

Truth's_Razors — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 - 23:37

So it attempts to show the humorous side to terrorism? i mean it is funny but does anyone know what Chris Morris' take on Islam in general is?

You — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 - 23:38

[quote=Hajjar]erm..i couldn't either i was being sarcastic lol[/quote]

:oops:

I also thought disguising himself with an IRA voice was a stroke of genius. along with the very idea of disguising just his voice.

You — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 - 23:41

[quote=Truth's_Razors]So it attempts to show the humorous side to terrorism? i mean it is funny but does anyone know what Chris Morris' take on Islam in general is?[/quote]

No idea - but he did make the "Brass Eye" which at times... was... Some people found his humour offensive.

The thing that gave him the idea to do this was the terrorist plot around the Glasgow airport bombings, which most people thought was farcical and idiotic.

Truth's_Razors — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 - 23:48

oh ok, i'll have a look at that.
its just that humour can bring people together obviously but at the same time it can cause the biggest rift and sometimes its hard to distinguish which the director/person/author/etc etc is going for..

Truth's_Razors — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 - 18:20

Thanks for the link, moving away from Chris Morris and on to Martin Amis, Amis is a weird character, i guess thats why his novel (Money) is weird too (ok bias viewpoint, i liked the idea of the overall message, just not most of the book) - sorry, totally off subject!

AshleyG (not verified) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 - 12:19

I have seen the film and it is not offensive to Islam.

It's hard to describe what it is, a lot of the time you find yourself sympathisisng with the characters, and at the end you really want them to get out of it, in some way. It's easy to forget that these guys are supposed to be terrorists, and not just some slightly confused individuals wrapped-up in a gang mentality.

Throughout the film, the main satirical target is the media, not Islam, and not the terrorists either. The media who fuel the tension in this country with their pathetic and hysterical reporting, marginalising decent Muslims and getting everyone over-scared.

And this is what makes Four Lions so good. It's a touching human story. It is also extremely funny and I think it will help to take the terror our of terrorism, and this is a very positive thing.

Chris Morris is most definitely not anti-Islam, far from it - I'd say this is one of the most pro-Islamic films ever to be made by mainstream British cinema. 🙂