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He is facing financial ruin, so he decides to take a contract out on his own life in order to collect a new, large insurance policy for his daughter. As he believes he is living on borrowed time, he begins to spew out crude, unfiltered thoughts to shock audiences and people involved in the speech of hip-hip music and culture (i.e. rap).
Hillary promotes her presidency as a woman. Jay Bulworth’s draining journey of being reelected for senator is symbolic of the mental stress that the public puts on its’ candidates and how it is not what it pans out to be, not luxurious nor easy. Bulworth parallels to the political process that we see today.
May 22, 1998 · Bulworth is in trouble. He hates his job and his life, and has just lost millions in the market. So he puts out a contract on his own life and flies back to California thinking he has three days to live. His impending death fills him with a sense of freedom: At last he is free to say exactly what he thinks, and that's what he does.
May 3, 1998 · In "Bulworth," the sellout Senator reclaims his soul through an immersion in the putative authenticity of urban black culture. The writer describes a special "Bulworth" screening that a busload of ...
May 22, 1998 · Bulworth: Directed by Warren Beatty. With Kimberly Deauna Adams, Vinny Argiro, Sean Astin, Kirk Baltz. A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Warren Beatty
- 1998-05-22
Jun 9, 2016 · The Underrated (V): ‘Bulworth’, a Political Satire, is Perfectly Relevant to Current Times. Intelligence was the first thing I noticed about Warren Beatty when I interviewed him a few years ago; it radiates out of his eyes. Fabulously good-looking, fit, well dressed and well-groomed, he was everything I had heard he would be when I walked ...
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Feb 16, 2022 · In Warren Beatty’s 1998 political satire, Jay Bulworth is a Democrat while Donald Trump ran as a Republican. Bulworth is committed to undermining his corporate backers to the point of risking personal harm while Trump was an outsider in name only, hardly draining the swamp but simply replacing the pond scum with his own variety.
