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   Jul 30, 2020 · The result was the beloved and quote-packed 2010 film Four Lions, which follows four bumbling wannabe jihadis as they plan to blow up the London marathon. A box office and critical hit, it was...

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   Four Lions is a 2010 British political satire black comedy film directed by Chris Morris (in his feature film debut) from a screenplay written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. [3] It stars Riz Ahmed , Kayvan Novak , Nigel Lindsay , Arsher Ali and Adeel Akhtar .

3. www.nytimes.com › 2010/10/24 › moviesChris Morris’s Terrorism Comedy ‘Four Lions’ - The New York Times

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   Oct 22, 2010 · In “Four Lions,” a farce that recognizes the limits of humor and the existence of tragedy, comedy is a means of illuminating the rhetorical confusion and knee-jerk pieties surrounding a ...

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   Jun 11, 2020 · On paper, Four Lions is a film about a gang of fundamentalists who load up a van full of nail bombs and blow themselves up in the middle of London. They’re clearly all awful murderers, but by...

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   Jan 6, 2011 · As with many episodes carefully stitched into scenes of farce, tragi-comedy and sexual insults (in subtitled Urdu and Punjabi) worthy of Shakespeare, there is careful attention to the nuances of contemporary British life. The difference between Omar and Ahmed is given serious and relevant detail.

6. www.killyourdarlings.com.au › 2010 › 09Review: Chris Morris’s Four Lions — Kill Your Darlings

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   In his first feature, Morris creates a farce about an Islamic terror cell based in Northern England. Waj (Kayvan Novak), a lovable oaf who thinks of life as a queue for the rubber-dinghy rapids ride at Alton Towers (read: heaven) and is happy he’s got a pass to the front of the line (read: a bomb).

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   Is four lions a satire?

   • Four Lions is a 2010 British political satire black comedy film directed by Chris Morris (in his feature film debut) from a screenplay written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. [ 3 ] It stars Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Lindsay, Arsher Ali and Adeel Akhtar.

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   • Drafthouse Films IN “Four Lions,” the first feature directed by the British comedian Chris Morris, a group of British Muslim fundamentalists hatch a plot to blow themselves up during the London Marathon. From this decidedly unfunny premise the film finds multiple occasions for laughter.

   Chris Morris’s Terrorism Comedy ‘Four Lions’ - The New York Times

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   What was the movie Four Lions about?

   • The result was the beloved and quote-packed 2010 film Four Lions, which follows four bumbling wannabe jihadis as they plan to blow up the London marathon. A box office and critical hit, it was a film that focused on farce more than it did ferociousness.

   ‘I Was Told It Was Career Suicide’ – The Oral History of ‘Four Lions’

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   Are four lions a bad guy?

   • Crucially though, none of them were ever painted as a bad guy. On paper, Four Lions is a film about a gang of fundamentalists who load up a van full of nail bombs and blow themselves up in the middle of London. They’re clearly all awful murderers, but by telling the story from their side Morris turned his comedy into something much more powerful.

   'Four Lions': why the terrorism satire is still relevant, 10 years on - NME

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   Who wrote the movie Four Lions?

   • Production on Four Lions began in late 2008, with writing partners Armstrong and Bain hired to complete the screenplay. Prior to this, Morris spent multiple years researching for the film, conducting interviews with terrorism and religion experts, law enforcement, and British Muslims.

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   Is 'four lions' a comedy?

   • In “Four Lions,” a farce that recognizes the limits of humor and the existence of tragedy, comedy is a means of illuminating the rhetorical confusion and knee-jerk pieties surrounding a charged subject. “It doesn’t go for easy laughs,” Mr. Iannucci said.

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8. www.chortle.co.uk › chris_morris_on_four_lionsChris Morris on Four Lions : Interviews 2010 : Chortle : The ...

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   Apr 30, 2010 · The unfathomable world of extremism seemed to contain elements of farce. Cases in the high court and meetings with Muslims only confirmed the impression. People go to training camps in the wrong clothes, forget how to make bombs, fight with each other and then fight again over who just won the fight, volunteer for the mujahedeen and get told to ...